Archive for March, 2008

Evernote: A Promising Start

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

After having signed up for an Evernote beta invite a while ago, I finally received one this week.

Evernote is a next generation note taking service. What sets it apart from similar applications are the numerous ways of entering as well as retrieving notes. First of all there is the Evernote Website. It is simple and [...]

github - Git Repository Hosting

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

The distributed Git version control system has been gaining a lot of traction lately. In contrast to traditional, centralized version control systems like CVS or Subversion, Git enables developers to easily fork each other’s repositories, pull patches from each other, etc. Even though I have not had a chance to use Git beyond pulling down [...]

iPhone SDK

Friday, March 7th, 2008

This morning, Apple finally announced details about the long-awaited iPhone SDK. The SDK is available for download starting today, and it sounds pretty intriguing!

It comes with a full application stack that includes a custom version of Cocoa (Cocoa Touch), and APIs to access all the iPhone specific features, including hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, the accelerometer, camera, [...]

Farewell, Gary Gygax

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I was deeply saddened to find out that Gary Gygax passed away today, after struggling with health issues for several years. Gary Gygax co-created the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, and thereby invented the entire role-playing game genre.

Like any good geek, I grew up playing role-playing games during my teens. Even though we did not [...]

Music in the 21st Century

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

A short story about how the music industry has changed (though not all of them have recognized this yet).

Earlier this evening, a Twitter message alerted me to the Ghosts instrumental album that was released by Nine Inch Nails today, completely announced. I had been curious about Trent Reznor’s plans, as he had previously voiced his [...]