something STRANGE

I’ve finally found some time to update this website. It was looking rather shabby for a while, and so I’ve completely updated Wordpress and all its plugins, and even added a few new ones to the list. For example, there is a shiny new Portfolio page, which links to various projects I’ve been involved with.

A number of small improvements will be introduced in the coming days, most likely related to the portfolio pages. In the mean time, if you discover any issues with this site, its content or layout … please drop me an email with all the details or leave a comment below.

Also, I’m interested in knowing how people feel about the navigation links at the right side of the page. Are the icons sufficient in describing the linked page? I was considering rolling out text labels when you hover over each button, but haven’t yet decided either way.

While I bought Snow Leopard a while ago, I still haven’t found the time to install it. Perhaps I’m just having too much fun tweaking Leopard.

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There aren’t many choices when it comes to fonts on the iPhone. This is a list of those available.

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As an iPhone developer, you may be interested in taking screen captures of your application. It’s easy to do from within Xcode. If you’re not a developer, jump to the bottom of this post for an alternate method.

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Recently, I was acquired a DivX video that I wanted to play on my Intel Mac. Initially, it wasn’t recognized by Quicktime as a compatible video format. That was remedied by installing the latest DivX codec and Player.

Unfortunately, while the video played fine from that point on, the audio track accompanying it would not. Quicktime was identifying the audio codec as ‘ms ‘, yet other applications in Windows said it was AC-3, Dolby Digital. After messing around with a few “universal” AC-3 codecs that either crashed Quicktime or failed to produce sound, I came across Perian, the self-proclaimed Swiss-Army Knife for Quicktime.

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