Category Archives: development
Project Natal gets the couch off your butt
Project Natal is a “controller free gaming and entertainment experience” by Microsoft. Natal is being created for the Xbox 360 game platform and is based on an add-on for the console that will enable you to interact via gestures, spoken commands, or other physical objects. In case that doesn’t sound extremely exciting, take a look [...]
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WWDC 2009 | Highlights | new iPhone release: iPhone 3GS date and information
Highlights from WWDC 2009 Keynote:
iPhone OS 3.0 available worldwide June 17th
My weapon of choice this year for the Keynote stream was http://www.macrumorslive.com. They have a good stream text feed, and an even better streaming pictures feed. The pictures updated more often than the text, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they caught every slide… I [...]
Google Wave : Talk about doing conversations the ‘right way’
Google is blowing this whole communication business out of the water. There are a ton of features in Google Wave that have been combined to create something that is just better than other communication services.
Every feature of the platform was obviously thought through. The whole time I’ve been watching the video (I’m still watching it [...]
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iPhone overheated: the peak of good UX
A picture of an iPhone warning screen appeared on The iPhone Blog yesterday. Apparently the iPhone gives a pleasant warning sign when it starts to overheat. Little warning signs like this, that inform the user of what’s happening, is what keeps Apple on top. Apple continues to prove how crucial machine-to-human communication is. This message [...]
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Multitouch Interface on a budget
If you don’t have enough money to buy a Surface, why not make one yourself? For 3% of the price. Yes. Instead of a $12,000 Surface you can build your own multitouch machine for $350. Sounds like a great deal to me. I think this would be a great solution for people that want to [...]
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Teaching Microsoft on a Mac
I was watching a session from MIX09 this morning titled “Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics.” The session was hosted by Seema Ramchandani and surprisingly (though, not too surprisingly) she was conducting the session from her 17″ MacBook Pro. She’s teaching the intricacies of a Microsoft product from the comfort of Mac. Wonderfully [...]
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What I’ve been up to
I apologize for the lack of posts over the past few days. Things have been crazy with work. I’ve been pulling those 12 hour days.
Unfortunately when the weekend came I didn’t find much comfort in relaxation. Instead I spent money on buying Twittersort.com. I’ve proceeded to spend almost my entire weekend coding the website – [...]
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Super Bowl Security commanded by Microsoft Surface
Looks like the Microsoft Surface unit is going to be a key player in helping the security team stay organized on Super Bowl Sunday. Credit goes to Microsoft, E-SPONDER, and Infusion. Microsoft supplies the Surface unit, E-SPONDER supplied the connections to the security data network, and Infusion Development provided the Falcon Eye technology (the software [...]
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Check out these Mix10K applications
There’s a 10K coding challenge being presented for MIX09. From their site:
“The grand prize winner will live large at MIX09 – they’ll receive a pass to the MIX09 event, 3 nights at The Venetian Hotel and a $1500 Visa gift card. The [...]
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Xcode error 0xE8000001, can’t install iPhone applications
I was having a wild time on Friday night – I was drinking [smoothie] and making some sweet advances on the hot [uni] body [MacBook] that was resting next to me. Yes – I was making small breakthroughs in iPhone coding. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t THAT wild on Friday night, but I have a [...]
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iPhone coding tutorial: Hello world!
In this tutorial I will walk you through the creation of a Hello World application. I know that Apple already has a Hello World! sample that you can look at, but if you’re just getting started that’s not enough of a walk through to show you what’s going on. This will be more than [...]
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MIX09 10K smart coding challenge
If you haven’t already submitted your code for the Mix09 10K smart coding challenge then you better get on it. There are quite a few Silverlight applications here so if you’re looking for what people can do with a few lines of code go check it out. Even if you don’t code you should go [...]
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