Personal website of Michael Glenn
- Faster than Ninjas
Mark Pilgrim pointed out that even Mozilla is having to put Flash integration on hold for their Maemo version. I am reminded of a post by John Chen in the Flash Poor Performance on Max OS X tracking bug indicating that OSX performance wasn’t of primary concern to Adobe as
our highest priority will be optimizing [...]
- Giving Back
I recently started using the mobile location application / game Foursquare. It allows you to share your location with friends and earn points and badges for how often you share. Foursquare also allows you to integrate with your Twitter account to announce when you’ve “checked in” at a location, earned a badge or earned the [...]
- Chest Pain at Toronto General
4:00PM – At the office. Still experiencing mild chest pains from the night before. These don’t seem heart related but I decided to called Telehealth Ontario who had a nurse call me back five minutes later. Ran through a series of standard questions relating to chest pain and advised me to visit emergency at my [...]
- iPhone App: Need for Speed Underground
At the Apple 2008 Wordwide Developers Conference Phil Schiller gave an impressive demo of Electronic Arts new game, Need for Speed Underground for the iPhone. The game was promised by November 2008 but never surfaced. I waited and waited postulating that perhaps the app was too much for the iPhone to handle and then an [...]
- My Road to HD
For years I’ve watched with envy as others purchased their high definition flat screen televisions. Then a few weeks before Christmas my wife remarked that HD televisions had come down in price and would we be interested in purchasing one? Yes we would. We’re big movie watchers and have grown to love our PVR for [...]
- Behold the Power of the Twitter
The terrible news out of Mumbai was a global news event that really showed me how Twitter is so well integrated into the social networking news stream. Last Monday night, the Toronto tech community amplified the power of Twitter.
I recently started using TweetDeck to follow my Twitter stream. Besides separating my public and private timelines, [...]
- Please Explain AGO Policies
My wife and I renewed our lapsed AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) memberships this month and took our first trip to see the new galleries. I left the camera at home because I was fairly certain they had and still have a no photography policy. Upon checking in, I was reviewing their new policies and [...]
- My Top 10 iPhone Apps
Colleen Diamond is contemplating the iPhone switch. She asked me today what my favourite applications were. Here are my current top 10.
10.TimmyMe (Free)
If you are Canadian, Tim Horton’s is an institution. TimmyMe is a free locator that lists the five closet Tim Horton’s to your current location. It will launch the Google Maps app to [...]
- Flash 10 Still a Poor Performer on Macs and Linux
YouTube recently switched to a widescreen format and while browsing around to test out the quality I was still shocked at the poor performance of Flash on a Mac, specifically with video. The playback is jerky and constantly pauses in both Firefox and Safari. Restarting the browser helps a bit but by no means solves [...]
- 2.2 Podcasts – Right Order but Download Flaw
The iPhone 2.2 update brought a handful of new features including a few updates to the iPod application.
I gladly realized after a day of listening to Podcasts that episodes appear in the order they were downloaded. This means that you can start at the oldest and not have to skip backwards to listen to the [...]
