Polar Clock v2
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
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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
Beautiful, elegant design. Very fun to watch. It’s a shame only the “seconds” bar is in constant motion. It would be great to see the “15 minutes” bar stretch halfway to the “16 minutes” position by the time we’re at 15:30. You could watch “Thursday” stretch and see how close you are to Friday!
Killer work. What a fantastic vision. It reminds me of much of my graphic work back in the late 60’s, early 70’s. And thanks for the screensaver.
Someone should make a real-world version!
This is beautiful work! One quirk on my system - the online version doesn’t match up with my screensaver (OSX 10.4.9), the center three bars are shifted to the right, not in line with the three time-bars. Is this on purpose?
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Hey, this looks like a great screensaver. I get the following error when trying to apply it in Sys Preferences (it installs fine):
“Can’t load screensaver
You cannot use the screen saver PolarClock on this computer. Contact the developer of this software for a newer version.”
I’m on intel Macbook pro with all the most recent updates. Is this an Intel vs. Powermac thing?
i love it! :)
Simplistic yet elegant.
Very nifty. Do you suppose for the next version you could make text that has gone below the horizontal flip its orientation? I think that’d make the clock much easier to read.
I love it, it’s very nice. It would be great if the support for multiple monitor was better.
A beautiful way to recast our perception of time as segmented and linear. Circular, colorful, and revolutionary.
Also really pretty. Thanks!
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You confirm that the perfect shape is the circle. Looks like a ‘70 animation
Wow, Just awesome! Is there any chance of getting a 24h version?
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Hi, can you embed the clock on a blog?
thanks
charlie
Top work dude!
Great work! It would be nice to give the user the opportunity to change colors of ALL items. The retro 70’s colors are a bit tired don’t you think?! Cheers!
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Lovely work, but doesn’t keeping the static Pixel Breaker logo in the top-left defeat the purpose of “screen saving?” I’d vote for the logo to fade away after a couple minutes.
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GABES!!
He he, found this page via The Style Press. Installed the screensaver and thought “this looks similar to some things Gabes have done” ;)
Then I came back and read the about section and put two and two together.
Nice work!
We should meet up for a beer soon.
Next week?
I love it, but the ordering of seconds to month (or even year) is off. My friend Ryan promises to use it if you make the change.
Wow. You got me to change my screensaver for the first time in YEARS with this thing. I’m a little afraid that the rings might burn a hole in my LCD, though. It’d be nifty if the more static rings rotated in place slowly. Or something. Also, color options. That’d rock as well.
Regardless of the wish list, it’s awesome.
Thanks everyone for feedback, will consider some more options, like changing strength of colours etc.
@nico: i’ll email you about meeting up…
円弧の長さで時間を表すPolar Clock…
via del.icio.us/popular Polar Clock というF……
Nice work!
It would be great the posibily of i18n.
And for sure: congratulations!
bonito salvapantallas, sencillo a la vez que practico
gracias!
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really really like the clock but i cant seem to install it, i double click the icon and nothing happens… help =(
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elektrotron, are you mac or PC?
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great clock!
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Wonderful, simply wonderful. Great work, love the concept and the design.
thanks :::)
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The screensaver causes the fan in my macbook to spin up wildly within a minute of running it. Really too bad too because I think it is great otherwise. Anyone else have this problem?
Have you thought about using the CHROMO (http://chromo.org/about.php) colors? They’re supposedly calibrated for therapeutic purposes (and I think they’re nicer looking than the current color scheme).
The screensaver (and the version running in Safari) both use a wild about of CPU resources, causing my MacBook’s fan to spin up to great volumes very quickly as well - is this a problem with the programming or a problem with Flash?
Re: The macbook thing, I’m assuming the screensaver loads the flash file and for some reason any type of Flash will cause the MacBook fan to start up, don’t think it’s working too hard, just upsets something.
i like your clock.
it reminds me of system47 http://www.mewho.com/system47/
but with an actual function.
suggestion for future versions: vary the thickness of each arc to correspond with units (eg: hour=wide, minute=average, second=thin) I think this would improve the reading at-a-glance or from a distance.
thanks again
Re again the MacBook think - it’s not just that Flash causes the fan to start up, but that the computer slows down, etc. and gets quite warm: the animation does use a huge amount of CPU resources, and I’m wondering if it’s the programming or Flash in general.
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i Love polar clock guy really good!
Interesting point about using Chromo™, I’m going to look into it.
Re: the heavy processor use, the rings/bars are all draw with code, so it’s fairly heavy maths on the processor.
New version coming soon, maybe as AS3 version so it’s not so heavy..
weeks would be nice!
this is beautiful. clean, great looking flash work. i’m going to agree with Jameson on his ideas. i’m actually digging a couple things on the old version better, but all-in-all, it’s awesome. i know i can’t complain though because i couldn’t have come up with this action scripting. have you thought of a widget version of this? or possibly a real wall clock, because i would sure buy one. keep up the good work, i will be checking back.
Muy buena idea, en cuanto lo vi me dieron ganas de tener uno con una pantalla LED autonomo que no dependiera de una computadora para funcionar, buen trabajo
GORGEOUS screen saver. Thank you for making it available!
I WOULD second Michael above and suggest that the PB logo fade away after a few seconds… It would add to the elegance of the work.
As for those seeking more motion, I suppose 10ths and 100ths of seconds could be added (see Build’s clock saver: www.designbybuild.com/grid-based-clock-screensaver/)… but I could see how that could negatively affect the frame rate!
Great work, PB!
[APPLAUSE]
Recognizing your interesting clock design, I also recognize the threat posed by the static logo.
HI, your Polar Clock is excellent. Now is my default screensaver.
A suggestion: if it is a screensaver, it’s purpose is to save energy and the health of your screen. So, for the colors of the indicators, you can use the Emergy-C Low Wattage Palette. You can read more at http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/emergy-c-low-wattage-palette.html
Thank you!
@Bill, many people have mentioned the logo, I will make it fade out in the next release. Thanks for the feedback.
@Lex I’ll look into that colour palette, but I’m still more interested in the Chromo™ palette as it has effects on people mood.
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Waw… beautiful! Thank you.
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This is so well done!
I think the use of Chromo colors would be a really good addition. Have you thought of trying any other shapes?
Keep up the awesome work!
help! I’m on OSx 10.3.9 - The Screensaver doesn’t work for me! There is no installer, do I need some extra software?
System Preferences don’t recognize the file “polar clock v2″ as a screensaver. what am i supposed to do?
Thanks a lot! The internet version looks killer!
Lu
unique screensaver…
Polar Clock v2…
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Link: pixelbreaker. Josh Spear just turned me on to The Polar Clock on Pixel Breaker. Extremely cool and elegant…and available as a screensaver for both Windows and OS X….
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Really nice and much appreciated. :)
The form is great, but the function needs some tweaking.
As mentioned, it requires more motion of all the elements to fill its purpose as a screen saver. Really the easiest solution is just to have the monitor shut down after 20mins or so. Or whole arrangement could just move around every few minutes to avoid a static position.
Second would be (also mentioned) to flip the orientation of the text as it moves around, say every 90 degrees on the larger wheels, less so on the smaller.
Last would be the size of the text itself. It just needs to be larger to be viewed at a glance. The text could also be positioned at the end of the bar as it moves around, in the same color, so it stands out on the black
Hey Gabes
Nice work mate! Just Stumbledupon your clock. Guessing your freelancing gig gives you enough time for more stuff like this?
So when are you going to launch the main pixelbreaker site? Still says ‘things are gonna change around here’ 2 years later :P
I’ll be back in London in September. Will try to buzz you and any of the other ex-de-conites for a beer when I’m in town.
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So, no ideas for a fix on my macbook pro?
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Gregg, it works fine on my macbook pro, it seems strange it doesn’t work on yours… is your a core 2 duo, as mine is just a core duo?
Yea, core 2 duo.
I’ve never seen an error like this before. Guess it is something I will have to take up with Apple.
Thanks for the reply
The high CPU usage is definitely a deal-breaker for me. I don’t need my MacBook turning into a superheated jet turbine every time I leave it idle.
Kevin, I can’t achieve the effect of this screensaver without doing a lot of maths, that’s the nature of drawing segmented circular bars with rounded corners.
Polar Clock on a color LCD screen wrist watch with minimalist black strap…simple….
pixelbreaker, I appreciate the geometry-intensive nature of this screensaver, but there must be a way to do it more efficiently. If you’re recalculating the entire display on each frame, for example, it would be easy to optimize by only recalculating those bars whose values have changed since the last frame (or are in the midst of animating).
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Kevin, it does only recalculate when a bar is animating, which really most of the time is only the seconds bar, it’s basically down to actionscript not being fast enough. Why don’t you give it a try?
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Great clock.
But, in the future… a localized version?
c’è……
c’è chi lo definisce lo screensaver perfetto… forse…non saprei…intanto questo strano orologio è bello da vedersi… è il polar-clock e sembra un qualcosa proveniente direttamente dagli anni’70! sono anni che non porto …
i love this clock! i wonder whether there is a version to have it on the desktop? i wanna see it every time!!!!!!!!!!
정말 이뻐요!
제 컴퓨터 바탕화면으로 딱입니다.앞으로 잘쓸게요 ^ ^
This is an awesome screensaver, I love it! I don’t think I’d change anything about it, just… make it useable in another situation.
Have you ever though about making this a dynamic dream for Stardock’s Deskscapes? I have Vista Ultimate and I’ll tell you what, this would be a real treat to have as a background. I’m not a graphic designer or a programmer, just an end user, so I have no clue how to do it… but… I have the feeling the community over there would appreciate this.
Hey there, working on OSX PPC and WinXP. I just recognized that the polarclock is quite messed up on windows. Its working but the circles are not in the right position. Thought it is a widesrceen problem but its still messed up unter 4:3 ratio.
greets
Vit
Really cool!!
But when it starts, it only shows a black screen
VitaminT: The screensaver scale options can be changed by editing its C1 file. This is an unofficial way to do that and it’s not supported, of course.
Anyway, go to your Windows folder and open ‘PolarClock v2.c1′ file with Notepad. Then change the line saying ‘ExactFit’ into ‘noscale’ or ‘ShowAll’. ‘noscale’ will make the screensaver look like 100% Scale in Flash Player.
More info:
http://www.instantstorm.com/help/1.0/index.php?jazyk=en&cast=4&stranka=9
I hope it solves your trouble, greetings,
Jan Kolarik
Please fix the dual monitor support.
InstantStorm 1.0.2 (with dual monitors support) is know able to clone or strech
Thank You, i like it also on one monitor ;)
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don’t open here. an error ocurred. thanks!
the circles do not align in osx intel. i tried fullscreen mode also.
but love the design
I, too, am having trouble loading this file on my MacBook Pro, don’t know why.
Gorgeous design, but I also have the lining problem with the three inner circles displaced. I downloaded it for mac.
i made the three inner circle off centre on purpose, but in next release i think i’m going to change it back, as I’m not that keen on it off-centred anymore!
It’s a very amazing clock.
Only a simple issue about it:
The day-timelines go from inner to outer, in time resolution terms, but the hour-timelines go from outer to inner. It’s a bit confused to read the time of a look.
Regards
I get an error on my work machine. We are currently running Vista (I work at Microsoft). Anyways, thought I would pass this along. The error follows: “Cannot change visible in OnShow or OnHide.” Btw: I like the design, nice work.
Beautifully done! Thanks very much. I too would like to put in my 2 bits’ worth and ask for a less CPU-intensive version (softer colours would be great) and for the logo in the top left corner to fade after a few seconds…
Regards, Tim
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Really nice work. Love it.
The only problem I have is when the screen saver is finished (i.e. you have moved the mouse etc.) there is still a program box on the taskbar which can’t be closed unless you ctrl>alt>del. I love it so much that it is worth the 10 secsonds of ending the process. BRAVO pixelbreaker.
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Fan-fucking-tastic!
I can’t seem to get this working on Vista?
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Extremely far out clock design ever…
I dig yr skill, thx for screen saver.
it seems that vista is pretty shit then!
Is there any chance for a linux screensaver release?
Looked nice. Therefor wanted it myself. I don’t know what went wrong but after installing it on my notebook (FujitsuSiemens Amilo Pro V2065 with Windows XP Professional SP2) my computer crashed completely and I’m still trying to get it back working again, but I really haven’t got a clue. Perhaps anyone amongts you?????
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This is splendid. Maybe a smaller “pixel breaker” reference in the corner would satisfy everyone. F
Works fine in Vista for me.
great screensaver
nice work, it looks minimalistic and is purely functional :)
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Nice clock. How about widgetise it for Wordpress ? It may be fine on my sidebar ^^
i love this clock, but the day, date, and month dont line up with the time.and yes, a fading logo would be awesome.
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Very nice indeed.best screen saver I used for a long time.
Keep up the good work.
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Hi.
Love the clock - works beautifully.
I’m currently putting together a flash clock myself and was wondering if I could ask for a tiny bit of advice.
I was using setInterval as a means of keeping time in seconds, but it seems this method fails as it is not an accurate counting system.
Do you have a recommended work round?
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Hey - great screensaver.
I’m currently trying to create a flash clock screensaver myself based round the concept of pantone swatch palettes.
Can you give me some advice? – setInterval doesn’t seem to work accurately enough for use with a clock – what method do you use to count seconds?
Cheers.
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elegante y simple que más se puede pedir?, hoy es mi salvapantallas preferido y es el tema de conversación de quién este cerca de mi mac. realmemte bello y cool.
Hello,
You mentioned you used the capStyle argument for rounding the corners of the paths. capStyle has 3 arguments - none,square and round. But round gives you the pill style caps, and the others are square. So am I right in assuming these are not single strokes but composed of 4 lines - inner/outer arcs + 2 flat ends? In which case you don’t need to set the capStyle, just alter line width to the amount of rounding required?
Cheers
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It is cool but it would look better if the faster bars were on the outside.
so the bars would be…
Secounds
Minutes
Hours
Days
Month
Day of week
But thats just my suggestion… and I would love to be e-mailed if it is changed.
You should combine the day and the month bar into one, and label the month bar as year bar. Also label the hours into 24 hr format, or redo it for 12 hour cycle instead of a 24 hr cycle with 12 hour labels.
it would be perfect if you had the text flip rightside up in the lower half of the rotation
Very nice work,
only a few issues-
1.the date part (D M Y) is off center to the time part,
may it has to do with resolution (1440X900, MBP),
2.personally, i would like to have the text straight,
it is much easier to read.
perhaps consider the option of integrating it with iCal
and have it countdown to a set date. i have built a thing like this (a machine, in The Real-World)
contact if you are interested.
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On Mac OS:
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Makes it run on the desktop itself, very nice indeed!
Options for weeknumber, 24h, countdown to specific date and using locale settings for date format would be nice
Thanx!
On Mac OS:
Makes it run on the desktop itself, very nice indeed!
Options for weeknumber, 24h, countdown to specific date and using locale settings for date format would be nice
Thanx!
Excellent! Now just find a market for these as an LCD display functioning as a desk or wall clock. They'll sell like hotcakes on thinkgeek :)
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Is it possible to set something like this as my desktop (instead of screensaver) in OS X? I love it.
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It would actually be much easier to read if the text stayed fixed at the start of the bars, instead of moving with the leading edge. Looks very nice, otherwise.
thx
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Polarclock...
Polarclock ist eine elegante Flash-Uhr, die du in deinem Browserfenster in Aktion sehen kannst. Noch besser wirkt sie aber als Screensaver, Download ist für Windows und Mac OS X möglich. Anschauen bei pixelbreaker: Quelle: del.icio.us...
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Doesnt work on vista unfortunately. Says something like:
"Cannot change visible in OnShow or OnHide."
:-/
Beside that: Lovely thing.
I thought it was cool, but I would've preferred the first version. Curse this windows!
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is there anyway to make this work on vista?
it crashes everytimes it load, it works fine on XP sp2 though, i'm running it all the time, it's so nice
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This is really really cool. Just one question though: is a Linux version scheduled? That would be great.
Another idea for the clock: how about stretching all the rings depending on how close they are to the next mark?
Another idea, when seconds arrive to "60", instead of making it disappear and start from zero, why not have the whole ring disappear from right to left (clockwise) in about a half of second to then show "one second". I'm not I'm clear... =/
[...] A genius at PixelBreaker has come up with an awesome flash/screensaver called Polar Clock that counts down the time and day of the week. [...]
Now I just need a Polar Clock gadget/widget/plugin for my sidebar/desktop/launcher!
@Bascule: working on it, but still didn't get permission from pixelbreaker so can't distribute it even if I finish it.
Excellent stuff mate. =)
i love it! :)
I love it. You have inspired me to make my own version:
http://yboris.com/content/clock.swf
http://yboris.com/content/clock.html
I too dislike the second hand constantly moving, and the day not slowly stretching to the next.
Thank you!
Thx Jan Kolarik for the hint with the scaling mode on windows xp. Unfortunately it didn't work. The funny thing is that after I'd set up my PB from scratch the polar-clock is showing exactly the same problems under osx too. The month, date n day circles are not centered and are more aligned to the right side then the other circles.
Anyway, it's still a great work / keep it up
Any idea if you can fix it to work in Vista? It's such an awesome screensaver.
i don´t understand this. how do it work ? i put it on my mobile phone and what shoud i do to make it work ?
Beautiful work!
I'd love to have this as a screen saver. But I think the main purpose of a screen saver is to avoid displaying the same things on the same areas of the screen for long periods of time. So I think in order to be a good screen saver the Polar Clock should have some sort of random positioning thing. Otherwise, most of the curves will remain in the same place for a lot of time.
Another thing:
I'd love to see a "floating point" version of this.
That'd be that each curved bar does not represent an integer, but a float. So if it's 17:30:00, then the hour bar would say "5pm" but it's size/angle would be that of 5.5.
The same with the day. It might say "Thursday" but it could be in constant motion depending on the hours, the minutes, etc.
I'm an ActionScript programmer, are you planing to release the source code? How can I help?
cheers!
JulianG
RonCB: What are you smoking?! There's no way you can get this working on your phone.
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Nice little screensaver...
Would be nice if was a little customizable like different colour scheme...
but still a really good screensaver
how you doin man? WHAT A GREAT CONCEPT !!!!!!!!!! Thank you. I love this screen saver!
it's cool!!...good work..tq
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[...] UPDATE: Version 3 is now available here February 4th, 2007 in: Flash, ActionScript 2.0, Play / [...]
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Your screen saver burned a magenta ring in my Apple cinema display.
So much for saving the screen I've only had it on my system for a couple of weeks.
Jon, I would advise that you set up your mac to turn off your screen after a certain amount of time. It seems that apple displays are prone to burning easily, my one at work has the apple menu bar burnt into it when I turn my machine off, leave it for a bit and it goes away. Strange.
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Thanks..
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Starting to look great. Mirror downloads can be found at http://www.codez4mac.com/forum guys! good luck!
Cool!LCD clock
thank you
[...] very cooooolll clock ever; The Polar Clock. You can even download it and use it as your screen saver. I’m using [...]
Great Work. But I do see some additional playground there concerning advanced animation of your screensaver.
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I love this... it is definetly a piece of art... good work.. well done..
Great work... congratulations
Wow! pretty cool! Thanks to your post, i love the clock and it's elegant. Antique Clocks
Hi Gabriel,
I really love this work.
I'm actually setting up a project where your polar clock could find an interesting place.
Please contact me !
Best,
Julien
I love this clock it rules!!
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very good design, nice clock I downloading screensaver..
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Thanks for making this availiable.
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Thank you this is very nice.
Will use it
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thanks for v3
Thanks for V3, will give it a try.
will try it
Very nifty. I liked the desing of this Polar Clock.
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Simply gorgeous!
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Nice posting!
I look forward to learn more from you
I'll take a look the polar ..
I am using this clock and its great. Thank you for the updates
Looked nice. Very good design. Thanks and greetings!
Why was my question about why the clock was not working deleted? I've been hoping someone would have an answer as to how I could get it to stop locking up my system but I come back and the question is deleted.
Very good clock
Nice design. Where can buy?
This is very nice post. thank you. i love
I like this Desing of Polar Clock V2, realy is fantastic!
This is very nice post. thank you.
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Beautifully done! Great Work. Thanks very much.
I think this breaks a lot of stuff on Mac OSX. My CMD+Tab, expose, dashboard, spotlight etc. all stopped working. Something to do with keyboard input.
Otherwise I love the screensaver, so hopefully these bugs can be fixed!
It's an issue with Screentime for Flash, the software I use to wrap flash/flex apps up as screensavers. If another screensaver on your system uses screentime, and a previous version of screentime, it screws things up completely. very frustrating, i'm waiting for a fix from the guys over at screentime media.
i like the version 2 of your flash clock, but i might give a try for your v3 as well.
wow, great post!
cool design
Beautifully done! Great Work. Thanks very much.
Excellent work. It's working well on Windows XP.