Monthly Archives: August 2010
Simplify iOS4
One of the new features of iOS4 is custom wallpaper on the home screens. This idea came from the iPad, which on the iPad looks amazing. This is because there is more screen real estate. On the iPhone however, the … Continue reading
Bassface
When you really get down to some dirty drum and bass or at least something some sawtooth, make this face: Frame grab from Salt (movie) with Angelina Jolie.
Aloe Blacc – I need a dollar
Loving this song; hope to get the album soon.
Macbook Pro – change graphics card in realtime
Just found this awesome menu bar tool which lets you quickly swap the graphics card on your Macbook Pro. It lets you swap say from onboard Intel graphics to dedicated nVidia, or vice versa. It should work with most Macbook … Continue reading
Google maps moves drops Flash
Why is this awesome? Because Google are dropping a locked in piece of software (which is bug ridden, and insecure, and has extremely poor performance on anything but Windows).
Hakim Experiments (html5/js)
This guy has created an amazing audio tool out of javascript and html5. Something I’m sure you could waste hours and hours on. Would be good to pipe it through some effects processing though. link
Online bittorrent service hides your warez
New service put.io is a commercial service which has allows you to download torrents using their servers, store the files and then later download them to your computer, or stream them to your iPhone, without a trace. Obviously you must … Continue reading
Amazon’s wish list
Amazon. Love them or hate them, they have a great system. Browse, add to cart/wish list, buy, deliver. I’ve only had slight problems with amazon and that was when Royal Mail was on strike.