August 2007
22 posts
Phone Scoop - HTC Touch →
HTC’s additions to Windows Mobile look really nice, actually. Pretty thought-through touch UI. BUT… They’ve just tacked it onto Windows, and most apps are still stylus-based, with 4x4 pixel widgets and general ugliness. I wish they had gone all the way, replacing all apps, especially text input. Then it might actually have been a worthy opponent to the iPhone.
On making the Ultimate Machine
Sony knows hardware but they don’t know shit about fun games or UI.
Nintendo knows fun games but they know shit about online gaming.
Microsoft knows online gaming but they also don’t know shit about UI.
Apple knows UI but they don’t know shit about… well, gaming.
If they joined forces, it’d be the most awesome gaming machine mankind has ever seen. But instead...
PhotoRec - Recover photos from broken memory cards →
What an amazing tool! It saved a whole memory card full of files for me, even though both the camera, a windows machine and my Mac said the card contained zero pictures!
“This requires complete redesign of the sound engine in the Flash Player which...”
– kaourantin.net: What just happened to video on the web?
Sparkle deploy script with zipping and dsa signing →
All you have to do is look at this blog. I blog on about about a youtube video a day. I cry when I read my browser history and realize what I have really been doing all fucking day and all the days before it in an infinite chain of procrastination. I have at least two app ideas that would really make a difference if I got them out there, and at least a dozen started projects that are fun to code...
“I was born a programmer. The rest is just implementation detail.”
– This is so profound I’m almost crying with rage. My life’s too simple, I go through life like I’m looking out a train window and just waiting for my destination, and I have produced nothing of consequence.
My call in life is programming. This much is clear. Now I must accomplish...
WatchWhat if business meetings were like blog comment threads?
5 iPhone Apps I'd Like To See From Apple →
Some very sweet UI sketchups of potential iPhone apps. I especially like the Ebook reader, it’s beautiful and actually looks usable. (Contrast the reader bundled with my Nokia: it takes about half a minute to open a text file and has neither bookmarks nor line numbers! In other words, utter and complete crap, like the rest of the phone’s GUI.)
Creating standalone [Python] Mac OS X applications →
Be Kind Rewind Trailer →
Insanely Great News →
Only Apple would ship a *paperclip* in a specially-designed bag with a specially-designed instructions sheet.