October 2009
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smashingmagazine.com - 10 Pre-Press Tips For... →
In-App Purchase now available for free apps →
marco:
From Apple, via a developer mass-mail: > Now you can use In App Purchase in your free apps to sell content, subscriptions, and digital services. > > You can also simplify your development by creating a single version of your app that uses In App Purchase to unlock additional functionality, eliminating the need to create Lite versions of your app. Using In App Purchase in your app...
Sublime Text →
The text editor for windows
The two App Stores →
Great article by Marco Arment [marco.org]. It covers software sales in AppStore. I think that same issue is also with Mac Os and Windows indie software business.
GCC for Win64 →
Nobel Prize for Physics to CCD inventors →
C4[3] summary →
C4 is a developer conference, oriented towards Mac and iPhone independent (“indie”) developers.
September 2009
2 posts
pcmag.com - A World Without Apple? →
The Ars Technica Snow Leopard review →
August 2009
3 posts
Digital Photography Tutorials →
101 for digital photography, color and optics.
THE END OF THE GPU ROADMAP [pdf] →
Tim Sweeney CEO, Founder Epic Games - SIGGRAPH 2009 - High Performance Graphics
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Icons for Interaction →
July 2009
17 posts
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nnwbeta.com beta releases of NetNewsWire/Mac →
NetNewsWire 3.2b6 syncs with Google Reader and it has also instapaper.com support.
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fugue-icons - Quality web icons to... →
Huge developer icons collection (16x16) with psd devkit. Icons by Yusuke Kamiyamane. The icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
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FLOSS Weekly 79: David Heinemeier Hansson →
Interview episode of David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby on Rails creator. He has interesting stories about how RoR was developed and why it was developed.
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Using C object files in Delphi →
This is one nice feature in Delphi RAD. With this feature it is easy to utilize *nix libraries and software with Delphi (eg. libjpeg, dcraw etc.)
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CocoaHeads Mar 26: Atlas and Cappuccino →
DIY iPhone dock project →
Very clever and simple but extremely good looking iPhone dock from acrylic plastic
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engadget.com - HTC Hero Review →
HTC Hero is quite nice looking Android phone. There has been lot of buzz about it’s Flash support. But it seems that it is as slow as my old Qtek 9000 with Opera browser.
PDF Expert - Nice pdf reader for iphone →
This seems to work very smoothly with large pdf ebooks.
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The Icon Lab's stock icons →
Very nice sets of shiny stock icons.
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A Fresh iPhone & iPod Touch App each week. →
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7 steg till perfekta porträtt i Photoshop CS4 →
Swedish article about “Howto make perfect portrait with PS CS4”
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Tango Desktop Project →
The color palette is public domain. The icon theme is also available as public domain since the 0.8.90 release.
Projects using Tango styled icons - http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Showroom
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iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals →
First part of Smashing Magazine’s article series about iPhone UI design. Howto balance between good design and over design
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Mac Os X in Swedish newspapers (Editorial Systems... →
Swedish pdf-article (Kartläggning av tidningssverige)
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20 cool jquery samples →
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Photshop CS4 and gif-animation howto →
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Test your image processing skills (and swedish...
http://www.kamerabild.se/polopoly_fs/Las-hela-artikeln-som-PDF-lank-nedan-7.4779.html!testa_dig.pdf
June 2009
2 posts
Open Source Human Interface Guidelines for...
280 North, Inc. and Sofa B.V. have published open souce Aristo HIG for web applications.
Aristo overview slides by Sofa B.V. Aristo Photoshop templates for downloading http://github.com/280north/aristo/tree/master
May 2009
0 posts
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Revell's G.T.S. Finnjet 1:400 available again
Now it again possible to get part of Finnish heavy engineering history to own living room. German Revell has republished it’s 1:400 scale model kit form Silja Lines Finnjet ferry. I have made this once when I was 10 years old but ship took some bad damages during project. I think it might be time to rebuild it.
Revell’s Finnjet 1:400 - http://bit.ly/NOJb1
27,99 € at Moduni.de -...
July 2008
2 posts
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Playing with iphone 3g
Yes it is here, activated and it is working, just posted first tweet with iphone. But my Sonera sim will active not until next monday, luckily prepaid Sonera sim is working. It seems that 2.0 update for ipod hasn’t been yet published.
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Iphone 3g is really coming to Finland
Just managed to book one black 8GB iphone 3g to me. I hope that my Sonera sim will be active at 11th July.
June 2008
6 posts
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WWDC 2008 keynote & Iphone 3g
After watching latest wwdc keynote I had to say that Iphone 3g is cool. I hope that Sonera will soon release their iphone prices and we are waiting for iphone developer account.
Back form Drupa and Dusseldorf
Dusseldorf is a great Germany city, everything just works! Unfortunately today weather was foggy and our flight takeoff was late and we missed out flight to Joensuu, which meant 4 hours waiting in Helsinki airport. But our Drupa trip was awesome and we had many great meetings. There was huge amount of interesting prepress and workflow software. One big thing was that our “elevator...
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Drupa 2008 business trip is coming
At Wednesday we will start our business trip to Drupa 2008 exhibition, Dusseldorf Germany. There was nice article about SoftColor in AGI magazine’s Drupa edition [link to pdf]. See you in Drupa!
tvkaista.fi →
This is a great “hosted Tivo” for Finnish dvb tv-channels. It is possible to watch recorded items with 3 weeks history via flash player or just download original ts-stream
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April 2008
3 posts
Back from Army :)
It was nice military training with all old course mates. Also there is lot off new nice digital communication devices. Big surprise was that there is no more sweet dessert with dinner.
Back to Army for 4 days :)
It is time spend 4 days in the military training. It seems that all our course participant will be there. [Finnish Army Signal School non-commissioned officer course II / 01]. Some old army memories: http://www.softcolor.fi/petri/kurssijulkaisu_web.pdf
22nd - 25nd April 2008. “Switch from CTO to Corporal”
Death of my Qtek 9000
My good old Qtek 9000 has very serious screen backlight problem, backlight is dead.
I switched to Samsung SGH-i600. I think that SGH-i600 hasn’t been so successful phone because price was only 229 €, but is has all the features like HSDPA, Bluetooth etc.
July 1981
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My Short Bio
I was born in 1981, Nurmes, Finland.
I graduated from University of Joensuu with a M.Sc in Computer Science.
I founded SoftColor Oy in May 2005.
Scale models, golf and classic cars are my non computer related hobbies. I entered to the computer world in 1989 when I got my first PC with 8086 CPU.