Stephen Deken

Fraser Speirs and the Hype Machine

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:51:42 GMT

John Gruber, agreeing with Fraser Speirs on Apple’s future platform:

Fraser Speirs, predicting (rightly, I think) that the iPhone OS will be Apple’s main platform four years from now:

Put this another way: my iPhone app, Exposure, has picked up on average 3,200 new users per day since the App Store opened. Exposure already has twice as many users as FlickrExport for Aperture.

If there were one centralized place to obtain apps for OS X, and there were only about 500 OS X applications, then I would expect that FlickrExport would have numbers that are similar to Exposure’s. The fact that the iPhone application has a higher number of users isn’t surprising, since:

The iPhone is a new platform, which means there’s a lot of non-developers feeling around in ways they would not on a more established platform;
The App Store is new and has a comparatively small number of available applications, only some of which are even worth the time they take to download;
There is only one way to get applications onto the iPhone, meaning that people are being exposed to applications they wouldn’t normally seek out on their own; and
A Flickr upload tool is a natural application to want on a handheld device that contains a built-in camera, versus a desktop computer or laptop, built-in camera or not.

The numbers are actually more muddied than they appear at first glance. Exposure appeals to everyone who owns an iPhone and uses Flickr; FlickrExport for Aperture, naturally, appeals to everyone who owns Aperture and uses Flickr. I submit to you that these markets almost entirely overlap, with the Aperture users being a subset of the iPhone users.

Zero Dollar Bill

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:52:33 GMT

Los Angeles artist Brian Romero designed a zero-dollar bill as an anti-corporate statement:

I designed the font back in 1998. Well, ‘designed’ is maybe too strong a word; I traced the letters that appeared on a $50 bill and guessed (poorly) at the rest. Especially the X, which is just completely wrong, and the G, which is just completely awful.

But if you happen to like it (the font, I mean), you can download it over here. My other fonts are there as well.

Awesome.

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:28:23 GMT

I don’t create the memes, I just report them:

AWESOME.

Myst: The Movie

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:15:34 GMT

Oh, God:

Keeping with the video game adaptations trend, news has come out regarding a very independent film version of the wildly popular game series, Myst.
Geeks Of Doom

Great, that’s all we need: an hour and a half of watching one guy stumble around a richly-detailed environment, flipping random switches to see what they do and occasionally pounding his fist against the ground uselessly where there appears to be something useful that doesn’t do anything.

If they stayed true to the games he’d just give up after the first half-hour.

Code Like An Asshole #2

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:15:31 GMT

In C++:

class Foo {
public:
    Foo( void ) { delete this; }
};