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date :: 01-07-2011
title :: Apocalyptic visions

it's not often i'm beleaguered by apocalyptic visions of the future, but i'd be pretty happy about the invasion looking like this ;)



original cheerleader pic from the always wonderful http://www.howtobearetronaut.com

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date :: 13-10-2010
title :: New mollusc tunes!

Dropout demos by mollusc

root@podulator[~] $ mail
date :: 15-04-2006
title :: cynosure screensaver in flash 8

Finally got around to posting my port of the cynosure screensaver to flash 8,
have a look in the actionscript section....

see it here.
(requires flash player 8)

root@podulator[~] $ mail
date :: 16-11-2005
title :: text2phonome

seems it came fifth in the monthly round up, not bad :)

root@podulator[~] $ mail
date :: 01-10-2005
title :: text2phonome

seems like my text2phonome class has been nominated for an innovation award by those friendly folk @ www.phpclasses.org......



The class was nominated by Manuel Lemos, who submitted the following comment:

"Spelling English text programmatically is not an easy task. There are many exceptions to the rules. This fact makes it difficult to generate audio samples spelling English words.

This class provides a solution for converting English text into phonemes that could be more easily converted into sound using pre-sampled sound of phonemes.
It takes in account English rules and known exceptions."

Nice one Manuel :)
(and feel free to vote for it if you can be arsed :)

root@podulator[~] $ mail
date :: 23-09-2005
title :: Adventures in Actionscript2

Been called away from pet projects to do a crash course in Actionscript2.
ported the beautiful cynosure x-screensaver (originally by Stephen Linhart of www.stephen.com fame) over and developed a number of other classes to over/underlay it.......

got it down to as simple as

import class.as
var objArray = new Array();
objArray.push(new class(params));

this.onFrameEnter = function()
{
for(var x = 0; x < objArray.length; x++)
{
objArray[x].animate();
}
}

will make an action script category and upload them as soon as the paris gig is over and i've done the categories / projects back end to the site.......

you can see a demo of what i've been doing for the 8 screen beast here.
(needs flash player 7)

Its long and thin coz its 8 screens wide (42" plasma fu**ers), but it'll be fullscreen on each of them.
For the full effect pop yer eyeballs out and glue them to your monitor. :)

root@podulator[~] $ mail
date :: 11-09-2005
title :: drillerKiller

Decided to call it a feature freeze now,
new encryption is done.......
all (yeh right) thats left is to port php scripts to sql server and odbc and work around the numrows odbc issue, knock up some templates, built an installer & let it go.....
light at the end of the tunnel at last......

root@podulator[~] $ mail
date :: 02-09-2005
title :: Back end

Well, finally had a bit more time to sort out the back end so can post news easier now :)

root@podulator[~] $ mail
date :: 25-08-2005
title :: The site goes live

Well, finally got some time and sorted out new site.
Still got to finish back end, but its workable for now.
Hopefully it'll give me the boot up the arse I need to get drillerKiller and the class wizard releasable.....
Well, you've got to have dreams :)

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