Hi all and welcome to a new section of blog content. As mentioned before, a group of friends and I are creating our own indie-movie. We are shooting towards a 35-45 minute film shot in DV. Due to lack of funding and our totally inability to do proper lighting (don’t ask me why, we set [...]
On Saturday, Travis, Will and I competed in the TCEA Programming Competition at Alamo Heights along with 15 or so other teams from various schools around SA. Last year, Travis and I were on a team, and we scored a measly 4 points. Yea, we sucked. This year we scored 39. We did 10 times [...]
I was scanning through my site logs and stumbled accross some suspect google searches that lead to my site. Here’s a break down: 4 for allinurl index.php?page= 1 for allinurl php?page= 1 for index.php?page= 1 for allinurl .php?page= .php 1 for allinurl .php?page= That’s 8 for just this past month of Feb. What are they [...]
Snowboard Cross. The newest sport at the winter Olympics. This new sport is truly engaging, fast, entertaining, and fun. 4 racers on snowboards race down a track with curves, jumps and twists. The first to cross the finish line wins, and unintentional contact is allowed. This has been the one sport in the Olympics I [...]
As I was reinstalling Windows ME on my old Dell Inspiron, I browsed the internet on my Mac while I waited. I got into scanning MacUpdate, and I found a few new cool, mildly known apps. I’ve compiled a second list of “The Best Unknown Mac Apps.” The first list can be found here. The [...]
Hopefully if this is working right now, the blog looks exactly the same, except for minor aestetic differences and a modified sidebar. I completed the transition to WordPress. The great thing is that it’s practically the same as my Blogger blog. We have an extremely similar design with added features. The main reason I switched [...]
I want to give a plug to my aunt’s new site, Architectural Brochures. If you are in need of graphics, logos, brochures, etc. definitely check her out. She does really cool designs. She uses Adobe Illustrator and has taught me pretty much all I know. You can contact her through the site. And by the [...]
QuickTunes has officialy gone Universal. Sorry to be late to the table, but I’ve been busy. I’ll have DiggUpdate as a universal binary soon too. If you’re own a new Intel, enjoy. -Dustin
I have been struggling for awhile. I’m trying to find my position on the shareware vs. freeware vs. open-source vs. commercial debate. There is so much to discuss in this realm. Especially since we are on a Mac. Windows, the OS of commercial crap. Linux, the OS of open-source greatness. Mac, the OS of beautiful [...]
As a small mac developer, I can relate to a lot of the small, indie developers out there. I thought that it would be great to give a list of some truly great mac software that gets left out of the typical mac software lists. No, on this list you won’t see your Adium, VLC, [...]
Dustin Bachrach is a Microsoft Developer on Windows Phone. He blogs technology, programming, and life.
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