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Mary had a little tofu piano

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:13:12 +0800

Mary had a little tofu piano

Our latest IC Photo and ID Photoprint app updates are out. New...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:36:57 +0800

Our latest IC Photo and ID Photoprint app updates are out. New features include:

(IC Photo) Buy printed copies from the app!
Disable countdown timer when taking photos
Completely unnecessary social features!!!
Super ridiculous release notes

Please leave a review if you like the apps. Or us. Thank yous!

fartscroll.js, by The Onion

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:06:52 +0800

fartscroll.js, by The Onion:

“Everyone farts. And now your web pages can too.”

Need passport photos? There’s an app for that...

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:59:39 +0800

Need passport photos? There’s an app for that...:

A nice review of our ID Photoprint app by Dr. Irene Levine at her More Time To Travel blog. (We note that the anonymous Akmal is not her husband.)

Steven: The earnings include iAds.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:18:15 +0800

Steven: The earnings include iAds.
Akmal: You add?
Steven: No, iAd.
Akmal: You add what?

Teacher's Pet, our third app

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:59:47 +0800

Teacher's Pet, our third app:

We’re excited to announce our new app for teachers, Teacher;s Pet. It’s a contextual to-do list and reminders app, carefully designed to help teachers do their jobs more effectively.

It’s just US$2.99 on the App Store — if you’re not a teacher, send the link to your teacher friends, or better yet, gift it to them :)

Far from the most iPads we’ve ever set up, but the first time...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:10:12 +0800

Far from the most iPads we’ve ever set up, but the first time we’ve stacked them in such a pretty tower of power

Useful Xcode 4 Plugins

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:55:10 +0800

Useful Xcode 4 Plugins:

Step 1: install plugins. Step 2: forget to actually use plugins until half a year later. (A very useful list — we already use a couple of these.)

Learn CSS Layout

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:39:41 +0800

Learn CSS Layout:

A nice little introduction to what’s new and important in CSS layout.

The Useless Web

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:27:25 +0800

The Useless Web:

You know you want to click that button

Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Brogrammer's Story

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:25:28 +0800

Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Brogrammer's Story:

Never heard of brogramming? Read this for a quick intro, then come back to this amazing piece by Neven Mrgan.

mrgan:

I guess you could say it all began when I took that Brogramming class in high school. To be specific, there’s one person you can blame: my Brogramming teacher. I was in need of a father-figure, and he was just that: a likable authority, a brominent brofessor.

Puns made high art, people. So good.

No wonder we failed signal processing in college (via Saturday...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:21:39 +0800

No wonder we failed signal processing in college (via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Using Compass sprites for hover-state social icons

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:38:10 +0800

Using Compass sprites for hover-state social icons:

Because every so often, I think: Let’s use Compass spriting! It’ll save me time! Then I spend an hour looking up how the syntax works.


@import "compass/utilities/sprites";
$social-sprite-map: sprite-map('social/*.png');

@mixin active-social($name) {
  @include sprite-replace-text-with-dimensions($social-sprite-map, footer-#{$name});
  &:hover {
    @include sprite-replace-text-with-dimensions($social-sprite-map, footer-#{$name}-active);
  }
}

.footer-twitter {
  @include active-social(twitter);
}

.footer-facebook {
  @include active-social(facebook);
}

.footer-gplus {
  @include active-social(gplus);
}

YJ: Where you at? We can meet in the middle

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:11:59 +0800

YJ: Where you at? We can meet in the middle
YJ: Ooh Google Maps for iPhone has building shapes for town
Steven: Wow! How about Thomson Plaza?
YJ: No, Thomson Plaza doesn't have that feature

Virtual Shackles - The Surly Bird

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:41:47 +0800

Virtual Shackles - The Surly Bird:

How to respond when someone asks you to write a function to reverse a linked list.

YJ is excessively excited trying to use what he thinks is a...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:30:07 +0800

YJ is excessively excited trying to use what he thinks is a 19” tablet.

ScriptKit - Drag and Drop Programming for iPad

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:05:37 +0800

ScriptKit - Drag and Drop Programming for iPad:

Interesting:

ScriptKit is a touchable programming environment for building simple mobile prototypes on iPad using native iOS UI components and social media APIs, available via an intuitive drag and drop interface.

Free for trial with in-app purchases. Haven’t tried it yet.

Retina revolution

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:40:42 +0800

Retina revolution:

Low-quality 2x images = the solution to retina graphics on the web?

“A smaller filesize AND a better quality on both screen types! This is impossible.”

Responsive Cat

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:57:08 +0800

Responsive Cat:

Responsive design + cat. THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT, PEOPLE

(Via Sacha Greif’s Sidebar.io, a daily collection of the 5 best design links.)

"In Subjective-C, view controllers should respond to viewMightAppear: and couldAutorotateOrMaybeNot:"

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:53:52 +0800

““In Subjective-C, view controllers should respond to viewMightAppear: and couldAutorotateOrMaybeNot:””

- Twitter / ntakayama