Archive for the 'Personal' Category

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Friday, June 20th, 2008

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Introducing gRead

Friday, June 6th, 2008

How do you check Google Reader? Maybe you just load the page in your browser, or have a separate application, or an item in your menubar?
Say hello to gRead, a Google Reader widget for Dashboard which automatically checks your account for new items and links you straight to them from Dashboard. If you’ve got Growl [...]

Cameras, cameras everywhere, and not a drop to drink

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

It’s been a while since I last looked into cameras - about 4 years to be exact - and my word, have things changed. I’m the slightly ashamed owner of a 4MP Casio model from, well, about 4 years ago; it was a lovely compact little camera at the time but it looks like a [...]

New fat nano, eh?

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

So, there’s supposed to be a fat new nano coming out, and this is supposedly confirmed by the release of a new case “for new iPod” by some little-known company called Uniea. Riiiiiight.
So, what’s wrong with this picture? Well:

There’s no mention of this case on Uniea’s site.

Google doesn’t throw up a press release or anything [...]

English lesson

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

This goes out to all the people I associate with regularly who have sloppy habits. You’re my friends, but please - it’s important. Ok?
First up: WEIRD, not wierd, people. This should not be difficult!
Oh, and while we’re at it: pronunciation. There’s no extra “o” in there. So please, never say that word “pronounciation”, because it [...]

Should principles trump progress?

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

So, HandBrake. It’s great, and the devs are very committed and do a great job. But… A couple of possible features have been cast aside recently, because they wouldn’t be cross-platform - in both cases, they’d be Mac-specific.
You see, it turns out OS X is pretty good (!). Through Core Audio, it’d be possible to [...]

On Font Rendering

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

This started life as a comment but it’s a bit long, so here we are.
Over the last couple of months - particularly after the release of Safari 3 beta for Windows - there have been a few good articles about the differences between Apple’s and Microsoft’s approaches to font smoothing. predictably, it seems that Mac [...]

HandBrake 0.9.0

Monday, August 20th, 2007

So, HandBrake 0.9.0 is out, and it’s pretty hot - so many new features it’s not even worth trying to list them. I’m particularly thrilled by this release as it was announced on a website I had a small hand in, contains my first couple of lines of Objective-C code ever, and is mirrored on [...]

Some thoughts on iPhone-centric web design

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

So, as a persistent dabbler in web design, and a dude who generally has an opinion on everything, this piece on Wired got me thinking about new sites (or accessible versions of existing sites) designed specifically for the iPhone. It’s not a great article - it doesn’t attempt to justify the premise that the iPhone [...]

Spoiler: Deathly Hallows is crap

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Says it all really. See here if you want to read JK Rowling’s smug, unnecessary explanation of the weak, overly neat, sickly and predictable ending/epilogue/ramble.
Sorry, sounds harsh, but it’s a disappointing ending to an over-hyped, averagely-written series. I don’t begrudge her some success, but it’s got ridiculous; there are so many better authors out there [...]