March 2011
7 posts
Real Racing 2 HD (with 1080p output) →
Support for full screen 1080p output on iPad 2 will be included in the next major update for Real Racing 2 HD. At this resolution, the game looks utterly fantastic and runs at a silky smooth 30 frames per second. The dream of relaxing on your couch, iPad 2 as your steering wheel in hand and playing Real Racing 2 HD on your big screen is almost here!
Though it’s using the HDMI...
A Light in India →
What the company illustrates is a different way to think about innovation — one that is suitable for global problems that stem from poor people’s lack of access to energy, water, housing and education.
An inspiring essay on the “frugal innovation” that led to the creation of Husk Power Systems. Goes to show that high technology needn’t only address the needs of the affluent -...
You Win, RIM! →
Considering how terribly designed the entire process is, from the registration right through to loading an app into the simulator, I can only assume that you are trying to drive developers away by inconveniencing them as much as humanly possible. Just in case you’ve forgotten, let me give you a little recap of the process you’ve put together.
A developer writes about the woes of developing an...
Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts... →
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
An essay by Tim O’Reilly that I really like, and keep going back to. It pushes one towards a more balanced view of “piracy”, and prods one to go beyond the knee-jerk reaction to piracy, showing an oft-overlooked side of the picture.
Founders at Work: Steve Woz →
So we said, “Okay, we’ll do Apple Computer.” In those days there was no money yet in this microcomputer business, and big experienced companies and investors, analysts—those kind of people, that are trained in business and much smarter than we were—they didn’t think that this was going to be a real big market. They thought it was going to be a little hobby thing, like...
Airbnb, and a lesson on hustling! →
Airbnb is a great new way to find a space to live in, when in a new city. Instead of checking in at a hotel, one can simply look up spaces that people are willing to share or rent out for the duration of their stay.
This article by Fred Wilson offers up an interesting anecdote about the (relatively) early days of Airbnb, and how they raised their seed capital. Fun story, with a great takeaway:...
A Cognitive Teardown of the Angry Birds User... →
An in-depth look at what makes the seemingly repetitive and straightforward game so engaging. A lot of design principles, big and small, are put to great use in drawing the user into the Angry Birds world.
February 2011
1 post
Headless Foxes →
If we want to break away from an inherently centralised programming model and make developers lives easier we need to make the client and the server one and the same. Equal in capability and equal in developing tools and technologies.
Interesting concept, indeed. Writing a browser-based multiplayer game, I really like that I can reuse parts of my JavaScript code on my node.js server. Adding...