I’m doing some surgery around these parts. Some things will be a work in progress for maybe a day or two, so bear with me :)
Changes
May 27th, 2005 . 2 comments
Feedr
May 20th, 2005 . 0 comments
Last Friday, I bought Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and spent Saturday morning backing up and doing a nice fresh install on my Powerbook. After a few days using Tiger now, I’m really enjoying it, and it’s mainly the little things that make it so worthwhile (integrated slideshows in the Finder, great b/w photo desktop wallpaper, system-wide dictionary, and a bunch of other little details). One feature that I originally thought would be a lame gimmick, but now I’ve grown to love, is Dashboard.
Trawling through Apple’s dashboard widget directory, I found a great little applet called Feedr by Ben Levy, that displays photos from Flickr, either by tag, ID, or RSS feed, as a slideshow. The only thing that troubled me was that the graphics and icon weren’t nearly as attractive as the beautiful ones provided by Apple, so since the widgets are made with nice, simple JavaScript/CSS and Feedr was distributed under a Creative Commons license, I went ahead and made my own. Ben was quite happy with my changes, so now Feedr 1.1 has been released with my graphics and some cool new code from Ben, available from Apple’s web site.
Tools for tools to tool with
May 4th, 2005 . 3 comments
Here’s a demo video of some experimental Blender code I’ve been working on – the idea has been floating around for a while now. I’m too tired and have no time to write much about it right now, hopefully the video should explain what I’m getting at. Oh, I almost forgot: WIP/experiment/incomplete alert! No requests or complaints just yet, please :)
