Archive for the ‘Web & Tech’ Category

Sketchpad for Google Wave

The semester is over and my capstone project is done. Meet “Sketchpad”, a gadget for Google Wave. Sketchpad can be inserted into a Wave conversation to provide simple collaborative drawing in real time. Put simply: you can see participants drawing on the canvas stroke by stroke as they are doing it. The project is based [...]

Hades tries to eat a pistachio

You should watch this many times both because it is cute and because I could possibly win a MacBook according to this competition. This is my house-mate’s cat, Hades. She isn’t very good at cracking open the shell, but she tries.
How We Get Crackin – Hades tries to eat a Pistacio on 12seconds.tv

To the Haters of "New Facebook"

I don’t understand; I really don’t. There is a big (growing) movement among the haters. Facebook is getting closer and closer to forcing everyone over to the new layout and phasing out the old one, and they’re becoming more and more frantic. There’s a couple of groups over a million members strong: Petition Against the [...]

Chrome’s V8 vs Firefox’s upcoming TraceMonkey

Score! I found benchmarks of both engines on one of the dev’s blogs. Check out this sweet action, then click through at the bottom for more.

Brendan’s TraceMonkey Update

Please Apple, Please

Go do a YouTube search for “swype demonstration” or “swype tc50″ to see what I’m talking about.
Please, oh please Apple, license this and put it in the next big iPhone 2.5/3.0 software update next year or whenever that’s lined up. As nice as the iPhone software keyboard already is, this is somewhere in the neighborhood [...]