• Apple’s WebKit : CoreGraphics, Core Foundation Network
• QtWebKit : No external dependencies, except Qt of course.
• Windows Cairo/Curl : All GPL libraries only

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I’ve been using the QT based port to build the engine. The results are quite good. I could build widgets easily with plain HTML and Javascript. The prototype could even host some Dashboard basic widgets.

I am not quite impressed though with QT’s graphics engine. It’s a lot inferior with Apple’s CoreGraphics. It uses native Win32 Font rendering instead of Freetype. SVG is available but the graphics isn’t eye candy.

I’m now trying to build using CoreGraphics (which was the default anyway). But I would later on test Cairo as the graphics backend. Using CoreGraphics means my engine which is be free and opensource, would have to be shipped with Safari binaries. Nobody would want that.

Would probably release a beta of the engine by the end of the month. In the meantime, what would be a good name? Konfabulator sounds nice but it’s taken already

The game has an SDL port for the desktop - windows and linux. Making an PSP version wasn’t too difficult. The game can be fully played. The keyboard input is still in the works though. So when prompted to input a word, just press the X or START button to skip.

Rogue like games are interesting as all the maps and levels are dynamic. You could say no two games are the same. Most implementations though use text graphics which turn of modern gamers. Jeff Lait’s game has old school but very cool graphics.

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The finally get a super star point guard in Mike Bibby. He’s fast, he can shoot, he runs, and distributes the ball well. Just guy they need. With a core of Mike Bibby, Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, Marvin Williams, Al Horford, and Josh Childress, the Hawks will get a chance to fly at the playoffs.

They now have a duo at the back court who could score at will. Both could shoot the three. They’ve also added more speed which with the make of their forwards allows them to run.

Josh Smith didn’t make the All-Star this year. But if this team lights it up during the playoffs, he could finally be - next year.

This is my first homebrew for the PSP!. A karaoke player that can play MP3+G files. MP3+G is actually just an MP3 music file with an accompanying CDG file for the lyric graphics.

This is a concept beta version with the following features:

• Plays MP3 + CDG Format
• Add songs to queue
• Play Pause
• Skip to next song
• Sqlite3 songs database

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• Uses a more comprehensive word list
• Very quick

Add a few more word game helper

• Scrabbler - finds possible words for a scrabble players letter blocks
• Boggler - finds words from a 4×4 grid of letters using Boggle rules
• Twister - finds words much faster
• Anagrammer - finds anagrams from names, words and phrases

http://marvin.mindhyve.com/wordfinder

• ActionScripting 1.0
• XML
• Animated Characters
• Scrolling Maps
• Real-time simulations

Play It Now

• September 2007
• ActionScripting 1.0
• Real-time simulations

Play It Now

• August 2006
• ActionScripting 1.0
• Animated Fish Characters
• Real-time simulations

Play It Now

• Window Blinds clone - theming engine
• Fluxbox clone - fast, stable
• KDE shell clone - usable
• WinXP, Win2000, Vista?

svn respository

Ashlar attempts to combine the features of WindowBlinds, Fluxbox, and the KDE shell. It’s aim is to is create building blocks for an eye-candy, lightning fast, usable windows shell.

This project is actually a resurrection of my old project LithiumDesktop. Since Ashlar is still in very alpha stage. Download LithiumDesktop to see a kind of preview. LithiumDesktop is pretty much eye-candy but wasn’t very stable.