Archive for the 'technical' Category
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
CHI2006, the conference on human factors in computing systems, has released a final schedule [pdf]. I will be attending the event and I wanted to give you, my loyal (and not so loyal) readers, a chance to let me know if there’s anything at the conference you think I should attend.
The schedule link is a […]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
This is just a quick note that I’ve renamed “Jabber FAQ for the Mac OS X Tiger User” to simply the Jabber in iChat FAQ. I’ve also updated it a bit, no longer blabbering on about Use Jabber and simply recommending that people seeking public servers get a Google Talk account (if anything, their servers […]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Metroid Prime Hunters (the new first-person shooter for the Nintendo DS based on the Metroid series) features 90 degrees of a pie menu!
Players can select between the primary weapon, a missile launcher, and an alternate weapon. The alternate weapons are acquired from the various other hunters players battle throughout the game. To select among the […]
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
Not really. But if you just read headlines and marketing material, you might think that was the case. I fear we have long past the stage in which the word “open” is abused and should now be mistrusted. This is unfortunate.
Basically, AOL is now letting people display presence on web pages and use a (closed […]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
One of my group projects (started by Purin) was accepted for display in the CHI Student Design Competition, so I will be attending CHI 2006 in April.
Apparently this year CHI has a blog and is requesting trackbacks, so that’s what I’m doing now. I also created a “chi 2006″ category for my blog.
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
Software that normally retails for $1199 shouldn’t be allowed to to lock up Mac OS X. Seriously, that shouldn’t even be legal.
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
I’ve put together a standalone personal project site to make things easier for people who only care to find out about those sorts of things. Feel free to suggest ways I could make it better.
Why do you care? It will be a compendium of information on Gabber and my Cocoa Pie Menu. I swear that […]
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