March 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
No more blurriness in Mobile Safari bookmarklet →
Have an iPad? Enjoy webcomics? Can tolerate adding bookmarklets to said iPad?
Well I’ve crafted a bookmarklet that will make Mobile Safari fit the page to a pixel grid. It seriously makes reading webcomics so much more pleasant, and it has other uses as well. Check it out.
December 2010
1 post
Time Magazine awards the Person of the Year award to the person who “for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year”. It’s not an award but a title, a remark. Note that both Hitler and Einstein are on this list.
In 2001, Time Magazine named New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as Person of the Year for his response to the World Trade Center attacks in New York City. But many...
August 2010
2 posts
Windows Genuine Advantage
In an attempt to prevent piracy and thus losing money, let’s punish every computer user in the entire world by refusing security updates to non-Genuine Windows users and thus allowing zombie computers to take root.
1 tag
Fixing the stupid bug that took way too long to...
Apparently this is correct:
[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
And this is not:
[[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath] setSelected:NO animated:YES];
The former will deselect your selected row for real. The latter will “deselect” the row, only to have the row still be selected when you scroll it back into view.
I might have kinda sorta spent hours...
July 2010
1 post
“Two persons – one white and the other black – are playing a game of poker. The...”
– Roy L. Brooks (via azspot)
June 2010
4 posts
A Gawker post is entitled "Apple's Worst Security...
It’s been that kind of day.
“Defenders of modern copyright law will argue Congress has struck “the right...”
– Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
1 tag
May 2010
7 posts
Blame my sudden interest in Tap Tap Revenge 3 on...
As I read reviews on Tap Tap Revenge 3, I find myself considering a more in-depth study of difference in ratings between iPhone games and more traditional console video games. Seriously, Tap Tap Revenge 3 is getting 9.5/10s across the board.
You know what else got 9.5s? Halo. Metroid Prime. Super Mario 64. Bioshock. These are works of art, the pinnacle of gameplay mechanics and storytelling and...
On Tap Tap Revenge 3
I get the sense that Tapulous didn’t trust the game to stand on its own. The App Store is competitive. The games section of the App Store is hugely competitive. Every game in the App Store faces a constantly onslaught of incoming new and fresh games every day, even established games like Tap Tap Revenge. And so they added more.
They added Tap Tap Revenge 3 the App. The App has stuff like...
April 2010
1 post
“Dan: A wild Antitrust Lawsuit appears!
Dan: Apple uses OH GOD OPEN ALL THE...”
– kapowaz
March 2010
14 posts
“At the on-board shuttle group, about one-third of the process of writing...”
– Nasa’s software development process produces unbelievably inhumanly virtually-perfect software.
I would say my greatest failing when writing code is not doing just this — I usually have a vague idea of what I want to do and then figure out the details as I encounter them. It must make...
For those of us who are annoyed with the sidebar...
So instead of seeing this where the content is shrunk to squeeze in a mostly useless sidebar:
You just see the content:
You’re quite welcome.
“How to piss an engineer off: make it arbitrary.”
– @rands
What did I do today? Did I
pace around uselessly? with years of practice, I’m a pro at this
go through and add lyrics to a bunch of songs in iTunes? this takes longer than it sounds
watch Lady Gaga’s latest music video at least 3 times today? oh god oh god I can’t stop
eat a box of girl scout cookies? maaaaaaybe
eat half a pint of Ben and Jerry’s? dammit, don’t judge, it’s good...
Through a combination of an all-around stressful day and well-honed work avoidance skills, I managed to accomplish absolutely nothing.
But enough about me. How was your day?
Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With... →
This just made my day.
February 2010
7 posts
Free space
Here is a 10 GB partition I just now created:
Finder says:
Disk Utility’s partition view (for the whole disk) says (!!!):
Selecting that partition in Disk Utility gives me:
Terminal (diskutil) gives me:
I liked the old Facebook login better →
mrgan:
[…]
It’s like… Like if you asked a friend if there was a Starbucks in his neighborhood and he said, yeah I think there’s one half a mile down, maybe. And you drive half a mile and see a big carwash place, and you park and walk in and ask to speak to the manager. And you tell the carwash manager how unhappy you are with this terrible new Starbucks redesign.
Google Buzz
I would might use Google Buzz if all of these were true:
I used Gmail’s web site.
I used Google Reader’s web site.
Anyone else I knew used either or both.
I use Apple Mail on both Mac and iPhone, so I don’t see Gmail’s built in chat or buzz pane or use Google contacts.
I do use Google Reader’s mobile site on iPhone, but not that often. NetNewsWire on Mac. Thus...
January 2010
8 posts
“That’s not to say the iPad won’t sell, or that I don’t want one. The scariest...”
– Aaron Swartz on the iPad
Tickets →
A Mac application to create Fogbugz tickets. Worth it just for the dead-simple attachments pane.
Three small nitpicks:
That’s a really weird-looking reload button in the toolbar. I can’t tell what does. It… reloads something?
The toolbar button says “Send” but the item in the File menu and its keyboard shortcut (command-s) say “Save”. It should be Send, and...
So apparently Tumblr’s slideshow feature stretches the images to fit the width, which doesn’t really work for screenshots.
December 2009
12 posts
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“We tend to believe Zhang’s death was caused primarily by unknown health...”
– The police statement after chinese teachers make student stand outside, forget about him, he dies overnight.
Another quote to add to my list called I Can’t Believe It’s Not The Onion.
