Tag: featured

  • The Quiet Game

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    Chaotic Moon Studios' Ben Lamm, left, and William 'Whurley' Hurley. Photo by Rodolfo Gonzalez, Austin American-Statesman.

    In today’s Statesman, we launched a new feature where we talk to Central Texas software developers about the mobile apps they’re working on.

    The first one is from Chaotic Moon Studios and it’s an iPhone/iPod app called The Quiet Game. We talk with William “Whurley” Hurley about it in the story.

    This feature is replacing the long-running “Masters of Their Domains,” which after about two or three years of monthly stories had kind of run its course. So instead of talking to people who own Web sites every month, we’ll talk to app developers for a while and see how that goes. There’s plenty of people doing exciting mobile stuff, whether it’s for Android, iPhone, iPad or BlackBerry, in Austin.

    I think what the feature is called (based on the print edition) is “There’s a Creator for That.” This certainly is better than the suggestions I had, like, “Apps All Around Us,” “App-etizers” and “What’s Appening!”

    I think I was trying too hard with the word “App.”

  • What was missed

    The plan is to write more actual blog entries (and short, stray thoughts) on Terribly Happy now that the new site format is live, but I still want to keep the stuff I’m working on and things that are published/produced elsewhere appearing here.

    I can’t stress enough how much of a pain in the ass it had gotten to be dealing with Blogger the last few years. Half the time it wouldn’t publish, other times it messed up my HTML on something simple like adding a link to a post. Uploading an image was a chore and it never formated things the way I wanted it to.

    If there were reasons I moved more to posting on Twitter and less on Bloggystyle, it was those. It got to be like having to visit a bad neighborhood where you used to live for a necessary errand that you keep putting off.

    Anyway, here’s some of what I would have posted last week if the site had been accessible:

    On Monday, I was on NPR talking about Apple (seems like we’re always talking about Apple, huh?). Specifically, iPad sales, the Gizmodo situation and the perception that Apple might be getting a little bit of a bad reputation in some circles. Here’s the audio from the segment and the blog entry I wrote with links to stuff we talked about.

    Also last week, I had a story in the Saturday paper about location-based social networks like Gowalla and Foursquare. The story didnt make it online, mostly because I broke down and expanded it into three parts on Digital Savant (at least I think thats why it wasn’t online). The Digital Savant versions also include tips from power users and a few other tidbits we weren’t able to fit in the paper.

    Basically, it’s a primer on how to use Foursquare and Gowalla if you’re not already using them (or maybe you are and you’re a little lost.

    You can find those entries here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

  • Trailers Without Pity: The A-Team

    Pablo and I never watched The A-Team growing up (it’s explained in the video), but that didn’t stop us from examining the rich excess that is the trailer for this summer movie creation.

    I know there’s a market for movies like this, just like there’s a market for off-brand Santa Fe mango chutney, but the only circumstance I could see myself seeing this movie is if someone paid me to go and then paid me again after the film was over, the money handed over in a burlap bag marked, “Dubiously Gotten $$$.”

    Nevertheless, the trailer was fun to poke at, at least, for Trailers Without Pity and for us that’s all that counts.

  • New beginnings

    So, obviously, things look a bit different around here. Welcome!

    The upgrade/migration took almost exactly a week longer than I was hoping it would and theres a good deal more dust and debris than I was hoping. Shit looks UGLY. I know. You dont have to say it. Im working on it.

    Less clear is whether the Terribly Happy archives will make it over to WordPress. Not sure if thats going to happen because the Easy Import tool made a mess of everything and it would take me years to fix everything if I went that route.

    You can still access Bloggystyles old page (from about 2004-April 2010) or dig back even further in the archives (2000-2004).