tripping out the world 8 bits at a time

Why do I still read Digg?

kristopf — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:50:35 +0000

I suppose I have to agree.

iPhone Info Button Template

kristopf — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:50:59 +0000

There are many excellent iPhone interface templates available (by teehan+lax, Smashing Magazine, threetwentyfoureighty and others)

But, they’re all lacking one important element, the Info Button. So, I’ve painstakingly (ha) recreated it in photoshop. I’m not out to duplicate the work of others, so this is probably the smallest iPhone PSD template in existence.

Download it here:iPhone Info Button Light Template (if it opens in your browser, right click and select “Save Linked File as…”)

iPhone 3.0 announcement speculation

kristopf — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:26:32 +0000

Apple is previewing iPhone OS 3.0 on the 17th. Recently, Kevin Rose predicted Apple will announce a copy & paste feature (in almost exactly the way people are trying it now)

With that out of the way, here are my unfounded assumptions of what we’ll see on the 17th:

iPhone OS 3.0 and Snow Leopard share the same code base – this means the best multitouch support on the desktop and the best media framework (Quicktime X) in your pocket
New Core Location features will be added, along with a demo of a Turn-by-turn driving directions app with VoiceOver speaking street names
Safari 4 Mobile will be shown, with an emphasis on HTML5 features as a replacement for Adobe Flash, as well as enabling offline web-apps
Safari will most likely have a Cover-Flow like version of Top Sites
Some announcement of how it’s Apple’s most efficient mobile OS ever – 15-30% reduction in ram use or increase in battery life
Beta Available on the 17th to registered developers, shipping end of Summer along with Snow Leopard
One more thing: $30/month Tethering plan from AT&T – possibly available the same day
No copy & paste, No MMS, No background apps, NO Flash

That’s my guess, and I’m sticking to it.

RGB Arcade buttons

kristopf — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:23:08 +0000

I’d kind of hoped these would come with built in LEDs but they didn’t. All I had lying around were some RGB LEDs from an old project, so I wired this up. I just wish I’d bought more white ones instead of one of each color. Oh well.

Desktop

kristopf — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:38:47 +0000

What my desk looks like today

Madness?

kristopf — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:48:51 +0000

And that’s just the start of one macro patch in a small piece of one of the bits of a part of what I’m working on.

I make screensavers now?

kristopf — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:49:20 +0000

Check out ray gun