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All new Word Clock 31 May 2011 | 05:58 pm
All new version of Word Clock for Mac is now available. Completely re-written from scratch with new, smoother animation. No more Flash…
Minimal Folio 12 Sep 2010 | 04:24 am
When I first got my iPad I thought it would be brilliant for showing my portfolio or presenting work to clients. I couldn’t find any apps that were simple enough or worked the way I wanted, so I made ...
Tracking 20 Jun 2010 | 12:02 am
Automated PostScript drawing created with home brew video tracking software I’m working on. This uses footage of birds in flight, shot on an iPhone.
Word Clock for iPhone 31 Dec 2009 | 11:23 pm
So I’ve spent my spare moments over the past year-and-a-bit working on Word Clock for iPhone (link opens iTunes). This uses the same languages as the screensaver and features linear and rotary version...
Open source Flash screensaver 24 Sep 2008 | 06:40 am
As promised ages ago, I have posted the source code I am using to wrap the Mac Flash screensaver version of Word Clock. It’s extremely basic right now and you’ll need XCode, Flash and programming know...
Make JPEG droplet 27 Jan 2008 | 11:39 pm
A newly tweaked version of the droplet. This one allows you to set the JPEG compression quality by changing the number in the filename – just make as many copies as you need. MakeJpeg download page
Screensavr 7 Jan 2008 | 01:46 am
Two big improvements in this new alpha version: first it’s much less processor-intensive (now uses OpenGL), and second it stores the screen between sessions so it doesn’t have to start with an empty s...
Electrics: Part 1 30 Jul 2007 | 01:03 am
I am working on building a physical version of Word Clock, from scratch, with electronics components. Here’s the first working circuit: I’ve been learning electronics from various books and all over ...
Elastic Collision 29 Jul 2007 | 11:48 pm
A small tutorial on how to create bouncing balls with ActionScript source code. A couple of years back I was creating some interactive sites using bouncing balls as navigation. These needed to behave ...
Word Clock 1 Jul 2007 | 10:53 pm
Word Clock has moved. Go to the new page where you can download and read more.
