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• Is it just me or is gravity inverted wherever this guy is? The air bubble in his level *sinks*! :)

  Posted by: pelrun on January 24, 2006 at 12:17 AM

• That would be really nice if the bubble moved in the right direction.

  Posted by: Izzard-UK on January 24, 2006 at 12:17 AM

• Hey, if you can do this, why not do the following?

  Use a GPS locator device, lock your 'windows' to its current location and altitude and make your desktop global. This would be a huge desktop!

  So when you move your notebook to the left, your windows stay put but other windows slide in to your screen frame.

  Where did I left my Photoshop instance? Oh, yes about 35.6/78.3 and 6 foot high above sealevel.

  Is that what they meant by 'virtual reality' or 'virtual desktop' or what?

  Your cyberspace is unlimited expandable!

  - Unomi -

  Posted by: Unomi on January 24, 2006 at 1:08 AM

• Yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by the inverted action of the bubble.

  Posted by: jon.emmons on January 24, 2006 at 5:14 AM

• normal levels use air bubbles, maybe this one is a dense object??? therefore it would *sink* why would one have to rewrite the laws of gravity, when all you have to do is think a little harder....

  Posted by: hello_david on January 24, 2006 at 7:12 AM

• normal levels use air bubbles, maybe this one is a dense object??? therefore it would *sink* why would one have to rewrite the laws of gravity, when all you have to do is think a little harder....

  Posted by: hello_david on January 24, 2006 at 7:13 AM

• Don't be silly: it's CLEARLY a bubble :P

  Posted by: Izzard-UK on January 24, 2006 at 10:35 AM

• as a stabila fan, i have to say it was hurting my eyes and giving me a headache to see the bubble going the wrong way. hopefully that'll be fixed.

  Posted by: dkliman on February 1, 2006 at 12:05 PM

• as a stabila fan, i have to say it was hurting my eyes and giving me a headache to see the bubble going the wrong way. hopefully that'll be fixed.

  Posted by: dkliman on February 1, 2006 at 12:06 PM

• The C code for the motion sensor is different on various i and Powerbooks. Apple changed the specs also. I got a more natural bubble motion by changing the line in the HTML source of the widget to
  
  AMSout = (AMSsplit[0]*(-3)+176);
  
  Also, I do not know if the source of the 'motion' c program is updated yet to incorporate the Powerbook HiRes (1,67 GHz). You might have to recompile the motion.c source and re-assemble the widget.

  Posted by: Axello on February 7, 2006 at 12:32 PM

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