vamapaull's Blog

Wooden menu wheel on a Fujifilm S5600

vamapaull — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:59:28 +0000

A friend of mine borrowed a Fujifilm S5600 camera and somehow managed to lose the menu wheel.

After a few days of postponing the return of the camera, he showed up with the camera and a wooden menu wheel instead of the original that was made of plastic.

I have to say, this wooden wheel gives a little more coolness to the old camera.

Photo Booth – Flash Webcam Image Capture

vamapaull — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:40:45 +0000

A few weeks ago I made a little flash app that will allow anyone to take a picture with a webcam connected to a computer. Everything worked fine in AS3. It was only when I got to the php part of the project when I felt like I should ask for help. And I did, I asked a friend or mine (Mihai Bojin) who in a few minutes explained to me exactly what I needed to know in order to get this project working as it should (a big part of the php code is made by him).
The project is now open source and you can find the code and the source fines underneath

You can download the source files from here:
http://blog.vamapaull.com/?p=355

Here you can see the working application:
vamapaull.com/photobooth

YouTube API video player with playlist

vamapaull — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:38:07 +0000

A few days ago I had some free time on my hands and I thought it will be nice if I designed a little YouTube video player based on the YouTube API and upload it to activeden.net so others can buy and use it in their projects.
The video player has some nice features like:

xml based playlist
playlist with or without scroll bar (depending on the amount of tracks)
volume control
play / pause button
preview track and next track buttons
shuffle button
repeat button
medium screen
full screen
progress bar
video time

If you want to check it out you can find it here

New flash forum

vamapaull — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:40:59 +0000

Flash form for Romanian speaking people
It’s already starting to grow up

My new portfolio site

vamapaull — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:04:34 +0000

I just lunched my new portfolio but right now I only have the portfolio page and two links… one to the blog and one to the contact page…
I have to implement some more stuff in the near future

Weekend Content TV Channel

vamapaull — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:23:06 +0000

We just lunched a TV channel for the Weekend Content site
Updates will be made from time to time… because I want to make it so you can feel like you are watching a TV channel

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future

vamapaull — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:22:44 +0000

When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York’s MoMA—and compare them to Ive’s work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial design, keeping the design “honest.”

This passion for “simplicity” and “honest design” that is always declared by Ive whenever he’s interviewed or appears in a promo video, is at the core of Dieter Rams’ 10 principles for good design:

• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.

Paint the old HDD :)

vamapaull — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:53:24 +0000

New Blog

vamapaull — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:03:38 +0000

The weather in Onesti

vamapaull — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:42:53 +0000