Posts Tagged ‘download’
4 “WTF?!” moments during a Flex/AIR experiment
Published by Ronny on June 11th, 2009 in Experiments, download. 7 comments
On a shiny day I was sitting inside, and I don’t know what bug just bit me, but I felt like experimenting with Flex and AIR (instead of heading outside into the light). For some reason I felt like creating a Photobooth clone with only one feature: Taking a snapshot every few seconds and saving it to the disk. During my quest I came across a few findings that were either extremely weird or just plain awesome. Here goes my list of ‘WTF?!’(If you don’t like reading, but you do want to check out the AIR app, click here) Read the rest of this entry »
Supermini showcase
Published by Ronny on June 6th, 2009 in Wordpress. 1 comment A few months ago I re-released Supermini, a simple Wordpress theme. After some time I started running across the first sites actually using it and, like every other theme, Supermini was personalized by everyone who used it. However since Supermini is such a simple and basic theme, minor changes make a big difference. I found that a lot of these changes looked great. Here are some of them.
SuperMini wordpress theme update
Published by Ronny on April 11th, 2009 in Wordpress, download. No comments
I just uploaded an updated version of the SuperMini Wordpress theme. If you encounter any bugs, feel free to tell me 
You can check it out at ikDicht.
Oh and while I’m at it: Removing the footer links to Patrick and me is totally uncool… Because some people still do that in 2009.
Webcam motion detection coolness
Published by Ronny on January 18th, 2009 in Actionscript, Open-source, download. 4 comments
A few weeks ago I had to create an innovative way to scroll in a page. I have seen tons of scrollbars in Flash and I found it hard to create something completely new. At one point I wondered if I could wire the scrollbar to a webcam using Actionscript… So I started experimenting around…
When I first started I quickly ran into a problem: How the hell do I know if anything is moving? So I actually got stuck right in the beginning.
I went on a Google trip which led me to Koen’s post about motion detection. Koen was checking all the pixels (using nested loops) to calculate color values. I figured this generated way too much overhead. There had to be a better/simpeler way.
In his post Koen mentioned an article, written by Guy Watson, concerning an other way to get motion detection going. To make things simple: Guy just takes 2 pictures - one of the previous frame, one of the current - puts them on top of eachother, and applies the difference blend mode to the upper one: Tadaaa! There we go! The ‘unchanged’ pixels are blacked out. The remaining pixels are the difference in the picture… which reflects movement. Read the rest of this entry »
Wordpress Theme SuperMini reloaded
Published by Ronny on January 15th, 2009 in Open-source, Wordpress, download. 15 comments A long time ago Smashing Magazine listed 100 of the best Wordpress themes. That list totally kicked ass to be honest. At one point I decided to restyle my poetry site. I took a look at their list and when I found the SuperMini theme, my choice was immediately made.After I downloaded the theme I realized a lot of features were missing: No searchbox, no searchresults page, no archives, no global archives, no blogroll support, no pages support, no 404 pages and a few design flaws…
I actually went on, and built those things myself. Later on I wanted to contact the orginal author (Patrick Behrend) of the theme to send him my updates but by the time I got to send my mail, his site was down and he completely dissappeared from the web. I never received an aswer regarding the theme updates I sent him.
By now the original download isn’t even online anymore, and Smashing Magazine disabled the link to the SuperMini theme (as it is a 404). So I recently decided to finish the theme, and translate it back to English and re-publish it. I thought the initial theme was awesome, and I figured it would be cool if other people would be able to actually use the completed theme. Read the rest of this entry »
