星期日, 2月 11, 2007

iPhone Storm

it's about couple weeks ago, Steave announced that Apple would redefine the definition of _PHONE_.
I surfed the Apple site and find the intro action
I think of Apple had another time breakthrouth of bottleneck on Embedded System products.
But there were several opposite comments cames from different domain of world.
Basically, the functions on iPhone did, others OSs could do.
But how does users feel when playing others smart phone?
Cool or suck? Useful or it's just like a burden?
It depends on the skill and design strategy of the product, I think.
Especially on the software operations.
I think that called _KILLER APPLICATIONS_.

DirectDraw Font System

最近在家弄個2D的遊戲引擎,在實作文字系統時剛好看到這篇文章,看來在DirectDraw這邊MS沒有提供一個像D3D裡面文字的API,以前在寫PDA遊戲時使用的是同事的Font系統所以沒有仔細trace
不過仔細看看還滿有趣的