Creating a mathematical colour picker
The most common technique for creating a colour picker (at least in the ActionScript world) seems to use a colour wheel bitmap and then getting the colour of the pixel that was clicked on. I found that this was not a very accurate way to go about it and decided to build a colour picker […]
February 28, 2014
Storyline – a tip to ensure your users’ progression is saved
If you are building a long activity in Articulate Storyline then you might want to take some steps to ensure that your users’ progression is saved in the event that their internet connection drops or their session times out. On SCORM compliant LMSs you can call the equivalent ‘commit’ function to push all SCORM data […]
Happy New Year!
Well it’s now 2014 and it’s looking to be a great year. I have a trip to Canada planned which will be exciting. I bought a new camera just before Christmas – a Sony A7R – which I am loving so far. I can’t wait to take it over to Canada. I am hoping the […]
January 1, 2014
Reverse engineering Captivate for HTML5 widgets
Adobe Captivate is pretty horrible, especially the HTML5 output. I feel like I’m banging my head against a wall every time I use it. The HTML5 output is riddled with bugs and most of the features simply don’t work. If there is one upside to the HTML5 publishing though (and there aren’t many), it’s the […]
November 28, 2013
Inspiring Inspiration #13
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…
November 11, 2013
Setting up BSQSimulator with CCV
I decided to compile the links and instructions for setting up BSQSimulator for my own future reference and to hopefully help others out. The directions are buried in the NUIGroup forums somewhere and can sometimes be difficult to find, with different versions requiring various MS Surface files. The files you’ll need: BSQSimulator2 (beta) direct download […]
November 10, 2013
Melbourne train map in CSS
About three weeks ago I was showing my team at work the london CSS tube map and I jokingly put forward the challenge for the first person to make the Melbourne map in CSS gets a dollar. But after looking at the map properly I realised that it actually wouldn’t be that hard – far […]
October 29, 2013
Inspiring Inspiration #12
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…
September 20, 2013
A new blog design
PurpleSquirrels has gone responsive. I have just flicked the switch on the new PurpleSquirrels design. The new design – which I have been working on over the last few weeks – is now responsive which will make it much easier to read content on mobile devices as it adapts to smaller screens. I had been […]
September 2, 2013
Webcam to canvas or data URI with HTML5 and Javascript
This post has been sitting around unfinished since April so I thought I should finish it and get it out there. In this post I am going to show how you can capture an image from a webcam via JavaScript and convert it to a Data URI which can then be saved in a database […]
August 28, 2013
Creating HTML5 widgets for Adobe Captivate 6/7
I decided to write this post due to the frustration and lack of information out there on how to make HTML5 widgets for Adobe Captivate. There is almost no documentation on this and the only useful article I could find was riddled with mistakes. My approach may not be the best but this should get […]
August 27, 2013
Inspiring Inspiration #11
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…
July 16, 2013