When your business depend on users seeing the ads you serve, getting on Google’s phishing site list has to be a killer: Google’s description of the page lists it as having installed software without consent. Not that I doubt Google’s … Continue reading →

A long awaited update to my favourite iPhone game: Jelly Car 2 (App Store) is out. I was disappointed to see it has acquired not one but two splash screen on start, adding about 10 seconds to the start-up time. … Continue reading →

Seems more people than me agreed that Fret War in its current form wasn’t really worth the trouble. Creator Zed Shaw comments on the first round: Round 1 was nerdy and random and had source code. Everybody hated it. Round … Continue reading →

Typekit.com launched yesterday. Seems like a really nice solution to the legal and technical web font hurdles. For a modest yearly fee you get access to a big library of fonts, embedding licensing issues cleared, that you can use in … Continue reading →

Google has released a new programming language called Go. Interesting looking, and with its focus on concurrency, memory safety and super-fast build times, how long until someone writes a Rails clone in it that builds on demand and kicks Ruby … Continue reading →

There’s a documentary film coming out that’s called How to grow a band. It’s about mandolinist Chris Thile’s band Punch Brothers. Check out the trailer on the site as well as a pretty cool live performance of Bach’s Brandenburg concerto … Continue reading →

Zed Shaw has a new project out, called Fret War!. I really like the idea a lot, put up a tune in a variety of formats for guitarists to pick apart and have a contest to see who can submit … Continue reading →

Wow, what a week for web developers! Mockingbird is out, a very cool looking mockup/wireframe tool built on Cappucino, the “did they really do that?” Javascript framework bringing Objective-C to the web. Google Closure Tools is out, gathering up Google’s … Continue reading →