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The above image is part of a patent. I found this while searching for kinetic sculpture images. It never occurred to me that a person could patent a kinetic sculpture, or any art for that matter. I wonder if my ball lifting mechanism (below) could be patented. I…
Continue readingUPDATE December 30, 2015: I made a new and improved version of the progress ring control. The code is not shown below – that is older code – but you can get a complete Visual Studio project by downloading this zip file: http://www.rectorsquid.com/CircleprogressRing.zip Here’s a picture of the…
Continue readingI don’t often write about computer games, but two iPad games that I recently player seemed outstanding to me. DEVICE 6 by Simogo This was one of the most unusual games that I’ve ever played. The “game” consists of a small number of puzzles wrapped up in an…
Continue readingI remembered seeing a clock app in the Petzold book, and I needed to make a spinning “I’m working…” indicator. It’s a fairly good book, although I’ve only read a small bit of it. So I looked back in it and found the clock app. It’s a nice…
Continue readingIn my last post, I ranted about the SmartScreen filter. Since then, I discovered that SS is one word with word capitals. I also discovered that it took about one day for my app to download without the SS filter warning from Windows 8.1. Apparently, my new certificate…
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