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Archive for December, 2002

Bad TiVo, Bad!

Sunday, December 1st, 2002

TiVo recorded the Anna Nicole Smith show. She wears fake nipples. Three thumbs down.

’nuff said.

It’s Alive!

Sunday, December 1st, 2002

Sometime in the wee hours of the morning I got the Palace plugin working! This plugin takes text spoken in Palace and calls an AppleScript located in the Palace directory. That script then calls a Cocoa app I wrote over the weekend to speak the text.

Now I can add features like queuing of speech, multiple voices, pitch rates, etc, etc. Was a great project for me personally. From brainstorm to working model was about 12 hours of coding. Most of that was because I didn’t understand Script Editor was caching data about my application, negating changes I was making.

I am really excited, even if this code is never used by anyone, I now have more Cocoa experience under my belt, more AppleScript experience and even some groddy PPC UPP experience (Since CW8 does not support 68K it seems)

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