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?
Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.
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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.
§ 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.
Cass - Dec 20, 2005 9:35:06 pm PST #6097 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
NVU looks nice -- from the screenshots, it's much more full-featured than Tacos.I liked it well enough. Enough that once I had it, I stopped looking for other options. I had tried Taco previously. I also downloaded NVU to a friend's machine when I gave them the lesson in really super basic html because it worked well but also was easy to work in.
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2005 4:17:31 am PST #6098 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Firefox 1.5 stability issues -- anyone here experiencing them?
Tom Scola - Dec 21, 2005 4:19:35 am PST #6099 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
anyone here experiencing them?
No, but I'm not using any plugins, either.
DXMachina - Dec 21, 2005 4:27:50 am PST #6100 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I haven't seen any of them either, and I have several extensions installed.
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2005 4:33:45 am PST #6101 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.
I've had the problem a lot where I click on the address dropdown box and select a web site, but nothing happens and I have to select it again. On both Mac and XP. I do have about four or six plugins on each of my computers with Firefox.
Haven't noticed any of the other problems. It seems to crash about as often as it did before. I haven't really watched CPU usage while loading a web page.
Gudanov - Dec 21, 2005 5:10:45 am PST #6102 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I've seen the task manager problem and there have been some times with the CPU usage spiked, but they don't happen very often. I have 12 extensions installed. I can't decide if I like the Pimpzilla theme or not.