Archive for the ‘Denver’ Category



Adobe Icons From an Alternate Universe

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Michael Shephard, one of my favorite co-workers, has fixed the ugly-ass Adobe CS icons. My dock has never looked better.

360MacDev

Monday, December 12th, 2011

If it's an Apple-related 360|Conferences event, it's a safe bet I'll be there. The iDev and MacDev conferences are two of my favorites, and come February I'll be taking stage to shock, awe, surprise, and delight. If you make Mac software, you should go. And since it'll be in Denver, ...

Speaking Engagements

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

You may know that I design things for a living. You may also know that I occasionally get up in front of rooms to talk about designing things for a living. Two such events are coming up. The first is 360iDev in Austin, where I'll be talking about how developers can ...

forkly

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Forkly has a very clever system in place: your odds of being accepted increase as more of your friends sign up using your link. Clever not just for the obvious benefit of the link spreading, but also because the forkly team is limiting early access to those who have the ...

• Acquisition, Part One

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

So how did I go about deciding I wanted to make iPhone apps, getting acquired, and becoming an executive at an award-winning iPhone development company? I went out drinking with Brent Simmons. Everything after that is kind of a blur. About a year ago, I happened to be flying in to San ...

Double Encore Acquires Massively Overrated

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

News broke today that my company, Massively Overrated, has been acquired by Double Encore. This is nothing but good news; Jay and I still maintain creative control of internal projects, and now we get to shape applications for huge, international brands. They acquired us, but it feels more like we ...

• KeyGrinder

Monday, February 15th, 2010

KeyGrinder ((iTunes link)) is now available on the App Store. Alex King once told us that he wished someone would make an iPhone app based on the PwdHash project at Stanford to make it easier to use secure passwords on the iPhone. Rather than just rush something out, we decided to ...

Refresh Denver: Mobile Development

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Looks to be an interesting talk from Kristofer Baxter and Jason Johnston. If you're in Denver and work with the web, this should be worth checking out.

Bad Gravity

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Brent Simmons on the iPad: My concern, though, is that people may think that Mac apps should include every possible feature and preference. The reasoning would be like this: “It’s not an iPad or iPhone. It’s a computer. Therefore it’s for power users. Therefore it should be totally customizable and have ...

Typewar Review

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

It's a bit selfish and unfair, linking to a review of my own app. But when you design a game for a mobile phone, there's really no better compliment than this: I sure thought it was right up mine when I first spotted it last night. The game’s description warned ...

Crowd Favorite Employees Got Netbooks for Christmas

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Generous move by Alex King. Meanwhile, Massively Overrated employees got coal.

Zombies Need Your Help

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Danny Newman's annual Zombie Crawl here in Denver was a huge success this year. Over 4,000 zombies. That's a lot of fucking zombies. But it came at a price: the city is fining Danny over $1,000 for "graffiti" due to the (fake) blood left on the 16th Street Mall. A call ...

Brightkite 2

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Macworld has a piece on the new Brightkite iPhone app. They talk a lot about the service updates in general, but say very nice things about the app specifically. New, unobtrusive buttons on each post and photo allow you to pick whether only your friends can see it, or whether you ...

Coathangr on the iPhone

Friday, August 21st, 2009

The Coathangr iPhone app is live on the App Store. If you're so excited that you need a direct iTunes link, Jay made it easy with a redirect from hangr.me/iphone.

Matt Drance to Keynote iDev

Friday, August 14th, 2009

The 360|iDev keynote will be delivered by none other than the amazing Matt Drance. If you haven't registered for iDev, you should. With folks like Drance, Brent Simmons, and Mike Lee coming out, you know this is going to be one hell of a conference.