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Word Clock for Mac, PC and iPhone


Here’s the first release of the new version incorporating the original linear and new rotary version, for Mac and PC. Go to the download page. There may be bugs in this, so let me know.


19 July 2008 in AS3, ActionScript, Cocoa, Programming, Screensaver, Windows, Word Clock / 2 Comments

Rotary Word Clock

Had a quick idea for a variation on Word Clock. Go to the download page.


7 June 2008 in ActionScript, Programming, Screensaver, Word Clock / 2 Comments

Word Clock in 18 languages

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.


17 May 2008 in Cocoa, Screensaver, Word Clock / 2 Comments

Screensavr

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.


6 January 2008 in Cocoa, OpenGL, Programming, Screensaver / No Comments

Word Clock



1 July 2007 in Cocoa, Programming, Screensaver / Comments Off

Word Clock auf Deutsch

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!


2 June 2007 in Cocoa, Programming, Screensaver / 4 Comments

Yahoo Apps

Screensavr has been Approved by the Authorities and is available on Yahoo Apps. Does this mean I’m now a fully qualified geek?


26 March 2007 in Cocoa, General, Screensaver / 1 Comment

Gravity

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 [...]


18 March 2007 in Cocoa, Screensaver / No Comments

Screensavr

So here it is, one month on: the first Mac-native Cocoa version. Built on ObjectiveFlickr.
[ZIP] Download for Mac (Universal)


4 March 2007 in Cocoa, Screensaver / 4 Comments

Word Clock: update

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.
Visit Word Clock’s permanent home


25 February 2007 in Cocoa, Screensaver / 6 Comments