My second iPhone app WordSlate is now available on the iTunes App Store.
It’s a simple, constantly-changing display of wonderful words. It can be used as an interactive ornamental piece on a desk or counter, but also makes for an interesting way to casually browse new words. Touch any word on the screen and WordSlate will retrieve its definition, along with a few examples of its usage, from the fantastic wordnik.com.
My iPhone app FirstFolio is now available on the iTunes App Store.
It’s a pocket reference for the plays of William Shakespeare, and includes a variety of options for browsing through Shakespeare’s works as they were collected when the First Folio was published.
Along with the release of this app, I’ve created Odd Finch Software, a place for me to launch projects for the Mac, iOS, and web as I develop them.
For now, please give FirstFolio a try if you’re feeling curious and rate or review it on iTunes if you’re feeling generous. Thanks!
Via the superb One Foot Tsunami, I bring you Catalog Living, a satirical “look into the exciting lives of the people who live in your catalogs”.
Elaine was not amused by Gary’s passive-aggressive response to her request to “garnish the cocktails.”
This morning brought some good news to my inbox: my OnLive Founding Member account was ready to be taken for a spin. Now that I’ve installed the client and had some time to play around with it, I’m excited about its prospects but hesitant to sing its praises just yet.
If you haven’t been following the buzz surrounding OnLive, here’s the basic idea: take a bunch of video games, run them on powerful servers in the cloud, and stream them over broadband to users’ computers. This eliminates the need to have a powerful computer to play the latest games, and makes Windows-only games available to Mac users without the hassle of Boot Camp or virtualization.
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You may remember that way back when the original iPhone came out, I made a video titled WoW on the iPhone. Now, nearly three years later, I’m still attempting to play World of Warcraft on an Apple mobile device — and I’m still failing at it.
I used iSSH to VNC into my MacBook Pro, which was actually running the WoW client. The interface makes for a pretty clunky way to play, but at least it looks good on the iPad’s screen. The lesson to be learned from all of this is that World of Warcraft really demands a mouse, a keyboard, and a decent screen refresh rate. Still, maybe we can check our auctions on-the-go now?
You know the feeling. You’re walking down the street with your earbuds in and all of a sudden that perfect track comes on. Suddenly you’re strutting to the beat and feeling like you’re in a music video. If only everyone around you could hear it too, maybe they wouldn’t interpret your gait as an uncoordinated attempt to avoid cracks in the pavement.
Now, what would happen if you had TEN of those tracks to play in a row? Well, let’s find out…
10. CAKE: Love You Madly
9. Gorillaz: 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)
8. OneRepublic: Everybody Loves Me
7. of Montreal: Gronlandic Edit
6. Beastie Boys: No Sleep Till Brooklyn
5. Elvis Presley: A Little Less Conversation (JXL Remix)
Also: Rubberneckin’ (Paul Oakenfold Remix)
4. Ursula 1000: Rocket
3. Stereo MC’s: We Belong in This World Together
2. Beck: E-Pro
1. Cage the Elephant: Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked
I’ve been holding on to this for a few months, but now that I’ve got a place to post it, here is my regular expression for matching an email address:
That will match almost any reasonable mangling of an address, and create backreferences for the important parts. In my testing, it results in very high precision and moderate recall. If you want the source text for a legitimate use, let me know.
