Zync - a New Way NOT to Advance the State of the Art

If you have the chops to make something cool, why not do it in a place where people where actually discover it, instead of preaching to the converted?

World Record of Happiness


Nokia’s Software is Willfully, Woefully Ignorant of Macs

People who buy unlocked phones like to do things differently.
They have a thirst for the newest toy, the shiniest gadget, the latest feature. This same “Early Adopter” market overlaps heavily with the “Mac Power User” market — hackers and creators who love their Mac because it has today what PCs will have in four years.

I […]

A Letter to Maxwell of Apartment Therapy:

hello,
i’m frustrated by the fact that Apartment Therapy, one of my
favorite sites, is one of my least favorite feeds because so little of
the content appears in the feed — just the initial, truncated
sentence. my conversations with feed wizards Feedburner.com have led me
to believe that users really, REALLY prefer full-content feeds, and
that users will even prefer […]

Why the Blackberry 8700 is weak, part II

No bundled feed reader for
RSS/Atom feeds. (Yes, i have BerryBloglines. Yes, it blows.)
No Bluetooth File Transfer support. This seems odd, since the 8700 “supports” blootoof, but i guess they don’t mean “supports” as in, “you can transfer files with it.”
The Web browser incurs HTTP 406 errors! (Yes, 406! 406!!!). This seems to be caused by […]

The Truth About the Blackberry 8700 - The Blacker the ‘Berry…

…the fewer the options.
I spent about six months with a RIM BlackBerry phone/pager and barely lived to tell the tale. This is my story.

Archaic ringtones. No MP3 support — This is a harsh awakening if you’re migrating from a Nokia, as I was.
No syncing with OS X machines, without purchasing buggy, third-party shareware
Connection Amnesia […]

MAX/MSP - the good and bad news

well, the good news about buying the packaged version of MaxMSP (as opposed to the digital, download-only version) is that you get mac and PC installers in one package. And that’s about the only good thing.
The bad things?

Out of Date Software — the package ships with v4.5.7, while the website has 4.6. Now it’s […]