Infinity Blade Earnings Exceed $10 Million

According to the press release, ChAIR Entertainment has made over $10 Million dollars on Infinity Blade in the first 6 months of release.

That means they would have had to make over $16.6 Million total considering Apple's 30% cut. That's over 2.7M units sold.

To put that into perspective, Gears of War sold over 3 million units in 10 weeks, and Gears of War 2 sold over 3 million units in its first month of release.

Now, 2.7M units over 6 months isn't much compared to that, but I'm willing to bet that ChAIR is keeping a far larger share of the retail price than it would have with a game using the regular publishing methods on any of the main platforms.

IOS 5 Feature: Reminders

Reminders are pretty cool, but not really noteworthy except for one simple feature: Location Reminders.

Getting reminded to buy milk when I walk into the store? Yeah, that's some I'm-living-in-the-future type shit right there.

Best of Behind the Scenes

Great behind the scenes shots on Angus Shamal's blog.

via Daring Fireball

Graphing Bandwidth Over Time In Excel

You would think that something as simple as graphing a rate over time would be easy in Excel—and it is—but you it's not really intuitive, at least to me.

Let's say you have 48-hours worth of data (I'm making this up, btw).

If you try to select these two columns and then click on Line Graph, here's what you get.

That's obviously not what we want. The trick is to use a Scatter Plot. I prefer Straight Marked Scatter.

And here's the final result.

I did have to make two changes.

1. Vertically align the x-axis text
2. Change the x-axis scale

Windows: Show Hidden Folders After Virus Infection

Run this command on the folder or drive that has the hidden folders:

e:\attrib -a -s -r -h /s /d

Command Switches:

-a : clear archive attribute
-s : clear system file attribute
-r : clear read-only file attribute
-h : clear hidden file attribute (normally this is all you need, but the virus tagged them as system files as well)
/s : match files in the current folder and sub-folders
/d : process folders as well as files

Listening to...

Best Love Song by T-Pain feat Chris Brown. It's catchy and upbeat. And I've had it on blast all morning.

(Full disclosure: that's a referral link. If a thousand people click it and buy the song, I might get $1.00USD. Whee.)

Adding Facebook Comments to Blog

I followed the instructions here: http://www.allblogtools.com/tricks-and-hacks/exclusive-integrate-facebook-comments-box-for-blogger-in-very-easy-and-simple-steps-full-guide/

Note the following:
- you need a verified Facebook account (add either your mobile or a credit card to your profile)
- if you just copy/paste everything, you'll end up with a big, ugly image promoting that site

For just the comments without the image, paste this instead for the last part:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'/>
<div><fb:comments width='450' expr:title='data:post.title' expr:href='data:post.url' expr:xid='data:post.id'/></div>
</b:if>

Now, I applaud the guy for putting up an easy guide to implementing this, and I'm gladly providing a link back to him at the top of this post.

But links to his site on every post that uses the comment system? Yeah, smells like SEO garbage.

Updated: If you change your template, you have to repeat the process again as I just found out.

Coffee?!

"You may also wish to note what other things are categorized as Group 2B possible carcinogens, including gasoline, pickled vegetables, and (GASP!) coffee." - Why I’m (still) not worried about my cell phone hurting my brain, Phil Plait


via Daring Fireball

Cell Phones and Cancer

If you read nothing else about the issue, read this.

Why People Think Cell Phones Cause Cancer by Glenn Fleishman

via The Angry Drunk

Windows Phone 7

Best review of Windows Phone 7 that I've seen by Lukas Mathis. Summary: a really good Mobile OS with a few shortcomings.

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/05/31/windows_phone_7/

via Shawn Blanc