August 2008
AppleJack is back! →
Shared by Matthew
Oh wow! Oh yes!
The troubleshooting utility AppleJack has returned. The developers had a little difficulty adapting it for the new things under the hood in Leopard, but their…
Asphalt 4 Elite Racing →
Shared by Matthew
This not an entirely bad game
Category: Games Released: Aug 29, 2008 Price: $9.99 Description: “iPhone’s most anticipated racing game”, Asphalt 4: Elite Racingâ„¢…
Design You Trust™. World's Most Famous Social... →
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Nikon D90 ‘D-Movie’ Sample Footage →
Shared by Michael Heilemann
I was looking over the preview of the D90 the other day. Do want.
Impressive quality.
★
Interfacing with Habari →
We’ve done some pretty cool work on Habari’s administrative interface, and I’d like to take a few minutes to walk you through it.
Benny Wars →
Vader: Search your feelings — you know it be true. Lucas: Nooooooo! That’s impossible! That this is funny serves as yet another sad — yet timely, given the most recent effort —…
Going Native →
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I need to write more often and intelligently
It’s been quiet here of late. As I was reminded yesterday when it was noted I haven’t posted anything of merit in some time, along…
Bill Mahers Religulous: It’s Now Okay To Ridicule... →
Bill Maher, famed standup comedian and talkshow host, is about to unleash a religion-critical documentary on the silver screen. Titled Religulous, Maher will be arguing that religion is,…
Epix Battle! →
Epix Battle! →
‘All the Parts’ →
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but there’s also no IRC or Usenet or IM etc etc .. retards
iPhone commercial banned in the U.K. for claiming “all the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone”. Flash and Java…
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Formula1 Massa vs. Sutil Pitstop near collision →
Massa has been released by Ferrari mechanics unsafe, causing near collision with Sutil - both come literally within inches from each other Author: y3kostiv Keywords: Massa …
WatchCut Chemist - 1st Big Break on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Via Jina Bolton.
The Robots are Coming →
Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break from eyestorm on Vimeo.
Just watch it, okay? It’s awesome. The Robots are Coming (My 1st Big Break), by Cut Chemist, with Fisheye awesomeness. Yep….
‘Mach Dice’ Simulates N-Sided Dice →
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wow. I have no need for this, but want it.
While we’re fans of MotionX’s free Dice app [App Store] for the iPhone, one common request has been the need for non traditional…
Typeface != Font →
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True but largely irrelevant nowadays as the 2 words have simply become interchangeable. Hey ho.
A gentle reminder from Jon Tan on the difference between a typeface and a font. I…
Virgin America Safety Video →
For my birthday weekend, I took my first-ever trip to Los Angeles, which was also my first-ever trip via Virgin America. I was impressed by their branding. Their boarding passes looked great….
Handheld gaming →
Stephen Fry has a lot of affection for Nintendo’s DS, which he finds much more engaging than Sony’s PSP
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday 23rd August 2008 in The Guardian “Dork Talk” - The…
OpenClip →
Interesting grass-roots open source implementation of copy & paste for the iPhone, including several developers pledging their support. Of course, without Safari support, you might as well use paper…
Firemint Raises the Bar for iPhone Racing with... →
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Its no Gran Turismo, but WOW!
Reporting from GCDC 2008, PocketGamer.co.uk was demoed a new iPhone racing game called Real Racing. Australian developer Firemint shows off what…
Real Racing Replay - 1" 11' 125 →
Real Racing
http://Cloudcell.net
http://Cloudcell.net/RealRacing/ Author: firemintkynan Keywords: car racing RealRacing Added: Aug 19, 2008 This article comes from a custom…
Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention →
Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention - A friend called today saying her somewhat sexy photos were being used on other sites causing her bandwidth to go through the roof (5 gig so far this month!)….
Sour Apple: How an Apple ad sets the wrong... →
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Err, its AN ADVERT! They have 15-30secs to get an idea over. Grow up guys.
Sour Apple: How an Apple ad sets the wrong expectations
GPS Kit →
Category: Navigation Released: Aug 14, 2008 Price: $9.99 Description: Finally unleash the GPS power of your iPhone! Whether you are running, hiking, driving, or boating you will find this…
TwitterFon →
Category: Social Networking Released: Aug 14, 2008 Price: Free Description: TwitterFon is a simple, fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your…
Placebo →
Princess Leia Costume →
Luke Dorny (luxuryluke) posted a photo:
Get it before Tarkin destroys them all. www.urban-collector.com/prlecostwane.html
pixpeep - The Photography of Jim Rhoades →
Do official Beijing 2008 Olympics screensavers... →
Shared by Michael Heilemann
Awesome. It’s like a slightly boring, very low-key science fiction future :)
Continuing in the thread of China/Tibet/malware-related posts, Boing Boing reader…
MobileChat →
Shared by Matthew
interesting
Category: Social Networking Released: Aug 12, 2008 Price: $2.99 Description: MobileChat is an instant messaging application for the iPhone and iPod Touch….
Steve Jobs on ‘Concept Cars’ →
Speaking of Apple and “concept designs”, here’s an apt bit from Lev Grossman’s 2005 “How Apple Does It” profile for Time magazine: Ask Apple CEO Steve Jobs about it, and he’ll tell you an…
Memoranda →
Apple and Microsoft, as ever, offer a study in contrasts. Take, for example, two recent company-wide memos from CEOs Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer. Jobs’s, leaked last week, regarded the botched…
Google Maps →
CERN rap video about the Large Hadron Collider... →
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Cool!
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does? Worried that it will create a Möbius…
MacBook Air spawns digital anagrams →
Stephen Fry ponders the preposterous twist of circumstance that made ‘laptop machines’ an anagram of ‘Apple Macintosh’
Column “Dork Talk” published on Saturday 10th August 2008 in The Guardian…
Preview: GTS World Racing for iPhone / iPod touch →
Filed under: iPod Family, Software, iPhone, App Store
If there’s one company in the world that is in the business of keeping people happy, it’s Astraware. They’re a…
No image in toast for atheist →
Atheist finds image of nothing in his toast. Quick, put the toast on eBay! (link)
Sexy Body →
Another One Yanked From App Store: Slasher →
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“Slasher” always seemed dubious to me. Esp. given the knife crime in the UK ATM.
“Slasher displays a common kitchen knife on the screen and plays a ‘horror’ sound when you make…
Slow Motion Lightning →
♥ Rounded Corners In CSS, The Straight And Logical... →
As if some universal law is at play, somehow, rounded corners (nearly) always manage to fix broken webdesigns. The problem is, they’re a bitch to make in HTML and CSS. Having been through a number…