I’ve been setting up my new MacPro this week. It’s gone smoothly for the most part. I run quite a large number of apps regularly so I keep finding one that I missed and then my workflow get interrupted so I can make a quick addition.
Since I was updating from a nearly 5 year old machine, iStat Menus made me laugh when I had it display CPU usage. Since the new machine is a 12-core beast and each core has 2 threads, iStat menu will display the... + read on
What do you think of my typeface? I named it SG Funny Face. I made it on my iPad and I want to give you a quick review of the iPad application I used to make it. Before I start, I also wanted to give you a copy of the font. Click here to visit the SG Funny Face page and download your own copy. It's free and you can use it however you want.
The font creation app is called iFontMaker by The 2TTF. (Visit The 2TTf site or the application's page on... + read on
It all sounds so simple. For just 10 bucks, you get a little something extra.
$10? That’s like 2 drinks at Starbucks.
What can you get for $10? You can get HuluPremium. You can get Netflix On Demand. You can support your favorite podcast. You can get access to the Wall Street Journal. You can extra credits for iStockPhoto. You can get another gigabyte of data transfer for your phone. You can get a larger package of text messages. You can get... + read on
This is not a post about the iPhone, but I’ll talk about it because it helps make my point.
I spent 6 hours and 40 minutes standing in line to get the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread in the mobile phone world, the iPhone 4. Is it really that great? Actually, it is a very impressive machine. But it was just the one year ago we had the previous greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread, the iPhone 3Gs, before that, the iPhone 3G, and so on. Will the... + read on
Today’s post is a departure from my usual writing, but it has math at its core. It’s not meant to be taken as a political statement, but you’re free to read into it what you choose. We’ll get back to more typical geeky topics next time.
As I right this, on Sunday morning, May 30, 2010, the world is learning the method known as top kill has not succeeded in stopping oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. I initially found out about the failure of... + read on
In a number of Flash projects we've done at JMX2 (shameless plug), I've run into the situation where I simply wanted to delay the actual execution of a function. Sometimes it was to tweak an animation so its pacing felt right. Often times I wanted to delay a sound clip by a few beats so that it gave the proper timing to the scene.
After writing the same code a number of times, I decided to encapsulate that whole process into a class called... + read on
If you make Flash banners that run across multiple media sites, the lack of a standard "clickTag" can be a huge pain. (What's a clickTag? Read here.) Some media sites use clickTag. The version with that is all lower-case except for a capital T seem seems to be the most common form, but there are sites that use clickTAG, clicktag, or CLICKTAG. What that means is that you can end up creating multiple versions of a banner just to deal with the... + read on
I have a function I end up using in nearly every Flash project I do. It's dead simple, but really useful. It's called getRandom and it takes 2 numbers, and it will return a random number between those values.
function getRandom(_min, _max):Number{
var tNumber:Number;
tNumber = Math.round(Math.random()*(_max-_min))+_min;
return tNumber;
}
Now go off and make beautiful random numbers. (Or at least the beautiful sudo random numbers, since... + read on
Back in 2007, I found some ice cube trays that were really cool to me. They made large spherical ice cubes. I wrote about them here at SuperGeekery in a post called A Geeky Spin Chilling a Cocktail - Round Ice Cubes. The term "round ice cubes" continues to be a top driver to this site. Who would have guessed there was a subculture that thought round ice cubes were as cool as I think they are?
For the round ice cube obsessed, there is bad... + read on
My posts on how to use Google Maps within Flash have been some of the most popular posts I've had on SuperGeekery. They've generated a lot of emails from people around the world and those questions from readers have helped me learn mapping even better.
I got an email recently about centering a map and it gave me the opportunity to use a new tool in the Labs area of Google Maps. I made a short video below on how the feature works. I like... + read on
I’ve been setting up my new MacPro this week. It’s gone smoothly for the most part. I run quite a large number of apps regularly so I keep finding one that I missed and then my workflow get interrupted so I can make a quick addition.
Since I was updating from a nearly 5 year old machine, iStat Menus made me laugh when I had it display CPU usage. Since the new machine is a 12-core beast and each core has 2 threads, iStat menu will display the... + read on
What do you think of my typeface? I named it SG Funny Face. I made it on my iPad and I want to give you a quick review of the iPad application I used to make it. Before I start, I also wanted to give you a copy of the font. Click here to visit the SG Funny Face page and download your own copy. It's free and you can use it however you want.
The font creation app is called iFontMaker by The 2TTF. (Visit The 2TTf site or the application's page on... + read on
It all sounds so simple. For just 10 bucks, you get a little something extra.
$10? That’s like 2 drinks at Starbucks.
What can you get for $10? You can get HuluPremium. You can get Netflix On Demand. You can support your favorite podcast. You can get access to the Wall Street Journal. You can extra credits for iStockPhoto. You can get another gigabyte of data transfer for your phone. You can get a larger package of text messages. You can get... + read on
This is not a post about the iPhone, but I’ll talk about it because it helps make my point.
I spent 6 hours and 40 minutes standing in line to get the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread in the mobile phone world, the iPhone 4. Is it really that great? Actually, it is a very impressive machine. But it was just the one year ago we had the previous greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread, the iPhone 3Gs, before that, the iPhone 3G, and so on. Will the... + read on
Today’s post is a departure from my usual writing, but it has math at its core. It’s not meant to be taken as a political statement, but you’re free to read into it what you choose. We’ll get back to more typical geeky topics next time.
As I right this, on Sunday morning, May 30, 2010, the world is learning the method known as top kill has not succeeded in stopping oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. I initially found out about the failure of... + read on
In a number of Flash projects we've done at JMX2 (shameless plug), I've run into the situation where I simply wanted to delay the actual execution of a function. Sometimes it was to tweak an animation so its pacing felt right. Often times I wanted to delay a sound clip by a few beats so that it gave the proper timing to the scene.
After writing the same code a number of times, I decided to encapsulate that whole process into a class called... + read on
If you make Flash banners that run across multiple media sites, the lack of a standard "clickTag" can be a huge pain. (What's a clickTag? Read here.) Some media sites use clickTag. The version with that is all lower-case except for a capital T seem seems to be the most common form, but there are sites that use clickTAG, clicktag, or CLICKTAG. What that means is that you can end up creating multiple versions of a banner just to deal with the... + read on
Back in 2007, I found some ice cube trays that were really cool to me. They made large spherical ice cubes. I wrote about them here at SuperGeekery in a post called A Geeky Spin Chilling a Cocktail - Round Ice Cubes. The term "round ice cubes" continues to be a top driver to this site. Who would have guessed there was a subculture that thought round ice cubes were as cool as I think they are?
For the round ice cube obsessed, there is bad... + read on