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Android trojan steals keystrokes using phone movements (Updated)
"TapLogger […] masquerades as a benign game that challenges the end user to identify identical icons from a collection of similar-looking images. In the background, the trojan monitors readings returned by the phone's built-in accelerometer, gyroscope, and orientation sensors to infer phone numbers and other digits entered into the device."
trojans  malware  virii  viruses  android  blackberry  business  ios  news  smartphones  technology  software  sensing  sensors  acellerometers 
4 weeks ago by Nachimir
Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella Meets FaceTracker | Ideas For Dozens
"I decided to run all of the images from the Hello Little Fella Flickr group through FaceTracker and record the result. These images induce pareidolia in us, but would they do the same to the machine?"
processing  faces  biometrics  pareidolia  recognition  BERG  littlefellas  software  machines 
10 weeks ago by Nachimir
How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
"a delightful futuristic absurdity: a computer program, pretending to be human, hawking a book about computers pretending to be human, while other computer programs pretend to have used copies of it. A book that was never actually written, much less printed and read."
amazon  books  twitter  bots  software  computing  AI  algorithms  code  pricing  sales  automation  absurd  funnyhaha 
february 2012 by Nachimir
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010
"Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010. The innovative new game marries the traditional interactive fiction text adventure with its arcane commands and exploration with the free-form, open-ended gaming pioneered by the likes of SimCity.

There are two major modes to the game, a textual spell-casting game, and a more complex interactive puzzle mode.

Play starts with the spell game. The game has three difficulty modes. In the two easiest modes Visual Studio questers must cast spells to appease a malevolent gatekeeper known only as "the compiler,""
Visualbasic  microsoft  funnyhaha  pisstake  software  development  coding 
january 2012 by Nachimir
The Game Bakers – Money and the App Store: a few figures that might help an indie developer
Some useful iOS figures, and the people at the studio seem to be lovely (dealt with them a bit for the IGA). "even though SQUIDS hasn’t made us rich so far, revenues from the iOS version have almost covered our development costs and we are confident that its upcoming release on other platforms will make the game profitable and allow us to develop a sequel. And for The Game Bakers, that’s what all of this is about: in the end it’s not about getting rich, but about being able to make the games we want to make, independently."
appstore  business  iphone  games  videogames  ios  ipad  indie  gamedevelopment  gamedevelopers  markets  budgeting  software 
january 2012 by Nachimir
Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey
"One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most – in the event of an unexpected outage."
development  failure  software  web  aws  architecture  design  cloud  programming 
november 2011 by Nachimir
App Developers Withdraw From U.S. As Patent Fears Reach ‘Tipping Point’ | paidContent:UK
"App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents"
softwarepatents  patents  lawyers  legislation  law  wankers  tossers  scum  apps  developers  mobile  software  programming  indie  independent 
july 2011 by Nachimir
Everyoneelse
Very nice physical time management system.
arduino  design  diy  inspiration  interface  productivity  software  cool 
may 2010 by Nachimir
Procedural Inc. - 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments
Really impressive procedural city engine. Could work amazingly with handmade details/locations/missions.
proceduralgeneration  3d  city  visualisation  games  videogames  middleware  design  graphics  architecture  modeling  software  rendering 
february 2010 by Nachimir
Make: Online : F.lux - time of day light adjustment for your monitor
Really interesting idea. I often whack my brightness right down after a certain time at night.
windows  software  computers  health  sleep  osx  linux  circadianrhythm  daylight  night 
march 2009 by Nachimir
Tales of the Rampant Coyote: The Black Triangle
Term for something that takes a lot of effort but has no aesthetic substance, i.e. it's very hard for an outsider to understand or appreciate.
games  gamedevelopment  work  development  software  programming  projects  systems  testing  engineering  gtd  projectmanagement  MDA 
january 2009 by Nachimir
The Official Obama iPhone and iPod Touch Application
Clever: "Your contacts are prioritized by key battleground states"
USA  iphone  apple  politics  catb  grassroots  software  socialmedia  mobile 
october 2008 by Nachimir
al3x.net: al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness
Some very good stuff here. If only I could make people understand why I do this: "Use a plain text editor that you know well. Not a word processor, a plain text editor."
psychology  software  computing  operatingsystems  hardware  rules  mac 
september 2008 by Nachimir
Atmosphir - Free Video Game / Creation Tool for Mac and PC
Little Slightly Shoddy Looking Big Planet :) Looks interesting, nice and accessible.
games  ugc  socialsoftware  internet  virtualworlds  videogames  technology  software  web 
september 2008 by Nachimir
IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons
"A hundred years of industrial research has proven beyond question that exhausted workers create errors that blow schedules, destroy equipment, create cost overruns, erode product quality, and threaten the bottom line."
crunch  games  gamedevelopment  gamedev  developers  software  productivity  controversy  gamesindustry 
june 2008 by Nachimir
Samsung SGH-E900 - Support Forum - eXpansys UK
woohoo, full reset got rid of the simlock. No faffing around with cables, 9v batteries, flash and flew.
phones  electronics  software 
april 2008 by Nachimir
» Report: The State of the Brain Fitness Software Market 2008 « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains
Nintendo spawn an entire sector, then health care, military, sports, and assorted companies pick it up. So far, it has demonstrable results...
games  software  psychology  training  fitness  education 
march 2008 by Nachimir
VectorMagic | The Online Tool for Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion
This website vectorises raster images, looks like the results are none too bad too.
art  images  digital  software  technology  webapps  imaging  image  graphics  design  photography  photo 
november 2007 by Nachimir
Ambrosia Software, Inc. Store
Fraps is windows only, Snapz Pro comes recommended by second life machinima makers. $69 a license though.
machinima  software  utilities  osx  secondlife  games 
november 2007 by Nachimir
How to add commands to the OS X “right-click” menu - Simplehelp
I'm going to have to spend time on this over the weekend. Apparently fairly technical, but suspect it might be very useful.
mac  software  modification 
june 2007 by Nachimir
Open Source Mac - Free, Open-Source software for OS X
Big list of OSS mac applications. Didn't actually get much from here, though using Adium for MSN and Vienna for RSS
RSS  OSS  catb  IM  software  mac 
april 2007 by Nachimir

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