Word Clock is now in 18 languages thanks to the generous help of lots of kind people. Go to the download page.
There’s also a new flickr group. If you’re using Word Clock I’d love to see a photo of it running on your screen.
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 screen each time.
Go to the new page to download. Please let me know by email if you have any problems.
Heart-felt thanks to the heroic Ole Zorn who volunteered to translate the clock into German, not realising that he was about to experience a grueling 3-day schedule of testing and round-the-clock correspondence. Thanks Ole!
Screensavr has been Approved by the Authorities and is available on Yahoo Apps. Does this mean I’m now a fully qualified geek?
I once did a quick experiment into creating drawings from nothing but code, but based on natural phenomena. The first thing I tried was gravity and it gave some results which I really liked. Here are the PostScript drawings it made.
As I’m on a bit of a Cocoa Screensaver mission at the moment I spent [...]
So here it is, one month on: the first Mac-native Cocoa version. Built on ObjectiveFlickr.
[ZIP] Download for Mac (Universal)
New version, Mac native code this time. Thanks to Andy and Jay for suggestions: now you can choose your own colours and font. Not that there was anything wrong with my choices. Planning to add finer typographic control in future, but for now… enjoy playing with the leading.
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