| Header | Header 2 |
|---|---|
| Data | Data |
| Data | Data |
| Data | Data |
| Data | Data |
produced by pasting this:
<table border="1" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
<tr><th>Header</th><th>Header 2</tr>
<tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr>
<tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr>
<tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr>
<tr><td>Data</td><td>Data</td></tr>
</table>
into the Text Editor.
Produces an SVG animation. This is not supported in Internet explorer, as far as I know. So if you are using IE you will not see this:-(
I just noticed that you can embed gists by pasting the url to the gist into the post editor on a line of its own. This uses the shortcode module of the Jetpack plugin so you need to Active the plugin and then the shortcode module.
this example is an applescript that creates auto-complete gifs for google searches. Not something many folk would need.
| –needs gifsicle http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ | |
| — updated for retina screen | |
| set thetext to text returned of (display dialog "What do you want to autocomplete?" default answer "I hate") | |
| set theFileName to change_case_of(thetext, "lower") & ".gif" | |
| set tempdir to POSIX path of (path to temporary items from user domain) & "autogifs/" | |
| try | |
| do shell script "mkdir " & tempdir | |
| end try | |
| set alphabet to {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"} | |
| set vowels to "aeiou" | |
| tell application "Safari" | |
| activate | |
| tell application "System Events" | |
| tell process "Safari" | |
| click menu item "New Private Window" of menu "File" of menu bar 1 | |
| end tell | |
| end tell | |
| set bounds of window 1 to {0, 0, 800, 600} | |
| set the URL of the front document to "http://google.co.uk" | |
| delay 5 | |
| tell application "System Events" | |
| keystroke thetext | |
| end tell | |
| repeat with letter in alphabet | |
| set typing to " " & letter | |
| set tfile to tempdir & letter & ".gif" | |
| tell application "System Events" | |
| keystroke typing | |
| delay 1 | |
| do shell script "screencapture -t GIF " & tfile | |
| keystroke (ASCII character 8) | |
| keystroke (ASCII character 8) | |
| end tell | |
| end repeat | |
| end tell | |
| if isRetina() then | |
| do shell script "/usr/local/bin/gifsicle –delay 90 –colors 128 –loopcount –crop 0,200+1600×320 –resize 800×160 " & tempdir & "* > ~/Desktop/" & theFileName | |
| else | |
| do shell script "/usr/local/bin/gifsicle –delay 90 –colors 128 –loopcount —crop 0,100+800×160 " & tempdir & "* > ~/Desktop/" & theFileName | |
| end if | |
| — | |
| –clean up | |
| do shell script "rm -rf " & tempdir | |
| –do shell script "open " & tempdir | |
| on isRetina() | |
| set ret to (do shell script "system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | awk '/Retina:/{print $2}'") | |
| if ret is "Yes" then | |
| return true | |
| else | |
| return false | |
| end if | |
| end isRetina | |
| on change_case_of(this_text, this_case) | |
| if this_case is "lower" then | |
| set the comparison_string to "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ " | |
| set the source_string to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_" | |
| else | |
| set the comparison_string to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" | |
| set the source_string to "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" | |
| end if | |
| set the new_text to "" | |
| repeat with thisChar in this_text | |
| set x to the offset of thisChar in the comparison_string | |
| if x is not 0 then | |
| set the new_text to (the new_text & character x of the source_string) as string | |
| else | |
| set the new_text to (the new_text & thisChar) as string | |
| end if | |
| end repeat | |
| return the new_text | |
| end change_case_of |
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working at the Computer Centre for the last 8 or so years.
Sad to go.
I’ve done a little more testing of connectors, the RSS one has not worked yet, but I, added a twitter search which works and a ‘Incoming Webhook’. The webhook allows you to hook up services to post to your Outlook group. I’ve just tested it from the terminal.
The featured images shows the result of the twitter connector. You connect to your twitter account in the usual way and can set up alerts for usernames or searches. You can get them delivered periodically or as they happen.
The Twitter connector could be a simple and powerful way to pull information about a topic (hashtag) into an outlook group discussing that topic.
Here is an incoming webhook:
There is information on how to send these: Get started with Office 365 Connector Cards – Outlook Dev Center.
Here is a screenshot of the terminal producing that card (I’ve pixelated some of the url).
Hopefully this post will get pushed to the group through the RSS connection.
I am hoping that this blog post will feed into a test outlook group.
It looks like there are a lot of possibilities…
After activating the plugin all you do is paste in the google Calendar code:
Here is a gif showing the process:
Glow Blogs now support the embedding of scratch, just paste in the URL to a project.
Here is a gif showing how I added this. It is so quick you don’t see the URL I paste in.
Scratch is becoming more popular in Scottish classrooms all the time, now glow users can display their projects on their blogs.
