I’ve discussed the great aka objects in another post that dealt with using the Sudden Motion Sensor of the Macbook to control a game of Pacman [link]. This post will deal with the aka.keyboard object and how to use it to add keystroke functionality to a Midi keyboard. This would be useful in situations where you [...]

Here is a brief tutorial on how to make a clickable hyperlink in Max/MSP 5. This tutorial assumes that you have basic familiarity with Max/MSP 5.
You will need….

A patch
A web page you want to link to
Some text to use for the link
A text button
About 20 minutes, give or take

Step 1: Create and setup text button

Choose [...]

This was done by getting coordinates from the MacBook’s sudden motion sensor and routing it into keyboard strokes (arrow keys), then sending it to an online game of Pacman.  
NEW: You can do this by downloading and running the new Tilt2Joystick application. This is a standalone application that will allow you to play games and [...]

In order to create this effect, you’ll need to know how to run Max/MSP, and load the following objects:
Fiddle
aka.booklight
Here’s the patch I did, but there are countless variations.

Caution: Rewire users have been reporting that after entering the Terminal command below, Rewire stops working. I don’t use Rewire, and have no experience with it, but I’d bet that reinstalling Rewire afterwards would fix the problem. It probably installs some kind of virtual driver to your Midi drivers which the Terminal command would delete. The [...]

Note: Apple’s latest Leopard update allows you to access external disks from the Airport extreme without the Terminal hack (step 3). Otherwise, everything else in this post still applies!
I still can’t believe their latest maneuver. Before the release of 10.5 Leopard, Apple began advertising for this great feature called “Time Machine” that was [...]