As frustrated as I’ve been with Spotlight and all that I think it should be able to do but just doesn’t quite get right, I was interested in today’s news that Google Desktop is finally available for the Mac. Finally, I can search my Gmail account from my desktop and use some more sophisticated search […]
Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is awesome, he’s turning down endorsement deals and bring a $15 basketball shoe to market. I’ve always wondered why basketball shoes were so expensive, the answer is – because they can be. It’s an interesting culture hack, and parents/kids who can’t afford $150+ for pricey shoes can still hit the […]
Likely handy for someone out there, cables and cogs for drawings. Mike writes – …I went to my library of brushes and found my cogs. I had developed a set of gears for a flash project that is still in development, and several hours of research is still necessary but this is an interim stage, […]
Ben Heckendorn’s has been making amazing portable console systems (like the VCSp) for 7 years, check out post about this and the rest of his work – It was 7 years ago (ish) that I completed my first video game portable – the original VCSp. How do I know this? Well I had it sitting […]
Here’s a gigantic collection of 9800 free fonts, they seem to be pretty good and easy to search for stuff you might need. As always you get what you pay for, so (non)buyer beware – [via] Link.
Mark Danburg-Wyld sent a link to a site devoted to games developed entirely in Excel. Are you limited in what games your company’s IT/IS department will leave installed on your work machine? Well, it seems very unlikely they will take Excel away from you. And Excel, among other things, is an interesting development platform for […]
Brian Oberkirch has a great article about designing for “hackability” – the article tends to focus on software, but it’s equally applicable for (some) hardware too… In a world where anyone can create, mimic, remix Web components, the ideas that spread most easily and completely, win. Simple. You want attention? Make it simple for people […]
