January 2010
“The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather...”
– Alex Payne — On the iPad
I agree. I got into programming through digging through the computer trying to get things to work. If it “just works” like the iPad probably will, less children will be inclined to learn to code.
Ustream Producer: Download the free video... →
Sweet, desktop app for streaming to UStream
Wither Kindle?
marc:
Obituaries are already being written for the Amazon Kindle with today’s Apple announcement of iPad and iBooks. (At least Steve Jobs gave Amazon and the Kindle some props today.) Despite the iPad’s large color touch screen, I think the reports of the Kindle’s death are premature. The Kindle will still offer major cost savings and some significant advantages for serious readers of text:
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McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks... →
Whoa!
WatchCastRoller Podcast 24: Almost There - The CastRoller Podcast - CastRoller
iWish →
If Only…
“Empire Theatres, a Canada-wide film exhibition company operating 50 theatres...”
– EMPIRE THEATRES LIMITED | Empire Theatres to Build New State-of-the-art Theatre Complex in Waterloo, Ontario
Will be a lot easier for me to get to. Sounds good to me!
Follow changes to any website →
Looks awesome. Need to experiment to see if it actually works.
Gnop: Avoid Hitting Paddle For High Score →
Reverse pong, you play as the ball and try to avoid the paddles
Fighting spam with captured botnet hosts →
A clever hack for blocking spam.
Realism in UI Design →
TheSixtyOne v2 →
New version of the music discovery site, TheSixtyOne. Very slick looking just started playing with it.
Amazon S3: Versioning Proposal →
Even more Amazon news, this will make S3 even more useful. Gotta think of how to use this myself.
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Release Notes →
Firefox 3.6 is now available!
Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass →
mathewhoy:
From paulm: Great post on how a well designed site is more approachable than a flawlessly programmed site.
Amazon Promotion Tempts Book Lovers With Free... →
Whoa! Amazon’s really filling up the news cycle today. Get a refund, and keep the Kindle? Crazy!
Pirate Bay's VPN goes public: Ipredator →
Interesting, the Pirate Bay is able to get out of a lot of predicaments, their VPN should be pretty reliable.
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb... →
Clever. A piece of art that perpetually tries to sell iteself on eBay.
YouTube - Music Discovery Project →
Just played with it briefly, looks like it could be pretty cool. Seems like Last.fm with Video.
Amazon Opens Kindle Up for Development: App Store... →
Awesome! Don’t know what I’d want them to add, but there’s always a chance there will be something good!
“Do something compelling. There’s a trillion people writing blogs that need...”
– Frank Chimero
I like to think that I’m doing something compelling, I struggle to find stuff to blog about (Someone usually has written something better), but by building CastRoller I hope to be creating something worth writing about.
Starting Today, Facebook Apps Can Ask You To Hand... →
timeago: a jQuery plugin →
Looks like a useful plug in for generating relative timestamps on the fly in JavaScript
modHmm - The Daily WTF →
Gotta love naming methods by randomly typing characters on the keyboard
Amazon To Introduce New 70% Royalty Option For... →
Seems like this is a way for Amazon to get authors to price books exactly they want them to. Lower prices and higher royalties sounds good to me!
Whither Alt.Net? →
Still not using MVC for CastRoller, plan to switch eventually, but the current model works quite well, and I am using very few Webforms postbacks, and no ASP.net AJAX (all JQuery), so I think i’m still Alt.net
Helping computers understand language →
Cool look at how Google has taught computers to understand something that we take for granted when reading.
Steam: Free Games for NVIDIA and ATi users... →
Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport... →
Guess we can’t joke publicly about blowing things up any more.
GitHub for the Rest of Us Screencast →