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Polar Clock

by Andy Polaine on April 24, 2007

in Uncategorized

Clocks and calendars seem to permanently popular as interaction/Flash design subjects. John Maeda arguably started the trend, then Yugo did a few.

This one from Pixel Breaker is nice too (and the blog has a lovely WordPress theme).

polar clock

You can also download it as a screensaver for OS X.

(Via Notcot. Image shamelessly stolen from Pixel Breaker.)

Tagged as: Art, clock, Design, flash, Interactivity, Play, toy, Wordpress

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New theme

by Andy Polaine on May 20, 2006

in General

It’s about time I had a new theme I felt. Noodling around with themes is a great way to fritter away real working time. As usual I haven’t had time to design one myself as I’ve been working on other things (like noodling around with themes… ahem), but thanks to the folks at Oinam for their KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) theme.

I’ll still do some tweaks on it I’m sure, but for now it stays. Or did you prefer the old one? Oh the dilemmas I face in this modern world…

Tagged as: Blogging, General, Personal, Wordpress

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WP Lightbox plug-in

March 8, 2006

I have just installed Safirul Alredha’s WordPress plugin version of Lokesh Dhakar’s Lightbox scripts to display pop-up images in a more pleasant way without popping a window. It’s easier to see than explain, so try clicking on the one below to get the idea.

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WP 2.0 broken permalinks and 404 error

January 4, 2006

Ironically, the recent post I wrote about upgrading painlessly to [Wordpress 2.0](http://wordpress.org] had a broken permalink. This resulted in my trackback to Lorelle’s tips on upgrading not working correctly (as the trackback link led to a 404 error), so thanks to her for letting me know. The link works now. The odd thing is that [...]

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