January 2008
39 posts
“Happy New Year!”
– me
December 2007
65 posts
iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware Leaked →
Check out the photo gallery of the new features. Here’s a quick rundown: Send an SMS to multiple contacts Google Maps uses triangulation to find your current location Google Maps now has a hybrid view The Home Screen (Springboard) supports drag-n-drop of icons and pagination You can add Safari bookmarks to your home screen Via Gear Live.
End of Support for Netscape Web Browsers →
Wow. Netscape is dead. Long live Netscape.
CouchDb: A document-based database →
WatchWatch this 9-year old beat Guitar Hero 3 on expert. I am not worthy; he is.
Railscasts #85: YAML Configuration File →
SD Card to IDE Adapter →
Use an SD card as an IDE drive in your PC. Schweet. Via The Red Ferret Journal
iPhone window.onorientationchange Code →
via devphone
Microsoft Group Shot: Create perfect group photos →
Your chance of successfully taking a perfect group photo drops in proportion to the number of people participating in the effort. Enter in Group Shot. Micrsoft’s Group Shot is free software that enables you to mashup a frameable image from all of your failed attempts by selecting the best faces from each photo, and creating a new, composited image. This software is (of course) Windows-only,...
Happy (belated) Festivus! →
Ruby 1.9.0 is released →
From an article on InfoQ: Ruby 1.9 brings lots of changes and new features. Many of these will be well-received, such as the new literal hash syntax which among other things lets you do away with the => in calls to methods which take hash arguments, so a call like: link_to :controller => 'People', :action => "list" can now be written as: link_to controller: fred, action: "list" A...
8 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die →
Via Dembot
Mozilla Labs: Weave →
Your Mozilla world (and eventually, maybe more), online.
R.I.P. ThinkSecret →
IE8 Renders the Acid2 Face...correctly →
Daring Fireball on Fast Company →
Apparently, Adam L. Peneberg isn’t the brightest of bulbs…
I'm not dead...
Yet, anyway. The company I work at is closed next week, so there is a mad rush by our clients to get the work in before the end of this week. So, posting will be sporadic until this weekend. Hit me up at mschultz (at) byteengine (dot) net if you’d like to ping me.
Star Wars Toys That Never Made It →
I’d include the pictures, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise.
Dabble DB - Online Database →
Forget Excel and hard-coded DBs. Check out DabbleDB, which allows you to slice and dice data on-the-fly. I’ve only viewed the seven minute demo but it looks very interesting. Check it out. Thanks @juliaroy!
TryPhone →
Not exactly a true simulator…but close enough. Check it out:
eeeXubuntu: Ubuntu for the Asus EeePC →
The eeePC is looking better every day…
“If you have one clock … you are peaceful and have no worries. If you have...”
– Tom Van Baak
Google Solar Panel Project - Real-time Stats →
Ok, it’s down at the moment, but Google’s Solar Panel Project collects uses a monitoring system to collect real-time stats and translate them into something meaningful, such as “hours of TV watching.” Check it out.
Apple Refurbished Products - Deep Discounts →
Apple is offering some insane prices on their refurbs, especially the MacBook Pros. Act now, supplies are limited!
QIK - Streaming video right from your phone →
I recently joined Seesmic, but since it is based on Adobe Flash, I can’t use it to create videos from my (i)Phone. Qik allows you to stream videos directly from your phone…if you have a Nokia, that is. Apparently, that’s all they’re supporting at the moment, but expect this to change in the coming weeks.
Orbitz on Rails →
iPhone on Rails →
Rails 2.0 Final Released! - Feature Summary →
Via Ryan’s Scraps
Google Chart API - Google Code →
