Get f.lux on your iPhone jailbreak free

Via Jason Snell, the f.lux folks have documented the process of getting f.lux onto your iPhone without jailbreaking. The process is legitimate; it uses Xcode and the new provisions in the Apple developer program. It’s a bit complicated, so you may just chose to do what I do, and wear cheap sunglasses with yellow lenses. …

Quickly adding a link to the iOS Simulator

I was looking for a way to easily add a link to the iOS Simulator in my ~/Applications folder, but every explanation that worked for Mavericks seemed unnecessarily complicated to me. Here’s what I figured out myself: Open Xcode and launch the simulator as normal Control-click on the simulator icon in the dock, and select …

Terry Cavanagh’s insanely hard games

After my post yesterday on Flappy Bird, my brother pointed out that a big part of the attraction was the punishing difficulty level, and bragging rights. If need a really hard game that’s insanely addictive, you can’t do better than Terry Cavanagh’s Super Hexagon. You control a triangle dodging rapidly rotating walls in a hexagonal …