Guitar+MacBook Music: Shaurya and I

One of the best parts of visiting family in England, apart from the awesome food and conversation, is getting to jam with Shaurya. We used to jam as kids back in Nepal, and after at least three years of not having seen each other, we got to make some music again. Here we cover The Beatles’ “Michelle” and Coldplay’s “Don’t Panic”.

Entendu: Final Presentation

I presented a pre-release alpha version of my app Entendu to my UMass iPhone class today. Here’s a video:

I previously posted a video of my presenting a development plan to the class about a month ago.

Why I Like Camino 2.0 over Safari 4

The Camino Project recently released version 2.0 of their Mac OS X-native Gecko-licious web browser, and after having used it for a while, I think it’s a now a strong contender in the browser scene. If you’re using Safari, you might consider switching.

Entendu: An iPhone App in Production

For my ‘Programming for the iPhone’ class this semester, I’m developing a sort of Twitter client that aggregates quotes. This is my final pre-development product presentation (with video and slides).

Typing pinyin on the Mac

Here’s a helpful reference for typing pinyin tone marks (especially the caron for the third tone): Typing proper pinyin on the Mac by Rob Rohan.
You simply have to enable the U.S. Extended keyboard instead of the standard U.S. one (assuming you are using a U.S. setup that is).
To enable it go into System Preferences then [...]

Convert Mac .dfont to TTF

Fondu is a set of UNIX programs that can convert between Mac font formats and the more common font formats used by Unix and Windows (pfb, ttf, otf and bdf).