Version 1.2 of MIME Browser, my free multi-platform EML viewer written in JavaFX, is now available for download. No big new features but a lot of small ones, including some user requests, as well as bug fixes and other tinkering. Specify individual files (in addition to folders) directly on the command line, or via drag […]
Peter Breitling’s Clinometer is a small but sophisticated and very useful application for iOS, Android & Windows Phone. Using the various motion sensors built into these devices, it turns them into multipurpose (in)clinometers that can measure any surface’s three-dimensional angle relative to the ground. The picture below shows the two main display modes: a simulated […]
Playdek’s latest iOS board game adaptation is Lords of Waterdeep, a worker placement game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. The board game itself is quite recent, published in March 2012 – click “Product Details” to download the original PDF rules. There was some apprehension regarding the fairly simple design that shares very little […]
So far I had let my Sony NEX-7 convert all pictures to JPEG format in-camera. However, professionals say the professional thing to do is to use a digital camera’s raw image format that precisely captures the original sensor data. There are two problems, though. First, raw images are several times as big as JPEGs, with […]
JavaFX supports automatic self-adjusting layout that resizes controls along with the containing window, but this may require some non-obvious changes to the controls’ default properties. The problem I recently ran into was automatically resizing a ListView within a VBox. This article describes the undesirable default behavior and its correction, based on JavaFX 2.2 in JDK […]
From the history of computing to tips for indie developers and icon fonts, here are the latest additions to my website archives over the last month. Developer Links: Charles Severance’s 1998 Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point – that is, William Kahan – describes the terrible mess in the bad old days before IEEE […]
The core products of yWorks are the yFiles libraries for Java, .NET, and JavaScript which handle graph analysis, layout, and visualization. The libraries are enterprise-priced (thousands of dollars) but yWorks also offers some very interesting free tools. Aside from the yGuard bytecode obfuscator, these are all diagramming applications based on yFiles. yEd Graph Editor The […]
Autumn was unusually warm and sunny, so I managed to shoot another batch of arthropods. Once again, the equipment was a Sony NEX-7 with the SEL-18200 zoom lens and a Marumi DHG Achromat +3 macro filter. Most of the pictures are new, but you might have seen a few in Google+ posts from August or […]
Yesterday Microsoft released Windows 8.1 as a free update for Windows 8. I dutifully updated but found it barely worth the effort. Endlessly hyped as the fixed version of Windows 8, the one that would finally realize the original vision and convince desktop users of its brilliance, Windows 8.1 is in fact nothing of the […]
Firaxis has just released patch version 1.0.3.142 for Sid Meier’s Civilization V, or rather for Brave New World since most changes are specific to that expansion. I’ve updated my own Civ5 Patch Notes accordingly, this time with extensive reordering and reformatting since the official post was somewhat disorganized. Firaxis also published the Scrambled Continents Map […]