Tommy, try selecting text and going back to Services.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
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§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 5:52:04 pm PST #6087 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DCJensen - Dec 20, 2005 5:53:10 pm PST #6088 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
The Mac can read the text of anything out loud. I wonder if they just tapped into that?
tommyrot - Dec 20, 2005 5:54:58 pm PST #6089 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tommy, try selecting text and going back to Services.
Sorry, forgot to mention that doesn't work. At least in Firefox - wait, it does work in Safari. OK, the Firefox folks must not have enabled it.
ION, I am too tired to figure out if I should care:
Heembo writes "CNN is reporting that Google just acquired a 5% stake in AOL for $1 Billion, shutting Microsoft out of the deal." Under this new agreement, among many other things, Google Talk will now interface with AOL's instant messenger according to the announcement on Google's site. From the announcement: "Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said: 'AOL is one of Google's longest-standing partners, and we are thrilled to strengthen and expand our relationship. Today's agreement leverages technologies from both companies to connect Google users worldwide to a wealth of new content.'"
(from Slashdot)
DCJensen - Dec 20, 2005 5:59:04 pm PST #6090 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
My Windows XP with Adobe Reader 7.0 can read text. Neat.
DXMachina - Dec 20, 2005 5:59:53 pm PST #6091 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Google is also changing the way it presents advertising on its sites because of this:
Under the new global advertising partnership, AOL will be able to sell all types of ads, including search, banner and display, across Google's network, which includes Google's own Web sites and the publisher sites that display Google-powered ads, said Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience. Google's home page and core search results page will stick with text-only ads, while graphical ads could appear on Google's video and image search sites, she said.
DXMachina - Dec 20, 2005 6:01:20 pm PST #6092 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
My Windows XP with Adobe Reader 7.0 can read text. Neat.
Heck, my Amiga could do that 16 years ago. :)
tommyrot - Dec 20, 2005 6:03:53 pm PST #6093 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Can text be "read" into a sound file (mp3, etc)? I mean, easily - not requiring the use of a program to intercept audio and save it to disk?
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 6:19:00 pm PST #6094 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Firefox evidently sucks.
t /sweeping judgment
Opera will read for ya.
Nutty - Dec 20, 2005 6:39:22 pm PST #6095 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
1) Does this mean more spam in my Gmail account?
2) Is there really a person named "Heembo" out there in the world, or is it really "Himbo" pronounced very carefully?
signed,
spent many moons thinking newscaster Tom Aspwell was Tom Asshole, because he did not enunciate his consonants clearly enough.
Gris - Dec 20, 2005 7:18:47 pm PST #6096 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Sorry, forgot to mention that doesn't work. At least in Firefox - wait, it does work in Safari. OK, the Firefox folks must not have enabled it.
Firefox does not use the standard Mac OS X API in a lot of cases, because of the whole cross-platformness. Opera, on the other hand, actually seems to have a more OS-dependent codebase for each OS it supports, so it actually does use the standard OS X system calls. Anyway, this basically means Firefox won't support the text reading.
Camino, on the other hand, does. Still my favorite OS X browser, for this reason among others. Sadly, Camino still doesn't support the Tiger dictionary shortcut (if you haven't tried it - on many OS X applications, if you press Apple-CTRL-D, a dictionary will pop up that defines the word under the cursor. It's really cool.)
I could probably like Opera just as much, but something about its interface still bugs. I'm happy enough with Camino that I'm just not interested in playing with it to make me like it, I guess.