http://www.simonheys.com Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:57:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.simonheys.com/2008/07/19/word-clock-for-mac-pc-and-iphone/ Had a quick idea for a variation on Word Clock. Go to the download page. http://www.simonheys.com/2008/06/07/rotary-word-clock/ 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. http://www.simonheys.com/2008/05/17/word-clock-in-18-languages/ 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 http://www.simonheys.com/2008/01/27/makejpeg-droplet/ 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 ... http://www.simonheys.com/2008/01/06/screensavr-3/ 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 the web. One of the best resources I've found is Bowden's Hobby Circuits which includes ... http://www.simonheys.com/2007/07/29/electrics-part-1/ 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 in a believable manner so I spent some time looking at rigid body dynamics code. Rigid Body ... http://www.simonheys.com/2007/07/29/elastic-collision-2/ http://www.simonheys.com/2007/07/01/wordclock-2/ If you're a print designer who regularly receives batches of digital artwork from various sources then this might save you a bit of time. This AppleScript batch processes folders of images (can also contain nested folders) and creates a report of image dimensions, resolution and colour, including what size each ... http://www.simonheys.com/2007/06/08/sizer/ Most designers and programmers whose paths I've crossed have heard of PostScript but don't know much about it. I think it's a hidden gem. Not only is it a fascinating programming language which can be used to create generative drawings and save you hours of time through automation, but you ... http://www.simonheys.com/2007/06/05/postscript/