June 2010
7 posts
My demo of open standards is better than your demo...
Make no mistake, Google and Apple are now having a proper, stand-up fight. But at least they’re fighting sensibly.
Easiest (free) ways to read ebooks on your iPad
In five steps:
Get yourself a free Dropbox account
Upload your ePub files to Dropbox
Download the latest version of Stanza for the iPad
Browse to your Dropbox folder in Safari, select the ePub file, then hit the Stanza icon
Go to Stanza and your ebook file should be there.
This is the easiest (free) way to get ebooks onto a suitable iPad ereader if you a)...
The command-line is a (useful) lie
Here’s a big, meaty post by Emily Short on the role of parsers in interactive fiction.
But at the end of the day … the trick isn’t to make the parser understand whatever a novice might type, and that the average novice user would actually be happier with a smaller vocabulary that has been spelled out in full.
It’s a matter of making the game better at communicating to the...
Vale, Cimmerian
The Cimmerian, home of probably the best articles about Robert E Howard and Co, is closing down.
But of late, Deuce and I haven’t been able to be that involved — I’m ashamed to say I’ve been so busy I haven’t even been able to read many of the current posts at TC. And so every time Deuce and I see a mistake in a blog post we should have corrected before publication, or a critical take that it...
