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I’ve re-written my 10 year old Terrain-Engine as an iPad app. It uses OpenGL Shaders and was lots of fun to write. Get it for your iPad:

I believe that in a few years Google-Voice (GV) will be significantly larger than it is now, and that will be due to growth in the Desktop/Mobile user segment not standard-phone users. The advantage will all boil down to the fact that GV gave users a free US phone number to start with. Here’s how [...]

I’ve been experimenting with various HTML5 (specifically SVG and Canvas) elements recently and was looking at ways to fully control text in a dynamic and fast manner. SVG offers Path elements but these are defined in markup which feels limiting. It made much more sense to define paths myself and just figure out how to [...]

We’re working on a visualization of real-time clicks on our http://appsto.re short URL. The cheap GeoIP database we use to convert IP address to geographical coordinates only gives us country-codes. ISO 3166-1 defines the encoding of ”countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest” into codes, and the 2-character encoding subset is defined in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. [...]

It seems like Google is testing a Desktop Client for its Google Voice service. Google acquired a company called Gizmo5 some time ago specifically for this reason. GV (Google Voice) is a service that gives you a single virtual US phone number where people can call/SMS you and get forwarded to whatever landline/mobile phone you [...]