Massive Sight

I am moving

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:59 -0800

After a long thought, having two similar blogs is way too much for me.

From this day on, I have only one blog: http://jari.me

Massivesight.com domain will be moved soon. Thanks for reading! See you on the other site.

Regards,

Jari

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Re-Tweeting With Efficiency, RT Over Via

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:13:30 -0700

Some prefer retweeting messages in Twitter with a "RT" in the beginning of a tweet, some use "via" in the end. In several cases, I've noticed that if a tweet starts with a "RT", it's way more faster to figure out that the text isn't originally written by the user who posted it.

Let me explain with two examples. Imagine I posted two tweets on Twitter feed:

New iMacs Feature 21.5 and 27-inch Displays and Available Quad-Core Processors http://j.mp/1xlX8P (via @theappleblog)

RT @theappleblog: New iMacs Feature 21.5 and 27-inch Displays and Available Quad-Core Processors http://j.mp/1xlX8P

First one appears like I wrote it, word by word, but when eye reaches the end, you find out that I didn't. In the second example, there's no question who's text it was originally.

Also when a tweet starts with a RT, I can skip most tweets by just reading first three or four words after finding out it is the same tweet re-tweeted by another user.

What do you think?

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Convert Fonts With Font Forge

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:07:00 -0700

Every now and then someone sends me a font file, that needs to be converted to TrueType font file.

Few years ago I found Font Forge. It certainly doesn't look nice, have an intuitive UI or pretty icons, but it does it's job.

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Stop Approving Stupid Patents

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:30:30 -0700

Here we go again:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/facebook-ensnared-in-two-soci...

Someone decided it's a smart idea to give patents to features that were invented years before the patent application was even filed.

It's just a shame I didn't get patent for navigation: set of links in website's header, footer, sidebar or content.

Or profile page: a page or a website with an user image, name or other personal info.

So, if it's anything web related, stamp a big red denied label in it and move on to the next one. Thanks.

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Tweetie 2 for iPhone - First Impressions

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:50:00 -0700

Just got Tweetie 2 for iPhone (iTunes link) and spent few minutes with it. Previous Tweetie was always my favorite Twitter client and this seems to be even better.

Now there's more options on the settings, such as font size, custom image, video and URL shortening services, custom quote syntax and Auto Rotate, so finally you can tweet by holding your iPhone horizontally.

When writing a tweet, you can get an image from the camera or your photo library, and add usernames and hashtags with few taps. What's have been the only annoyance in the previous Tweetie, the lack of button for shrinking URLs - it's now there!

Really nice touch is the refresh mechanism, that doesn't require any tapping: just pull the tweet list down and release to refresh. Skin on my fingers says thanks.

Will have to spend some more time on it, but now I'll do something completely else. Pretending to have a life, you know. Not really. Playing Lego Indiana Jones until I fell asleep.

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Tweetie 2 Soon in AppStore

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:49:00 -0700

According to @tweetie, Tweetie 2 for iPhone hits the AppStore really soon. It has been approved and on its way.

Tweetie 2 for iPhone will cost $2.99, and if you bought the previous version, you'll have to pay for the new one also.

Some kind of a list of new features can be found from Atebits' blog.

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Don't Touch My Snow Leopard

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:34:00 -0700

Just as I was about to head to the Apple Store to pick up a copy of Snow Leopard, one of the most serious bugs yet is starting to get more play in the Apple media. Apparently, an issue in the way the new version of Mac OS X handles guest accounts could cause the computer to seemingly ‘delete’ all of a users files stored in their main account.

I was going for Snow Leopard on Monday, but I think I'll wait, even though I don't want no guests touching my Mac.

More about the most recent Snow Leopard bug in Technologizer.

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Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:59:25 -0700

Adobe released Photoshop.com for iPhone. Apparently it's meant just for adjusting photos stored on your iPhone. iPod Touch users can find this quite useless, since there's still no camera.

I so wished that I could start designing websites without my Mac, but think I'll have to wait a bit longer for iPhone versions of Coda and Photoshop.

Read more about Photoshop.com Mobile on Macworld

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Quick Look for Web Search

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:10:20 -0700

I don't want no thumbnails to mess up my web search. I just want to click a link and hold it down until a preview of the site appears. Just like quick look in OS X, but with a different activation method.

Like this:

But as far as I know, there's no such thing...

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Don't Know Much About The Internets

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:32:29 -0700

According to Google Blog, 50% of author's friends don't know which browser they use. Now TNS Gallup says, that 33% of Finnish people living in condominiums don't know which internet operator they use (in Finnish).

Next some survey tells us users don't know what site they are browsing, or where do they actually are when browsing.

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Fruugo Lays Off 40% of Its Employees

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:41:00 -0700

After burning 14.5 million euros building a webstore, Fruugo laid off 20 employees. I'm sorry, but who wouldn't have guessed it?

More about the layoffs on Arctic Startup

(via Harri Manninen)

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Google Logo Is A Barcode Today

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:33:18 -0700

It's just so weak in quality that I wonder if any barcode reader could pick that up.

See Google if you can spot it.

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Bad App For Web Developers

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:19:11 -0700

Freedom – Disables wireless and ethernet networking for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create.

Still, a quite nice set of useful apps in Mac.AppStorm.

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Ultimate Powerpoint User Guide

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:55:59 -0700

Drag it to trash. Use Keynote instead.

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Quackshot

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:58:00 -0700

As watching my 4 year old daughter play Sonic & Knuckles, the well known sequal of the quite legendary Megadrive game Sonic The Hedgehog, I remembered about Quackshot.

Quackshot was perhaps one of the best games on Megadrive back then. I hope they bring that on the Xbox Live some day, it would really be worth 400 points or maybe even a little bit more.

More about Quackshot on Wikipedia

Ps. There's something really different on those old games compared to new ones, since even my soon-to-be 3 year old son picked up controls on Sonic extremely fast. Maybe some games for children should pick some hints from the oldies and utilize only one button and the stick/d-pad.

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Massivesight.com Goes Now To My Posterous

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:48:55 -0700

Thanks to Posterous' simple custom URL's, my old blog domain massivesight.com redirects now to my Posterous site. Old posts are gone for now, but I might import them to Posterous some day.

I must say: now that was easy. But now I want an URL to my Twitter feed. ;)

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Posterously From Now On

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:55:06 -0700

Few months ago I started a blog called Massive Sight. My intention was to write about webdesign, coding (PHP & Javascript), Apple stuff etc. All the topics I follow in a daily basis.

After just only few days I noticed that it's just too time consuming - but fun. Also I wanted to write about games, but it really didn't fit the overall concept. I like having a blog, but it must take as little time as possible. So it's time for a change. No stress, no concepts. Just fun.

One nice thing about Posterous is, that you don't have to worry about the blog engine itself. There's nothing to update, no plugins to worry about. Combined to the extremely easy posting, I made my mind that I'll throw in massivesight.com as a "custom URL" for my Posterous and start enjoying my blog again.

But now I'll catch some sleep.

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Batman, Brutal Legend, all good

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:31:38 -0700

Played maybe a bit too late some new demos I got from Xbox Live. But don't get me started on those graphics on the Batman... Yet again Unreal Engine shows it's powers. The level of detail is mad, especially on the characters. Playability and controls left room for some improvement, but pretty neat package overall. Looking forward to it.

Second demo I tested was a game I thought was going to be not so interesting, sort of dull perhaps. But once the opening scenes from Brutal Legend started, and finally when I got feel of the heavy metal dude, I was sold. Now that is something different. A must get.

Finally, even the Ghostbusters was pretty good, but nowhere near those first two. Funny, that I think C64's version is more scary, but they managed to build up some moments there.

And my wishlist grows.

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Fable 2 Downloadable in Episodes

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:29:25 -0700

I just spotted from Xbox Live that Fable 2 can be downloaded in 5 episodes. That is a pretty nice idea to offer a full length game in pieces, but even when the first episode is free the pricing is way off.

4 episodes is 1120 points each, which means 13,5 euros per episode. This sums up to total of 54 euros which is almost the same price as when the game hit the stores way back. A quick browse on the game stores gave me a price of 17 euros for a brand new game, so what's the point in this?

I could pay 5 euros per episode and just keep playing right now, but price tag on the downloadable is just too much. Hope they come to senses some time in the future.

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Yesterdays News(letters)

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:00:29 -0700

This week I have been mostly cancelling my newsletter subscriptions. Reason doing this is mainly because news in newsletters are always old - really old. Strictly news related newsletters are slowly getting killed by RSS feeds. No one wants to send or receive an email when a new news article is posted.

Newsletters have become mainly a marketing channel for me, and I can't see that's going to change. But fewer emails means a happier inbox, so I keep cancelling.

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