Go and explore my final Minisite. It’s Appleicious! Probably too Appleicious… But I didn’t steal much from them - just their whole company branding… But that’s all. Really. I’ve Photoshopped (sorry, manipulated imagery using the Adobe Photoshop image editing software. Damn US trademark law…) all of the graphics myself.

I wish I had been able to improve the prototype further, but Flash was beginning to get upset with me… Note to self: next time, don’t use keyframe animation to make an application.

Anyway, enough with the chatter. The website is available on my uni web-space or from MON Productions. Whichever you prefer.

I’m off now

Right now, my biggest worry isn’t actually my website submission. It’s actually the rumble of thunder above my house. I need compy to have power for a few more hours yet! Especially given the state of the power-grid down here… If the power dies before 5:00 I’m going to be very annoyed.

In other news, Apple did actually update the MacBooks. Very quietly indeed - i.e. they’re shipping with no announcements. They’ve been bumped to the new(er) Intel Santa Rosa chipset with the new X3100 graphics card. So do I want to go and buy one now?? They’re very nice… Although I’m freaked out by the concept of spending $1700 on a computer (spending $1200 on a ski-trip is fine…). On the other hand, it means no more updates for 6 months…

On the DECO1200 front, Minisite 3 is progressing nicely. I’ve just got to decide where to put what… Not fun. But the design is done, and it’s looking exceptionally shiny (Apple eat your heart out!).

Speaking of Apple, there are rumours floating about of new MacBooks being released tomorrow… With faster CPUs and better graphics cards courtesy of Intel. The only problem for me is should I a) buy now, have a cool toy for the holidays and figure out how to use MacOS X before uni goes back; or b) wait until just before uni goes back, wait until other people work out the bugs inherent in 1st Generation Apple hardware (not to mention Leopard), benefit from the 9 cents of interest I can earn until February and then grab myself a Mac? Decisions, decisions.

In other news, I’m still waiting on bloody Australia Post to deliver my copy of Half-Life 2: Orange Box. I’ve finally got my desktop stable (my Radeon x1950 Pro killed motherboards). It apparently shipped last Monday from Brisbane. I want Portal dammit!

We also handed in the evil final DECO1008 3d modelling render today, it was worth 80%. Hopefully Steven and Marc think it’s as shiny as I do. I’m actually quite proud of it, and it’s developed a fair bit in the past few days. Thanks to Kaz for his comments and suggestions - although I never did get the “crapification” layer to look right.

Now, the only assignment left is DECO1200 Minisite 3. It will blow your mind!

Thanks too to Rob for being one of the few lecturers we’ve had who has given useful comments, actually been interesting to listen to and hasn’t been abusive towards us (well, only 1 lecturer falls into that category). Cheers!

http://devslashtux.monproductions.com/static/2007/deco1005/index.html 

Here’s a picture of a penguin:

So far, I’ve noticed that this doesn’t support the new tagging system in Wordpress 2.3 – which I only actually enabled this afternoon, so it’s not actually quite as useless as I previously thought. Anyway, this is rapidly losing its novelty.

I’m also not entirely sure why I’d use Office as a blogging client… Oh well, it was only $75

Apple have given in, there will be a real iPhone/iTouch API coming out next February. On the Apple Hot News page, Steve himself (or one of his minions claiming to be Steve) states:

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

Also, it’s good to know Apple have confidence in OS X.

Initial desktop-style interface. At this stage I was still thinking “Mobile Photoshop”

Trying to emulate the interface of iPhoto, but given the size of the screen it didn’t work when mocked up in Photoshop

A boring drawing of using “cover-flow” to browse photos in landscape mode.

The almost final implementation of the mobisnap homepage. (note Mobishop replaced [photorealistic huh]!)

A toolbar layout idea. I’m still working out how best to make “finger-width” icons.

An idea for cropping images, I like the idea of using a standard bounding-box. But the toolbar needs work.