Wednesday, March 31, 2010

HotCocoa, anyone?

I'm learning Objective-C, but I must admit, based on this slide presentationHotCocoa looks very tempting...

Macruby_to_the_max

Update: HotCocoa Graphics explores graphics creation with HotCocoa. It hasn't been updated in quite a while, but the content is likely still valid.

Why Foursquare is important

Here's my post on iCrossing's Great Finds blog about Foursquare. It's meant as a quick primer on the service for the uninitiated, and why, IMHO, it's going to be big. As always, comments are welcome!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

SQL injection for traffic cameras

Awesome, and makes you think about new ways to hack new tech: Traffic cameras do OCR; what's the possibility of a hack like this working?

500x_for_traffic_cameras

Friday, March 19, 2010

IR_Black Theme for XCode

IR_Black has become one my favorite editor themes in Textmate (my current theme is Black Pearl II), and now that I'm doing some iPhone programming it was a must-have for XCode; luckily for me, dz ported it over. Grab the theme here.

Xcode_irblack

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Typography Joke

Comic Sans walks into a bar, and the barman says "We don't serve your type here."

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010

Mac Startup Sound as my iPhone Ringtone

Twitter_matthew_schultz_my_new

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Cocoon Grid-it!

Fellow iC-er Steve Shay is visiting the iCrossing NY office today and showed me the Cocoon Grid-it!. Cool idea.

Cocoon_cpg10_-_cocoon

 

You rock (RT @thisissethsblog)

You rock

This is deceptive.

You don't rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it's a self-defeating goal. You can't do it.

No, but you might rock five minutes a day.

Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).

Five minutes a day you might do exceptional work, remarkable work, work that matters. Five minutes a day you might defeat the lizard brain long enough to stand up and make a difference.

And five minutes of rocking would be enough, because it would be five minutes more than just about anyone else.

[via Seth Godin's Blog]

Sublime HTML5 Video Player

I've been meaning to post a link to the Sublime HTML5 Video Player for a quite while, so here it is. :-)

Jilion_-_sublimevideo

 

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Numbers to Words

 

My seven year old son is obsessed with extremes: biggest, tallest, fastest, quickest. He's especially interested in large numbers, and often asks me to tell him what a long series of numbers is in words. Luckily for me, "there's a site for that™." Yay LazyWeb!

Andrew_hoyer_numbers_to_words