And before you think ultrasonic networking without WiFi / BT is farfetched, well here’s a nice library in javascript—smus.com/ultrasonic-net…x
Been following #badBIOS for a while now, srsly scary malware. arstechnica.com/security/2013/… I’d consider this a hoax, were it not for reputations
MIT wristband could make central heating / air-conditioning obsolete. Pretty cool! (pun unintended ;)
wired.com/design/2013/10… Less energy plz
Hey Twitter, I really like you, but wtf is going on with your UI/UX now? :/
Whoo, got my short URL: google.com/+philipcheang :D (not that G+ was giving me much of a choice, anyway)
Cisco to release free, open-source implementation of H.264. YES. Can we stop using VP8 now? blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/… • blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/3…
robertcupisz This is how every game with IAP should be reviewed: pic.twitter.com/3rFPKIDohT
gruber Fired up Twitter app for iPhone for first time in months. Wow, what a fucking turd they’ve turned this into.
IncrediblyRich Ever wondered how medical students practice for prostate exams? ME NEITHER BUT OMFG. pic.twitter.com/VGcDFYdubx
oh happy halloween and all that
Intel fabs to manufacture ARM chips (!) Would love to see Apple-designed A(x) cores built on Intel’s 14nm process —forbes.com/sites/jeanbapt…B
Robinsons Galleria fire sounds pretty bad; passed like five or six fire trucks along Santolan/Ortigas on the way home
@Ralegan In Soviet Russia, kettle listens to you! (close enough.)
BBC News— Russia: Hidden chips “launch spam attacks from irons”bbc.in/1hmFbaJk yes, as in a *clothes iron. what is this I don’t even
AeornFlippout Remember that talk from Bret Victor on editing tools? Apparently it inspired the @frogatto devs to great effect: youtube.com/watch?v=5xvixS…
@xtauymatiao Happy Birthday Christa! :) Hope you have a good one.
ex-Apple/Googlers team up on toy robot to teach kids computer programm㏌g theverge.com/2013/10/28/502… —very Lego M㏌dstor㎳ (which I loved as a kid)
ABSCBNNews 30 killed in PH poll-related violence bit.ly/Hoz744
ntoll What it’s like to be a programmer for non-programmers (and why interruption is such a pain): i.imgur.com/xvNRKIT.png
typographica Paul Rand introduces NeXT logo to staff (incl a blissful @SusanKare) for first time. Steve Jobs awaits their verdict. youtube.com/watch?v=_9TsrZ…
Ars Technica reviews Tesla Model S: arstechnica.com/features/2013/… — really good review from a technology angle! (as opposed to usual car magazines)
Good Guy Japan: in 2011, the NSA asked Japan to help wiretap phone/internet fiber-optics in Asia, but they declined. japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/2…
0xabad1dea I’m afraid of the pizza delivery people but I guess they should be afraid of me mutantprivilege.tumblr.com/post/651863016…
New Jot Script stylus with 1.9mm tip! Looks pretty cool. adonit.net/jot/script/ Wonder if tech is similar to this? → kickstarter.com/projects/22722…
SquiffyPwn iOS 7 kernel has memory compression like OS X Mavericks
@tjmanotoc thanks! :) we’ve been helping them since they started, you could almost call us co-founders hehe
Cool bit of tech history: the French gov’t-run Minitel in 1980 (!) had what is arguably the first “app store” —makegameswith.us/gamernews/276/…r
While I’m on security: wishing for a modern remake of “Sneakers” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_… or really, a heist film w/ accurate pen-test/InfoSec
Tech writer challenges hackers to investigate him, gets way more than he bargained for: pandodaily.com/2013/10/26/i-c… (stay safe, guys!)
There’re a lot of fantastic essays on Gone Home, but do yourself a favor: don’t read them (yet). Go try it first, trust me.
Late to the party, but I just finished “Gone Home”. Totes worth it. Great example of narrative-building in games, and subverting expectation
buffer Hi all. So sorry, it looks like we’ve been compromised. Temporarily pausing all posts as we investigate. We’ll update ASAP.
Amadeus_IOM Feels like every fire truck in the Metro is here. @YouScoopGMA #guadalupe #Fire instagram.com/p/f8EdbBIWFX/
perfectweiss Huge fire somewhere near Guadalupe @MMDA #MMDA pic.twitter.com/ecs9M9r0fc
re: content, I’m quite sad: our eight marines’ plight, our gov’t powerlessness, how local coverage pales in comparison, + the Chinese borg.
@nytimes continues to push the envelope in digital storytelling. great journalism, photography, code. one of the few MSM outlets I trust.
Well-written, amazingly-designed report on Spratly Islands
nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2…
Must-read if you care about PH/ch㏌a dispute, or web design
I hate how practically all local communities, orgs, + groups rely *only* on Facebook for online presence. Tick off another reason to leave…
marklittlenews BREAKING: Fox claims he doesn’t really say that RT @mePadraigReidy: Best Vine ever - vine.co/v/hpeznLDY2b7”
@RyanSumo also, the number I have on file is different so give this a shot rin. AFAIK, our contact’s name was Jamie pic.twitter.com/e01Sg3F61M
@RyanSumo This place lsapress.com/LSA_Printing_P… Someone else told me they stopped doing cards after ours (wha?) but it doesn’t hurt to ask.
tapbot_paul I hope this helps devs make the decision to charge for major upgrades. Free upgrades for life is not a healthy thing. pic.twitter.com/pgWKlEC6HO
miuaf I fucking hate that it’s impossible to call out bad (e.g. sexist) advertising without basically serving the interests of the advertisers.
Polygon PS4 controller can work with your Mac sbn.to/17NC1p1
Dan Matutina is my Artist for #DoMoreAwards! - Vote for your pick now! short.rappler.com/E2EtB8N
Matthew Cua is my Innovator for #DoMoreAwards! - Vote for your pick now! short.rappler.com/E2EtB8N
@nojlamoliva You should also check out the other transit apps (I already linked the site to you), there are some Android apps there.
@nojlamoliva it already works in your mobile browser. we do this in our free time, so native iOS/Android will have to wait.
Analysize 2 guys made a better Twitter client than a whole company about to go public.
bwalkin The new Keynote.app bundle has plain-text source code to a bunch of the transitions in the app. pic.twitter.com/zfrvazNXXJ
@nojlamoliva routes are provided by MMDA, DOTC, LTFRB, etc, you can download here philippine-transit.hackathome.com/the-philippine… • they used github.com/conveyal/gtfs-…
Mini-Steve, in 3D #apple #seene seene.co/s/xneAEZ
reneritchie I’m hoping iWork/iLife ’13 is like Final Cut Pro X. Torn down to be built back up, just as powerful, more accessible than ever. I’m hoping.
9to5Google Samsung fined again for fake product reviews on forums wp.me/p1w6tN-iHJ
davidhelgason Unity developers now occupy 50% of the Japanese top grossing lists on both iOS and Android. Pretty amazing! #unity3d pic.twitter.com/EV914cgH50
greyham It’s actually hilarious how much crap The Verge gets from Apple, Microsoft & Google fans. All claiming they’re biased against their company
@smoileh already registered ;) see you then?
Happy birthday @smoileh! good job/luck sa launch ng data.gov.ph :)
xtauymatiao UP committee discovers Mark Joseph Solis submitted plagiarized photos to at least 7 contests || spot.ph/the-feed/54604… via @Spotdotph
datagovph We’re holding an #OpenData hackathon on Nov 9-10 for budget data apps. Register now! Limited slots available: data.gov.ph/hackathon/
acarboni A game is a movie, an album, visual art, a book, and, you know, a GAME at the same time. It is probably the hardest thing to make correctly.
@nojlamoliva open-source naman kahit ng code. Also for further reading, most routing apps/algorithms use A* —en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search…Z
@nojlamoliva no, suggested routes are programmatically generated. I’m just saying you can get the data + engine yourself to see how it works
don’t be judgin’
Oh no he didn’t! RT @verge: Elon Musk thinks hydrogen cars are ‘bullshit’ vrge.co/HaqFoF
stroughtonsmith “reason we start counting arrays at zero … President of IBM just called and fuck your thesis, it’s yacht-racing timeexple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/…a8
__apf__ “Breaking this seal constitutes acceptance of the end user license agreement” imgur.com/2ISD5dB
Has anyone used the Automatic Link outside the US? automatic.com (really interested in one, but don’t know if it’ll refuse to work)
stroughtonsmith If you’ve a household with multiple Macs/iOS devices, and an always-on Mac, get the OS X Server app & setup its Caching Server. No question!
@nojlamoliva finally, you can also check out Thomas’ blog at pleasantprogrammer.com — he discusses a lot of the problems we encountered
@nojlamoliva routing is done by open-source software, like OpenTripPlanner. you can try other variants we built here: maps.pleasantprogrammer.com
@nojlamoliva sorry about that, fell asleep! route data is provided by DOST, MMDA, ASTI from the transit app challenge philippine-transit.hackathome.com
@nojlamoliva please click the email link at phi.ph — ayoko i-post kasi makikita ng mga spam-bot.
modernscientist Just discovered. Annoyed. RT @ClarkGoble: @drdrang Apple dropped Applescript support on nearly all their apps today. bit.ly/1gDNT6D
@nojlamoliva naku naman. syempre.
@nojlamoliva sure, go ahead
@xtauymatiao @richtuason @kennethgyu >:D<
datagovph Hi. This is the official Twitter account of data.gov.ph, the upcoming nat’l data portal of @govph. It will be launched on Nov 26.
@nojlamoliva yup, I did most of the design and front-end views. @pleasantprog did the back-end and routing bits.
_mxms I feel bad for the icon designers at apple. Spend days on detail, and now the new icons are a gradient and a few squares.
@xtauymatiao @richtuason @kennethgyu BOOOO >:(
If you’re OC/love micromgmt games, beware Elevator Joe—itunes.apple.com/ph/app/elevato…B so much for working. I blame@RyanSumoopic.twitter.com/3rRhfBp9qxx
simX John Siracusa benchmarks Mavericks’ battery life on a 2013 MacBook Air at a whopping 30% improvement, to >15 hours. That truly is “obscene”
nokia So it seems like today is #AnnounceATabletDay. Clearly #samsung didn’t get the memo… pic.twitter.com/mFZLhCf8ti
gruber Someone tell Richard Stallman the good news: OS X Mavericks, iLife, and iWork are all free software now.
DavidBHayter “Metal Gear Solid 4 holds the Guinness World Record for ‘Longest Cutscene in a Video Game’, at 71 min.”
That one was a throat-scorcher.
MuscleNerd Potential iOS7 jailbreakers should stay away from today’s 7.0.3 for now. Too early to tell if it closes anything important for JB.
humble Get @GoneHomeGame for 50% off! Available for Win/Mac/Linux, DRM-free + includes a Steam key! Sale ends in 1 day - humblebundle.com/store/gonehome…
That was a particularly good Keynote. Apple is doing fine without Steve. (and now, I should sleep.)
RonaldDragstra Add 4 legs underneath and you got yourself an iPad chAIR
That’s a damn bold ad for the iPad Air. #palakpak
Retina on the iPad mini! and an A7 too! I guess there’s no reason for me to want the 9.7” iPad Air… Same performance, cheaper price.
Too true. :( RT @glencharles: Here son, use the iPad so that you won’t bug us during dinner and you won’t get bored.
obligatory Jony Ive video with his smooth-talking British voice
d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/… — hey I can see@enjoyGLOBEe and@SMARTCaress in there!
what. “iPad Air”? well, we’ve already got the “iPad mini”… so will we see an iPad Pro?
mantia Mavericks
Keynote
Pages
Numbers
iPhoto
iMovie
GarageBand
FREE.
@glencharles I thought it was scary how he was leaning outside the opening haha
Sentry_NC All this ‘iPad is great’ talk must be referring to when they were on iOS 6.
0xabad1dea No! Stop preparing short videos about the amazing ways that customers are embracing the iPad! Just tell me how much ram the new one has!!
dmartinng NETBOOKS #biggesttechjokeofthecentury
@kampao they did say it “works on Windows”, so I’d hope so. we’ll see later today
frkbmb Map, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle ♻
So iWork for iCloud is doing the Google Apps collaboration play. We’ll see how this plays out.
…p..panel? Is this the end of the inspector? But I love the inspector! :(
FINALLY iWork updates! I’ve only been waiting for a new Keynote for like, 4 years
@dmartinng yup, I’m also referring to the Mac versions, but I guess I could be wrong. Well, we’ll see later today ;)
@dmartinng if you currently own it legit, I believe you get the updates for free.
I personally think GarageBand, iMovie, etc. for OS X/iOS are big technical+design achievements. No similar consumer-grade software elsewhere
oh god those icons are terrible
and I’m happy now, but I guess we’ve still got software and iPads to come!
@kampao which is why they’re doing it now (honestly, I’ve been thinking they should do that for a long while.) and probably moving forward
@glencharles kailan natin makukuha kaya? that’s another thing I’ve been waiting for a while haha
@kampao fair enough. I think they figure not a lot of people are on 8.x at all though (besides new PCs), which is why they showed it
whooo I finally have a new laptop~
yay the retina macbooks are a bit cheaper <3 and available today!
sdw Neat new iWork icons (iPhoto, too). pic.twitter.com/BIuVNwdLAG
@glencharles mabilis naman Internet sa Ateneo eh. and there’re no classes so it should be fast haha
@glencharles I don’t think you need it anymore :))
Also it’s available today. (Can I say, this is much better handled than the Win 8.1 upgrade…)
Mavericks is FREE. Wow. I mean, wow! (this is one welcome change from the world of iOS!)
iWork last updated in ’09. Every yr I see tiny new features/effects/transitions in Apple’s slides, and wonder when I’ll see a Keynote update
HEY I SEE NEW ICONS FOR IWORK. NEW KEYNOTE PLZ
Running Mavericks on a production laptop since GM, I can affirm Apple’s claims. It’s great! (now please give me a new laptop to run it with)
It begins. apple.com/apple-events/o…
jasonlong There some really original and innovative design work going on in the productivity app space. pic.twitter.com/GOFacgy8Dq
tim_cook Can’t wait to get underway. Having fun backstage.
@glencharles oh, but of course! ;)
Apple event soon! Seems like a big deal, if they’re featuring it on the home page apple.com (see y’all on the livestream later!
nokia “Phablet”, do people still hate that word? We’ve carefully avoided saying “phablet” throughout announcing 2 big screen smartphones today.
Wolfram Research is holding seminars on computational technologies in UP Diliman and DLSU —wolfram.com/events/computa…o
I wish DoE/government had a website w/ searchable listing of energy-rating yellow tags. Often physical tag is missing pic.twitter.com/SKvxzbVuRc
9to5mac BlackBerry announces 5 million downloads of BBM for iOS and Android only 8 hours after release wp.me/p1xtr9-1emD
@icemonsod I know, right? kulang na lang, “why does the save icon look like this?”
“What are the Windows A: and B: drives for?” — This is an actual question now? Wow. I feel sooo old. :(superuser.com/questions/2312…O
Online image-cutout + background removal, by the Vector Magic guys—clippingmagic.comK (actually pretty good! give it a shot.)
The rare time I fall asleep before 11pm, my body/brain decides to wake up at 3am. — “Haha, nope, you’re not ever getting a proper sleep!”
@aaronash wow, I’ve been looking for a way to shrink photos in-place, without losing metadata or position. Thanks so much!
Project Shield, by Google—projectshield.withgoogle.comC CloudFlare-like service (PageSpeed, natch) to help “protect free speech” of media, NGOs
BenedictEvans Great chart visualising content consumption by device, from mondaynote.com/2013/10/20/the… pic.twitter.com/cEZvL7scLH
viticci BBM app works great on the iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 fyi.
Wait what do you mean this is not 2008
riajuunibyou We Are Never, Ever, Ever, Going Back To America huffingtonpost.com/niels-gerson-l…
osnews Why does Windows have terrible battery life?: Jeff Atwood:
I had a brief Twitter conversation with Anand Shim… bit.ly/18CvEIM
hamburger “building and releasing on Android costs 2-3x more than iOS.” stevecheney.com/why-android-fi…
Domain sniping. Finally got phi.ph ! :D (Next goal: start writing, make blog.)
latteine @stroughtonsmith Only Google could call an organisation Open Handset Alliance and contractually forbid to produce non-proprietary products.
I’ve been playing Chess wrong all this time: youtube.com/watch?v=YgeYSc…
ANCALERTS Pulse Asia: More than half of Pinoys not aware of lawmakers’ projects j.mp/19YlErG
@RyanSumo most everything else is spot on. Even Neil Tyson sorta took back his tweets on FB facebook.com/notes/neil-deg… (no, still not using it)
@RyanSumo I did research (lol): the major inaccuracy is for the sake of plot. (orbits of ISS, Hubble, and satellites lining up— they don’t)
_wirepair Congratulations on your device purchase!
Would you like:
A. A US Backdoor.
B. A Chinese Backdoor.
C. A Vendor Backdoor.
@RyanSumo I actually have much more to say, but 140 chars won’t cut it. We should hang out again some time :P
@RyanSumo @cammercheanger first watch was a while back… but luckily I tweeted my thoughts thenpic.twitter.com/mso7TCQFgQgQ
And mixing in IMAX seemed better overall. But again, maybe it’s just Greenhills (or you know, just me. haha.) I will stop nitpicking now.
This was most apparent in the title card, w/ the intro text and crescendo score that sharply cuts to silence. You could hear the A/C in GH…
That said, seems Gravity actually sounded better in IMAX than Atmos(?!) —maybe Greenhills miscalibrated. Noise floor was too high.#filmnerdd
Watched Gravity for the 2nd time with @cammercheanger! This time, in Dolby Atmos. Still loved it. (And made even more mental notes again)
byimplication By Implication turns three today. A big thank you to all our friends, family, clients, partners, and fans who’ve supported us along the way!
I don’t know how I got it, but I got it. (Also, The Stanley Parable is FANTASTIC and you should buy it.) pic.twitter.com/S81lfHLlsU
GrouchoDuke App research findings: sensortower.com for “app worth,” xyo.net/iphone/ & distimo.com/appiq for download _estimates_.
kakacorral So at Outbreak Missions last night there was this guy wearing a Team Ateneo shirt
Zombie: *while chasing him* ANIMO LA SALLE ANIMO LA SALLE
Just played the Stanley Parable demo. What.
…
Okay, I’m convinced. Sold!
You can come up with as many cool ideas as you want, but if you don’t actually do anything then it’s all moot.
New startup looks amazing: premise.com real-time global macroeconomic/human dev’t trends based on crowdsourced smartphone reports
eevee i.imgur.com/8suzWG5.png ok that’s better. apologies for tiny text but this is kind of a wide chart already. (copyright length of bieber song)
Heads up, @thatsmydoing —macrumors.com/2013/10/17/app…5 (I wanted to tell you this earlier, but forgot lol)
You can even ask like “fastest Pokémon in generation two,” and it sorts by speed. K, I’ll stop nerding out now :P pic.twitter.com/7mm3jffyZ3
…takeaway: you can now ask Siri “tell me about Pikachu”. Yes, iPhone is now a real-life Pokédex#childhoodo#squeeepic.twitter.com/IQY6eOzJTRTR
So Wolfram|Alpha now contains Pokémon entries + stats as computable data points. blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/10/10/got…
worrydream iTunes is now referring to my talks as “Home Videos”. pic.twitter.com/jmqf96BXnn
@RyanSumo @wilhansen_li I give it out in person too, you know ;)
@xanderKhan why yes, of course you are. haha
why are dot.ph domains so expensive? ugh. (at these prices, you’d think they can afford to replace watermarked stock photos)
I wonder if I’m too friendly with all the free advice I give in emails; I sometimes think I should be charging for consulting…
New ransomware encrypts your files (for reals!), demands $300 for decryption key. arstechnica.com/security/2013/… man, this is just despicable.
winocm “Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
msdev WIndows 1 to Windows 8.1 #throwbackthursday #tbt pic.twitter.com/jzhJDrCPSl
NASA We’re back and in the process of turning things back on! nasa.gov and #NASA TV will be up as soon as possible!
@RyanSumo flour, cocoa, milk, eggs, butter… stuff for a cake. sure am glad the recipient doesn’t check Twitter that often.
Sure hope this ends up edible. I usually cook up code and pixels, not food instagram.com/p/fkVxptBk20/
Yeah, I don’t think that’s going to work
brainpicker 100 ideas that changed graphic design j.mp/19ReFTv
@MonteCorpuz thanks! It already works now in your mobile browser. :) We might do native apps (iOS/android), but no ETA yet.
@glencharles webdev? I’ll drop by Ateneo soon. (grades, haha.) Or you can come to our office? ;) hirap kasi mag-feedback online.
Full-frame, compact, interchangeable-lens mirrorless cameras from Sony. Wow! dpreview.com/news/2013/10/1… also, that price. ~$2000. Wow. :(
@mediatemple thanks for reaching out. I imagine it must be stressful for your PR/media teams now. Good luck :)
@richtuason I actually backed it, and downloaded the source code na, pero tamad pa ako mag deploy (much less actually write stuff, lol)
usmanm This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships. pic.twitter.com/T8aCvyDJ80
@richtuason @kennethgyu ಠ_ಠ
“I know none of my passwords.” —aley.me/passwordsd
• hardcore security. I’d love to do something similar, but am too scared.
Regarding that last RT: apparently a true story, bro —hindustantimes.com/Brunch/Brunch-…u just, wow. so happy for him.
googlemaps Watch the incredible true story of how a lost boy found his way back home 26 years later with #GoogleEarth: goo.gl/eaCIxz
The case against publishing to Newsstand in iOS 7: markokarppinen.com/post/641047892…
@edgeronia cool find! dapat may ganito rin yung MRT / LRT haha
If only we could do this w/ jeepneys, buses, etc.— RT@edgeroniaa look at this. real-time train locations in tokyo.demap.info/tetsudonow/b
washingtonpost In just 1 day, the NSA copied
444,743 address books from Yahoo
105,068 from Hotmail
82,857 from FB
33,697 from Gmail
wapo.st/GVGNdG
Oh no. GoDaddy is buying Media Temple. :( techcrunch.com/2013/10/15/god…
Oh, I believe @sakayph + other #philtransit apps will be featured in a bit on TV5’s Pilipinas News. Again please pardon my grammar haha
RyanSumo The collapse of so many historical churches is a great loss, here’s hoping they’ll be fixed up in the near future.