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Flame Painter is a procedural painting application by Peter Blaškovič available on http://www.escapemotions.com/.
There are three brush types in Flame Painter: Flame, Follow and Ribbon. Each produces an amazing variety of results depending on the settings chosen.
XCode, the developer tools suite provided by Apple is available to registered Apple Developers for free. If you are not a registered developer with Apple, you can still get XCode for a small fee through the App Store. But unlike many of the app store applications, clicking the “Install” button under the XCode description does not directly result in a working application appearing in your dock. The icon for an XCode installer shows up there instead. And that can installer isn’t trouble-free.
When I tried to run the XCode installer, it failed when it was nearly done, and displayed a message to go look for an error in the log (/var/log/install.log) where I found errors like this:
Xcode install Underlying Error=(Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain…
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If you get this error when trying to upgrade the operating system on an iPhone or iPad:
“There are purchased items on the iPhone (iPad) “[name of device]” that have not been transferred”
Things to try:
Continue readingFlame Painter is a procedural painting application by Peter Blaškovič available on http://www.escapemotions.com/.
There are three brush types in Flame Painter: Flame, Follow and Ribbon. Each produces an amazing variety of results depending on the settings chosen.
The images below show the results of incremental changes in brush settings, all of which result in various fireworks or sparkler effects. In each case, the changed setting is circled in red. Click any image to see it enlarged.
This blog runs on the Movable Type engine, selected mainly because I like the fact that it publishes a static HTML file for each article.
For a long time, Movable Type appeared to be slowing down at publishing posts, particularly ones containing many images. It could take anywhere from a few seconds to five minutes or more just to publish an article! Yet when the images were not uploaded as Movable Type “assets” but simply added using HTML image tags, the publishing went much faster.
Flame Painter is a procedural painting application by Peter Blaškovič available on http://www.escapemotions.com/.
There are three brush types in Flame Painter: Flame, Follow and Ribbon. Each produces an amazing variety of results depending on the settings chosen.
Flame Painter is a procedural painting application by Peter Blaškovič available on http://www.escapemotions.com/.
There are three brush types in Flame Painter: Flame, Follow and Ribbon. Each produces an amazing variety of results depending on the settings chosen.
Settings for some of Flame Painter’s less obvious effects are shown here. Click any image to see the settings that created it.
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Qualtrics.com is an extraordinarily full-featured online survey application that offers nearly every type of built-in report on your survey data you could ever want. But eventually, there comes a time when nothing but a custom report will do. Or you may want to integrate Qualtrics data into another application. For those times, Qualtrics has an extensive API which allows access to both data and functionality.
Qualtrics University doesn’t have many details of how to use the API, so to help you get started, I’m providing an example of how I used the Qualtrics API with a PHP proxy and Adobe’s Spry Framework to build a simple custom report.
This script text and HTML from an XML listing, based on the end date. It scans through the list, finds the first section with an end-date greater than today’s date, then pulls random banner text/HTML from that section. The example shown here uses a flat color banner with white text, but you could also use this same script to generate image or flash-based banners. I’ve also added a nice jQuery fade-in effect but that is optional.
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