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SpotColor Video

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:11:00 +0000

See SpotColor in Action!

Announcing SpotColor for the iPhone

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:16:00 +0000

Add flare and pizzazz to your pics. The effect known as adding "Spot Color" allows you to highlight specific parts of your pictures by leaving the color intact and allow other parts of your picture to be deemphasized by converting them to shades of gray.

Just load any picture from your photo library or camera and you will be presented with your photo in shades of gray. Now just use your finger to brush the color back into the areas that you want to highlight. Add a little too much color back? Just switch to the gray brush and use your finger to erase away the color just like magic! You can use the iPhone pinch to zoom in and out to get more control. SpotColor even supports the single-tap and double-tap zoom gestures.

pxCore 1.3 Released

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:41:00 +0000

An update to our portable open source frame buffer library. Support for Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux and OSX. Please visit the project page on google code.

New in version 1.3

Added onMouseLeave event to pxWindow. This event allows reliable prelighting or hover effects to be used within a window.

Added the Hover sample that demonstrates using the onMouseLeave event.

Added an initNative method to pxWindow (for MS Windows) that allows one to specify the platform specific window styles during windows creation.

Added a Sprite sample.

ScreenJot 2.2 Released

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:40:00 +0000

Now even more powerful! By popular demand, ScreenJot with annotations! In this release, we have added the ability for you to mark up your screenshots. We've also added the ability to open image files from within ScreenJot so that you can load up past screen captures.

Download ScreenJot 2.2 Now

New Features in 2.2

ScreenJot now supports annotations!

Markup Pencil

Scalable Text

Callout Arrows

Scale, Rotate and Move Annotations

Layer Annotations

Line Width Selector

Color Selector

Simple Drag and Drop Sharing

More Levels of Undo/Redo

Open Image Files in ScreenJot

Supports Image File Drag and Drop

ScreenJot 2.1 Released

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:58:00 +0000

ScreenJot is a powerful screen capture program that makes it quick and easy to take a "picture" of what is on your screen at any given time. ScreenJot lets you capture the entire desktop, the contents of a specific window or a cropped section of the screen. After you have captured an image, you can manipulate it and share it with AIM, GTalk, or any other applications that support file drag and drop.

Download ScreenJot 2.1 Now

New Features in 2.1

UI Enhancements

New Custom Scrollbars - Not only do they look sweet but they help to differentiate the ScreenJot scrollbars from any scrollbars that may be included in a screen capture.

Time Delay Feedback - A countdown timer is now displayed during a time delay capture.

Additional Mouse Wheel Support

Horizontal Scrolling - Just hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys when using the mouse wheel.

Scaling - Just hold down the Ctrl key when using the mouse wheel.

Self Portrait

Want to include ScreenJot in one of your captures? Now it's easy. You can now disable the automatic hiding of ScreenJot when you take a capture. Just open the preferences dialog and uncheck the "Hide ScreenJot During Screen Capture" checkbox.

Windows Capture

Now its even easier to take screenshots of top-level windows. Now when you initiate a window capture ScreenJot only hilites top-level Windows. If you want to capture a child window, like a button or text field, simply hold down the ctrl key during window selection.

ScreenJot Gallery

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:25:00 +0000

ScreenJot is a screen capture utility that makes it fast and easy to take a picture of what is on your screen at any given time. It lets you capture the entire desktop, the contents of a specific window, or a cropped section of the screen. After you have take a screeshot, you can manipulate it and share it with AIM, GTalk, or any other applications that support file drag and drop.

We've added an image gallery for ScreenJot. This gallery includes some snaps of ScreenJot in action. You can see it here.

ScreenJot 2.0 Ships

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:14:00 +0000

A major update of our ever popular ScreenCapture utility. We've taken a fresh look at this utility and incorporated your feedback. Over the next few days we'll be posting details on what's new and exciting about ScreenJot.

Try ScreenJot free for 30 days.

Visit our home page for more information.
http://www.liquidthought.com

LiquidThought is now a Certified iPhone Developer

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:11:00 +0000

We have a couple of new iPhone app concepts under development. Please stay tuned for more announcements.

pxCamera

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:43:00 +0000

pxCamera is a simple video camera capture class that layers on top of pxCore, our portable opensource framebuffer library. The design of pxCamera makes it well suited to do a variety of fun and interesting things with captured video frames - like computer vision or image processing applications.

The design of the pxCamera API followed a few principles as follows:

*Be Simple – Allows for enumeration of available capture devices and the ability to initiate capturing frames from a given camera into a pxBuffer(framebuffer).
*No UI Policy – Simple capture into a framebuffer. No UI is assumed.
*Support multiple capture sources simultaneously. [I’ve tested with two webcams] pxCamera should support any DirectShow compatible video source.
*Portable API – The API is portable even though the implementation is currently only for Windows.

Google Code Project Page
http://code.google.com/p/pxcamera

pxCore 1.2

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:09:00 +0000

We've made some minor additions to our portable open source framebuffer library, pxCore. Most of these additionals were added to support a video capture library that we'll be posting in the near future. Some of the changes to pxCore include:

* Added the ability to directly blit pxBuffer frame buffer descriptors.
* Added beginNativeDrawing and endNativeDrawing to allow native drawing outside of the paint loop.
* Added an example that demonstrates using platform native drawing methods in conjunction with the portable frame buffer primitives in pxCore.

Google Code Project Page
http://code.google.com/p/pxcore

Johnny Lee Rocks

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:50:00 +0000

Here is another vid from Johnny Lee - Wii hacker extraordinaire. In this one he turns a wiimote into a multitouch display.

Some more projects

pxCore

support@liquidthought.com (LiquidThought) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:22:00 +0000

pxCore is a small opensource library that provides a portable framebuffer and windowing abstraction for C++. This library is intended to hide the complexity of writing rasterization code on multiple platforms and allows you to easily write the following sorts of things in a portable way.

2d and 3d rasterizers
Transition Libraries
Filter Routines
Image Processing

In its design a few principles were followed:

Be Small – A simple windowed application can be built (on Windows) in as little as 8k.
Be Simple – The framebuffer abstraction supports 32bpp framebuffers and is intended to be minimal yet complete.
Don’t tightly couple the framebuffer and windowing functionality.- Some other framebuffer libraries (PixelToaster for one) don’t separate out the framebuffer abstraction from the windowing abstraction. By loosely coupling the two abstractions this library becomes much more valuable; as the framebuffer functionality can be used and integrated with other windowing toolkits easily thereby making YOUR code more reusable.
Platform native surface construction
Policy free resizing support – No policy is baked into the window resizing support so that applications completely control their own resizing behavior.
Portable Keyboard, Mouse and Window events
Support for portable performance timers
Basic Animation Support – Support for a basic animation timer event (frames per second) is built into the windowing abstraction making it easy to write applications that animate their contents.

pxCore has been ported to Windows, pocketpc (arm4), linux(x11), OSX.

Google Code Project Page
http://code.google.com/p/pxcore/