Author Archives: Patrick

Diffusion Curves: These would be Pretty Cool in Flash

By Patrick | Published: February 23, 2010
This isn’t the latest news, but if you haven’t heard of diffusion curves, watch the video. A diffusion curve is defined as “a bezier spline that stores colors on each side of the space it divides.” Neat. Adobe was part of the paper, so I’m not sure if they own the technology or not. Here’s hoping [...]
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Dropbox is About to Have a Price Cut

By Patrick | Published: January 12, 2010
Dropbox is great. I’ve been using their basic/free plan for a little while now. And I’ve been very close to upgrading to a paid version for more storage, but thanks to Google, I’ll be waiting a bit longer to make that jump. Google is offering storage at $0.25 per GB per year; that’s $25 with Google [...]
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Computers are Cool

By Patrick | Published: January 7, 2010
You believe this is all CG? Amazing. Make sure you watch it in fullscreen.
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Hello Design Kitchen

By Patrick | Published: September 21, 2009
After a couple great years at VSA, I’ll be hawking my Flash wares at Design Kitchen starting today.
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Google Launches Sports Calendars, iCal Still Better

By Patrick | Published: September 3, 2009
I just noticed the alert in Google Calendar saying “New: Sports Calendars.” I gave it a look-see, but decided to stick with the iCal (.ics) format that I already added manually. In the image below, the red is the iCal format I already had for the Ohio State football schedule, and green is the new [...]
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Tweening to a Relative Position using a Variable in TweenMax

By Patrick | Published: August 17, 2009
This isn’t too complicated, but it’s something I hadn’t come across until a few days ago. If you want to tween an object relatively, but the new value changes and needs to be a variable, just cast it as a string. // Your everyday absolute tween that moves movieclip_mc // to 100 on the x axis, taking [...]
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Worst Company Name Ever

By Patrick | Published: August 15, 2009
Good company names can be hard to find, but terrible names should be easy to avoid. I wish I was at the meeting when they came up with this one. There are so many things here that I disagree with. With spelling and layout alone: The first letter is not capitalized They’ve taken out a space and crammed [...]
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Surf’s Up: The Branding of Google Wave vs. Microsoft Bing

By Patrick | Published: June 3, 2009
Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world. Last Thursday, tech giants Microsoft and Google each had a big announcement. The former officially announced its new search engine Bing, an announcement that the tech world knew was coming, as its latest attempt to reverse the tide of Google’s search dominance. The latter surprised [...]
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Delete Cookies?!

By Patrick | Published: May 27, 2009
From a djdownload.com Newsletter.
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Thematic Photosplicing by Peter Funch

By Patrick | Published: April 26, 2009
Peter Funch has some great shots from NYC where he takes many, many pictures from the same spot and then splices them together based on themes he finds among the individual passersby. Looks like a tedious process but the results are worth it.
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