Well, Apple have finally announced further details of their anticipated Apple Watch and I am seriously not impressed.
The anticipation for the event was high, expectations even higher considering Apple like to tout themselves as this handheld and wearables design messiah.
The incestuous fanboy brethren who live for every word their cult leader Tim Cook tells them also help further propel this grandiose perception of God-like perfection.
While the Apple Watch looks quite decent, it is definitely not the best looking smart watch out there. And when compared to a traditional timepiece, it does not matter if you have a sapphire coated screen, you cannot compete with the look and feel of a real watch.
There are tonnes of different development methodologies and styles out there. You have test driven development, rapid application development, feature driven development and a whole bunch of other types of development approaches you can take.
My favourite approach for personal projects is API Driven Development. You’re probably wondering if it is even a real thing. Before writing this article I wasn’t even sure myself. Sure enough, I found some posts on the subject of API Driven Development proving that I am not crazy and that API Driven Development is a real thing.
Corporate social networks are not a new premise. The corporate social network Yammer which was acquired by Microsoft in 2012 has been slowly toiling away behind the scenes, but you don’t really hear about it. I think it is safe to say Yammer has failed.
Facebook reportedly have been readying a product called “Facebook for Work” which is exactly what it sounds like. An internal version of Facebook that allows internal communication within a company.
In 2014 Sony announced Project Morpheus a virtual reality headset in the same vain as Oculus Rift. Throughout the last year Sony has remained coy about whether or not Morpheus would even go beyond an experimental stage.
At GDC 2015, we got our answer. Sony is going balls deep on Project Morpheus. Impressive updated specs on the well-designed headset and the startling revelation that the Playstation 4 console can do 120 frames per second the headset needs.
Before we proceed, I want you to read this news.com.au story by a guy named Peter Baines who runs a charity called Hands Across The Water. Aptly titled, “Why giving money to charity makes you a tool”
As click-baiting as the title is, the story is partially about those who give money to charity but not much else. Baines then goes onto to make the point that people should be doing more than just donating money because it supposedly makes you a tool.
The Translink Go Card is the preferred choice for public transport in South East Queensland. An RFID touch-on/touch-off card and a series of card readers on train station platforms, buses, City Cycle and ferries.
Originally plagued with implementation issues that almost saw provider Cubic sued for the delays and widespread problems the Go Card rollout faced, the network is in a much more stable state these days.
With paper tickets for some zones almost costing double the price in comparison to a Go Card fare, the incentive to own and use a Go Card is very high.
I have been doing some development work in the online advertising space lately and as a result of it, I have become more mindful of which sites I block advertisements on and which sites I do not block advertisements on.
Nobody likes advertisements and while I still use Adblock Plus to block ads for a lot of sites, I do it in a more polite manner than most. If a site offers value to me, I find the content great and it is free, I disable Adblock on the site. It is a small gesture that goes a long way.
If you don’t vaccinate your kids you should be given two choices and these two choices only:
Have your kids taken off of you and put into custody of the state. You should then attend a court hearing where you might face numerous charges ranging from jeopardising the health of your children and the health of other children to abuse. Or…
You can vaccinate your children, not be fined/sent to jail, keep your children and stop being a fucking idiot. The arguments of some of these “anti-vaccination” loonies range from; the vaccination will give my kid a disability, vaccinations are against my religious beliefs, we have immune systems that can fight things like this and the really crazy: the Government are putting things in vaccines to try and control us because of a New World Order conspiracy to reduce the population.
Recently I encountered an issue in Firefox whilst attempting to login into my Twitter. Even though my login details were correct, I was not able to login. No error message, nothing. My first thought was Twitter was to blame, but it turns out it was my Firefox.
I also noticed on other sites this weird login issue was happening as well. When I would try and login to 99designs, I encountered a strange redirection loop.
ANZ bank have fraud protection that they call Falcon. Essentially the goal of it is to prevent fraudulent transactions taking place on your credit cards and in my case, my Visa debit card connected to my savings account. Nice idea in theory, but in my case, annoying and wrong.
It all began when I received a suspicious text message claiming my card had been suspended due to a security concern to prevent unauthorised usage. At first I thought it was a scam, so I called ANZ and sure enough, it was the real deal (the number it came from was +61427042684).