Show Notes: Episode 137
General Manager of Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.
Using the free cross-platform Scratch environment from MIT, Randal
demonstrates how to create a chain of cars that responds to and follow
the mouse. He also shows how to break into Scratch
to show that it’s really Squeak Smalltalk behind the scenes.
http://scratch.mit.edu
If you’ve ever wanted the ability to upload pictures to the Internet directly from your camera, now you can! Eye-Fi is an SD memory card with additional functionality that uploads your pictures wirelessly and automatically to your computer, or a photo-sharing site like Flickr, or both.
When you setup Eye-Fi, you choose where you want it to upload, and if you choose to have it sent to a photo sharing site, you’ll see you have almost any choice. The sad thing is you have to choose only one. You can also choose to have the photos uploaded as private or public. If there’s a chance of embarrasing pictures being sent to all your friends and family, I’d suggest setting it to private! You can easily change the appropriate ones to public when you’re ready.
RELATED WEBSITE LINKS
PRODUCTS SHOWN
Eye-Fi Card (2GB wireless SD memory card)
Eye-Fi, Inc.
President and Co-Founder, Nitobi
Quickly explain why you’d want to improve your website’s usability
Explain what RobotReplay is
Quickly show to set it up
Show sample sessions of website visitsRobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action, to help a website owner figure what users want to do on their website. Typically one would have to actually conduct a usability study which is time consuming and expensive or rely on vague website analytics to understand a users goals and or frustrations. With RobotReplay you can view recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke. The end result is you’ll improve your site’s usability, see where your readers get bored and convert more visitors to buyers. It’s a usability tool that’s quick enough and easy enough for any web site owner to use and benefit from.
RobotReplay
www.robotreplay.com
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Air Date: January 22, 2008
TranscriptCaller Questions
- Mack, Timmins, ON
- Richard,
- Jim, Toronto, ON
Yewell's Jewels
- ZoomItwindows
ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.
Sean's Shinies
- Drivemocion Driving LED Emoticon
$30
If you’ve ever been driving down the street and wanted to send a message to the driver behind you — whether good or bad — you’ve had to rely on a convoluted series of hand gestures and yelling out the window…not necessarily the safest thing to do while driving. The Drivemocion is designed to send an emoticon to the driver behind you using infrared: you hang a big circular device with LEDs in the back window, and put a controller up front…simply press the happy face, the sad face, the angry face, etc. You can’t program your own, unfortunately…but that would probably cost you more than $30.
Shiny
- choose from five emoticons
- suction cups to your windows
- inexpensive
Dull
- needs line of site to work
- controller module mount not so sturdy
- no programmabilityDrivemocion
Thinkgeek.com
Kate’s Tips
- Chain of Thoughts
Chain of Thoughts, as the name says, allows you to do research on wikipedia following a chain of thoughts. All you need to do is type in a word/subject that you wish to research, and it generates a list of terms. You can either click on any of the generated terms to read it up on wikipedia or a list of related keywords and topics is generated at the same time.
Basically, it is trying to help you dig deeper into the subject domain by suggesting related terms.