You know what, forget all the excitement over multi-touch computing I wrote about yesterday. Thanks to the ever-wonderful Metafilter, I rediscovered Photosynth which is about 10,000x cooler than Surfaces.
To be fair, I think Photosynth would be swanky as hell on Surfaces, but that’s just another argument for Photosynth in my book. Here’s Photosynth’s architect […]

This summer I used Ubuntu Linux as a development environment for my coding escapades. I’ve long had a subliminal fear of the command line. I don’t trust things that I don’t understand. However, once I was finally thrown into the operating system out of necessity, I discovered that I actually like it quite a […]

Yep. Sitting and waiting for our production server to greedily suck down a bunch of secret-tech XML at 3Mb/s. So there’s nothing to do but wait. And of course that means sharing with you the random assortment of tabs I have open. Because that’s what alwaysBETA is about - random, sometimes interesting, sometimes technical, […]

The power. The beauty. The pain. No one ever said writing Javascript to dynamically change an SVG based on user input would be easy, but I’m saying right now that it is possible. This post is supposed to serve as a rudimentary guide for getting started with doing just that, specifically highlighting the problem […]

I just finished watching this video of Microsoft UI program manager Kam Vedbrat demoing the latest build of Windows Vista and the new UI features. It left me excited about some things and incredibly perplexed about others. The main feeling I was left with is that their UI seems to go against their espoused […]