So I just became a full-time Mac user! I have two Apples at home and one at work. I still have a PC, but it gets turned on less than once a month. Even though I have sooooo been drinking Steve Job’s Kool-aid, Laurie McGuinness’ Mac PC Spoofs are really funny. Check them out for a quick laugh!
My four year old son and I have a Saturday morning ritual where the two of us go our for a “special” breakfast at a local restaurant. While we are waiting for our food, Owen always draws a very exciting battle scene on the back of the paper placemat using the crayons provided by our server. This week’s battle scene was that of an army battle that involved a very large spaceship and a tank and some helicopters. Once he was done drawing, he asked “Dad, can we turn this into a video game?”. I answered of course I could!
So we went home and pulled out an old scanner, scanned his drawing, and went to work in Flash! The result, is a fun little game that I had fun making (and relearning a bit of trigonometry) and Owen had fun playing.
The game is aptly titled “Army Battle“. To play the game, you try to blast the helicoters with a bullet from your tank. To move the tank use the up and down arrows. To rotate the tank, use the left and right arrows. To aim the turret, move your mouse pointer around the screen. To fire the cannon, click the left mouse button!
The “Works on My Machine” Certification Program is a rigorous certification program that provides you with the credential to prove to your product manager that, indeed, your code does work on your machine.
Man am I ever glad somebody finally hacked together a solution for How to Make Square Corners with CSS. I’ve been trying to figure this technique out for around 7 years! ;-)
My very good friend Todd Jones has just put in his entry for a new reality TV show called “On the Lot”. The show is being developed by the producer of Survivor and Steven Spielberg. They are looking for the “next” film maker and the winner will walk away with a million dollar funding for a film project.
Todd is hoping to be one of 12 chosen to participate in the new show (there are over 250,000 entries)! So I ask that you take 3 and a half minutes to check out his entry - Sports City - and if you like it please give him a favorable rating!
Maybe a bit late to put these gifts under the Christmas tree, but if you’re like me and buy yourself a Christmas present every year, you should check out this list of 77 Design Gifts Under $77. My favorite on this list is FlipClips. Upload a short video clip, and they send you back a small flip book that you flip through to see your video.
Oh - and what am I buying myself this year? An Asus R2H UMPC!
It’s been a good year here at Digital Media Minute. Readership is up and so is my Google revenue. To celebrate, I am going to give away two 4GB iPod Nanos (winner picks the color) to two random readers. To enter this give-away, here are the rules:
Have fun and good luck!
Well I’m back from a nice one week visit to the “Happiest Place on Earth” and a flood of post should follow! Disneyland was amazing. It had been 15 years since my last visit and I must admit that it gets better as you get older! My 4 year old son had a blast and went on rides that even Mom and Dad were hesitant to ride on (Splash Mountain was his favorite).
Bellagio Coke and Mentos fountain is a very funny video where 2 guys armed with 101 coke bottles and 4 rolls of Mentos, create a stunning visual presentation that rivals the fountains at the Bellagio.
A fantastic music video to watch sometime this weekend: OK Go - Here It Goes Again.
