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Plipr Screensaver

May 28th, 2009

Plipr Screensaver IconSure screen savers are old news, but I was toying around in Flash a while ago and came up with this simple little experiment. It simply randomly selects a letter from an array, animates it in, out and then destroys itself. After a few loops the colour flips and the process continues. It’s not the most exciting bit of code in the world, but I think it works nicely.

The font used is Hand of Sean by the talented Sean Johnson.

You can download the windows installer (sorry, no mac version yet), grab the source code or see an in-browser version.

PS: For those playing with the source code, set the blur variable to true, looks much better, but the performance hit is pretty bad.

Cactus V4 Flash Triggers & Sigma EF 500 DG SuperCactus V4 Flash Triggers & Sigma EF 500 DG Super 2 Comments

Cactus V4 Flash Triggers & Sigma EF 500 DG Super

May 1st, 2009

Just got my Cactus V4 Flash Triggers from Gadget Infinity and so far they seem pretty good. Just a note to anybody who has a Sigma EF 500 DG Super, make sure you set the flash to Slave mode (pictured above) this stops the flash from switching itself to standby mode and will allow the flash to fire using the standard centre pin (required for the V4 Triggers) rather than the proprietary Canon pins.