John Johnston

Test Image from sway

Image url: https://eus-www.sway-cdn.com/s/yxBOD2mcPsZkUWFo/images/5dSPk2zDarPeo-?quality=1024&allowAnimation=false

July 14, 2017

Header	Header 2
Data	Data
Data	Data
Data	Data
Data	Data

<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.

January 23, 2017

An animated Christmas

December 12, 2016

Parapara

Parapara Animation

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:-(

December 7, 2016

gist embed

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

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October 5, 2016

Last Day

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working at the Computer Centre for the last 8 or so years.

Sad to go.

August 12, 2016

More Connectors

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: