Blog Title: Fred Brunel

Apple Releases iPhone 2.2

As planned, Apple released the iPhone 2.2 update with plenty of small improvement, bugs and security fixes. The big “visual” feature tough, might be the integration of Google Street View in Maps.

The Faces of Mechanical Turk

Andy Baoi started a Turk experiment to answer two questions: what do these people look like, and how much does it cost for someone to reveal their face? It’s not the people you might think.

Twidroid

Android got it’s first full-feature Twitter client a few weeks ago.

TwitterDroid Now Hosted at GitHub, Present.ly Chooses It

TwitterDroid (my humble Twitter client for Android) is now officially hosted at GitHub. GitHub is a great place for hosting and contributing to open source projects and since I jumped on the Git bandwagon a while ago, it was the obvious choice. I’ve written a few pages on the wiki and I plan to release a version read more..

Smule’s Ocarina for iPhone

Ocarina is a fun and innovative app for the iPhone. It’s a “true” music instrument but also a social network of Ocarina players. You can listen to people playing the Ocarina all around the world — in real-time. As Techcrunch wrote, this is one of the few iPhone app (see Chess with Friends) that leverage read more..

Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone & Apple Mail

While looking for properly “mapping” Gmail with the iPhone and Apple Mail, I found this interesting article on how to do it. I didn’t even know those “advanced” options ever existed.

Gmail on Android

Google did it for Android and I’d like to see it for iPhone as well. I think that the Gmail concepts (e.g., conversations, tags) doesn’t map very well with classic email client interfaces.

The Next President of the United States

The Boston Globe has some great photos of Barack Obama, elected yesterday in a landslide victory as the 44th president of the United States of America. Living these elections from Canada — and for the first time, as a neighbor of the United State — was a unique feeling. Yesterday night, from a friend’s place, I read more..

Elegant Web Typography

A great presentation by Jeff Croft about web typography. I always loved typography, it’s an art of its own. Doing it properly on the web is still challenging but not impossible.

iPhone Programming Class at Stanford

Amazing.