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September 2009 Archive
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iPhone horizontal home screen
ArticleWhy can’t my iPhone do this? Apple has has horizontal modes in some (but annoyingly not all) core apps, so why can’t they add it to the home screen as well?
Why can’t my iPhone do this? Apple has horizontal modes in some (but annoyingly not all) core apps, so why can’t they add it to the home screen as well? It wouldn’t necessarily have to be just like my mockup, which fits an additional 4 apps and drops the text labels (could get them to fit nicely), instead each individual icon could just swivel 90 degree left or right so they are the right way up when you’re looking at them. In horizontal mode you might also flick through your various home screens by scrolling up and down instead of left and right.
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Fluency 2.1 now available
ArticleIt’s been a while between updates, mostly due to the time spent working on getting Hahlo4 finished, but with that out of the way it was time to update Fluency to work with the latest version of WordPress. The big news is that Fluency is now hosted in the WordPress plugins directory, meaning that you will be able to use the built-in plugin installer, and auto update features in WordPress when new version are released.
It’s been a while between updates, mostly due to the time spent working on getting Hahlo4 finished, but with that out of the way it was time to update Fluency to work with the latest version of WordPress. The big news is that Fluency is now hosted in the WordPress plugins directory, meaning that you will be able to use the built-in plugin installer, and auto update features in WordPress when new version are released.
You can get more details, and grab Fluency 2.1 from the WordPress plugin directory here.
New features
There aren’t mountains of new features but there a couple worth mentioning. I’ve added a ‘Fluency Options’ page, which can be found under the ‘Settings’ menu, there are just two options for the moment. Both were requests from users, you can disable the Fluency style on the login page, and you can also specify a custom logo to be displayed on the login page (this works with the Fluency login style turned on or off)
For few versions now WordPress has come with two default admin color schemes, but up until now Fluency has only had a grey-based scheme. I’ve now added full support for a Classic/Blue color scheme, based on whichever color scheme you have selected in you user profile on your blog.
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Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
ReviewGood fun, would’ve been great in 3D (there were several scenes that you could tell were specifically created for the 3D experience). Seth Rogen’s character BOB (basically a blue gelatinous blob with no brain) had some particularly funny moments.
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Bryan Veloso on iTunes 9 pretty much hits the nail on the head… why do they have to make iTunes look different to everything else, and why in this case did they make it fugly? Other than that its all good. I have one question though, why the hell did it take them 3 years to add a usable interface for managing iPhone apps.
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District 9 (2009)
ReviewGreat movie, loved the style and the way the story was told, loved that it wasn’t set somewhere stereotypical like LA or New York, loved that they left it open for a sequel. Right up there as one of my faves for 2009 so far.
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Hahlo4 is live!
SidenoteIt feels like I’ve been working on it forever (since early December 2008 in fact), but I’ve finally released it into the wild, just head over to http://hahlo.com. There a still a few more things I’m going to add/tweak, but I’m going to take a little bit of a break first and sort out some other things… like that update to Fluency Admin that I “promised” months ago.
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Dance Flick (2009)
ReviewNot the Wayans brothers best spoof by a long, long, long way. Perhaps it would have been better if I’d seen the crappy movies this crappy spoof was taking the piss out of, unlikely though.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
ReviewOk, so I didn’t hate it, but damn was it long and drawn out. They really should have compressed Pirates 2 and 3 into one movie, would have sped the pace of the story up so it didn’t feel like it was going forever.
