Today I checked out the Fruit Ninja demo on Kinect. It’s called “Fruit Ninja Kinect” and from nothing more than the title I knew exactly what it was. And I loaded it, and it’s exactly what I thought it was. All good so far. Where it gets crazy is that I then FaceTimed with my [...]
Frank Chimero on baseball in the summer: Many of my friends misjudge it, thinking sport needs to be swift like a basketball game, or intense and concentrated like a football game. But baseball is more of an experience to have than a spectacle to see. It’s called a park for a reason: it’s a place [...]
I have a different scale I use for appreciating movies generally, and movies about baseball. I really have no idea how good a film For the Love of the Game is but I think it’s a darned good baseball movie. I almost have no capability whatsoever to not enjoy a Kevin Costner movie about baseball. [...]
Not to be outdone, Xbox is getting a cloud too. I’m actually excited about this as it means I can bring my coworkers to shame at work while racing cars from my own Forza garage instead of the stock ones. Who wants to take an unpainted, unimproved Audi R8 to the pavement when you can [...]
I did not see this one coming. But I welcome it wholeheartedly. Ironically, this Red-Pop Kickstarter project was announced just the other day. I’m guessing it’s not going to get very far.
At first glance, the iCloud announcements today seemed to provide an Apple-sanctioned answer to everything that Dropbox has always provided. Cloud storage, ability to sync app data (but at the system level, just like Twitter!) and well over 2 free GB of storage. One thing stuck out to me though, and it had to do [...]
Love the Jarrod Saltalamacchia quotes: Every pitch moves. Nothing stays straight. He’s able to throw any pitch for a strike. He’s just a competitor. …and, He kind of turns and hides the ball really well. He’s got really good arm action — every pitch looks the same.
In my experience, people generally characterize Apple products as “sexy”. As if to say, they get the details right, but mostly just at the surface. The assumption is that if an average PC maker (whoever that is) would just “get it right” all of the sudden and just put some sleek, Apple-like product design on [...]
I’m enamored with the idea of responsive web design. For the time being I’ll be experimenting with this Thematic child theme, Thematic320. Let’s see how this plays out. “320 and up” is thought to be the way the web is headed, thanks to Andy Clarke and smart people of his ilk.
Dropbox for the Rest of Us
Now that iCloud is in full swing, lots of interesting buzz is circulating about its similarity to Dropbox. Here’s a good observation by 512pixels, via Gruber at Daring Fireball. After its announcement, it occurred to me that iCloud is how Apple would do a service like Dropbox today. If this were 10 years ago, an [...]