Author: Matthijs Kamstra

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Urban papercraft

Shin Tanaka – Spiky baby [series 4] is out

Shin Tanaka | Spiky Baby Series 4 is out now.

MacMeier design

With designs from:
(and now you will see how impatience I am: I don’t want to wait and see all different Spiky Baby randomly, so I “hacked” the swf and got the url )

Update #1: all these downloads are limited time only :: that time has passed… the links don’t work anymore….

accent.tv | view Spiky baby
Arte Vettoriale | view Spiky baby
COM RAID | goto 1 | goto 2 | goto 3
Epic | view Spiky baby
Macmeier | view Spiky baby
Nagua design | goto 1 | goto 2
ONESIDEZERO | goto 1 | goto 2
REACH | view Spiky baby
TIMROBOT |view Spiky baby

And the stuff that Shin Tanaka adds:
goto Spiky Baby “S”
goto Spiky Baby “P”
goto Spiky Baby “I”
goto Spiky Baby “K”
goto Spiky Baby “Y”
goto Spiky Baby box

Happy cutting!

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Design Grumm

Grumm Fabrique

A quick test I made for Grumm.

It’s done on the stationery paper from the company I work for.

So for lack of a better name, lets call it: Grumm Fabrique
Grumm Fabrique And look at him from all angles:

[swf]http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/laboratory/rotation/slideshow_v03.swf?xmluri=http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/laboratory/rotation/xml/grumm_fabrique_web.xml, 450 , 335[/swf]
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Design Grumm

Grumm the Screamer – Red

I’ve finished my first skin for Grumm.

I call it: Grumm the Screamer – Red
Grumm the Screamer - Red And look at him from all angles:

Update#1: Nobody will see the difference but I’ve updated the flash movie, so it’s now possible to choose the rotation direction.
[swf]http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/laboratory/rotation/slideshow_v03.swf?xmluri=http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/laboratory/rotation/xml/grumm_screamer_red_web.xml , 450 , 335[/swf]
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Firefox extensions

DIY Firefox extension version 2.0

Update: It’s beter to change it to a flexible number so it’s future prove
So I changed “2.0” to “2.*”
like this

0.7
2.*

You just installed FireFox 2.0 and enjoying it!
You want to use one of your favorite extensions but you can’t: it’s not compatible with FireFox 2.0.
You want to install a new extension, and you can’t: it’s not compatible with FireFox 2.0.

Sound familiar?

I found the solution:
It’s possible to update some extensions to FireFox 2.0 (this doesn’t always work… I know this from my own experience so be careful!)

Most of the time it’s a version number that has to be changed… And it’s not difficult.
But remember, some code may not work,
In most cases this will work: most programs are backward compatible which means that is can handle old code.

So here a step by step walk through this process.

Source: comment on BBCode by Nic Chilton.

xpi files are just zip files, so you can update any extension to work with the latest Firefox yourself by following these instructions:

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Urban papercraft

Result of the Kilobus contest

Remember the Kilobus contest???

Well the result are in; there is a winner, go check it out!

And for you lazy bastards the gallery of all the participants:

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Urban papercraft

Urban papercraft: Fwis Readymech

ReadyMechs serie 01

I can’t tell this better then Fwis do them self:

Fwis Presents Readymech – Free flatpack toys for you to print and build. Readymechs are free flatpack toys designed to fit on an 8.5â€?x11â€? and to be printed on any printer.

I can’t give you the definition what a flatpack toys is. I can show you!

There are no blank versions of the Readymech, but with a little imagination you can make a couple new designs yourself!

And if you need a little help: Computer Arts has a tutorial about Design and build a flatpack toy.

You can download the tutorial for free or just download the support files from the “bad-boy”, print it and start building.

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Open source / Freeware

Sociable WordPress plugin

A new addition to the series of WordPress Plugins I have installed:
Sociable

Social bookmarking sites allow web surfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.

The reason for this WordPress plugin is in this article: successful-blog-launch. Go to chapter 7 “Social Bookmarking (aka Going Viral)”.

And so I started to look at a wp-plugin that includes all social bookmarking sites (and not for instants only Digg although this is also a very good wp-plugin). And that is the reason I use Sociable.

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Improvement

Improvement

Improvement is a new category I added to the category Design.

A lot of opensource and freeware programs I use are very good, but sometimes there is room for improvement.
This can mean improvement:

  • in the design
  • in the usability
  • what more..

Sometimes I just want to rant about a stupid thing (usually windows).
Sometimes I want to help a developer as a designer.
Sometimes I would like some new features.
….

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Firefox extensions Flash Tools of the trade

Flash tools of the trade: flash-plugin switcher

Very recently I wrote about a Firefox extension: the FlashTracer written by Alessandro Crugnola. This extension will only make the hearts of Flash developers go faster, which it did in my case: I love this plugin! And although this is a relative new Firefox extension, it already helped me debug a application that I build.

Alessandro Crugnola is also the guy that gave us SE|PY (this is the editor I use for Flash programming)

Screenshot of Flash Switcher extension for FirefoxAlessandro created another Firefox extension: Flash Switcher extension for Firefox


Flash Switcher extension for FirefoxFlash Switcher – This extension comes with all the currently published flash player plugins (from the version 2 to the most recent 9,0,16) and allows you to easily switch from one plugin to another, or also to remove the currently installed plugin (maybe for testing the express install).

I used to use KewBee Plugin Switcher. Which is now for free, but if I remember correctly will be a commercial program. The big plus of that program is that it also works for IE, but who cares…. (and windows doesn’t like that you install / uninstall something without their knowledge, so it creates lot of ERRORS).

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Firefox extensions

Firefox 2.0 installed

Yes I did, 2 days ago.
That not really hot news… (although Firefox promotion is always good!).
It has some very nice new features so check it out.

Although this is not why I talk about Firefox; I created a Firefox extensions series to explain why I use them. And the coming of Firefox 2.0 has some effect on my extensions.
Some of them are obsolete: Spellbound and Tab Mix Plus (it’s integrated in Firefox 2 ), which is a good thing.
Update #2: Tab Mix Plus is not entirely obsolete, some features are integrated, but it’s still very useful!

But some don’t work en the new version: my Resizeable Textarea doesn’t work anymore, which is a pain in the butt. I found the new version for FF2.0: install Resizeable Textarea 0.1c directly.
Strangely enough “Bookmark this page” doesn’t work (and this is not a extension). Update #1: I have no idea but it works again!.
And last but not least, ListZilla thinks that all extension are installed and they are not.
Some are • uninstalled by me, some just don’t work
Update #3: I stopped using Listzilla and changed to Infolister because it has more features.

Update: 27 November 2006 the new list extensions generated by InfoLister:

Extensions (enabled: 48, disabled: 47):