http://www.joeyhagedorn.com All about Joey and Things and Stuff Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:30:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This semester in Ralph Johnson's Object Oriented Programming class, CS598rej, Erik and I wrote a cool program for Squeak called Algernon. Algernon is a keyboard-based launcher that provides lightning quick access to categories, classes, morphs, and global variables in your image. It's inspired by similar tools like Quicksilver and LaunchBar for ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/05/05/algernon-for-squeak I'm headed to Advanced Visual Interfaces '08 this summer in Naples, Italy to present the work Josh and I did on VCode + VData regarding video coding tools. I'm really proud, as it's my first first-author! You can download VCode and get more info about it on the Social website. Enjoy! http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/04/25/avi-08 I was sitting in the basement of the Siebel Center one day when Matt Sparks mentioned the Blu-Ray Laser Phaser project, made possible by the Sony Blu-Ray replacement drive assembly for the PS3. I impulsively purchased one such module on eBay and set out to build the best possible Blu-Ray ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/04/19/blu-ray-laser-pointer Today I saw this link on Daring Fireball that presents a bookmarklet to add a link to the YouTube page to download a (higher quality) MP4 version of the video you're viewing. This is great, but I dislike flash in general, so I'd rather not even watch the embedded version ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/04/16/youtube-in-mp4-via-quicktime-plugin There are some really great photos up now at http://www.nuagevert.org please go check it out! http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/02/29/nuage-vert-is-live As if I didn't already have enough going on this week, I just did this: Laser/photo.jpg Parts were approximately $60, using the PS3 replacement drive assembly and other recommended items from various how-tos on the Internet. Essentially, the diode is removed from the disc assembly, installed in an old 5mw red laser ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/02/12/ps3-blu-ray-laser-diode Last fall I was contacted by Heiko Hansen (of HeHe) regarding using the EasyLase USB on the Mac. I must say I was quite intrigued when I found out that he was working on Nuage Vert, a visualization of energy usage in Helsinki. The project uses the cloud of emissions ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/01/23/nuage-vert I've finally put together an installer for the EasyLase USB driver for Mac OS X. I am making the driver available for download today, after more than a year of use internally with the LaserLine project as well as the Laser MacMAME and iTunes visualizer projects. The build is Universal and ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/01/11/easylase-usb-driver-for-mac-os-x-released Subjectivity is (fortunately?) no longer needed with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Leopard's mail client dutifully warns senders of blank subject lines before sending mail. I am, for this reason, stopping active development. This built in feature will likely be more useful as it is there by default. So with ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/01/07/subjectivity-101 In my final project for my photography class this semester I had intended to take very wide angle pictures of spaces to evoke a feeling of emptiness and desolateness around the university. As the project progressed, I found it had turned in to something else; extremely wide angle and stitched ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2008/01/02/panoramas-and-stitched-photographs My proceeding Fall 2007 semester entailed a photography course. In light of all the photos I took, I've here made several of my favourite photos available for your viewing pleasure right here on my website. They're all available in the gallery section, as well as this post. These are all ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2007/12/31/5 So, perhaps you were confused by the last post. If so, I apologize. Finals are a busy time, so there wasn't much time to explain--this is also why there's been a break in posting. The link was a blog that was setup during the very intensive finals studying. We commandeered ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2007/12/26/end-of-semester-post The Latest from the Front Lines of Unproductivity http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2007/12/09/finals-fall-2007 And my web browser of choice is Safari 3.0 for Leopard. Unfortunately this makes viewing TIFF images of the Patent Office's website an absolutely abysmal experience. So today in CS421 I found GreaseKit, a Safari Plugin that allows one to run Greasemonkey-like scripts on web pages in Safari. So I wrote ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2007/12/04/the-uspto-website-is-horrible After a bit of work over Thanksgiving break, I was able to get the laser projecting Asteroids well enough to play. I apologize for the quality of the photos, but we were really interested in doing it BIG, so the beam was dim and my camera didn't capture it especially ... http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/2007/12/02/asteroids-on-maclasermame