Archive for October 2008

iPhone Programming Class at Stanford

30 October 2008 / 0 Comments

Amazing.

The UI Design of ‘Favorites’ for iPhone

30 October 2008 / 0 Comments

Favorites is a great iPhone app from Matt Gemmell. Favorites lets you speed-dial (or speed-SMS, or speed-email) your favorite contacts from a single place; something clearly missing in the iPhone. Matt wrote a post about some of its design decision. It shows again that it’s not easy to build a polished application. But I think [...]

Xtranormal on TV

23 October 2008 / 0 Comments

Richard Gratton (our product manager) has been interviewed on CP24 TV (Toronto) about Xtranormal.com, He’s pretty good!

Starting a Company Is Like Landing on the Shore of a Deserted Island

20 October 2008 / 3 Comments

You have a certain amount of provisions, which you have to make last until you find a way to make the island sustain life—or convince someone to send you more. I like the metaphor.

MacRuby

20 October 2008 / 0 Comments

It never get into the news but Apple has been working for months on a port of Ruby 1.9 called MacRuby, MacRuby is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and garbage collector, and the CoreFoundation framework. While still [...]

We’ve Been Techcrunch’ed

16 October 2008 / 4 Comments

Now this is serious! Our web servers are taking a shitload of traffic.

MacBook & MacBook Pro

15 October 2008 / 4 Comments

Thew new MacBooks & MacBook Pros are just gorgeous. Apple seems to be especially proud about how they’ve designed these new models. The dual GPU configuration (NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and GeForce 9600M GT) is brillant; drastic boost in performance and better battery life. With Snow Leopard (the next major version of Mac OS X), GPUs [...]

Xtranormal on Techcrunch France

15 October 2008 / 0 Comments

We’ve been FR Techcrunched today. Very good comments about us.

If You Can Type, You Can Make Movies

9 October 2008 / 8 Comments

One week after we launched Mashface.com, we’re finally opening Xtranormal.com to the public. Xtranormal.com is a user-generated content website that feature an innovative and easy-to-use movie making application. This application uses our patented Text-to-Movie platform that automatically generates movies based on the most simple user input ever: text & icons; no skills required. The technology [...]

Apple Stock Hit With False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Rumor

3 October 2008 / 0 Comments

Apple’s stock took a temporary 10-point hit this morning after a false report surfaced on CNN’s iReport that Steve Jobs had a heart attack. The report has been removed, but only after Silicon Alley Insider and others confirmed with Apple that Jobs did not have a heart attack. And the stock jumped right back up [...]