After seeing the obvious Cydia logo on Justin Long’s iPhone, I had to snicker that he had actually JailBroken his phone and left it on that app page when the only obvious button in the dock is the SMS button. But then it occurred to me that the phone’s screen was being displayed live on the plasma/LCD screen above and that the only folks who can do this are Apple for their Keynote demos and the guys who jailbreak their devices to capture “screencasts” like Don McAllister of Screencasts Online. So what probably happened was that the Kimmel folks, who we already know are very savvy mac users, told Justin Long they could show is iPhone on a big TV without an overhead cam and simply jailbroke the phone to do it.
However this is truly an awesome video.
[UPDATE] Disney/ABC pulled the video from YouTube, if you are State side I’m sure you can see it on the ABC site or you could try Googling “Justion Long Kimmel video”
“Geekbench provides a comprehensive set of benchmarks engineered to quickly and accurately measure processor and memory performance. Designed to make benchmarks easy to run and easy to understand, Geekbench takes the guesswork out of producing robust and reliable benchmark results.”
So we had a little fun in the office benchmarking Adi’s new VostroTosh install today. This cool little app called GeekBench will benchmark almost any platform you can think of, including iPhones, Android devices and even Sun stations. Well, we put it to the test on the VostroTosh which isbasically a Dell Vostro 3400 i5 running Mac OS X (more on that another time) with 2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM, NV 310M graphics chip and got a pretty respectable score of 4195. I ran the same 32bit version on my MacBook Pro (6,2) also with an i5 chip, 4GB of RAM and a slightly better graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M and managed to get a score of 4949 from a fresh boot.
How the Dell e6400 running Window 7 Enterprise in 64bit and which cost as much as my MacBook Pro a few years back Did not fair so well. Spec’d out with a 2.23Ghz Core 2 Duo, also 4GB of RAM and the NVidia Quadro NVS 160M graphics chip this little beast could only manage 2550 on a fresh boot.
So how does your Lappie fair? Download the app here, run the tests and post the results and your machine specs in the comments. I would love to see how some of the high end workstations and gaming rigs fair.
Montreal based indie band Metric headlined a free open air concert for the Samsung launch of the Galaxy S Vibrant last night outside Toronto Union Station.
So after leaving my afternoon meeting in downtown Toronto last night, I decided to check out Foursquare for good pubs nearby and noticed that 40 people were trending at “Metric @ Union Station”, a quick Twitter search revealed that they were in fact going to be playing in front of Union Station right under the CN Tower. So I headed back to the hotel to put on some better walking shoes and a fresh shirt and then grabbed my camera and headed down to Union Station just a short walk down Yonge Street and past the past the Hockey Hall of Fame. The closer I got, they more and more people were ogling their phones and muttering about Union Station. I could definitely feel that a Swarm badge would be coming to many of these phones as they turned on to Front Street and got a glimpse of the Samsung stage sitting under the huge shadow of the CN tower. You couldn’t have picked a better venue for a street concert.
By the time I made my way to union station there were at least 500 hipsters and young professionals spilling onto the street and within seconds the concert was suddenly the biggest thing trending on Foursquare in the downtown Toronto area. There were orange polo shirt Samsung folk walking around and showing off the new Galaxy S Vibrant to anyone who would care to look. It is a pretty decent Android 2.1 device, why it isn’t running 2.2 Froyo yet I really don’t understand, but it was a very fast device and the video quality was quite remarkable. The Galaxy S is by far the best attempt of an iPhone “Clone” that I have seen so far. And to be fair to Samsung, they have made huge strides at getting up to speed on their smartphone line. The original Galaxy only ran 1.6 and was a really slow device. The Omnia II was a huge leap forward but relied on Windows Mobile for its OS so you still need a stylus and occasionally had to fiddle around in the start menu to get things to work. The Galaxy S Vibrant is a huge step forwards and hopefully a real winner for them, they sure do through a good party, it’s a shame that hardly any of the phones in the crowd taking pics and recording clip for YouTube were Samsung. The iPhone count still eclipsed any other brand in the crowd including BlackBerries.
“At long last! Coda Notes, a fun Safari Extension we introduced at this year’s WWDC, is now officially available for download!
To recap, the idea is this: Coda is a great tool for web developers. But how can we make life easier for the web client, or the marketing person, or the person not developing the website but who still has a hand in the process? The person who has to give notes and ideas on web development?”
It’s no secret that I have been a long time Dreamweaver user and have always loved it’s ability to bridge design and code with the click of a toolbar button, however this morning I made a radical decision of kicking the 400 pound gorilla in the balls and running like hell over to the Coda Monkeys at Panic (not in a panic). Why Coda? Quite simply it is super-fast and very elegant. It integrates beautifully into Transmit (my default FTP client) has a top notch CSS editor and includes all the documentation you could need simply by CTRL double clicking a tag (check out this awesome video to see how and more). You know what you should give it a 30 day trial to see what I mean. And it’s not 30 consecutive days either. Simply put any 30 days you actually launch the app. You gotta love that.
Coda Notes just made my workflow so much simpler.
So now with the release of Coda Notes for Safari I can work with our designers and my lead developer and simply insert notes over the web page like I used to do in Preview after taking a screenshot, annotating it and then turning into a PDF. Coda Notes just made my workflow so much simpler. And now that I have discovered Coda Plugins and the ability, not to mention ease of use in making them my self, there really is no reason to use Dreamweaver again. In the future I will probably float between TextMate and Coda depending on the size of the task. With most of the heavy stuff going to Coda.
A Big Thanks to Cabel and the Panic Team for finally weening me off my Adobe addiction, now if only our designers could get to grips with Pixelmator, I could totally ditch Photoshop too.
claurin : @JohnnyCanuck The Hymus will be added to the tour schedule.
claurin : @szekula Looks that way. It seems @johnnycanuck and @scorbett22 may be along for the next ride!
JohnnyCanuck : @claurin lol Sure but we can't leave the Hymus off of the community centre tour. Maybe we can even get @scorbett22 to sit on a bouclier
claurin : @johnnycanuck Plus, we're not missing any digits. Care to join us next time? It's the West-Island "bares de mala categoría" tour!
JohnnyCanuck : @claurin @beastula @szekula @srevelle you're all still about 40years too YOUNG for the Mayfair.
JohnnyCanuck : RT @nantel: Nailed it! RT @mat: My problem with Ping: http://tumblr.com/xrfhgd84q
schultzter : I just had to "break up a fight" between my daughter's two feet - she insists it was not her fault but they're keeping her awake!
JohnnyCanuck : If you run a tech or web company within cycling distance of the Dorval Airport and an onsite shower, then we need to talk.
JohnnyCanuck : @nantel not wanting to brag, Pointe-Claire has had them a while now. With composting I barley fill my green garbage can now. #BeingECOrules
JohnnyCanuck : RT @pluc: Two blog posts in a day, I'm on a roll! Commun at #pcmtl: http://is.gd/eS798
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claurin : @JohnnyCanuck The Hymus will be added to the tour schedule.
JohnnyCanuck : @claurin lol Sure but we can't leave the Hymus off of the community centre tour. Maybe we can even get @scorbett22 to sit on a bouclier
schultzter : I just had to "break up a fight" between my daughter's two feet - she insists it was not her fault but they're keeping her awake!
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