I hadn’t logged into my account in some time (I’m registered with so many publishers and sites etc I end up checking them twice a year or something) Turns out people have been buying my books on the Apple book store. That’s cool, and an extra little bump in income I wasn’t expecting. Not as many sales on Google books though, I wonder if that speaks to the breath of market penetration or perhaps the percentage of book readers per platform. At any rate, I’ll try and post up a preview of my fourth book sometime soon.
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Besides numerous other interesting forks which have come out of the open sourcing of Quick Grapher, I just got wind of a very interesting fork which ports it to Android. Two of my favorite projects coming together for a peanut butter and jelly style open source sandwich. Sharing for the win! Check it out!
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QuickGrapher.com was one of the research projects spun out of Discursive Labs. One of the most promising projects we worked on, it always felt like a project without an intended audience, and it never really lifted off. I’m quite proud of the work that Mark and I did, and still think it’s a tremendously fun and important project.
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QuickGrapher.com was one of the research projects spun out of Discursive Labs. One of the most promising projects we worked on, it always felt like a project without an intended audience, and it never really lifted off. I’m quite proud of the work that Mark and I did, and think it’s a tremendously cool project.
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As most of you know, Mark and I shelved Discursive Labs about a year ago. While the business didn’t make it, we ended up creating some really cool stuff in our research department. One of those projects was Source Tree Visualizer. We’ve decided to open source it with a BSD license, so feel free to modify the code and use it most anywhere.
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Source Tree Visualizer is an open source project that visualizes source control repositories as real growing trees. It started as a research project at my former startup Discursive Labs, but we felt it was too cool to let sit around somewhere on a hard drive.
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So I’m on my lunchbreak, browsing the hot deals forums over at Fatwallet. I stumble upon what appears to be a very solid deal, 24 months of JustCloud unlimited storage backup service for 35 bucks. Can it live up to the hype (EDIT – Nope, it pretty much sucks for me, but their cancellation process is painless…)? Is it even possible to stress test this in the land of bandwidth caps and SOPA hearings? I’m going to find out.
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Yep, I finally made the switch to using Google Voice as my primary number. My cell phone number hasn’t changed though, I’ve simply paid google the 20$ carrier transfer fee and ported my number over to Google Voice. No more bills from Sprint. No more automatic charges. No monthly bill. Ever again. I expect to save 95% of the cost of my cell phone over the next year and lose absolutely none of the functionality.
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I was just messing around with an old eee PC, seeing what it could do. First I installed Android 4.0 ICS. It worked fairly well, though the lack of sound on my particular model meant it wasn’t a keeper. Still, when I plugged in the Retrode it was immediately recognized and I could play the game boy emulator on the market with the directional pad on my SNES controller. Fun!
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I’ve mentioned the Retrode before, and if you don’t know it’s a terrific device by Matthias Hullin which allows you to use your original Super Nintendo and Genesis controllers with anything USB. I set out to use an original SNES controller and original cartridge to play Mario Kart. I ended up doing just that on a couple of interesting platforms, and I’m terrifically pleased with the finished product. Read on for more photos, videos of the PS3 and Retrode working together, and good times.
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