March 25, 2009 by Josh Nunn
Wolfenstein, busting out of your iPhoneWhen I was 13 I was around at my mate’s place as often as I could be just to play Wolfenstein 3D on his better-than-mine system. He had colour graphics and a sound card, while my Commodore 64 only had enough grunt for side-scrolling platformers and breakout clones and my IBM clone could barely muster monochrome. Wolfenstein was the pinnacle of gaming. It was just like you were there, with your little gun waving in front of you and meals left on the floor. And B.J. Blazkowicz’s face peering out at you to remind you to keep away from big men with chain-guns. I couldn’t play it enough.
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Tags: AppStore, awesome, commodore 64, First-person shooter, iPhone, Video Games, Wolfenstein
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December 14, 2008 by Josh Nunn
Good Design in Wordpress 2.7The latest Wordpress update, 2.7, manages to get WIN all over my keyboard. It fair shoots out of the screen and all over the place with its sexy sexy curves and simple lines. I want to give it a hug.
The 2.6 update was pretty good. It was good enough that 2.5 is all but erased completely from my mind. 2.7 however, looks gorgeous, plays nice with all my extensions and adds a couple of neat features that make me want to go home with it, and I barely even know it.
Awesome Feature Number 1 is automatic site software upgrades. Untested as I write this, the idea of its existence is enough to make me “ghee” with joy. Found under “Tools > Upgrade” on the new left-hand menu, it offers simple upgrades to the latest software that bypasses the old “upload each new file/directory” that some have been subjected to, and even cuts out the middle man web-hosts who have been offering something similar for a while.
Awesome Feature Number 2 is plugin searching and installation RIGHT FROM THE FRIGGIN ADMIN PAGE! This makes plugins so easy to install that it practically guarantees broken Wordpress installations across the world as people just install new plugins ’cause they can! No more tossing up if it’s worth it to upload and install something new. Why waste a second thinking about it when you can just press “install” and see? In minutes of upgrading my site tonight I had a working iPhone version of my site, and (hopefully) some integration with my FriendFeed account. That is the “killer feature” of Wordpress right there my friends, found under “Plugins > Add New”. It makes me so happy I could cry.
So go and update it today. It’ll be the last painful upgrade you do.
Tags: FriendFeed, iPhone, Plug-in, wordpress
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September 21, 2008 by Josh Nunn
My mate Andrew thought my last post was a bit technical for him, and fair enough— it was something of limited value to some of my readers. So this post is for him.
Andrew asked how he could create a ringtone for his new iPhone. He knew it was possible, but it’s really not straight forward (in Australia at least, elsewhere iTunes has this functionality built in). So I’ve whipped up this little tutorial for him to remind him how to do it.
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Tags: iPhone, itunes, Ringtone, tutorial
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August 28, 2008 by Josh Nunn
I have a small dilemma.
I want to upgrade my media viewing so that I can access all the digital media I have on my various computers, including photos, iTunes music and downloaded movies. At the moment I have a standard definition PVR for recording TV, a DVD player and my Television. All my content is on a Mac Mini in another room. I’ve thought about my options, and included a handy chart that spells out my desired features and how close the different options come to my ideal.
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Tags: Help me, iPhone, Media centre, Television
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August 11, 2008 by Josh Nunn
The iPhone is awesome. Lets just get that out there. You can deny it, or call me a fanboy, but let’s be honest— Apple has made a very good (and attractive) product that has stomped on the competition. It’s easy to use, powerful and extensible. And it’s done something the competition hasn’t been able to— captured the imagination of content providers like nothing else. The Windows Mobile platform has been around for years with a handfull of tools for it, but it took only six months for half the web (I’m exaggerating) to make iPhone compatible websites and tools. I’ve got to believe that’s due to having a decent platform, rather than rampant fanboyism.
But the iPhone isn’t perfect. What follows is a list of a few things I would like to see for and on my iPhone. Before I start, can I just clarify so I don’t get interrupted in my flow: Anything I ask for I’d like as a native iPhone app, through the App Store— not some Jailbroken app that’s going to require me to tinker.
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Tags: App Store, apple, iPhone, itunes, Smartphones
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July 23, 2008 by Josh Nunn
A quick obligatory post using the new Wordpress iPhone app. Useful, and might mean more frequent personal posts. Missing Zemanta and the Flickr Photo Gallery plugin for quick links and Flickr integration. Can’t seem to easily link to those two useful tools for instance. I might use it to post about things in the “real world” as they happen.
Tags: apps, fun, iPhone, wordpress
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July 20, 2008 by Josh Nunn
w00tI’m writing this, my 100th post, from my iPhone. It’s making me dizzy, as the screen jumps with every key press. I may not do this again till there is a native iphone app to do it with.
Congratulations to me anyway.
Tags: iPhone
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