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What am I up to?

May 7, 2012

I know it’s been a few months since my last blog post but that’s not to say I’ve not been doing anything. Although I did manage to contract the norovirus which pretty much took me out for a week and a half. For the last few weeks I’ve been planning and preparing the development of [...]

Email Support Down [Update]

February 16, 2012

UPDATE: Email service has been restored any emails stuck in the queue are slowly being delivered. ORIGINAL MESSAGE: It would appear that my website host is having issues with their email servers at the moment, and as a consequence I am currently not getting any emails. If you have recently sent a support email, or [...]

AutoWallpaper 6.0.3231 update

February 13, 2012

A new update has been released for AutoWallpaper 6. This version features the following changes: Preview window will now always update when it is left open and a new wallpaper is selected Added additional options to the Multi-Monitor wallpaper setting to allow more flexibility with width and height of wallpapers Tray Menu Current Wallpapers window [...]

AutoWallpaper 6.0.3220 update

January 23, 2012

A new update has been released for AutoWallpaper which corrects a number of issues: Updated 500px.com API integration Corrected a start up bug that causes a crash if the auto-update dialog is left up for too long Fixed an issue with manual categories relating to accented characters in filenames Fixed an issue with removing images [...]

AutoWallpaper 6.0.3191

December 31, 2011

A new update has been released for AW6. It’s a small update that prevents AW6 from crashing if online categories (flickr, 500px.com) are being updated and no internet connection is available. As usual you can download the new update from the download page.

AutoWallpaper 6.0.3185

November 16, 2011

A new update has been released for all those AW6 users out there. Some of you may know that AutoWallpaper wasn’t very tolerant of damaged or mal-formed images (jpegs with the wrong file extension, etc). Well, this update resolves that issue. If an image cannot be handled it will be skipped and the filename will [...]

AutoWallpaper 6 now available

October 22, 2011

The exciting new AutoWallpaper version 6 is now available for download, purchase and upgrade. Available for Intel Mac’s running OS X 10.4 up to and including 10.8 Lion, as well as Windows XP, Vista, Seven in both x32 and x64. This new version features a revised user interface along with support for both Flickr and [...]

AutoWallpaper price change

October 18, 2011

In preparation for the release of AutoWallpaper 6 there has been a price change for new licences of AutoWallpaper. Instead of there being 10 licence options (for each available monitor) there is now 3 price bands: up to 2 monitors – $5.99 up to 5 monitors – $7.99 up to 10 monitors – $10.99 Payment [...]

Sprite Sheet Producer

September 25, 2011

A brand new application is now available – Sprite Sheet Producer. An excellent little tool for quickly creating sprite sheets from identically sized images. Sprite Sheet Producer saves you the time of painstakingly lining up all the graphics you’re using in your game to create a sprite sheet; simply add the images you want on [...]

First iOS and Android Game is “Rubbish!”

September 9, 2011

I thought I’d let everyone know about the first mobile game I’ve been involved in crafting called – “Rubbish!“. It’s a very addictive physics based game that involves throwing rubbish across rooms to get it in the bin. It features various different types of rubbish such as paper ball, tin can, bottle; as well as [...]