It isn’t pretty, but at least it can be used again. I put a screen protector sheet over the smashed screen so that I can now move my finger over it without cutting it to shreds. It is functional, but not very nice to look at.
Roll on iPad 3 I say!
Category: Tech
At times wonderful, and at times totally frustrating too. That’s technology, my experience of it anyway. I do a lot of stuff with technology and I suspect I will continue to do that.
Axim plans
I’ve been thinking about what else to put on my old Dell Axim. Emulation seems obvious, well to me it does anyway. I still have a Mac System 7 emulation app somewhere around the place, so I may try that.
The other thing I’d like to do is to populate it with a bunch of my own ‘mini’ apps made with Basic4ppc. That might take a bit longer though.
Automation on iOS?
And non-jailbroken? No, it’s for real. An app called Launch Center allows you to run a number of automations with stuff like texts and tweets and launching apps. I’m going to give it a go and see just how useful it is. One thing I do know is that it isn’t anything like as good as Android Tasker, but it is a very small step in the right direction for iOS.
My Music Home Screen
As for as iOS goes it is amazing for music making apps. That’s a given. So I thought I’d share my music home screen.
Starting Basic 4 PPC
I’ve started messing about with Basic4PPC again. I know that Windows Mobile is totally dead now, but I like to mess about with stuff like this to see what I can make it do, and it is quite good fun too!
3 weeks without an iPad
Since the shattering of the screen on my iPad 2 I haven’t used it, that is, I’ve hardly used it. It does still work, but parts of the screen aren’t too nice to touch as the glass is broken. Hence, I haven’t used it. My plan was (is) to put a screen protector on it to effectively protect my fingers from the sharp edges, but actually getting hold of a screen protector has been amazingly difficult.
Anyway, what’s been interesting has been not using it. I do miss it. That’s for sure. But not nearly as much as I thought I would miss it. In fact, what I miss most are the ideas / experiments that I had planned that involved it that I can’t now carry out. Although hopefully I will be able to very soon.
It has also made me question getting an Android tablet. I’d almost decided on an Android 3.2 tablet, but then didn’t buy it. I couldn’t decide what I would actually do with it, which was a problem really, and it doesn’t make too much sense to spend a few hundred pounds on something you’re not sure you’ll use. So I didn’t buy it, and I’m not sure that I will at all now.
In some ways it’s made me reassess a lot of tech and my wishlist for gadgets too. However, that may change when I get it workable again, or indeed if the iPad 3 comes out any time soon.
Pixilang 3.2 arrives
I haven’t used Pixilang for a long time and so it’s great to see a new version and one with some really interesting new features like:
- universal containers (pixi-container) for any type of data;
- dynamically typed variables (for integer or floating point numbers);
- functions for sound synthesis and recording;
- functions for block data processing;
- supported formats: WAV, PNG, JPG;
- MIDI In/Out.
Of course, or most interest is the functions for sound synthesis and recording and the MIDI in/out as well. Sadly it seems that there’s no Palm OS version though, so I’ll be using it on Windows Mobile.
ZX on 3G
Getting some music software running on my Jailbroken 3G. Not sounding great so far, but let’s see how it goes. More soon.
Processing Book
I had forgotten all about this book and found it this morning so it was my companion on the train this morning, and there’s good stuff on using text in there, so hopefully I’ll get a scene done in a few days.
And that’s on Android too
I meant to say that that processing sketch also works really well on my Android phone under 2.2. Nice to be able to run this stuff on Android too.
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