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PolarClock3 for Snow Leopard

pixelbreaker — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:58:33 +0000

I’ve had some time this morning to wrap the screensaver up in something other than screentime, and it all works perfectly for me. My first delve into Cocoa. Thanks Si Heys for the code I needed for this.

Please have a go and let me know if it works ok on Snow Leopard, and also older OSes, if there’s problems, comment here, and I’ll try and rectify any issues.

You can download it here.

Wired article

pixelbreaker — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:08:29 +0000

Wired got in touch a while ago asking about the PolarClock, and I’ve finally seen the finished article, it looks great!

pic after the jump…

Crazy popularity!

pixelbreaker — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:18:38 +0000

I’ve been contacted a few times recently for info about the Polar Clock screensaver. It’s been hugely successful, far beyond my imagination. To date, it has been downloaded 295,676 times. This blog has has over 3,500,000 unique visitors in the last 2 years! That’s amazing!

There’s an article in Computerbild (Germany) and Wired US is doing a feature on it this month (link soon).

Play Balloonacy

pixelbreaker — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:36:45 +0000

Myself and the top notch team of internet professionals at Poke have just finished this monster project, check it out. It’s mental.

PolarClock 3.0 Release

pixelbreaker — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:21:45 +0000

It’s all done!

Re-worked from the ground up in ActionScript 3, this release should be much less CPU intensive, and has had heaps of new features added. Read all about it at it’s new permanent home.

PolarClock Home

Polar Clock update

pixelbreaker — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:37:07 +0000

I’m currently working on sorting some issues with the current release of the Polar Clock. From comments feedback, it seems be an issue that the processor is under heavy use when the clock is running. Hopefully this will be aided by the porting of the existing code to AS3.

I’m looking into the following:

Using Chromo™ colours
Adding an options panel to allow turning on/off a millisecond ring, choosing different colour schemes, and lastly, choosing a locale. Also making the logo fade out after a while.

I want to add as many languages as I can get together. Help from you out there would be great.

I will need the following strings
Month names
Day names
AM / PM
minute / minutes / second / seconds
and date suffixes 1st 2nd 3rd etc right through to 31st

and also an example grammar of how to write that info correctly as the order etc may be different as in the case of East Asian languages.

If you can help, please comment here and I’ll get back to you.

Lanugages I’m after are (strikethrough denotes language already translated)

Portugese
Norwegian
Chinese (Simplified)
Korean
Polish
Greek
German
Chinese (Traditional)
Hungarian
French
Dutch
Spanish
Italian
Swedish
Finnish
Japanese
Slovakian
any more that people can provide…

Polar Clock v2

pixelbreaker — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:22:22 +0000

Version 3 is now available here
I’ve made a few changes to my polar clock to make it clearer to read, and now there’s also a PC installer

Polar Clock Screensaver

pixelbreaker — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:01:43 +0000

UPDATE:
Version 3 is now available here

~~View Polar Clock~~

~~Download Screensaver~~ for Mac OS X only.

I’ve just put this together as a bit of a test of some drawing API extensions I wrote a while ago. All the shapes are drawn with code, corner rounding curves are achieved using the ‘capStyle’ argument when setting the lineStyle, easy as that! The colour of each ring is based on an HSL colourwheel.

Commodore 64 Music

pixelbreaker — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:16:16 +0000

I was looking about for a C64 soundtrack today, from Last Ninja, and I found this.

First, you need SIDPlay (Universal for OSX) (c64 music was stored as .sid files), then download the massive High Voltage SID Collection.

SIDPlay will export to MP3/AIFF and even C64 executables (PRG).

Brings back some memories!!

Behind the blog

pixelbreaker — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:30:32 +0000

Computers Behind Blogs pool on flickr.