Pal Szasz’s blog… or something like that…

First of all, I released a demo version (save functionality removed) of Pixy v0.4: pixy_0_4_demo.sis.

Other changes:

• Added command/tool to toggle between filled and not filled mode (now rectangle drawing takes into consideration this flag).
• Added command/tool to toggle between use of transparency (usefull with the select tool)
• Added tools Select and Sele w/copy: they are like cut+paste and copy+paste: select a rectangular area and move it or copy it elsewhere in the screen. They check the transarency (colorkey) flag.
• Fixed some minor selection-rectangle renderig bugs

And now about ClockSS: There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don’t Well, it’s an old joke, but I just remembered it

For those who don’t understand the binary clocks: The filled circle corresponds to 1, the empty 0, in rest they are the same. To find out the current time, jus tconvert the two numbers from binary to decimal.

Let’s take an example, let’s suppose the hour sais: 01101. Each digit must be multiplided with a power of two, then summed together. We start from the right hand side: 1 * 2^0 = 1 * 1 = 1; The next digit is ‘0′ (0 * 2^1 = 0 * 2 = 0). Next is ‘1′ (1 * 2 ^ 2 = 1 * 4 = 4). Next is again ‘1′ (1 * 2^ 3 = 1 * 8 = . Since the rest is all 0, we ignore it. So the result is 1 + 4 + 8 = 13. Piece of cake, right?

If anybody interested, normal binary led watches can be bought at www.thinkgeek.com When I saw them, that was the time I decied to make a binary clock screensaver for my P800… but I didn’t had the proper knowledge then… and i still don’t have it now

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