This morning i got out of bed to be greeted by what I can only describe as the highest level of in-joke and nerd humour i’ve ever witnessed, #SongsInCode. SongsInCode is a Twitter hashtag people have started using and the idea is simple, think of a lyric or name of a song and express it program code. Follow through for a list of #songsincode i submitted.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Recycled: iTunes, iPod, iPhone.. iChoose?
Original post date: 2008-07-05
Recycled for Recycle A Blog Post Day
Something just occurred to me this evening and it has to do with software companies and the monopoly ‘lock in’ tactics that some use. Microsoft was pulled up over forcing Internet Explorer on people in XP many moons ago now and I’m sure we’re all completely happy with how it eventually turned out, most of us use Firefox and Windows now recognises something called a ‘default browser’.
Fast forward a few years and we’ve seen Apple since day one, ram iTunes down the throat of every ipod owner in the world. This was understandable, after all it’s a portable music player and it only ran on OSX to start with, so it’s ok to force a music player that’s already installed on the operating system along with the device to provide sync support, in fact it totally makes sense. That is until they released on windows and iTunes wasn’t that great, also for years we’ve all been using Winamp or Windows Media Player and have no desire to switch to iTunes.
Recycle A Blog Post Day (2009-08-12)
Mark Pollard threw a tweet to the world that had some interesting weight, Recycle A Blog Post Day (#rabpday). Mark’s idea was that you would dig a post out from earlier in the year and “re-cycle it” which i assume means, create a new post, put the content in from the old and post it again. My suggestion was that the post should be over a year old, obviously this can’t for everyone and in that case, you should pick an older post.
I’m not sure what the intention was here, my thoughts were that it could be a monthly or yearly thing? But i get the impression others maybe thinking weekly? Anyway it seems like a cool idea.
When’s it happening?
TOMORROW!! (12th August 2009)
Who’s recycling?
Mark tagged the following people in and I guess we’ll see if they partake:
- @dirkthecow (website)
- @servantofchaos (website)
- @juliancole (website)
- @jyesmith (website)
- @scott_drummond (website)
Of course, you know you can take part too, post below with a comment if you’re going to join in and let’s see where this goes to.
More Android Icons For Free
The team at glyFX are still working frantically as always and today they slipped out the Android Common Developer Icon Set II. This free icon set is a rework of the original Android Developer Common Icon Set, using all the details supplied by the Android Icon Design Guidelines, which was not available when the first set was created.
Head over to glyFX and get your free copy of the Android Developer Common Icon Set II now.