The “Apple Store” in Kuala Lumpur

In Apple on 18 August 2008 with no comments

Looks like epiCentre is taking a page from the Apple Store playbook:

Twinkling With Beer

In iPhone on 10 August 2008 with no comments

C4[2] September

In C4 on 1 August 2008 with no comments

Registration for this year’s indie Mac conference, C4 is now open and line of speakers and attendees looks like it’s a not-to-be-missed event.

Alex Payne, Brent Simmons, Buzz Anderson, Craig Hockenberry, Mike Lee, Rich Siegel, Richard Hipp, Thomas Ptacek, Troy Gaul, and Wil Shipley will all be contributing not to mention the veritable who’s who of the Mac Indie world that will be attending.

I’ll be there! Are you going?

Li Wei Stunt Photo Master

In Photography on 31 July 2008 with 3 comments

Check out the work of Li Wei. Fantastic.

Watch the videos showing the painstaking effort that goes into making one of these pieces.

And if you have the coin, you can buy your own Li Wei original to hang in the parlor.

Garfield in Translation

In Around The Web on 31 July 2008 with no comments

What if you translated Garfield into Chinese and back to English via computer?

iPhone 3G Commercials Around the World

In iPhone on 22 July 2008 with no comments

Ok this one is for the first gen, but I still like it:

First Post From iPhone

In Uncategorized on 22 July 2008 tagged iPhone with no comments

After a week with my iPhone I have to say I’m pretty happy. Yes, it could be more stable and yes, the twenty minute iTunes backups are a pain, but I have total faith that Apple will fix these problems and it doesn’t bother me.

As for the app store, I have started uninstalling the apps I don’t use. What’s left?

Twitteriffic - Twinkle is interesting, but Twitteriffic still has the advantage. I expect these two apps tow evolve differently and push each other at the same time.

Tuner - hello radio on my iPod.

NetNewsWire - Here’s hoping I don’t get hit by a bus reading feeds while walking outside.

Things - it doesn’t sync yet but it looks fabulous. My Lists is a much simpler contender too.

Buying A 3G iPhone In Japan

In Japan, iPhone on 16 July 2008 with no comments

Neil Duckett:

“It was the most anticipated purchase i have ever made.”

iPhone Passcode Lock and Location Awareness

In Uncategorized on 13 July 2008 tagged iPhone with no comments

Location Awareness is one of the sweetest features of the iPhone and it opens a whole world of of possible applications.

But I have two small feature requests:

1) Use my location to disable the passcode lock when I’m at home. I only want my phone to lock when I’m away from my nest.

2) Give me the option to let apps know my location without asking me. I’m not worried about that and it’s a pain to have to constantly approve an app to allow it to know my location.

New Malloc Finds 33 Year Old Yacc Bug

In Debugging on 9 July 2008 with no comments

Ottoo Moerbeek has created a new malloc implementation which caused a bug that has been lurking in yacc for 33 years to come to light:

“My new malloc has some features not found in the current malloc: it moves allocations smaller than a page but bigger than half a page to the end of the page, to have a greater chance of catching buffer overflows. Even without guard pages, this works most of the time, since we have a randomized mmap(2): there’s a pretty big chance that there is a hole after a page allocated. Accessing that hole leads to a segmentation fault.”

For another heroic bug tracking tale, also be sure to check out Wil Shipley’s The Greatest Bug of All.