tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87809872024-03-06T12:02:00.977-08:00Eric Snider's (sort of) Boring BlogBlah blah blah. I'm the author of the (sort of) famous "Eric's Ultimate Solitaire." The sample version shipped on a lot of Macintosh computers. Come here to read about what I'm working on and what's goin' on with my family. Also. Things that are funny.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-81266769171731979862013-11-13T12:32:00.002-08:002013-11-13T12:32:42.861-08:00Eric's All-in-1 Solitaire for Mac OS X 10.6 and laterIt's been a long time and I appreciate your patience. I finally shipped my new Mac solitaire game. It's called Eric's All-in-1 Solitaire and is available in the Mac App Store here. You can also check out some info on the Sniderware web site.Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-64583390013902027962011-07-25T23:14:00.000-07:002011-07-27T14:38:48.069-07:00I'm Mesmerized by Fiverr.comFiverr.com is crazy. After being mesmerized by it for a couple days I just spent $20. I've ordered...
A new logo for Sniderware from v3_lily on fiverr.com
A video ad for my friend Drew's old old web site http://www.coolsciencefacts.com (it's super funny though!)
A review of my FreeCell game to be sent to thousands of people on Twitter
A banner ad for FreeCell
I'll post what I end up getting once Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-81595178890157366122011-07-22T09:08:00.001-07:002014-05-23T22:06:00.899-07:00Eric's Ultimate Solitaire doesn't run on Mac OS X Lion (yet?)Good news! Eric's All-in-1 Solitaire for Mac OS X 10.6 and later is available in the Mac App store. Click here to check it out
I've started getting email from users about Eric's Ultimate Solitaire for Mac OS X Lion. The problem is that it's not compatible with Lion and they need their solitaire fix. I'm busy finishing some iPad contract work, but once I'm done I'm going to work full time on myErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-25018653797461003282011-03-25T11:36:00.000-07:002011-03-25T11:43:23.035-07:00Do I have pink eye? Also. Scratch programming.My eye is crazy itchy. Someone in Jonah's class had pink eye a couple days ago. Do I have it? I'm always getting pink eye from the kids. Man.
In other news... I'm trying to decide if I should be working on Mac solitaire or Android solitaire first. But really I'm busy with contracts so it's not that big an issue. Still, I'm excited to do something new.
Jonah has started doing some programming Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-28794792423578954892010-12-27T22:16:00.000-08:002010-12-27T22:21:19.182-08:00Better Book TitlesI just discovered Better Book Titles. It made me laugh out loud more than once. There's no writing to go with each one, which is different than one of my favorite sites, Cake Wrecks. But these are funny all on their own.
This page is for people who have trouble slogging through the information on book jackets or feel intimidated by the title and cover itself. How many times have you perused the Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-11631196942865128762010-12-20T11:50:00.001-08:002010-12-20T11:58:07.222-08:002010...Overall... 2010 was really good. Baby Colin is starting to sleep more at night and smiles a LOT. We all like Jonah's school pretty well now (we switched him to a magnet school, but it's farther away, but they don't hold him back like his old school). Ari is becoming a big kid, which makes us a little sad, because he's such a cute little kid. He's starting to read a little bit and that's exciting Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-87176808805268451002010-12-16T09:46:00.001-08:002010-12-16T10:10:10.328-08:00Lots of stuff going onWe visited my Mom, Dad and brother David in Florida. It was super fun although also super cold. That was okay 'cause I don't like when it's hot and humid. It was ~36 degrees the morning that we flew home though!
There was a leak in our roof while we were gone. It was right above my tiny desk, next to my new Hackintosh PC. Yikes. Luckily my nephew Joe spotted the problem and did a ton of good Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-35476112479987205662010-11-11T00:29:00.000-08:002010-11-11T10:27:33.331-08:00Hello? Is this thing on?
It's been like a year since I wrote anything. Blogger changed up their stuff so I couldn't host my blog on my own site via FTP any more. I've been procrastinating since then about updating it so it would work on their site but finally made the move.I built a Hackintosh... a speedy PC that's running Mac OS X (2.8GHz i7 860 with 8GB of ram and cousin Joe's video card :) ). It's really cool Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-33698506378730546622010-02-09T22:47:00.000-08:002010-02-09T23:06:42.820-08:00Racoons, Broken MacBook Pro, StuffA raccoon woke us up a couple nights ago at 3am because the chicken it was trying to kill/steal/eat was so loud. We scared off the raccoon enough to find the chicken, decide it was too hurt to live, and then I got the job of killing it. So that all sucked.
I fired up my MacBook Pro once we were back inside. I was either going to google up stuff about raccoons or maybe write up the story here. TheErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-35300378529498675202010-02-04T10:43:00.001-08:002010-02-04T10:47:28.521-08:00Jonah and WishesOn the way to school today Jonah said if he had a wish he would wish for more wishes.Then he said he would wish for:Being able to eat all the junk food he wanted without getting sick and so he'd still grow and be healthyThat heaven was realThat he was a clone*The middle one there made me almost cry. We've had (grown up) friends who have died in the last few years and it's definitely gotten our Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-9802718635606436422010-01-21T16:22:00.000-08:002010-01-21T16:29:07.081-08:00Kindle and Video GamesThe word online from Amazon is they're intending to release an SDK (software development kit) for the Kindle digital book. That means it'll be able to run games and more instead of just being a fancy book viewer. That's cool... Maybe I'll port my solitaire game to it from the iPhone. The performance (aka speed) of the Kindle isn't great, but hey, I've written games for a long time, including on Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-88517004465809668452010-01-08T12:50:00.001-08:002010-01-08T13:00:42.625-08:002010 Coffee, contracting, health insuranceFlash forward three months from my sort-of-weird calls from recruiters in India... That all turned out to be legitimate and not a convoluted Nigerian money-making scheme like I was predicting. In fact I'm still working on that project and it's going great. It's an iPhone app, but as is often the case with cool stuff I work on, it's secret.
I'm going to stop drinking coffee. I don't drink that Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-76472303199988932702009-10-14T13:41:00.000-07:002009-10-14T13:58:48.274-07:00Job RecruitersI'm never super excited talking to job recruiters. I understand their jobs are hard. But any job where the person is paid based on commissions makes me suspicious of that person's actions. Sales people who work on commission don't want you to buy something and return it, but other than that they get rewarded for selling you things that you keep. It doesn't matter much beyond that. Like whether Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-75049243251557676722009-09-26T23:19:00.000-07:002009-09-26T23:59:23.994-07:00The Yucatan
I paid a company ~$600 to restore a crashed hard drive of mine. It had all our honeymoon pictures and more on it. I'm a lot better about doing backups now... Anyway I need to start gettin' some value out of this rescued drive so here's a story with some pictures from the trip.
Kelly and I went to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico for our honeymoon. We have some great stories and pictures. But Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-53353567988384719582009-09-25T21:37:00.000-07:002009-09-25T21:54:56.128-07:00Vector Conflict: The Siege
Hey, my game developer friend, Oliver, just finished a really fun Flash game -- Vector Conflict: The Siege. For you old timers it's like Battlezone (1980), but an order of magnitude more fun and you don't have to drive a tank around. That's BattleZone to the left. I played Vector Conflict on "Medium" and it was fun, but very tense at times. The levels are really well designed. Once you master Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-26186956938613882922009-09-21T11:25:00.001-07:002009-09-22T16:04:44.962-07:00Eric Snider's Solitaire: Klondike -- Ready for sale!I just checked Apple again to see if my iPhone solitaire game was approved. I check every 9 minutes. It's said "In Review" the last 1000 times I checked in the past 11 days. I've been dreading the email that would say "Sorry, Solitaire wasn't approved because we don't allow applications to include images of clouds." Or something nutty like that which would mean another round of fixes and Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-63530667542453757962009-09-16T21:06:00.000-07:002009-09-16T21:09:30.106-07:00Did you mean...?I'm working on some iPhone programming and had a question about something. Google didn't turn up anything great so I just searched for help in the Apple Developer Forums. I searched for
opengl view tabbarcontroller
and the forum page offered this helpful advice:
Did you mean: openly view TabascoErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-5871198466625921092009-09-14T19:04:00.001-07:002009-09-16T10:38:26.606-07:00Making stuff with yeastYeast is weird, and cool. At least if you're baking with it. I made bagels from scratch yesterday and they come out really really good. I used our bread maker to do the mixing etc, but I boiled 'em and baked 'em. Anyway, here's the bread-machine bagel recipe. The bagels came out better looking than the picture. Kelly and the kids were napping when the bagels were done. I tried the most misshapen Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-23517694129817563082009-09-09T13:13:00.000-07:002009-09-09T13:21:41.327-07:00Making PizzasI've been making pizzas with pre-made dough from Trader Joe's in the last couple months. A few came out amazing, but many came out just okay. It turns out our oven is crappy. It's this weird little European one that only goes up to 450 degrees and only has a burner on top. A combination to ensure our pizzas are never very crispy or cooked quickly.
Anyway, I was googlin' up some Alton Brown* stuffErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-3932387778882112012009-09-08T22:21:00.001-07:002009-09-08T22:59:33.052-07:00I Hate Ad Hoc Distribution on the iPhoneSeriously. Ad Hoc Distribution? I hate it. I've wasted so much time with it. Apple has such tight control over distribution to iPhones and iPod Touches that you can't just download and install an application on your device. More importantly my testers can't install my game without having things just so. There are all these hoops to jump through to set up provisioning files etc. It's not super Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-33190680125876935632009-09-01T13:50:00.000-07:002009-09-01T14:01:41.668-07:00Gmail is down?Gmail is down so I'm reading my email with the webmail browser for my site. It's not-so-good. Also, apparently GMail filters out the spam that normally gets delivered to me but now I'm stuck reading it. Today's spam highlight:
Hey We have hijacked your baby but you must pay once to us $50 000. The details we will send later...
We has attached photo of your fume
"We has attached photo of your Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-42883813846173209042009-08-21T16:08:00.000-07:002009-08-21T16:30:53.381-07:00New Cell PhoneMy Palm OS Treo 680 is failing. The case is cracked, there's dust behind the screen and it has lost its mind. Sometimes it just doesn't respond or takes a minute before doing anything. Sometimes it doesn't want to talk to T-Mobile any more. Also. It's a little shaky on letting me send text messages. Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. Weird. I used this Treo a LOT though. Every day for years. Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-44107917475168543722009-08-20T10:28:00.000-07:002009-08-20T12:05:13.766-07:00Highly paid expert consultant!I got some email from someone at DeMatteo Monness a month ago. They're a "a boutique primary research firm and full service broker-dealer serving the institutional investment fund community." They were looking for someone with expertise in the things I know about (board games and porn?*).
I spent 20 minutes with my initial contact there talking about my experience, what I know about the things Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-92142833844940716992009-08-04T15:00:00.000-07:002009-08-04T16:05:54.497-07:00Kodak Zi6 (low-end) HD camcorder
Our old camcorder stopped auto-focusing. And it doesn't have manual focus. It's kind of "Random Focus" now. Theoretically we could run around and change the distance to what we're recording to put things in focus (or yell to the kids "Run, fast, closer!"). But then it would react to that and refocus on something random ("No, stop, okay go way back! Go go!"). Kind of a Schrödinger's cat deal. Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8780987.post-12457267502115598252009-07-16T14:06:00.000-07:002009-07-16T14:15:12.182-07:00Pandora is coolWhen I'm working I listen to music with the web site Pandora. You create a free account, pick some songs or artists that you like and it makes music channels based on those. It's a cool way to find bands that you've never heard of or forgotten about.
I kept hearing that they were going to go out of business. Because it costs them money to play all these songs for free. They pay fees to the music Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04533359279284523597noreply@blogger.com0