Welcome to iCorbin, my little spot on the web to wax poetically about design, software, science and the human predicament. I am the real Brandon Corbin.
The man behind Apple’s amazing products. Meet Jonathan Ive.
Jonathan Ives is the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, Inc, and since 1996 has been leading the design team that has produced the ground breaking design of the first iMac, iPod, iPhone, Macbooks and every other product Apple produces.
Weathermen can be funny.
Green Screen Fun
The 2010 Snowpocalypse
The Mayans were 2 years off
Weather Men can Rap.
Weather Bug.
Freaking out over a cockroach
Google voice makes Wrong numbers a public affair.
I love Google Voice. It gives me a phone number that can ring to all of my devices with a free voicemail service. I have no concerns publicly listing my Google Voice number 317-426-7246, which also spells 317-iCORBIN thanks to Googles ability to search for a number by WORDS.
Each voicemail is transcribed and delivered [...]
Post to Twitter from PHP
Looking to Tweet from PHP? This little function will do exactly that. Simply supply a username, password and Tweet, and thanks to CURLs black magic your message will be Tweeted.
Million dollar marketing – some of the Commercials we will see for Superbowl XLIV.
2010 Super Bowl commercials. Check out a few from Doritos, The Griswolds, Robin Hood and GoDaddy.
MediaCenter – Mac Mini vs Acer AspireRevo
I recently purchased the Acer AspireRevo from Frys for $329.99 – this is a tiny little thing with 2gigs of ram, HDMI, Wifi (n), 160GB HD and a nice graphics card (NVidia Ion) with Windows 7 installed. The only reason I was looking for a new computer was due to the fact that my MacMini (with 1gig of ram, and a 80GB HD) “seemingly” broke while I was trying to replace the hard drive.
Totally Rad Geek Tattoos
One must fully accept the fact that one is a nerd, to be a nerd. To be geeky without shame, and whenever possible publicly profess one’s love for the uncommon and the unquestioned. The following tattoos are attached to such just individuals – and to these life artists I raise my glass and say “Here’s to [...]
Josh Robert Thompson As: Robert De Niro, Arnold, Sly and Morgan Freeman
. In this Funny or Die video he perfectly mimics Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Sly and Arnold. Josh Thompson has crazy control over his vocal chords and an ability to hear detail in people’s voices that most of us don’t even know exist.
Check out Josh Thompson on Twitter or his YouTube Channel
Amazing Morgan Freeman [...]
Why HTML5
For the last 12 years we have experienced the internet in basically the same static boring way, sure we came up with clever hacks to make HTML do things it didn’t – but by and large, the way we interact with the information is the same.
Designers continually craved creating rich and engaging experiences, but were [...]
Dropbox – one place for all your eStuff.
I haven’t given Dropbox enough public love.
Everyday I should be required to stand atop the tallest building in Indianapolis – screaming my undying gratitude for this amazing online service – that has never once failed me. Why might I owe them this, you ask? Because I have yet to pay them a single penny – [...]
Introduction to the Play Framework – Java MVC
I have been tooling around with the Play! Framework lately – and must confess that I LOVE IT. Building Java based web apps has never been this fun, and It gives me that instant gratification I have come to love via PHP. Super fast and automatic compilation, and its really easy to deploy [...]
Peyton Manning goes off on Saturday.
I thought this video was fitting in light of the Colts AFC win yesterday.
Base64 Encoding and Decoding in Javascript
Base64 is a great way to pass data back and forth between servers and clients. However, most of the Base64 Javascript implementations available are huge and slow – and often don’t work as advertised. The following snippet is a modified Base64 version from the team at webtoolkit.info.
What is Base64? The term Base64 refers to a [...]
