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Mimeo and the Kleptopus King
For the past couple of months, mister Shaun Inman (from Fever and Mint fame) has been teasing people on Dribbble (aka. Elitist Snob Dot Com™) with the latest project he’s working on: Mimeo and the Kleptopus King.
In a blogpost about it, he goes into detail about what made him want to write a retro, Mario-like game, and he also shares some sound- and videoclips of the progress.
Be sure to check out how the designs from levels change in-game on power-ups, and the unique gaming controls. Can’t wait to get my hands all over it!
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3 things I learned from using Taskpaper
In my never ending quest for the perfect GTD app, I last week discovered Taskpaper, a very simple app that mimics the use of lists in notebooks. It has both an iPhone and Mac version, and they all sync with each other via SimpleText.ws. Here are 3 things I discovered using it:
- I can’t live without over the air syncing anymore. Ticking of todo’s while taking a smokebreak is great. And I’m not just talking about Wifi-sync, I mean everywhere. Only solution for this is to have some kind of backup server. Either by the developers themselves, or on your own hosting account.
- Taskpaper is an incredible well-build app that takes a fresh approach to the whole GTD ideology and I’m sure its minimalistic execution appeals to a lot of people…
- …but it isn’t for me. I think Taskpaper and Things are both great at what they do, and they both target a different audience, audiences to which I don’t belong. I need more than Taskpaper offers, but less than Things. For now, The Hit List remains my weapon of choice. (yes I am one of those nutcases who’s still patiently waiting for the iPhone companion of THL and I’m convinced it’s gonna rock).
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Adobe blocks HTML5 progress
2D graphics in canvas is competitive with Flash, and it appears that Adobe’s plan is to sabotage it via W3C politics.
John Gruber reports on how Adobe is shitting their pants over HTML5. This makes me nauseous.
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Opening Ceremonies for Vancouver 2010
As usual, The Big Picture has some stunning pictures of the ceremony. As a geek, I especially enjoyed all kinds of stuff appearing from the stage floor.
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The iPad as a standalone device
The iPad is a device you could easily use without another laptop or desktop computer to sync it with. A $500 internet-consuming device, no configuration needed. I can imagine a lot of people will buy one so they have a light device able to check their email and Facebook when they get home from work. Cool, this is what Apple had in mind, their perfect audience!
But there’s one thing you can not do with a device running the iPhone OS that Mac OS X can: Uploading files via the browser. People will want to upload a new avatar, upload holiday photo’s to sites that don’t have a native app, uploading documents to their company’s intranet…
There are still a lot of unknown facts about the iPad (and Apple is known for adding last minute features). Also: In the SDK currently available, the simulator doesn’t have a copy of Safari to play with. My guess: Rumors about iPhone OS 4.0 are true, and it’ll be more than just a bug-fixing update.