Falls Creek with a GoPro HD Hero
A couple weeks ago I bought a GoPro HD Here camera. The video below is the first test using the camera mounted to my helmet. I was planning on doing some shots with it mounted to my board but the sticky stuff failed the second I started moving! I’m pretty happy with the quality of […]
September 14, 2011
painty – A simple HTML5 web app for the iPad
As you may know I have been mucking around with HTML5’s canvas element lately. Here is an evolution of the paint mixing example I showed a couple posts back. I decided to turn it into a simple iPad web app. Check out the video below and visit the following URL on an iPad to try […]
August 14, 2011
Paint Maestro 2 sneak peek
I was going to record a full demo of my upcoming multitouch painting application ‘Paint Maestro 2’, but I had some technical difficulties so here is a small demo of the stencils. The application is written in AS3 and uses Adobe AIR. I posted this video over at NUI Group a couple weeks ago and […]
July 13, 2011
Javascript and Canvas wet paint mixing
Here is an experiment I did to learn how the HTML5 Canvas tag works. I wanted to know how to manipulate pixels so I attempted to port my AS3 paint mixing to Javascript. I was surprised by the performance although it doesn’t seem to be as fast as the Flash version, and it is definitely […]
June 23, 2011
Reading and Writing your own file type with AS3 and AIR
If your building an AIR application and you want to have your own native custom file type association for your app, it is surprisingly easy to to with ActionScript 3 in air as I found out. I was unable to find any information on reading and writing custom files so I decided to post my […]
June 12, 2011
Drawing a checker board pattern quickly with AS3
Today I needed to dynamically generate a checker board pattern in ActionScript 3. I couldn’t find any examples on how to do it so I made my own. Below is a snippet of code I wrote to draw it and its super fast! I used bitwise operators in the loops to speed it up and […]
June 1, 2011
NiceComps – AS3 UI components for Flash
NiceComps is a set of ActionScript 3 UI components that I have been slowly working on over about the last six months. I got tired of the ugly built in components that come with Flash and I don’t particularly like the look of MinimalComps. I wanted UI components that looked nice and were easy to […]
May 20, 2011
Windows Phone 7 custom half tiles
Here are some half and quarter tiles that I’ve made for the WP7 home screen. Simply go to the link below on your WP7 device, tap on an image you want and pin the site to your start screen. This was inspired by the custom organisation tiles at http://blog.iqagency.com/?p=3751. At the moment they are only […]
May 18, 2011
Dye Lockscreen Wallpapers for Windows Phone 7
Over the weekend I was playing around with macro shots of dye on paper. The only thing I could find in the house that I could use as ‘Inks’ were a box of red, green, blue and yellow food dyes so thats what I used. Although they didn’t bleed like I was hoping to I […]
May 16, 2011
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