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FontSoup Screensaver for OS X

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Lately I’ve been exploring Objective-C and writing OS X applications using Xcode. It’s pretty interesting and it’s always good to try/learn new things. I decided porting an existing application from Win32 to OS X would be a good test of my grasp of things, and keep things interesting. I decided to port the FontSoup screensaver as it has a few interesting parts but is still not overly complex.


I’m pretty happy with the result so far, it looks good to me (right up to 1080p) and has support for a wide range of font encodings (Western, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese Traditional & Simplified, Korean, Devanagari, Gujarati, Tamil, Tibetan, Armenian, Symbol, Dingbats & Braille), pretty much anything that was pre-installed with Snow Leopard.

This version is definitely still beta as there a few tweaks I need to make yet, but if you’re using a Mac and wanna try it out and I’d love to hear your feedback.

Your can download the FontSoup screensaver for OS X here.

FontSoup Screensaver

Friday, March 20th, 2009

One weekend back in the middle of 2008, I spent a little bit of time rewriting the FontSoup Screensaver that I created back in 2001. It was long overdue for a revamp. The new incarnation is a lot more polished and now has two configurable display modes (Rainbow or Muted Tones).

This version displays your TrueType fonts in an elegant Win32 screensaver. You can download FontSoup 2.0 now for free.

Basic Image Tool v1.1

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I created this freeware application to help out some friends who needed a cheap way to resize or convert fairly large images and control JPG save quality (since MSPaint fails in that respect) without having to upload them first.

Clipboarder v1.0

Saturday, July 13th, 2002

Clipboarder lets you to send text from your computer’s clipboard directly to the clipboard of another computer over your local network or even over the internet. Clipboarder will send text whenever you copy to your clipboard. You can even set the port it uses (to cheat the firewall).

Loopy v1.2

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

This is an update of Loopy (mainly just the interface, and a couple of other small bits fixed). It’s smaller than the previous version and much sexier (although I’ve left the old version up for those who prefer that interface).

Loopy v1.1

Saturday, March 2nd, 2002

When you’ve got lots of samples and loops, it can be hard to find the ones you want. Now you can scroll through your files and listen using Loopy to play and loop your WAVs.

PicBrowser v1.0

Tuesday, December 4th, 2001

This application views most common image file types. It does not animate gifs, but it’s small and it’s free and it didn’t take too long to write. I find it pretty handy, so hopefully you will too.

BlockDrop v1.0

Saturday, November 17th, 2001

You might remember this game as Jewels or Xixit, or even as the arcade version Columns. I couldn’t find a decent WIN32 version to play, so I wrote this. Be warned – it’s a bit addictive.

ScreenSaver Pack

Monday, November 12th, 2001

This zip-file includes all the screensavers in one bunch (FontSoup, Glow, Metric Time and SPOTS). Unzip them into your windows directory.

Glow v1.0

Sunday, November 11th, 2001

‘GLOW’ incorporates realtime hue alteration patterns to produce a soothing organic effect. You must have your display set to ‘High-Color’ mode to run this screensaver properly.