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it’s easy once you know how.

I am now an iPhone app developer.

Posted by James - 25/05/10 at 10:05:28 pm

It’s finally happened. My tithe to Apple has been paid, and my iPhone has arrived on my desk.

Continue reading I am now an iPhone app developer….

AIR Team t-shirt

Posted by James - 26/03/09 at 02:03:00 pm

A bit irrelivant I know, but I thought I’d post anyways as it’s just arrived; 

I got a free t-shirt from Adobe (yay me!). As it turns out, Shikha Bhargava – product manager for the AIR Marketplace – posted this article on the Adobe Developer Center at its relaunch. ImageSizer obviously sneaked in there as one of the first 10 new applications to be added, so I got a free t-shirt.  (As well as a free Digital certificate!)

About the Link: spam

Posted by James - 23/02/09 at 10:02:34 am

I’m sorry about this – it looks like Psyked is turning into a links machine. It’s really not, you know. I’m trying to avoid it, and write original content, but it’s so darned hard to find time (plus, I’m working a lot on things like ImageSizer). And decent links are so easy to find.

So, have faith – I’m working on something original. For now, I’m afraid – it’s back to the Link: spam.

I’m on Twitter.

Posted by James - 05/02/09 at 09:02:49 am

Some might say slow on the uptake, some would argue that I’m not jumping on the bandwagon without considering where it’s going.

In the end it was Will Hawkins [blog, twitter] that convinced me to start using Twitter a bit more – even without the ability to tweet from my iPhone (which I don’t have) it still looks like a valuable tool.

I’ve been using a few AIR applications for Twitter, which for me are a big element in it’s success on the desktop.  I dislike twhirl (and not just because it takes me five attempts to spell it), TweetDeck gets a little annoying with too many searches (but I think that’s less the app and more the way Twitter works) and DestroyTwitter looks really nice – except it lacks the search features of TweetDeck.  So I think I’ll be using TweetDeck and DestroyTwitter for a little while together, until I pick a fave.

Why?

Well actually, this micro-blogging thing has merits.  And not really obvious ones – I mean generally, who cares what useless things people ‘Tweet’ about?  Who cares that 44 thousand people have tweeted about the snow falling?  Not me.  What IS good though, is the fact that it’s so quick and irreverant.  Full-on blogging takes ages to string together sentances to post.  Ok, you get more meaning across, but it takes longer.  Tweeting something takes a few seconds, and with a liberal smattering of keywords, lots of people read it.

The TweetDeck search implimentation is a killer feature.  Setup a search on keywords, and moments after it’s posted, it’ll appear on your desktop.  Want to know if anyone’s talked about something, put in a search and you’ll find out.  I’ve been tweeted twice this week, and I never even knew.

Oh and building on the searches, it’s a good way to seek out people interested in the same things as you, network, make friends, etcetera.

Follow me!

Hey, if you want to see what I tweet about, check out: http://twitter.com/psyked_james

Google Native Client?

Posted by James - 09/01/09 at 03:01:39 pm

Google Native Client?  Runs C++ code in a browser?  Sounds interesting.

http://www.insideria.com/2008/12/google-native-client-a-game-ch.html

IE8 Beta goes public – and what are those new features?

Posted by James - 18/12/08 at 09:12:44 am

Or to be more specific, what the hell are the “Accelerators” and the “Web Slices”?

You can download the Internet Explorer 8 Beta from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx.  Overall, it’s quite an interesting update – and most noticeably it shows a distinct push on the innovation front.  Since I’m talking about it, I’ll go over a few of the noticeable new features, and then get onto the specifics of the “accelerator” and “web slices” features.

Continue reading IE8 Beta goes public – and what are those new features?…

The real Computer Monster

Posted by James - 05/12/08 at 06:12:58 pm

I got sent this earlier and found it amusing, so what the heck – enjoy!

Or view it on YouTube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAKgJDahzw