{"id":160,"date":"2008-01-29T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/interesting-things-noted-over-the-past-wee-while\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T09:17:30","slug":"interesting-things-noted-over-the-past-wee-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2008\/interesting-things-noted-over-the-past-wee-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting things noted over the past wee while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will comprise pretty much of a list. They&#8217;re essentially things that would be silly if they had their own post. Something like Twitter would probably be better for this&#8230; Oops! Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>-The Eels are pretty awesome music to listen to. <em>Mildly depressing at times, but I&#8217;ll get over it. I currently have Beautiful Freak (a steal at \u00a34 no?), Shootenanny and Electro-Shock Blues! All pretty awesome to be honest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-The VOIP app for iPhone\/iPod Touch is awesome &#8211; if only the mic worked with the iPhone! <em>Not entirely sure that I understand the whole SIP thing&#8230; isn&#8217;t Skype good enough for everyone? Somehow though I managed to make calls through this SIP service (OMG, it works!) but all the other person gets is some silence, a nasty shock. I&#8217;ll just have to wait and see how it goes!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-The Bedlam In Goliath (The Mars Volta) is rather heavy, though Thomas Pridgen is a very very good drummer so it seems.<\/p>\n<p>-Massive Attack are also very good. <em>It took me quite a while to get into them, starting with Mezzanine, which was described somewhere as a rock album &#8211; thus a good place to start. But now I&#8217;m so into all of the trippy stuff, woooooh!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-People love <a href=\"http:\/\/panic.com\/coda\">Coda<\/a>, I see why it&#8217;s so good, but the Tramsmitting\/FTPing of files is annoying with only one window pane thing. Ideally it needs a split pane for local and remote files (like the proper Transmit).<\/p>\n<p>-The Core Image memory leak is so tedious. I really do enjoy Pixelmator, but it working properly would be nice. <em>If you haven&#8217;t a clue about this leak, then you&#8217;re probably best off not knowing about it or Googling it. I gather that it&#8217;s some system thing that isn&#8217;t specific to Pixelmator, it&#8217;s just that Pixelmator has used CoreImage like no other app before. The result of this leak, in usability terms, is that when working with larger images (e.g. 8 megapixel jpgs), when you try and do some alterations to it (such as Blur) then it is incredibly slow &#8211; and rather unproductive and irritating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-iPhysics is easily one of the best iPhone games! <em>So I&#8217;ve read it&#8217;s a iPhone clone of the game Crayon Physics, but I don&#8217;t see how such a program could function any better on any other platform except the iPhone (or at least another touchscreen platform with accelerometer capabilities). So far I really like the included level &#8211; Crayon Physics. I find some of the other so called &#8216;similar&#8217; level packs take it too far with the complicatedness of their level design, almost removing the fun element!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Apparently the charging of an iPhone through anything other than an USB 2.0 cable is bad. <em>That means that I&#8217;ll have to stop using my Firewire cable&#8230; especially so because I doubt I have any warranty on my phone! It&#8217;s just annoying that USB only charges when the computer is on and Firewire is fine when it is sleeping&#8230; Grrrr!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will comprise pretty much of a list. They&#8217;re essentially things that would be silly if they had their own post. Something like Twitter would probably be better for this&#8230; Oops! Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>-The Eels are pretty awesome music to listen to. Mildly depressing at times, but I&#8217;ll get over it. 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