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Picture: Introducing the official “Made by Elephant”-shirt

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:06:38 GMT

Red on black, front and back! You can now show your love for the elephant wherever you go, thanks to the great people from Zazzle.com. Printed on black American Apparel shirts. Buy now!

Picture: Twitter FailWhale Joke

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:10:59 GMT

In other news: I’m ordering the Official Fail whale Tee.

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Video: Sony Foam City

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:47:36 GMT

Not as impressive as their previous commercials (bouncing balls, paint & bunnies), but still good. The making of Sony Foam City.

Video: The power of failure

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:59:03 GMT

He’s talking about working as a radio-reporter, but it can easily be translated to any kind of creative work.

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Note: Maintenance 07/18/08

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:34:02 GMT

Just spend 2 hours customizing the RSS-feed for this site. Now you can finally see pictures, and click straight through to links. I’ve also merged it with the RSS-feed from the Made by Elephant blog as this will become my main and only blog. If you don’t like it, there’s always an unsubscribe-button.

Video: Feist goes Sesame Street

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:20:56 GMT

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Picture: Samsung TL9

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:26:08 GMT

[…] apart from other cameras is MP3/PMP capability and two awesome empty/full analog gauges that track remaining battery life and memory capacity.

Link: Most Unwanted Scrobbles

Tim Van Damme — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:52:57 GMT

Visit: “Most Unwanted Scrobbles”.

These tracks and artists were most frequently deleted by the Last.fm community from their scrobbles.

Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, Radiohead (?!). Almost all the usual suspects.

Quote: “Maybe I can rub my armpits with a piece of paper, and send it over to you?”

Tim Van Damme — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:59:28 GMT

Maybe I can rub my armpits with a piece of paper, and send it over to you?

The scent of ego.

Article: Inside Steve’s office

Tim Van Damme — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:50:16 GMT

I’ve placed a hidden microphone in Steve Jobs’ office at the Apple HQ in Cupertino. Here are a couple of transcripts concerning the launch of the AppStore.

A couple of months ago…

UE	Mister Jobs, we have a small problem!
SJ	(raises his head from a plate of tofu) What is it, subordinate? (hisses)
UE	Well, our clients want apps made by 3rd party developers on their iPhone…
SJ	What?! Don’t go all Wozzy on me! If I say they don’t need them, they’re not getting them either! Now let me finish my lunch.
UE	I understand, Your Highness, but they really want them. The internet is filled with articles about it.
SJ	I see… (pics his teeth for some tofu-leftovers) Will Bono love me less if we don’t do this?
UE	I’m afraid so, My Shepherd.
SJ	FRACK! (raises from desk) I’ll show him what “Elevation” is. Release the codemonkeys!!
UE	The codemonk… I mean, highly skilled programmers are all working on the multi-touch interface for Snow Leopard, Great Emperor.
SJ	I guess that’ll have to wait then. I want the AppStore up and running within one month.
UE	With all due respect, My Savior, but that’s impossible.
SJ	(slowly steps towards his prey) You’re telling me that something is impossible? Nothing is impossible!
UE	(looks over his shoulder to locate the handle of the door) I’m sorry, Great Creator, didn’t mean to…
SJ	Disappear from my office, and get it done!
UE	(runs out of Steve’s office)

Last week…

UE	You rang, My Lord?
SJ	(while clipping his toe-nails) Don’t be a smartass. How’s the development of the AppStore going.
UE	Pretty good, 3rd party developers already submitted 50 applications to it.
SJ	50? 50?! Do you have any idea how much applications are available on the Windows Mobile platform? We’ll look like complete incompetents if we launch with just 50 apps! (tosses his nail-clipper towards the employee)
UE	(manages to catch the nail-clipper, but quickly drops it after seeing some toe-nails still on it) What do you want me to do?
SJ	You’ve got a pretty big family, right?
UE	Please sir, I’ll do anything, but leave my family out of…
SJ	You’re speaking again. Shut. Up. (walks to a closet next to his desk, and start searching for his lighter in one of the drawers) Give every member of your family a crash-course in programming for the iPhone.
UE	But sir, what should they develop? They’ve never even wrote a single line of code!
SJ	I don’t care what they create. Doesn’t matter. For all I care, they can make flashlight apps. We need more apps. 500 seems like a nice number. Yeah… (inhales from his peace pipe)

Yesterday…

UE	You summoned me, Your Holiness?
SJ	Yes, infidel. I wanted to show you what a success my idea is.
UE	But, sir, I thought the AppStore was my…
SJ	Silence! So, is everybody happy now? What about Bono?
UE	Bono’s very happy, sir. Now he can finally check his Facebook activity all the time. But now the 3rd party developers are complaining.
SJ	What do those whino’s want now? We already give them 70% revenue!
UE	They want options to beta-test their apps, and also a better way to get crash reports.
SJ	Beta-test, shmeta-test. Let them whine. Tofu?

Link: Story behind the icons in the NYTimes iPhone app

Tim Van Damme — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:43:25 GMT

Visit: “Story behind the icons in the NYTimes iPhone app”.

Too bad the morbid one for the Obituary section didn’t make it, would’ve been a great easter egg.

Link: Instapaper iPhone app

Tim Van Damme — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:04:30 GMT

Visit: “Instapaper iPhone app”.

I’m a huge fan of Instapaper. Downloading the iPhone app as we speak…

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Picture: iPhone launch Belgium: Pictures

Tim Van Damme — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:50:08 GMT

Filip Bunkens took some incredible pictures at the launch of the iPhone in Belgium. I’m in a couple of them. (full set)

Picture: iTunes App Store are go!

Tim Van Damme — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:59:52 GMT

iTunes App Store are go! Here’s my collection so far. Now I only need a phone that supports these…

Note: iPhone 3G in Belgium after all

Tim Van Damme — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:50:32 GMT

So it looks like the iPhone 3G will be released on July 11 after all. I agree with Veerle in wondering why they couldn’t just tell us this from the beginning. Something I noticed while evangelizing the prices to other people is the complaint that “It’s not costing $199 like Steve Jobs promised”. Take a look at this price comparison, and you’ll see that we pay less in the end then what people living in the US pay. The only thing we’re screwed with, is the data traffic. 1Gb in the most expensive plan?! Must be Belgium…

Picture: No paperclip needed

Tim Van Damme — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:36:28 GMT

Apple’s including a “SIM-popper” in the iPhone 3G box. This is great for people living in, erm, let’s say, Belgium, where it’s illegal to lock a mobile phone to a certain network. Snap Crack ‘n Pop, out goes the Mobistar SIM-card, in goes my current one from Proximus.

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Picture: Kilowatt Kat

Tim Van Damme — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:19:21 GMT

Big Bad Wolf by Kilowatt Kat. Where do I order prints?

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Picture: 1969 Woodstock documentary

Tim Van Damme — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:14:14 GMT

1969 Woodstock documentary. Saw it, loved it.

Link: Apple diverting iPhone shipments away from Canada

Tim Van Damme — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:05:59 GMT

Visit: “Apple diverting iPhone shipments away from Canada”.

I’m having a hard time believing this. I mean: First the Canadian customers get balled by having sky-high plans, and now they’ll have a limited amount of iPhones at launch?

Link: Body background images & Outlook 2007

Tim Van Damme — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:29:49 GMT

Visit: “Body background images & Outlook 2007”.

It’s a hack. And it only works on the body.