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Richard — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:52:21 +0000

The announcement you may have missed from yesterday’s Macworld Expo!

Obama IS a Mac

Richard — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:55:57 +0000

While the world mentally says goodbye to war, famine and injustice while they wait for President Obama to start work, I’ve noticed that all that speculation during the Democratic campaign has proved sound. Obama IS a Mac, and so is Joe Biden too.

I wonder if Barack will be ringing up Al Gore for some Keynote tips?

Death of a PowerBook

Richard — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:57:20 +0000

Don’t ask me how this happened, it happened. I have come to terms with it now and it’s made me stronger, but it will always be a dark period in my life.

We had good times, we had bad times, we went through a lot. I’d like to think we learned a little about each other along the way.

He had a good innings, of course he’ll never really be dead as long as I remember him…

…if I’m doing some graphic design for you at the moment, there could be some delays involved…

Word Clock

Richard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:02:33 +0000

I wrote a little while ago about nine nicer ways to tell the time as I had noticed a few clever ways of your screensaver being used to display the time. Well I wish I had known then about Simon Heys’s Word Clock, which shows the time typographically and gives quite a bit of control over the display of the typography.

There’s also a Rotary Word Clock which is just as lovely, if not more so. Have a closer look by clicking the images above, then get over to the site and download the screensavers for PC and Mac. You can even get an iPhone version if you’ve been brave enough to jailbreak your device.

His portfolio is rather nice too…

Nine nicer ways to tell the time

Richard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:29:19 +0000

I love a good clock screensaver for my Mac, I really do. I’m a sucker for them and so, inspired by the excellent Drop Clock which is doing the rounds at the moment, I thought I’d gather together my favourite ways of telling the on-screen time here in one post. Most of these are available as screensavers for the Mac and PC…

Drop Clock This is the new one, a lovely screensaver which shows the numbers being dropped into water all slowly. It’s from Tha Ltd. the guys behind Ffffound! and Uniqlo.com. Yugo Nakamura strikes again!

Fliqlo A long standing favourite of mine, a faithful recreation of a flip clock, so save your money at Habitat and download this screensaver. Check out the rest of the site too…

Polar Clock from Pixelbreaker, a radial representation of the date and time using ever moving coloured bands.

Pong Clock a great clock made by a never-ending game of Pong. Another one which has burned its way into my screen for many weeks. It’s minutes vs hours and strangely minutes seems to lose 60 times more frequently…

Uniqlock is Japanese bonkers from Uniqlo and great for it. Who needs clocks when you can tell the time through the medium of interpretive dance…?

Drawing the time by multimedia god Yugo Nakamura is another example of his great multimedia work. Sadly you can’t download this one, you just have to load up the webpage and watch it go. You could make a webclip for the OSX dashboard though…?

Barcode Clock no nonsense time telling made using Javascript. No scanner required. You can download widgets of this or watch it tick away on the web page

Nixie Clock a lovely retro way to look at the time, using the tube based display which came before LEDs. This is a Mac Dashboard widget, for PC users there seem to be loads of variations out there…

Wallpaper Clock not strictly one clock this, but rather a way to change your desktop wallpaper at intervals to show a series of images. I haven’t tried it yet, but I guess you can visualise the time any way you like. The site tells you how to do it and you can browse different wallpapers…

That’s it, try them for yourself and do please leave a comment if you know of any I’ve missed out. I’m sure to need to change my screensaver again soon…