November 2008
9 posts
"For 3 years, you YouTubers have been rippings us... →
… now they strike back. The Monty Pythons extended their YouTube channel with some of their most viewed clips from Monty Python’s Flying Circus and some of their movies in high quality. I hope, they’ll continue to extend that, so I finally can throw away my last VCR cassettes.
Document Syncing →
Nothing, which couldn’t be done using SVN, rsync, MobileMe, iDisk, GoogleMail etc. etc. - but that one looks as if it only will work. [via randsinresponse]
Amazon CloudFront - Low Latency Content Delivery... →
Based on Amazon’s S3 service, CloudFront “delivers your content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your objects are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance” (for example for additional USD 0.17 per GB in Europe and the U.S)
Music: Gonzales - Solo Piano →
“A disarmingly wonderful album” Gonzales: “Solo Piano” (2004)
Discovered an album by Gonzales - the DJ with the many musical faces - playing piano pieces only. Liked best: “Manifesto”, “Bermuda Triangle”
"As real as it gets" →
An Indonesian software reseller’s ad for Photoshop CS4 (see making of as well)
Encouraging "Shameless exploitation" →
Paul Newman’s book about opening up a business and with no clue at all - but with the strong believe in the idea and a partner with the same kind of humor.
Cocoa Memo: NSNetServicesBrowser in a command line...
Dont’t forget: A NSNetServiceBrowser needs an NSRunLoop in order to send messages to its delegate. If you are developing a longer running command line tool and want to use net services, your main thread will not have a run loop (as it is blocking the shell) and thus you won’t get any calls such as netServiceBrowser:didFindService:moreComing:. So what you do is call...
FriendDA →
How to give the exchange of ideas over a few beers the necessary kind-of-legal ground [by randsinresponse].