iPhoto Faces Works 99% of the Time
What Is Your IDE Coding Font of Choice?
These days I've been spending a chunk of my spare time in XCODE, which offerers a lot more configuration options than most IDE's I've used before. I've been able to make it look just like my favorite TextMate theme, more or less. When I used to spend most waking hours a day actually coding, I never had the opportunity to use an IDE with a black background (except VI and a terminal), and now I find that I need the contrast so I can stare blankly at the screen trying to remember a fraction of what I've forgotten without going snow blind.
I'm curious, what is your current font of choice? I'll thoughtfully consider the value of all comments except for anyone that says Times New Roman, which is the devil's font.
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Here are the details... everything is Monaco 11 but i use Courier New for comments to make them stand out a bit more...
Google Wave Is Crap
Shortly after getting my invite to Google's new fangled "replacement" for email, i found the trick where you can search all public waves. After clicking a few i realized they were all infested with scripts ('bots") and other interweb-nasties. I was so unimpressed that I didn't race back to check on my wave account but on the handful of occasions that I did, i found any public wave that i clicked on was still there, filling up with more crap.
There is NO delete button in Wave, but there is a Spam and an Archive button. Sadly you have to click on the wave to be able to click any of these buttons, and as soon as you click your browser will likely go nuts, doing who knows what (have not tried to track all javascript/cookies etc)
So I've archived and marked as spam several of these trash waves and when i come back the next day, they are back.
Look, google does some extremely cool stuff and they have already changed the world (with Search). I love that they support and encourage open source software and they still have that 'cool factor' as a place for geeks to go and work, just like the way i wanted to work at Microsoft in the early 90's. I'm picking on Wave because this is the first time Google put anything in the wild that I didn't think was impressive or at least useful.
So I'm saying that I'm done with Wave for now, but I'm also not saying that i don't think it can't be fixed or become useful for collaboration or as a sort of groupware system. Maybe. What I do feel pretty confident about, is that Wave as a re-invention of email is a failure.
How to Talk To Weirdos on Google Wave
For those of you lucky few (like me) who received an invite to Google's Wave but are unlucky (like me) and have no friends on Wave, i just found this little feature that lets you open up and chat/wave with the world in real time. Its a great way to search for crazy conversations and energetically insert yourself into them.
All you need to do is add with:public In the search area like so:
So, any minimalist barefoot runners out there?
Dropbox iPhone Launched - get it!
via getdropbox.com
Its out and its awesome. Get a free (2g) drop box account. Dropbox is my personal choice for file synching, collaboration and sharing and the iPhone app takes the it to a new level of usefulness.
Get a free 2 gigabyte dropbox account at the link above and then get the app here itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327630330&mt=8&s=143441
MSA Remote + VDMX + Ableton Live
via vimeo.com
"MSA Remote is a remote control application for iPhone & iPod Touch that sends OSC messages over the wifi network. This allows you to control any OSC supporting applications such as Max/MSP/Jitter, PureData, Reaktor, VDMX, vvvv, Resolume, Quartz Composer etc."
and also
"You can see MSA Remote controlling a Java fluid simulation at vimeo.com/3975324"
I have nothing to add- these videos speak for themselves. Extremely impressed.
Quick Screencast of 'Briefs' Out Of The Box
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via screencast.com
I just created a quick and dirty screencast of Briefs code in action after pulling it from Github and just running it. We develop iPhone apps for clients at iCrossing and I just think this is a simple (read: elegant) way to demo work without putting in too much up front time (which I'm told equals money).
I don't work on the consulting side anymore but did for a very long time. We always tried to think of useful ways for our creative to show their stuff without having to us in (us = software engineers).
code here: http://github.com/capttaco/Briefs
Briefs: A Cocoa Touch Framework for Live Wireframes
Test & Validate Your Designs on the iPhone
Briefs is a framework for packaging concept screens & control schemes that run live on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This allows you to experience the feel of your concept without the expense of development.
Each brief is simply a
.plistthat references images, in formats such as PNG, GIF and JPEG. Since they are image based, it allows anything from scanned paper sketches, to the full blown mockups you created in your favorite image editor. These briefs are loaded into the Briefs application and can be run directly on the device. Briefs can be loaded manually onto the device or pulled dynamically from a briefcast.Other Uses
There are several creative uses for Briefs. Elevator pitches, notes, and interactive books can all take advantage of the technology in the framework. And using briefcasts, there is a simple avenue for distributing your content to other Briefs users.
Beta source code available today on Github
via giveabrief.com
Great idea and a lot easier for designers to mock up UI for touch apps without having to learning Interface Builder or having to ask a developer to mock up for you.
iPhone and MMS to Usher in New Era of GOATSE, Rickrolling, and the Archer
Now that the millions of iPhone users in the US will have access to the latest and greatest (2002) MMS technology - I'm officially predicting HERE on this sh*tty BLAHG, a new era of goatse, rickrolling, and the favorite in my circle of friends "The Archer". Which i will not post here but is a surreal photo of a large man wearing nothing but a leather utility belt and posing with his hunting bow.
The great thing is that your friend or enemy or frenemy, can't stop getting visually assaulted unless they turn off notifications when the phone is locked.
So have at it. Start sending your nasty grams until we crash AT&T's networks.
Win7 Launch Party Video Illustrates Stepfored-esqe Failure
No matter what side of the Mac vs. PC jihad you sit on, if you watched this video without getting a case of the howling fantods then you are on much stronger tranquilizers than I.
The only way I think this could be worse is if they released a European racially pure version.
Someone explain to me how this is going to work. Anyone, if you are actually having a party to launch Windows 7, please take and post your video. I need to bear witness.
Now watch the excellent PORNO version
John Haro
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