Category Archives: Art

Exporting your digital comics from Comics.app on iPhone

Posted on January 13, 2011 by diziet

*Post originally contained information on how to backup your comics, redacted at the request of Comixology’s CEO.* Digital comics are a great thing, and I’m slowly amassing a reasonable library of them through the fantastic Comics.app (Comixology) on the iPhone/iPad. … Continue reading →

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Book Review : Hidden Empire – Saga of the Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson

Posted on November 23, 2010 by diziet

I’m not new to Kevin J. Anderson’s writing by any stretch but this is certainly the first novel of his that has left me in such an undecided state. I’m not a fan of his style but I did enjoy … Continue reading →

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Why Fable 3’s 360 bugs piss me off but New Vegas’s PC ones didn’t.

Posted on November 15, 2010 by diziet

A lot of it, possibly, can be attributed to the platform. On the PC I could, as far as possible, do things about the problems that vexed me. Although I never had a problem with slow down I did install … Continue reading →

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Progress doesn’t always feel like progress.

Posted on November 4, 2010 by diziet

So many changes have been made, which doesn’t always feel like you’re getting anywhere. I’ve made it so that Recipes sent in any form are transmitted as JPEG’s at 50% quality, it seems you can set the quality level of … Continue reading →

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Well these are novel reasons for offering a patch.

Posted on August 18, 2010 by diziet

I guess there must be a fuckton of starcraft players out there with macs. Hopefully not the same specs or macs though. Interestingly I have experienced both of the issues this apparently fixes.

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A bit more fun with photoshop.

Posted on August 15, 2010 by diziet

Two little icons…..

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A summary of the day.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by diziet

Good day.  Silly exc_bad_access bug resolved.  A macro in gdb to print the retainCount (mentioned in a previously posted link) is indeed very handy.  Spamming this through the code was also useful: NSLog(@”%@ <nameoffunction>”,self);   <— (or with another %@ … Continue reading →

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I squished a bug.

Posted on August 12, 2010 by diziet

Two days chasing down a bug and the first thing to enter my mind is “I squished a bug”. Yeah I own the album and the song was stuck in my head. So…… “I Squished a Bug” an ode to … Continue reading →

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Yakuza 3 played by real Yakuza!

Posted on August 10, 2010 by diziet

This is awesome, an american reporter (I think) who worked in Japan for years covering the tokyo underground managed to persuade 3 real Yakuza to play Sega’s awesome Yakuza 3. The first 2 were good and the fourth is very … Continue reading →

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A little bit of this and that.

Posted on July 22, 2010 by diziet

Quite a few things have vied for my attention this week. I ploughed through 2 books, namely The Girl who Played With Fire a book on Obj-C. I’m now reading The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Next and Living Next … Continue reading →

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