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 …

Link dump

Hyperlapse Put two pins on a map, click “Create”, and the site gives you a timelapse of travelling through that area generated with Google Streetview. Check out Confederation Bridge, The Old Man of Storr, and Victoria Embankment AltStock Alternatives to the stock apps with which your iPhone ships. I don’t necessarily agree with all their …