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How my jQuery Drag’n'Drop Jigsaw works

By Colleen, on June 6th, 2010%

I had a kind of implied request to talk about the code in this jquery jigsaw puzzle. I sort of figured you can grab a copy if you like, but maybe a little expository prose will enable you to focus on the salient parts of the script.
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Hypercard What has thou wrought?

By Colleen, on April 18th, 2010%

This series of posts is planned to document of some my adventures trying to leverage an abandoned Hypercard opus I did a long time ago. It’s more of a narrative than a how to. A lot of different realms come into play here. So if you aren’t up for reading a long multi-part techno-novela, scamper along now and go look for clips of Megan Fox or something.

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Toonlet with Audio

By Colleen, on October 29th, 2009%

I just clipped each individual frame of one of my toonlets and put them in an open office presentation. Then I fired up Berio and ran the slideshow fullscreen while I read the lines. Then I imported the whole thing into IMovie, clipped the beginning and end, compressed it a little and uploaded it . . . → Read More: Toonlet with Audio

Utterli: Twitter with media

By Colleen, on January 2nd, 2009%

Utterli seems like a lot like Twitter at first glance. The difference is that you can post voice messages, video, or stills directly to it from your mobile.
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Sarah Palin Answer Oracle

By Colleen, on October 3rd, 2008%

Wow a Sarah Palin Answer Generator!! I had a lot of fun playing with Sarah Palin sound bites this morning, then I whipped up this little program to crank out Sarah Palin speeches. This audio player creates a genuine unique Sarah Palin answer to any question you might wish to ask. . . . → Read More: Sarah Palin Answer Oracle

StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks

By Colleen, on July 29th, 2008%

If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks. Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive.

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Lolcatese — u lerns it or eatz mai dust sucka

By Colleen, on July 7th, 2008%

Lolcatese — is it becoming the new internet pidgin? Perhaps first exclusively written language? Lolcatese is named after the acronym LOL, which is Textese for “laughing out loud.” Textese is a thing distinct from Lolcatese. The purpose of Textese is to transmit the message with the fewest number of keystrokes. Lolcatese and Textese have similar ancestry, but Lolcatese seems to be evolving into a separate language all its own, complete with grammar and spelling conventions, and even pronunciation hints, although Lolcatese is primarily a written language. I’m not sure where the “cat” part comes in.

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Volunteer for Librivox

By Colleen, on June 17th, 2008%

librivox logo It seems most bloggers are very busy trying to suck money from the internet. If tweaking and promoting of your blog doesn’t eat every last second of your time, consider giving something back. I recently found out about Librivox — an all volunteer project to provide audio of public domain literature. Librivox is the natural audio follow-on to the Gutenberg project, from which all their readings are sourced. It’s funny how I heard about Librivox the same day I just spent the afternoon with a 100% blind person.
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How to make an audio post

By Colleen, on June 3rd, 2008%

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The body of this post is audio. You should be seeing a little player icon. One of my test computers failed to display it. If you can’t see it, leave me a comment with your OS, browser and version so we can compile some data for the . . . → Read More: How to make an audio post

TalkR — Audio of your blog

By Colleen, on May 17th, 2008%

What is it with me and Text-To-Speech? Just fond memories, I guess. At one time I had a TalkR widget in my Blogger blog. It had a list of all the posts and it would speak whichever one you picked. It must have worked at one time or I would have . . . → Read More: TalkR — Audio of your blog

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