Nicholas Pike

Download now available!

More screenshots, and the official alpha download link are located on the Google Code project that I have setup.

http://code.google.com/p/npike-touch-xboxlive/

Features:

• List your favorite Xbox Live buddies
• See their online status wherever you have a network connection
  • Displays their gamer picture

Planned/Future Features:

• Tapping a gamertag will slide out their full gamer card, allowing you to easily see scores, reputation, and recently played games
• Display current game being played if online
• Your Suggestions Here

No download available yet, details to come.

The internet has been buzzing with everyone’s solutions to increase the clipboard size for Windows – but what about for OS X?

Every OS X user should have QuickSilver installed – and thanks to QuickSilver you can easily have a clipboard history too!

Follow the steps below:

• Open QuickSilver preferences (invoke QuickSilver, then press Apple+,)
• Click on the Plugins category.
• Put a check beside “Clipboard Module”
• Optional: Go to the Preferences category, click on Clipboard and increase the size of the history. (I find 25 to be more then enough)

From now on, you can get your clipboard history by invoking QuickSilver, and then typing Apple+G. This will display the clipboard history, allowing you to pick an item to paste into the currently active application.

 Food Frenzy is an interesting Facebook Application that I discovered today – basically its the classic memory/matching game  (without the memory part).  For each of your Facebook friends that have this application, you can play the game once.  Depending on the sets of three that you match during a game, you win credits to use on campusfood.com.  (For those unaware, campusfood.com is a service that allows college students to order food from local restaurants online and have it delivered to their dorm/apartment).

So if you have a Facebook account, give the application a try – play a few games (make sure to play one hosted from my Facebook account), and win some campusfood.com credit!

Why must Google Reader be so plain and ugly? While surfing the internet today I found a nice greasemonkey script that makes Google Reader look a little less ugly, and a little more OS X like. So far I find it quite pleasing.

Click here to install if you have Greasemonkey: osxstylegooglereader.user.js

Only showing off my latest iPod springboard/desktop today – all other machines in my possession look generally the same.

So I’ve gotten in the habit of cooking with my iPod while making dinners for Jenn and myself. My current approach is sadly not very graceful:

1. SFTP to iPod
2. Copy recipe into a new text file in my home directory
3. On the ipod, open the Terminal.app
4. and use “more” to open the text file in the Terminal

So not graceful at all – but still very awesome. Jenn always seems to make a point to call me a Dork while I cook in this manner. So I have created my first public consumption iPhone/iPod Touch application: DorkBook

It’s rather basic at the moment, and the general procedure for putting a recipe on my iPod remains the same, I just no longer have to view it in more or vi.

Launching the program will show you all the recipes stored in ~/Media/Recipes, and touching a recipe will display the recipe complete with ingredients and instructions. (With a nice sliding transition between screens that I worked all night on)

I’ll put a download link up later, and hopefully will get the application added to the infamous Installer.app that just about every jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch is certain to have.

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
- Edsger Dijkstra