Meteor, the open-source JavaScript platform that aspires to change the architecture of Web apps by using a single codebase for Web and mobile, has today hit version 1.1. The update includes support for Meteor development on Windows machines for the first time, meaning developers using WIndows 7, 8.1, Server 2008 and 2012 can now develop using the platform. A native installer includes the Meteor SDK, Node.js binaries and MongoDB. Until today, Meteor was only available for OS X and Linux. The team is also considering integrations with Visual Studio, Azure and “other parts of the Microsoft ecosystem” in the future. Meteor…
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Thought I’d share my two favorite pranks with you.
Number one: Take a screenshot of an MVP from their own website, subtly change it somehow, then email it back to them saying “Did you really say this, or was your site hacked”.
Here’s an example. Spot the original.
Number two: Take a screenshot of someone’s spreadsheet next time they walk away from their desk, then paste it neatly over the real thing – like this one that I’m in the process of doing:
Hopefully you’ll catch them before they quit Excel forcibly using End Task. (But don’t worry if you don’t…they’ll be none the wiser.)
My only problem is that I’m forced to play this last prank on myself, which kinda ruins the surprise. But I’ve still got that first one to get me through.
Any new Excel-related April Fools pranks out there from anyone? I still have a chapter to write of my Evil Genius book on arrays or something unimportant like that, but I’m running out of steam. So I’ll just put your nastiest pranks in there instead. That outta help folk out with career progression, one way or the other…
Last summer, we reviewed a new iPhone photo editor called Truefilm, which marketed itself as a cross between AfterLight, Facetune, and Over, meaning it rolled the core functionality of general editing, facial improvements, and typography into one app. Amazingly, this ambitious formula actually worked. Now, Truefilm’s newly released third version features an overhaul that significantly alters the original mission of the app. While much of the editing functionality has survived under a vastly different non-slider interface, the specialty typographic and facial improvement segments are now gone along with the dodge and burn tools and shape tools. No longer is Truefilm a three-for-the-price-of-one app but is being positioned as a Lightroom replacement, according…
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