http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com Purveyors of Fine Software for the iPhone, Android, Mac, and PC. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:31:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm working on grand and glorious changes to this site in anticipation of approval of my first iPhone app! Whee! This post is really just to test something. So yeah not much to see... Yet. http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/something-is-happening/ Question: what do seven friends who work all day making games do when they get home? Answer: Make more games!! Metrozone is our 2008 Dream Build Play entry. It's Ikaruga meets Tempest - basically you race down this tube, shooting and dodging things - you collect powerups ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/metrozone/ Up until a few days ago, nectarine.fr streamed demoscene songs (chiptunes: S3M, IT, MOD, etc.) to the world for free. It was driven by undoubtedly the largest database of demoscene music in existence - this database was the result of countless numbers of people contributing, voting for their favorite ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/save-nectarine/ Man, what an absolutely beautiful song. I'd been hunting for its chords for the last couple days, but couldn't find anything online, so last night I just buckled down and figured them out myself. The Weepies Orbiting, off the album "Hideaway" Chords by Mason McCuskey (http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com) The easiest way to play the G, ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/the-weepies-orbiting/ Train the peepers on this little gem, courtesy of Outlook 2007: Check out the Send/Receive option. Initially this caught my eye because it's the one option that isn't checked, and I am very aware that yes, I actually do have a send/receive button. My first thought was, "Huh, OK, ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/great-moments-in-ui-design/ http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/the-single-greatest-thing-about-vista/ There's a show on the Science Channel called How It's Made. I just started watching it, and I gotta say, this is pure unfiltered entertainment. The show says what it is. It's high concept. You watch how things are made. Today I watched how chocolate ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/how-its-made/ *** READ THE COMMENTS! I have been enlightened. :) *** Maybe it's just me, but it took me forever to figure out how to set the background color of a control to the "window" color the user has set up in the control panel. 99% of the time this ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/getting-system-colors-in-c/ So I'm working on this XNA game and have recently become annoyed with the amount of absolute garbage that appears in the output window. Check this out: The top line is where I start the build, and the bottom line is the first error from the complation. But everything ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/tidying-up-the-c-output-window/ What the hell is that? It is a Chumby. I won't tell you what it does, because that's for you to decide, after looking at the site. What I will say is that this thing is RAD. Seriously. I got one a few days ago, and it ... http://www.cuttlefishindustries.com/2008/enter-the-chumby/