New Comments System

Ive started testing out a new comments system on the blog.

Rather than using the standard comments system supplied by Wordpress I thought I would investigate a reccent popular solution called Intense Debate. Its by Automatic, you know, those clever chappies behind Wordpress, Askimet and Poll Daddy.

Anyways, im hoping it will be alot more user friendy and will encourage more comments! Let me know what you think ;)

Scribble v0.1 ... Harmony, but in Flash.. kinda!

Well as you can probably tell from my last few posts, I have been loving the simple browser drawing app called Harmony. Well, while playing with it I thought to myself, "Is there a reason this cant be done in Flash?". Well this is the answer to my question.



I have called it Scribble and its very basic at the moment, not containing even many of the simple features in Harmony, I do however intend to keep adding to it. So over the course of several weeks I hope to add bit by bit till it becomes a fun little place to Scribble!

Anyways, you can check out the current state of the thing here --> http://www.mikecann.co.uk/flash/Scribble_v0-1/Scribble.html

Splendid!

More Harmony Creations

Was doing some more playing around on Harmony this evening, so relaxing. It kinda reminds me of some of the stuff I did on Particle Playground.

Here are some of the better ones..

Click them for full-size versions


wavebow.png


supermassive.png


pluralvortex.png


orangeuniverse.png


disco.png

Again, id love to see other peoples! Shoot me a comment with yours :)

Harmony, HTML5 Procedural Drawing

Wow! Although this is doable in flash I must say im pretty impressed with this little HTML5 app by MrDoob called Harmony.

Basically its just a little drawing app. I bet there are some people out there that could do some amazing things with this! As it is, im a programmer and no artist, but there is definately a certain beauty to some of the doodles that can be easily made in this thing:

I call this one rainbow circles:



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And this one maze:



(click for full-size)

Anyways, I would love to see some creations from proper artists. Make your own here -> http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony and drop me a comment with yours!

RobotLegs MVCS Relationship Diagram

Just as a follow up from my post on the bleeding edge I thought I would post a rather interesting image @srivello made and @jhooks shared. Its a relationship between the main components in the MVCS meta-framework in RobotLegs. Its pretty good for anyone that (like me) preferrs to see a diagram when trying to grasp the concept of a new framework:

(click to enlarge)

Windows 7 Taskbar Monitor

Well this will learn me!

A while back, I had an idea for a very simple application that would sit in your taskbar and give you at-a-glance performance info about your system, similar to iStat Pro for OSX. This weekend I finally had time to clean up the code up for release.

The problem is that while looking for a couple of images for the app I happened to stumble across Taskbar Meters, which is pretty much the exact same idea I had. Looks like he has made a better job out of it that me too :P

Ah well, I have decided to release my version of the app nonetheless:



You can open the app multiple times and set each one to monitor a different value:



I have also decided to post the source up on google code: http://code.google.com/p/win7-taskbar-mon/

Anyways you can grab version 0.1 here: http://win7-taskbar-mon.googlecode.com/files/Windows7_Taskbar_Monitor_v0.1.zip

Trance Around The World, Show Downloader

Had this little idea a while back, thought I would spend an hour tonight and bash it out.

I love the Trance Around The World radio show by Above and Beyond, downloading  it for listening later is very annoying however and involves some fiddling with browser source and other things, so to make life easier I built this little tool. What it does is grab the HTML from the above and beyond page then parse it for the MP3 file, then it uses the FileReference class in flash to download it to your HD.

Anyways, enough jibber jabber. Source is enabled:

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Hope you enjoy!