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Japan Earthquake: before and after

By on March 13, 2011 in Random Rants

Wow… if you haven’t donated already the Red Cross has launched an appeal.

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Rift Level Ranges

By on March 13, 2011 in Random Rants

Useful map from Rift Junkies that gives an overview of all the ranges of stuff. Useful for people.

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Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit – Firmware Update

By on March 13, 2011 in Random Rants

This – is… an AWESOME UPDATE. Speed is much better and pings are lower. Brilliant.

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Chrome == Battery Killer

By on March 12, 2011 in Random Rants

Seriously, wow. Using Chrome 10 on my Air kills battery like no other. The new sandbox rendering system actually never stops using CPU. Like… ever. Unlike Safari. Looks like I’ll have to leave Chrome for a while.

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Simplify your Visual Studio 2010 Toolbar

By on March 12, 2011 in Random Rants

Obvious but useful advice on making Visual Studio 2010 a workable environment.

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Making git diff highlight whitespace issues

By on February 8, 2011 in Programming, Random Rants

One of those while I remember posts. @mxcl doesn’t like whitespace randomly appearing in commits. Quite frankly, he shouldn’t like it, it’s evil and leads to merge conflicts. So here, quick config I grabbed off of cheat git which solves that problem without the use of GUI tools:

In .gitconfig

[core]
   whitespace=fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol
[color]
  ui = true
[color "branch"]
  current = yellow reverse
  local = yellow
  remote = green
[color "diff"]
  meta = yellow bold
  frag = magenta bold
  old = red bold
  new = green bold
  whitespace = red reverse
[color "status"]
  added = yellow
  changed = green
  untracked = cyan

Hope it helps someone else as much as it helps me! It not only shows problems, but removes them on commit as well.

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Macbook Air Colour Profile

By on February 6, 2011 in Mac / OSX

I promised some people in Twitter I’d post this… So I had better really! This is a colour profile for a 2010 that I found on MacRumors. There’s a few there, however this was by far the best one and it makes the display much more of a pleasure to use.

Instructions:

  1. Go to /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Monitors (you might have to make the Monitors folder)
  2. Copy the .icc file from the zip file below there
  3. Go to Preferences -> Displays -> Color
  4. Untick “Show profiles for this display only”
  5. Select “MBA13-9cf0 Native 22″ in the list

Enjoy!

The colour profile download: Macbook Air Color Profile (436)

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New job! Awesomes

By on February 6, 2011 in Android, iPad, iPhone, Random Rants

It’s really time I got around to posting again. It’s been quite a while and although not many people outside of family and friends really read this blog; it’s about time I updated “the Internet”

I started work as a Mobile Developer for TweetDeck in London last month. It somewhat explains the lack of posting recently as well as why all the consulting stuff disappeared.

I can’t go into the reasons for moving on from Green Man Gaming. But I’m stoked to be working with such an awesome team of guys and girl and becoming part of bringing a great way to experience Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and more to mobile devices.

The first month has gone great. Jumped straight into iOS work and the new TweetDeck for iPhone. It’s a complete re-write of what is currently available and it is looking awesome. I look forward to it being in the wider world.

I update Twitter far more than I update my blog… so you should follow me @joolz.

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Ol’ Grumpy’s guide to player reeducation

By on January 3, 2011 in Random Rants

I don’t often make a WoW post here… but… Yay, someone said it! I’ve been spending this holiday season suffering pick up groups in World of Warcraft and the common sense finally comes out!

If you think of your instance runs as where you go to farm a quick batch of justice or valor points, you’re part of the problem.

You are there to learn and even to teach.

A lot of people are running around WoW thinking that they can just play it like we’re still in Northrend. We’re not – it’s time for a hard graft. You have to use crowd control now. Hell, on one fight I even found a use for Levitate.

Ol’ Grumpy’s guide to player reeducation.

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Welcome Tube Droid to your Android Phone

By on December 28, 2010 in Android

I’ve been running a Tube Status application on my Google Nexus One for a few months now. It’s about time I made it public! It’s now available on Android Market for the small price of Free and the QR code for getting it onto your phone now is to the right.

Tube Droid does a couple of things differently to other background service applications that you might find on the Market. The most important of these is the ability to update at the right time for your device’s current state. That is, if there’s no signal… don’t try. If there was no signal, and now there is, grab an update now rather than wait 10 minutes. This leads to the data being as up to date possible.

It’s running the same backend as the iPhone application and therefore uses very little bandwidth per update. In fact the data footprint on the phone stands at: ~550KB to install and ~28KB of data. Its tiny, fast and intuitive. They’ll be widgets coming in due course for people to get timely updates on the ‘phonetop’.

Let’s hope there aren’t too many bugs!

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