July 2009
16 posts
Hypothetical Hypothesis
Okay, I know you people are sick of me talking about Haruhi, but here’s my prediction of how the second season’s episodes will look like given the current state of things:
Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody
Endless Eight I
Endless Eight II
Endless Eight III
Endless Eight IV
Endless Eight V
Endless Eight VI
Endless Eight VII
Endless Eight VIII
The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi I
The...
Apple Enters A World of FUD →
Typical disclaimer: yeah yeah, I’m a jailbreak developer so I’m biased or something.
Device and application instability: mostly related to low memory on older devices, caused by memory-eating MS extensions. May be avoided if you’re careful about what you install or how you theme your device. They’re not entirely wrong on this one.
Unreliable voice and data: Bullshit.
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GV Mobile Joins the Revolution →
tl;dr: GV Mobile, the Google Voice app that was removed from the App Store by Apple, will be going up on Cydia for free soon.
Two brief notes:
Maybe this will finally be enough to put media attention back on jailbreaking. Despite the WSJ and NYT both writing articles on alternative marketplaces for iPhone applications, very few people seem aware (or mention) the possibility of making their apps...
cocos2d →
cocos2d is a really cool OpenGL powered game engine written in Python. Most people who mention cocos2d refer to the iPhone port (in Objective-C) which leads to trouble when you’re trying to find information about it on Google.
Nevertheless, two great things about this:
You can turn on an interpreter in the middle of a running cocos2d game by pressing Ctrl-I and mess with stuff in runtime,...
Debathena: MIT's Athena moves to Debian/Ubuntu →
For those unaware, Athena is MIT’s UNIX workstation environment. Long ago it was on BSD, then moved to Solaris, then moved to being based off Red Hat Enterprise Linux. And now, it’s moving over to Debian/Ubuntu for the Athena 10 release.
This is genius. Students can install the very same environment on their laptops that they can use on public workstations, and get switched over to...
A Supreme Disaster
What a week.
“Supreme S submitted to Cydia Store (via ModMyi). Hopefully available tomorrow for everyone! It will only cost $2. :)”
Those were the words that were greeted by a cry of agony by the jailbreak developer community. Supreme Preferences has been the center of attention for the past week after its public release broke stuff on a bunch of people’s phones.
Here’s...
Endless Eight
Here is a comparison of how long Endless Eight is in both word count (in the light novels) and episode count to other Haruhi episodes and/or arcs (from the first season or what we’ve seen of the second season for now), sorted by decreasing word count.
The Sighs of Suzumiya Haruhi: 54687 words. Five episodes.
The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi: 53981 words. Six episodes. (That arc is the...
Strange Flavour on Jailbreaking →
Even as a member of the jailbroken developer community, I don’t think jailbroken users should expect all apps to run perfectly on their devices, especially not games. Most jailbroken users have WinterBoard installed to theme their devices, and that usually eats up about 1.5MB-3.5MB of RAM depending on what features you’re using.
The problem here is most likely that their game uses...
And When It All Falls Down →
“Konami Digital Entertainment announced today that it is developing Walk It Out, a rhythm-based physical fitness title for the Nintendo Wii.”
Oh joy. Because instead of walking outdoors like people should, we really should be walking in front of a little white board in front of a television.
“120 songs are featured in Walk It Out, including ‘Boom Boom Pow’ by the...
Sanity Filters for Tweetie →
magnany ~ $ defaults read com.atebits.tweetie-mac filterTerms
( “#followfriday”, “#macheist”, “#moonfruit”, RT, “#squarespace” )
Been waiting for this for a while now, and I am so happy it’s finally here. I only wish this were added to the iPhone version, and then I have sanity filters for Twitter everywhere.
Here are the steps I used to make the iPhone toolchain on Linux work with a 3.0 sysroot and GCC 4.4.
crt1.o needs to be symlinked to crt1.10.5.o
ld64 needs to be enabled.
#include <cstdio> needs to be added to MachORelocatable.hpp.
include statements for climits, cstring, and cstdio need to be added to Options.cpp.
Once odcctools is recompiled, move arm-apple-darwin9-ld...
How to Be A Successful Company of Dicks on Twitter
Start giving away iPhones to people who randomly include #CompanyName in their tweets.
Even if only one tweet is necessary, make it vague enough that people will tweet your company name several times a day.
Don’t make your users retweet a link, as that would take people directly to info on the giveaway. Just retweeting the hashtag will make it trend and cause people to ask what’s...
HOW TO: Get Retweeted on Twitter →
“Retweeting, as we explained in our article How To Retweet on Twitter, has evolved as the main way to be a huge dick on Twitter.”
Oh wait. That’s not what it says. That’s what it should say though. Fuck you Mashable.
