• Installing RMagick on OS X Leopard

    After the last time, I swore I’d never fall prey to RMagick’s convoluted and painful installation process. Unfortunately, to paraphrase the Giant – it happened again. So, after beating my head against my desk for hours while banging out permutations of “sudo port install ImageMagick” and “sudo gem install rmagick”, I have news for you,…

  • The iPhone SDK

    fakesteve on the SDK: Seriously, folks, it’s game over. This announcement today is as big as the announcement of the original Macintosh in 1984. At airports all around the world they put flights on hold so that people could stay in the terminal and watch the news as it was announced. In Canada they declared…

  • Pick me! Pick me! Come see my panel at SXSWi.

    As you can see from the tiny image segment I grabbed from the wonderful sched.org SXSW organizer, if you’re attending, you’re going to be spoiled for choice this year. So, when it comes round to deciding what to do on Monday 10 March at 11:30am, if you’re interested in finding out about the most interesting,…

  • Tetris Ice Cubes

    The ultimate in geek cool[sic]?

  • Shifd launches!

    I knew that Shifd – Nick Bilton and Michael Young’s Yahoo Hack Day-winning project was something special, so I’m stoked that they got a chance to take another crack at it and build it bigger, albeit with slightly less RFID. Fittingly, I read about their launch in the Times piece on Adobe AIR – which…

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