First Videos of Multiplex
Did we mention it’s called “Multiplex” yet? It is. But that’s not the hotness. The video below, showing the library and our insta-filtering, that’s the hotness. But it is just the tip of the iceberg. This thing has a rock-solid code base and the engine is all but a beautiful piece of art.
Just to make sure we’re sharing the “beauty”, however, we’re making the UI (User Interface) something to behold as well. Check out the video - it’s all real, live data, no fakery!
Comments welcome!!
Icon Designers: this one’s for you!
It’s been a slow month on the blog, but that’s only indicitive of how hard the team’s been working on the new app!
The engine for our Library app is complete, and the UI is coming together VERY nicely. We’ll have some demo videos up in the beginning of next week.
In the mean time, we’ve been toying with dock icons. Designing dock icons is hard because even if an icon looks great, it may look funny in the dock along side other apps.
So what did we do? Well, Jason cooked up a little app that you can run, drop .icns files onto it, and it displays what the icon looks like in the dock. You can move it around, etc, just like any other app.
Simple. Brilliant. Just works. And it’s yours, free and open source.
Please enjoy “ShowMeOnTheDock“.
The lengths we go to
dave martorana, hard drives, hardware, jason allum, mezzanine
Because Mezzanine is meant to be able to deal with gigabytes and terabytes of data, we’ve been using an array of 500G and 1TB drives to store movies and test data. We swap those drives in and out using a handy little utility.
It allows us to swap drives in and out in an instant and is pretty sweet. Problem is, one of them came with a faulty switch, which along with our buddy Far, Jason and I attempt to fix. Sometimes, people-fingers can be a little too big for the job. How many developers does it take to fix a push-button??
More Mezzanine UI Demos
The crack team working on Mezzanine has been playing with the UI concepts now that the engine is more or less done, and are closing in on something really, really special. We wanted to give the IndyHall labs readers something to salivate over. Check out what Jason Tremblay has been cooking up:
And if that wasn’t enough, check out the latest concept video (complete with appropriate soundtracking and our new IndyHall intro video).
