Wired reports today that Apple has approved the Spotify iPhone/iPod Touch application, as profiled by Spotify themselves on their blog. It would be interesting to see what this does for the iTunes store sales figures in the countries where the … Continue reading →

I wrote a module for the blog engine Chyrp that makes setting up statistics with Mint very easy. It’s called Mint Feeder. To install, just download the module and unzip it to a folder called mintfeeder in the modules folder … Continue reading →

This priceless bug report to the PHP developers made me chuckle, and the final reply rounds it off nicely: goto hell; open PHP Bug #48669

EOS Camera Movie Record is a neat open source project to enable video recording with the Canon EOS 450D/Rebel XSi. Before you get too excited, there are a couple of caveats: no sound (of course, the camera has no mic) … Continue reading →

Despite John Resig’s optimistic “eulogy” I receive the news of _why’s departure with some sadness. I took my first ruby steps with why’s (poignant) guide to ruby, an incredibly whimsical tale through a programming language and the most inspirational programming … Continue reading →

Just a quick tip: when uploading video to flickr from a camera that has less than HD resolution I’ve found it works well to export the video to a higher definition resolution, like 1280×720. It gets better treatment in the … Continue reading →

Via Make blog and my brother, the fantastic looking Renovo wooden bikes. I thought I had seen beautiful bikes when I saw CalfeeDesign’s bamboo bikes but Renovo takes it to a whole new level. USD 2300 for a frame doesn’t … Continue reading →

Google is letting us know that they’re making it easier for people to publish their Creative Commons licensed works on Google Books, and have a sweet little list of books up there already. I haven’t read it yet but Lawrence … Continue reading →

Borrowing a headline from a recent anti Apple tirade I’d like to lay out a few concerns I have with Spotify, and other music streaming services for that matter. The only reason I single out Spotify is that here in … Continue reading →

It’s been a long time since I did any application programming for OS X, so my joy at having little more than a label in a window filled with the latest posts from this site made my weekend already. .. … Continue reading →