http://scottpenberthy.com Musings on iPhone, Flash and the Cloud Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:02:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I enjoyed Wordpress for a time. Then Twitter hit. Then Tumblr. These lighter, faster platforms get right to the point. Less rock, more roll. David Karp has an incredible design aesthetic, the young Steve Jobs of digital media. His design chops and crisp coding ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2011/03/27/blogging-begets-tumbling/ This morning I inadvertently switched git repositories before committing my changes to git -- several days of work were instantly wiped out. No problem, I told myself, I'll use Time Machine on my Mac. I backup regularly. I launched the Star Wars view, selected my ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2011/01/29/fixing-time-machine-permission-errors/ A few months back I wrote about a side project, "isli.de" The general idea was to share pictures instantly. And I mean instantly. I wanted something so simple, that a single tap could take a picture, upload it, transmit it across the intertubes, and show up instantly an another ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2011/01/05/isli-de-takes-off/ Today I was searching for code to create an interactive, 3D earth with a single UIViewController that reads from Geo RSS. It should work on an iPhone, IPod Touch, and an iPad. I need this for several apps we're writing in 2011. The interface should be as simple ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2010/12/22/interactive-earth-for-iphone/ [caption id="attachment_638" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="A mesh and Lomo filter on the iPhone"][/caption] I recently "discovered" OpenGL Shading Language on the iPhone, or GLSL for short. Its incredible. The iPhone chipset compiles a C-like language on the fly, producing byte codes for the GPU. These in turn are processed ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2010/12/21/pixel-shaders-on-the-iphone/ [caption id="attachment_617" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Apple's Barrel full of Apps"][/caption] Well, that about says it. My money says this chart will be dominated by Android in 3-5 years by volume.  Apple will dominate by revenue.   See the full story. http://scottpenberthy.com/2010/09/29/android-to-port-or-not-to-port/ Here's what I get when I just type a given, single letter of the alphabet on Google's new Google Instant search: a - aol.com b - Bank of America (!) c - Craiglist d - Dictionary e - Ebay f - Facebook g - Gmail h - Hotmail i - Ikea j - Jet Blue (!) k - Kmart l - MTA ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2010/09/08/google-instant-alphabet/ [caption id="attachment_609" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Justin Bieber on Mars in 1976"][/caption] Photos reveal that Justin Bieber was, in fact, born on Mars. Here we see him standing next to the Voyager 3 spacecraft which landed on Mars on September 3, 1976. I thought you'd appreciate this original photo on the ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2010/09/03/was-justin-bieber-from-mars/ The pace of innovation in App land is incredible. Apps are appearing a week, or sometimes just a few days, after a story breaks. One of my favorites is "Ask the Octopus," a comical take on the famous octopus that correctly guessed the outcome of the World Cup. ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2010/07/14/ask-the-octopus/ [caption id="attachment_601" align="aligncenter" width="299" caption="The Ingenious Vuvuphone"][/caption] Thomas Edison is rolling over in his grave. Never before has the phone system been so abused. Welcome, Vuvuphone, the world's first Vuvuzela Phone Call. I've got about $30 of free credits on this thing. Click and send Vuvuzela's to unwitting friends ... http://scottpenberthy.com/2010/06/17/vuvuphone-vuvuzela-phone-calls/