Skype Today I tested Skype on the iPad Pro. The camera is pretty good – it’s not full HD but it’s not bad at all. I had no issues Skyping with my colleague. One thing worth mentioning is that the angle is quite weird – it’s not frontal, it’s a bit “from below”. Like this:  […]

In my goal of writing about the iPad Pro everday, here’s some small bits that will eventually make it into the long research article. Apple Pencil I haven’t used the pencil at length. I am looking for an app where I can draw vectors but still see the underlying pixels so I can draw icons […]

When I give a presentations, my notes are the full text that belongs to that slide. It looks like this: This is great because when you are in “presenter mode” and you stumble over your words, you can just read the slides. I try to rehearse every presentation I do but I don’t always know […]

I read the Flemish Government is holding a contest where you can win €20.000 if your application makes use of open data provided by Flanders. You have to use a dataset provided by them to be eligible to enter the contest. The power of open data is that application makers can combine data from multiple […]

I can’t believe I’m about to ask this in 2016 but I am looking for a new word processor. I am currently using Mou but manually writing file references and not having a preview of what your document will look like feels a bit 1989. I tried MarsEdit but it doesn’t suit my needs. It […]

It’s funny how we think that “everyone knows” something, and it turns out that that really isn’t the case. I was having a conversation about what I want Mono to be, and I referenced 37Signals (now known as Basecamp). The other person didn’t know that company, and I thought: huh? How can you not know […]

I am compiling a list of high quality icon sets. Here’s what I have: AIGA symbol signs Glyphish Nova Geomicons Font Awesome Helveticons Entypo Glyphicons Picons Maki Octicons Pictos Symbolicons Any favorites welcome in the comments!

These days I am getting all these e-mails to join hackathons about certain topics. I wonder what the organisations that set up hackathons are actually hoping to achieve. They are usually set up by government funded organisations (like MIC and VRT) and by big government funded companies (Proximus, Bpost) I once participated in Apps for […]

Remember that post about the new Belgian Railways signage? Apparently they added a tutorial. Photo via Rik.

Some time ago, I used to make a lot of these “brochure” type websites. What frustrated me back then was that more often than not I was forced into an uncomfortable position. I had to make a good website, but the client’s branding would be subpar. Their logo wouldn’t be any good, they would have […]