I started my own company back in 2006. The company, Figure 53, LLC, has been a labor of love since long before it was officially formed. Scraping together a few hours each night, and cramming 20 hours into the weekends, I slowly managed to make a product and…holy hell…even managed to sell a few copies. [...]
Category Archives: OS X
Steal this idea: iPhone Pedometer
March 7, 2008 – 10:59 pm
An idea I don’t have time to pursue right now: The new iPhone SDK, which gives developers access to the accelerometer, should make it easy to write up a little iPhone pedometer application. Just tell the app your stride length, turn it on, slide the iPhone in your pocket, and away you go. A friendly [...]
Render Judgement
June 14, 2007 – 7:39 am
Apple released their Safari internet browser for Windows this week. It caused quite a kurfuffle. Because of the browsers speed? No. (Well, actually, a bit.) Because of the feature set? No. Because of, it turns out, the font rendering. A bunch of big gun blogs took issue with the font rendering. First they were puzzled [...]
By Programmers, For Programmers
May 29, 2007 – 9:17 pm
Another cross-platform development solution hit the geek news sites recently: Lina. According to their website, With LINA, a single executable written and compiled for Linux can be run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX operating systems. Native look and feel, eh? Not likely. There’s a clue right up front [...]