About to upgrade to CS6. Adobe, why do you always make your installers crap? twitpic.com/9rb66d
@DigitalAnomaly don’t worry, I’ve long been upgrading with “generic” RAM ;)
I just thought you had 8GB SODIMMs (hard to find). thanks! :D
doblezeta Everyone, stay indoors. It’s getting crazy outside. Roads are flooded already.
@MochiBits I know! it’s too bad my personal laptop maxes out at 8 :(
@richtuason Hey now, some people have more: twitter.com/digitalanomalyā¦
— you can never have too much RAM!
@DigitalAnomaly iMac also? (2x) 8GB + (2x) 4GB? Where’d you get the 8GB modules? (and how much?)
Big project ahead. 16GB RAM. Overkill? I think not! instagr.am/p/LR-7Mmhkx4/
@giselabee @kidcuddli @mgosingtian @meggykawsek @richtuason it’s the secret mark of Vector-Man! :D (though the tool icon is pixely)
I’m really annoyed how many infographics aren’t actually infographics. It’s more than just big numbers + bright colors. buff.ly/LIj7rW
@xanderKhan happy birthday! :D
The Apple Store has been down four hours now. New Macs when you return, please?
Hey, this is a cool little toy: an SLR camera simulator. buff.ly/wastlS (would be cooler if you could pick different scenes/lighting)
“How Tim Cook is changing Apple” — New CEO, new policies. buff.ly/KGhWXbP via@FortuneMagazinee
@giselabee dump the blackberry! :D (or at least, add to it. haha)
Leaked iPhone 5 parts? Who knows! Not digging the two-tone, though. buff.ly/LbnkS4
— Also, new Maps tech?buff.ly/K9zI9EA
idiot A good UX makes a bad user.
Woah. Pretty impressive soft-body physics and damage simulation in CryEngine 3 —youtube.com/watch?v=KppTmsā¦4 (I’d probably enjoy blowing stuff up)
panjeetapales My 11-year-old, listening to Villar: MAMA, WHY IS HE TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF?
Okay, guilty! But now what? Hopefully not just a slap on the wrist amirite
chpwn Crazy: @chronicdevteam’s Absinthe 2.0 was used by 1M users in a weekend, but @CyanogenMod has only 2M installs total: androidcommunity.com/cyanogenmod-reā¦
IzzyMiller Some interesting comments from Zynga employees in this interview on the F2P business model: gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-ā¦
Hack the Cover — Insightful article on the fall of physical books, and the future of digital cover art -craigmod.com/journal/hack_tā¦Jb vi@craigmodod
UI stills for the Iron Man armor and the Helicarrier from The Avengers movie — Cool work by@jayse__ -cargocollective.com/jayse/Avengers96
(From the makers of the typography games Kern and Shape type) — I got a 9.3/10 in Color, a color matching gamecolor.method.acO
@Ralegan definitely, but this seems way more precise/responsive than Kinect. Very appropriate for close-PC interaction, as opposed to big TV
Screw the Kinect, the future of computing is here, and it is awesome: youtube.com/watch?v=_d6Kuiā¦ (via @syk0saje)
Ok, Skype video / FaceTime don’t work with Quasar (the iPad windows tweak), which is a little sad because that was the reason I got it.
jensterjuice Speechless. — Man cooks, serves own genitals to 5 paying diners japantoday.com/category/natioā¦ via @JapanToday
Coming home to an untethered iPad3 jailbreak is awesome. Multitasking windows like a boss. twitpic.com/9pxs87 twitpic.com/9pxspo
Family has recently developed unfortunate habit of using my travels for Duty Free. Hahaha.
@syk0saje well played, but I go online while waiting in lines / for bags :P
Touchdown!
@cammercheanger … I cant check that yet. :/ I’m still out!
@cammercheanger miss you too :( see you tomorrow! :)
Some surprisingly good stuff! “@jensterjuice: With @_phi (@ Singapore Arts Festival 2011) 4sq.com/JXNLiz”
Kinokuniya is always both awesome and depressing. So much stuff I’d love to buy and read, but cant! :(
atomaraullo Bad Assery of the day. Man, stranded in desert makes a motorcycle out of his broken car. hackaday.com/2012/05/21/manā¦
Will be at a #casualconnect panel with @boomzap, @AninoGames, Level Up!, and GDAP to talk about the Philippine Game Industry — do stop by!
@richtuason @meggykawsek …I’m not picky? Hahaha. :P
Trusty gear —@jensterjuicee’s photoinstagr.am/p/K7LWTuBagI/A
Conference after-parties are fun. Especially when there are more than one of them. #itsworkiswear
Thanks to everyone who listened to my talk at #casualconnect! :)
@Clawford Pretty good, actually! Lots of interesting people. Just finished my talk :) I met @dewe, but we didn’t get to talk much yet.
Aaaaaahhh pic.twitter.com/n3C3OkP9
Hello, good morning @ Bishan instagr.am/p/K8qsvMhk3L/
Whether Coda 2 will win me over Sublime Text remains to be seen. But @panic’s attention to detail is amazing. <video> with CSS3 transforms!
Sweet, Coda 2! š panic.com/coda/
it looks pretty grea—
…what’s this? Diet Coda? For the iPadpanic.com/dietcoda/VxO
Holy. Cra#postpctpc
Real-world data and a “secret modeling algorithm”—@playmaticss’ Shadow Government sounds pretty cool. Interesting talk from@MargaretWallacee
byimplication @_phi is representing us this week at @CasualConnect Singapore, and will be giving a talk on our indie workflow tools: asia.casualconnect.org/content.html
All set for @CasualConnect —instagr.am/p/K6PiVbBkzC/h
@xtauymatiao the two of us have forever bad timing. :( haha! I’m in Singapore for another conference. Will be back on Saturday.
byimplication @_phi is representing us this week at @CasualConnect Singapore, and will be giving a talk on our indie workflow tools: asia.casualconnect.org/content.html
@pmgomez I’m actually flying to Singapore tomorrow for the Casual Connect conference! Hahaha.
@pmgomez right, I’ll try picking that up then. have heard about it but wasn’t sure.
@pmgomez of course I’ve seen that (and it’s indeed brilliant!), but I don’t count it a “normal show.” and it’s British. :))
@pmgomez maybe, but decidedly less boring than a lot of other shows. (for me, anyway)
Wait, what? NBC getting rid of Community’s @danharmon? But it’s *his* show! —danharmon.tumblr.com/post/233392722ā¦Z
(Now I have nothing to watch on TV. Yay?)
doblezeta MMDA mobile apps are now available on all major smartphone platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry, WindowsPhone). All free, all developed free.
Paying Microsoft to remove preinstalled crap. That’s just… silly. — “Microsoft Gives Windows a Clean Sweeon.wsj.com/KtZwefU1C v@WSJWSJ
@glencharles assuming they’re the same band as Smart’s LTE beta test, no. :(
@CosetteVivo Just got your email, it’s been a busy morning. Sorry about that! Will send a reply later today. :)
@meggykawsek @shirkencrackle Awesome! Get a 3G SIM, then sign in with iMessage + FaceTime = way better than a roaming phone :P
Story of Send — cool HTML5 page from Google highlighting@gmaill delivery + efficiency. Bonus: it’s a scrolly thingy!google.com/green/storyofsā¦q
matt18sam @notch HOLY CRAP!!! Minecraft was mentioned on a test that all Australians school kids are doing to today! twitpic.com/9l8pdv
@glencharles cool. see you in a bit. :P
@glencharles I know :( will you be at ADMU later?
Perian is being discontinued :( perian.org
A sad day for video on the Mac, as when VisualHub stopped development.
@syk0saje I know. #justpulledawil
@syk0saje I know :( people are asleep, or not here. Maybe I have enough displays to play with myself #sad
Overnight at the office. Screens galore! instagr.am/p/KnIu3JBk2w/
London traffic lights rigged to win Olympic Committee’s favor — sounds like something PH’d do. But we don’t have tech.theverge.com/2012/5/13/3018ā¦3
@syk0saje oh, it still serves a purpose — delivery of new hardware from newegg/amazon/ebay and the like. ;)
“Brilliant” design of Airbus controls played part in tragedy of Air France Flight. Better usability is sometimes worse. j.mp/Izkk61
Wouldn’t mind an office here — floating city-island Blueseed to be “tax-/regulation-free” Technology Incubator:j.mp/K5zIVR3
Don’t forget to give your mom a hug today. Happy Mother’s Day!
@tomslominski you too! thanks, it was fun ;)
>> 38th place, 5hrs. ā¢
Alas, a drop from last year’s 9th, and no hoodie for me this year. :( Still, 32GB! :D
—dropbox.com/dropquest2012/ā¦w
Dropbox And we have a winner for Dropquest 2012!!! Hundreds of prizes are still left though — keep questing!
#dropquest ENDGAME
I think everyone is stuck on the last chapter (or near-last-chapter) of #dropquest
CHAPTER 17 AUGH
@Navarr @Dropbox spamming refresh works. (if you’re getting the “service unavailable, re-issue request” error) good luck, and keep at it! :)
@evilletters start at ChenLi. ;)
I think @Dropbox is buckling under the load of #dropquest. Lots of server errors on certain stages (on the verge of chapter 9!)
@evilletters it took me a while to get back into grade/high-school algebra. :))
guh I am stuck on chapter 6.
Dropbox Dropquest starts in 10 minutes! Start spamming refresh! dropbox.com/dropquest2012
@evilletters yeah. it’s actually too bad; HP was sort of one of the pillars of this industry.
@evilletters it was very well written! Also, articles often go online before publication date (like how magazines r on sale before the date)
@glencharles I’m hoping it’ll take less with smart friends working together ;P
@glencharles 1am. Haha.
Kinda annoyed that @Dropbox set dropquest2 during Sunday Mother’s Day early morning, though. I’m going to be very groggy and cranky tomorrow
Anyone want to work together on Dropquest 2? :D blog.dropbox.com/?p=1194 #whoneedssleep
A total mess. So what’re they going to do now? — “How Hewlett-Packard lost its way” -tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/08/500ā¦MV vi@FortuneMagazinene
I don’t understand billboards and signs with Twitter and Facebook icons in the corner. I mean, you can’t click them or anything. :/
#Republique just broke 400k! Just a few days ago things seemed bleak. It might actually make it! :D kickstarter.com/projects/48625ā¦ —#keephopealivee
Enabling remote debugging with Webkit Inspector in iPad/iPhone Safari: atnan.com/blog/2011/11/1ā¦
(this needs to be a feature on actual devices!)
“Game designers/application designers exist in different universes, but there’s no reason one can’t teach the other.” <— Glad to be both ;)
“Two Universes” — What can Photoshop learn from Portal? Interesting post about usability and gamification.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/ā¦A (cont.)
tjmanotoc overheard/quote of the day: “my iPhone just died in the banyo. i just took the most boring dump in years. i actually stared at the walls”
BarackObama President Obama announces his support for same-sex marriage: OFA.BO/CLBAi9
Portal 2 is only seven bucks for a day or so. If you have not yet played this masterpiece, now would be a good time: store.steampowered.com/app/620
The big two kay. / “Don’t worry, be appy!”
idiot Finally, a responsive boilerplate for my HTML9 projects. html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com
“So, How Is Thesis?” ā “S.H.I.T.” —
(overheard, @wilhansen_li + his students.)
Viber now available for Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry: theverge.com/2012/5/8/30067ā¦
Republique / This game deserves to get made. 60 hours and 200k to go! #keephopealive
—kickstarter.com/projects/48625ā¦9
-vimeo.com/41800702Sx
Several thousand Twitter passwords leaked: google.com/hostednews/afpā¦
But most seem like spam. You can check anyway here: boingboing.net/2012/05/08/550ā¦
@pebblewatch is there a reason iPad isn’t immediately supported? shouldn’t it be more or less same as iPhone? (too bad, it does BT4.0 too)
@yapsestagle @xtauymatiao pwede po bang makisama?
Like indie games + the horror genre? You should check out Lone Survivor, a psychological survival retro-styled game —lonesurvivor.co.ukq
Guest post by @lynnpinugu talking about her experience at Microsoft’s #innovateforgood —blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_ciā¦e
stroughtonsmith “Let’s re-implement Bada in HTML5. C’mon, it’ll be fun!”
What greets you on your first day at Apple — “There’s work and there’s your life’s work.” — m’s photinstagr.am/p/KTOGobADKabZ vi@instagramam
@levi_io More of how to create, organize, and separate your classes and styles. (don’t worry, it’s a headache for me too)
Single responsibility principle applied to CSS: csswizardry.com/2012/04/the-siā¦
Also, an intro to object-oriented CSS: coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/12/an-ā¦
@levi_io
@jensterjuice Thought so. Let us know next time you’re around; will bring legit cookies. :P
@mgosingtian through the power of love and magic! :3 (actually, I wonder that too, but I manage to get by)
@mgosingtian I’d imagine it’d be useful to most people, but I don’t Facebook ;P
@mgosingtian you could try twitter.com/#!/who_to_follā¦
While I’m happy to see link spam + SEO become less effective on Google, I’m not sure what to make of this: affiliatetemple.com/google-penguinā¦
@jensterjuice Will the ones your browser gets from our sites do for now? :P
@levi_io it works really well on the iPhone too! but it only lets me move left/right. Does it let you move up/down on the iPad?
It’s kind of annoying how some people will ignore you until they deem you “important” enough by some arbitrary metric.
Ok, that iPad keyboard concept video turned into a real tweak pretty quickly. Need A5 jailbreak nao cultofmac.com/165223/awesomeā¦
@pmgomez I just said it was “pretty cool” on Twitter, right? ;)
@pmgomez keep it that way! ;) no to walled gardens!
@pmgomez uh, no? thankfully your post was public and didn’t need a log-in. :P
@pmgomez okay, that’s pretty cool.
@_phi …it presents completely new methods of interaction (even surfaceless!)
+ addresse@worrydreamam’s ranworrydream.com/ABriefRantOnThā¦cU (2/2)
Fantastic capacitive touch interaction research from Disney (of all places!)
youtu.be/E4tYpXVTjxA — this is *really* exciting because… (1/2)
Text selection + cursor positioning on iPad: youtu.be/RGQTaHGQ04Q
— awesome concept, but I hope someone will release a tweak on Cydia. :P
Track 8, a Metro-styled music player for the iPad: theverge.com/2012/5/3/29980ā¦
And what’s up with the lame PenTile layout? Dear Samsung, I don’t care about AMOLED, give us real pixels. :(
The S Voice feature on the new Galaxy S 3 looks very… inspired 2:23 AM, May 4th, 2012 via Echofon
Dropbox DROPQUEST II: It’s back, and it’s epic-er. Solve a scavenger hunt to earn free space and maybe some really cool prizes! blog.dropbox.com/?p=1194
@yapsestagle I thought you might like this —thisadvertisinglife.tumblr.comG
asymco Apple captured 73% of phone industry profits and Samsung captured 26%. HTC took 1%. Everybody else lost money.
@xtauymatiao maybe you should read his wall/timeline thing. hahaha #idontusefacebook
@kennethgyu that’s what I told Levi. #deusexjoke
An orange-red sky today, and so is everything outside pic.twitter.com/M1PHbikm
One can only do so much
The camera app (with “rewind”) and software keyboard in BlackBerry 10 are pretty cool: engadget.com/2012/05/01/bb-ā¦ and theverge.com/2012/5/1/29911ā¦
@evilletters i know! would probably be awesome on the retina display 8D
Quasar, a multitasking window manager for the iPad. youtu.be/7cYWha8YFi8 — Need iPad 3 jailbreak. Now.
Hey, cool: Microsoft released a Metro-style theme for jQuery mobile —blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperabiā¦f
— can be used for PhoneGap/Cordova, too!
joshuatopolsky Instagram makes hardware. youtube.com/watch?v=hSDpAnā¦