George Lucas confirms Han, Luke and Leia will be back

http://m.geektyrant.com/news/2013/3/7/george-lucas-confirms-hamill-fisher-and-ford-for-star-wars-e.html

There’s been a lot of talk about the possible return of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII. There’s been all kinds of confirmations, denials, and people just playing coy with it all. We all know it’s going to happen, but, according to George Lucas all three of the actors will return in the seventh episode, in fact he said they were already signed on to do it before Disney bought Lucasfilm! [Continue reading]


Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger

If you played PC games in the early 90s, you probably remember Wing Commander 3.  It featured Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, Tom Wilson, John Rhys-Davies, Josh Lucas and Jason Bernard.  Here’s a fun compilation of all the video scenes from the game.  


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I love that after all these years with Star Wars as a part of our culture and lives, we are still seeing new stuff from the original trilogy! I’m very excited about the Star Wars awesomeness Lucasfilm and Disney are going to bring us in the future, but here’s an awesome vintage documentary short that lets us take a look back at the making of The Empire Strikes Back. While the film was shooting in the 80s, French journalist Michael Parbot was given unprecedented access to the production. Some of the footage has been seen in a couple of other documentaries over the years, but now there’s more unseen footage that’s been found! The doc includes fascinating conversations with Irvin Kershner, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford. Check it out, it’s really freakin’ cool!


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Andrew Chalkley hard at work at Treehouse


JumperCut for iPhone

JumperCut for iPhone

JumperCut for iPhone has been released!  Download it here.  I’ve been part of the iOS team that developed the app over the past several months.  It’s a lot of fun, and it’s free to download in the App Store.  Visit the website at JumperCut.com to learn all about it!


Trapit for iPad

Trapit for iPad was released today, and it’s been getting some nice press. I put a few solid months of development into it, check it out: It’s free.


secretmonkeyscience:

Date.fm - video chat dating app for iPhone and iPadDate.fm co-founder Andrew Chalkley says that Heroku has been integral in bringing his company from the red and into the black in just six months.

“Heroku enables us, as a very lean startup. We’re not venture-backed. We’re not going into debt, we’re financing everything through our app development,” says Chalkley. “We didn’t want to go down the route of traditional hosting because we didn’t want to deal with scaling up the traditional way. We know that if and when we need it, we can scale our architecture with relative ease compared to the traditional way of doing things.”

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Doing a blocks talk this Wednesday night at 7pm

I’m doing a talk on using blocks w/ iOS dev this Wednesday night for PDX Cocoaheads at ELC Technologies in the Pearl. John Poole, who does Geekbench will also be co-presenting.

See how his company is called Primate Labs, and mine is called Secret Monkey Science? I will let you read into that what you will.

I’m going to be covering a couple real world block examples. John’s going to do a brief overview, and talk about Grand Central Dispatch.

Free entry, free pizza, free beer, provided by ELC Technologies.

Wednesday, April 25th at 7:00pm

ELC Portland
1771 NW Pettygrove Street
Portland OR, 97209 USA


‘Princess Coloring Book’ available now for iPad!

Princess Coloring Book for iPadThe Princess Coloring Book is the ULTIMATE coloring experience! 

Guaranteed to keep little princesses busy with 32 SCENES 🌄 to choose from. 

With 18 VIBRANT COLORS and eraser. Slide your finger up the “Pen Slider” on the right to change pen size. 

PINCH and ZOOM in on the pictures to get into those tight places! 

SAVE your finished pictures to your Photo Library. If you’re not finished coloring a page, The Princess Coloring Book will save where you left off, and you can work on another picture! 

The Princess Coloring Book takes iPad coloring to a new level. It’s better for the environment than traditional coloring books, and it can be used OVER and OVER AGAIN :)

Download it now in the App Store!

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