Nerdy stuff.
Recently, a few developers were having a discussion on ADN about a promo video for a new iPad app. Uli Kusterer raised the point that the video was missing something: fingers. It was hard for him to tell what was a tap, and what was something that was merely happening as normal in the app. […]
I tried, for the better part of the afternoon, to install a Rocketfish USB 3.0 PCI Express Card RF-P2USB3 in my Mac Pro (“Early 2008” MacPro3,1 running 10.8.3), and it looks like I’ve finally succeeded.
I’m trying to do this because, for whatever reason, the USB3 cards that are available for the Mac are easily […]
Several people have encouraged me recently, since I have feet in both the video production and Mac & iOS development camps, to blog about video production for developers.
On September 26, 2009, I gave a Blitz Talk at the C4[3] developer conference entitled Video and You, intended to give developers some quick guidelines and tips about developing promotional videos for their apps.
A lot has changed since then, but please enjoy this PDF version of the talk and slides as something small to tide you over while I work up some more modern musings on the subject.
I’m not sure exactly how I came into having these poster images, but reading on DigiBarn, it looks like they may have been designed by Marcin Wichary (perhaps this gentleman?) to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Macintosh.
You can download the entire set of 14 posters as PDFs, suitable for printing up poster-sized.
If you’re seeing this, it means you’re seeing my new, migrated site. I realized that I wasn’t really using any of the extra features that Squarespace was affording me, and while they have given me great service (and I love their stats package), it was time to minimize my outlay to my various service providers. […]
This is the ringtone for Derek Flint’s direct line to the President in the 1966 movie, Our Man Flint, which was a sort of parody of the James Bond movies of the time. The ringtone would also be later used as the sound of the electronic handcuffs in Hudson Hawk.
To celebrate my friends’ podcast, Post Atomic Horror, hitting 100 episodes, I translated 99 Luftballons into Klingon. Because, SCIENCE!
Please note that I am not a native speaker of the Klingon Language, so several evenings with Okrand’s Klingon Dictionary let to this probably-horrible translation.
The complete lyrics (with english translation):
poHlIj’a’ (do you […]
