Archive for September 2008

Xtranormal Launch Mashface

29 September 2008 / Comments

Today we launched our first product, Mashface, as a fun and free service to create movies in the style of Tetes a claques.

Fire up your webcam, shoot parts of your face and mash them with the photos we provide; then share your video with your friends on Facebook or Youtube.

We had a lot of fun [...]

Plan 9: The Way the Future Was

26 September 2008 / Comments

Eric S. Raymond about the fate of Plan 9:

Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. [...]

Designing the UI of ‘Things’ for iPhone

26 September 2008 / Comments

Cultured Code were kind enough to share their design sketches of the iPhone version of Things. Always interesting.

The Google Timeline

26 September 2008 / Comments

For its 10th birthday, Google posted an interactive timeline of the key milestones in Google’s development; truly amazing!

Happy birthday!

The Muxtape Story

26 September 2008 / Comments

Justin Ouellette just posted the story of Muxtape (a simple but addictive music sharing site) that was shut down by the RIAA. It seems that Justin couldn’t find any viable deal with the music industry but hope to relaunch the site as a service for bands.

Muxtape is relaunching as a service exclusively for [...]

Google’s G1

23 September 2008 / Comments

Google finally launched its first mobile device embedding Android. We all agree, it’s no iPhone; it’s not that pretty, got flaws and lack some hardware capabilities but it has a lot of potential, the potential to become the de-facto OS for smartphones — and probably low-end devices.

Actually, Android is more a threat to RIM, Microsoft [...]

Things We’ve Learned at 37signals

18 September 2008 / Comments

Always interesting to read about how 37signals gets the job done.

Pwnage Tool for 2.1 Firmware

16 September 2008 / Comments

Just a couple of days after the release of iPhone OS 2.1, the iPhone Dev Team upgraded its jailbreaking (and unlocking) tool compatible with the new firmware.

iPhone OS 2.1 fixes so many issues that it really worth the upgrade.

Shooting User-Produced Videos With Xtranormal

6 September 2008 / Comments

We’ve just started a private beta of our service; Heri from Montreal Tech Watch is one of our beta user and wrote a little review,

Like they previously announced, the interface to create videos is very simple to use, you just have to drag and drop animations, camera moves, gestures [...] Results are great, [...]

Google Chrome

2 September 2008 / Comments

Rumoured yesterday, released today, Chrome the new Google browser just hit the street. Introduced with humour by a nice comic, the long awaited browser has made a lot of noise in the tech community.

I’ve been using Chrome all day and I’ve to admit that I like its clean and simple interface; its tab-centered experience; its [...]