http://www.paulbeesley.com Because life isn't #000000 and #FFFFFF Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:56:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I admit that when it comes to design I'm a rabid perfectionist. The moment I've finished working on something I'm already working on something better and something for after that. For the past couple of months I've turned my attention to the AUP Informant client interface. Let's have a look at ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/08/19/aup-informant-2-client-development/ It's been far too long since my last post, the holidays are always busy and writing sometimes takes a back seat. Over the past month I've made a few changes to existing downloads and I've added a few new packages. First up, the FFDShow codec (Beta 5) is available to download ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/08/16/latest-updates/ If you've ever wanted to get a perfect screenshot of a program on your iPhone, there's a simple command that Apple has built into the iPhone and iPod Touch 2.0 firmware that lets you save a screenshot of the current app. Hold the home button down and tap the power/sleep button. ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/07/16/take-screenshots-on-your-iphone/ Visiteurs de MacPlus: Salut, merci d'avoir visité! The iPhone browser appears to be king of the hill right now when it comes to browsing on mobile devices but just how close is it to being the full web experience? I decided to test its rendering capabilities when compared to some of ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/07/16/can-the-iphone-really-deliver-the-full-web-experience/ All applications fit neatly into one of two categories - those that repackage easily and those that are close to impossible. For the past 2 months I've been dealing with one of the latter, ArcGIS by Esri, a geographical information system. Basically, it's a suite of apps for working with ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/07/05/tying-it-all-together/ Took a lovely trip to London the other day with Rach. After Oxford Street we went to Leicester Square and found this little café that does Italian food along with the most enormous ice cream creations! Take a look at the yummy photos. After lunch we headed to the IMAX cinema ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/06/24/a-day-out/ Did Engadget get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? Have they gone to the wrong conference? I love their live coverage of the event but some of the comments this year are a little snide. Take a look: And our LAST app [emphasis ours] comes from Digital ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/06/09/engadget-are-missing-the-point-of-wwdc/ Sometimes you come across things that are just so quirky, you can't help but buy them. I finally caved and got myself one of these funky 8-bit ties from ThinkGeek. No, that's not me modelling. As luck would have it, they're running a buy one, get one free promotion at ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/05/29/thinkgeek-and-the-lure-of-the-8-bit-tie/ It's been a long time since I updated the gallery. I must have literally thousands of photos lying around on my laptop and at least some of them are worth putting online! :P Now that summer's rolled around I'm gonna get back on track with my photography as well. My poor ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/05/20/finally-a-proper-photo-gallery/ After around 3 weeks of refining code, I'm happy to announce the final beta release of EduSweep. This is the first build that is of proper release quality and from now, only major bugs will be fixed before 1.0.0. The following bugs have been fixed in this release: Large sets of results ... http://www.paulbeesley.com/2008/05/11/edusweep-beta-6-released/