I’m planning a redesign for debeasi.com and hope to be finished designing and coding it within a week or two. I plan for it to better showcase my portfolio, and have a better about me page. I’ll keep the same design for my blog (maybe). So keep a look out!-Brendan
Many people know how tv-links.co.uk was shut down a month or so back, and the creator jailed. I was able to get in touch with one of the users below the owner, and was able to get a few words regarding the comeback of TVL. According to our semi-anonymous source, “Twisty”, Tv-Links is planning a full comeback in the next month or so. And they are in the final testing stages of their new site. “Also we want our users to know our servers are now in Sweden, whereas our old ones were in the UK”, this means that this time nobody can get their hands on Tv-Links :). Unfortunately people speculate as to whether or not Tv-Links can make a comeback with websites such as surfthechannel.com already so far ahead of them user-wise and video-wise. Is it too late for Tv-Links, has their time passed?
According to a short news story on businessweek.com, the Apple iPhone/iTouch SDK could be pushed back by 1-3 weeks. There is only one week left for Apple to announce it, and they usually give the media a heads-up about 2 weeks before any big announcement. Does this mean that I, along with all my fellow iPhoneians, will have to wait another few weeks? This may drive us all mad!
Well, I admit it. I’m not code genius, I am more of the creative type. However when I upgraded to Leopard and found that it doesn’t work :(So I downloaded the latest source from SVN, and after about 82 warnings while building it, and a couple error, I was able to come up with a version of Pixen that works with Leopard.
Enjoy!
Recently Microsoft has announced a product named Silverlight. Essentially Silverlight is just a poorly-planned clone of Adobe’s Flash. After watching an interview with a Microsoft exec, who talked about and demo’d Silverlight’s “greatest features” I’ve found that silverlight really has nothing new to offer that Flash cannot already do better.A silverlight app is designed with vector images, and Microsoft claims that it’s an incredible feature…You can scale them to any size you want (which correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the point of vector images?). Silverlight is also “cross-platform”, but only supports OSX and Windows, no solution for Linux or Unix was even mentioned. Apparently it can access XML files (woo hoo! Flash has been able to do that for the past 5/6 versions). Also *drumroll please*, Silverlight allows you to stream high quality videos, and you can even make your own custom interface controls for them…..which you have been able to do with Flash for how long? Overall it seems like Microsoft is just trying fool the consumer into thinking that just because they claim that something is revolutionary….that it is. However this is just not the case in Silverlight.
So you like the wordpress theme (hey maybe you don’t, but I sure do!). This is my first wordpress theme, and I created it over the course of 3 days or so. Heh, through some godly miracle, I had a girlfriend who put up with me “shit hon, gotta add this one thing, then I promise we can spend time together”-ing every five minutes lol. It’s pretty (I think) And I was wondering if any of you out there would want a copy of it? Leme know!
GPS is all the rage these days, whether it be in your cell phone, or on the dash board of your car. Recently Apple leaked info about the iPhones newest firmware update, which included “aGPS” or pseudo-gps.This is not gps at all but simple cell tower triangulation.
Triangulation basically is a phone calculating the distance between several different cell phone towers. It then sees where the signal overlaps, and can calculate at a minimum accuracy of 300 yards or .18 miles (according to FCC regulations).
GPS is much more accurate, up to 15 meters, however not all cell phones have a GPS reciever in them. The iPhone, and any other phone which has the correct software, can make use of cell phone triangulation.
Triangulation is actually what is used by 911 services when you make a all, to locate where you are calling from.
Overall, the new features being released with the next iPhone firmware upgrade are some to be highly anticipated. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that the next version of the iPhone (expected out in ~July) has GPS support, along with its 3G service.
Sorry about the down time everybody (anybody). Apparently DreamHost has decided to kidnap my domains (neuewaycreations.com, brendandebeasi.com), and are refusing to give them back. So until I can get some legal backing, I’m going to be operating off of this domain for a while :(