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enable Emoji keyboard under iOS 5 and above

james — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:37:00 +0000

source: Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

Emoji is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages.

Apple have added the Emoji keyboard to all version of iOS 5 (not just the Japanese version as with previous releases), finally!

To enable this on your iP[ad|hone|od] iOS 5 device.

Start by launching the iOS Settings app and tapping on General settings.
Now tap Keyboard
Now tap International Keyboards.
Tap Add New Keyboard…
Scroll down till you see Emoji, and tap on that
Now we’re done, you can either tap back, or press the Home button.

You can now use Emoji characters whenever you’re entering text.

For example to use Emoji in the Notes application

Launch the Notes application and add a new note
To access the Emoji keyboard tap the International Keyboard icon
The first time you do this you’ll see a dialogue explaining that you can cycle through keyboard by repeatedly tapping the icon.
There are many Emoji available to you including six pages of smilies
Three pages of cute animals and plants
Seven pages of festive, and other event icons
Four pages of location and landmark icons
Five pages of other interesting characters including western zodiac and Chinese horoscope.
Simply tap on the emoji to insert them amongst regular text. You can tap the International Keyboard icon again to return to your regular keyboard

rainbow lorikeets

james — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:41:43 +0000

PumpkinDAY2009/Happy Halloween y’all

james — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:49:06 +0000

Update: 2009-11-03
btw, the pumpkin went bad

cool lego kitchen

james — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:23:02 +0000

So this lego kitchen

is considerably cooler than our lego kitchen.

Nice work.

Turkeyday 2008

james — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:43:36 +0000

rainbow lorikeets eating sunflower seeds

james — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:47:44 +0000

visualising bittorrent swarms

james — Sun, 14 May 2006 04:23:07 +0000

The following visualisations were created for use as eye candy in a podcast I’m editing for the 53rd Sydney Film Festival. Specifically I intend to use them for the Hyperdistribution Pod/Webcast Masterclass featuring Mark Pesce.

All of the imagery you are about to see was generated by the Azureus Java BitTorrent client during an actual download. They were captured using a trial version of the awesome screen capture utility from Ambrosia Software, SnapzPro. Each of captured videos were then manipulated in Final Cut Pro, before being encoded using ffmpegX

The animations are all copyright (c) James Christopher Murty 2006 under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 2.1 Australia.

“Come and Join the Swarm” – graphically illustrates a torrent being started up. A client becomes one with the swarm as Azureus is able to locate more and more peers who have parts of the desired file. This animation has had an exponential acceleration applied to it compressing about 15 minutes of activity down to 15 seconds.

(15 seconds, 2.4MB)

“A Million Tiny Pieces” – graphically illustrates a file broken into lots of smaller pieces. The animation shows the current upload and download status of each of these pieces. This animation has been sped up compressing about a minute and a half of activity down to five seconds.

(5 seconds, 550KB)

“I Have Peers in Many Places” – graphically illustrates other peers in the swarm currently uploading and downloading the file and their approximate geographic locations. This animation has been sped up compressing about a minute of activity down to five seconds.

(5 seconds, 800KB)

These animations are encoded at 768×576 at 25 frames per second using H264 (MPEG4 Part 10/AVC).
Apple QuickTime 7.1 or above is required to view these videos. I’ve had reports that QuickTime 7.0 and lower under Windows will crash Microsoft I.E. when attempting to play back similarly encoded clips.