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Geeky Gizmos usually got here because they're fun--fun to build, or fun to play with,
or both. They also tend toward useful pieces of web programming.
So, while the javascript clock may look mostly like "just" a clock, there's stuff on the
page that shows how to link external scripts into a page, how to do an image map,
how to link to images in subdirectories with different paths, how a cursor script works, etc.
No need to feel like it's schooltime to play with them, though! Have fun!
Email me (see the About page) if you have questions.
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- The Javascript Clock
- See the description above as the Javascript clock is actually a collection
of multiple programming gizmos. Make a new set of the digit images and maybe a frame to
go around it. Viola! A brand new thing! There are plans for new cursor trailer images, something
different from the sparkles. Bug-lettes or critters maybe?
- The Calendar
- Some calendar challenged people can never have too
many calendars. This one is particularly handy. Get yourself clear on
who's day it is, anyway.
- Go Dog Go
- See the P.D. Eastman book if you haven't. You do not need to like my hat.
It's not as flashy as most FLASH stuff, and it makes the same point as the book (or not).
Oh, but it does have several great reasons for being here. It's a perfectly simple "template"
if you wonder how to put a FLASH movie into an HTML page with OBJECT and EMBED tags. And, you
can see how you can change the background color of both the movie and the page to whatever
you like.
- Antares Date
- That's a little like a "star date", only different. It's very sweet. I owe
Raul for the inspiration on this one. A little javascript behind it figures out the month and the day
and goes to pick out the right images to put on the page. All it takes is cranking out about 40
images in Photoshop (for the months and the dates). The only catch is when there are seven different
color schemes (such is the case here at Tenstellium), that's 40-some times seven. We'll celebrate
when it shows up on the front page again in all its glorious color variations.
- The Daisy Page
- A lesson in converting color images to black & white that uses
the terminology of Photoshop. It looks automagic to use the simple "convert to grayscale"
command, but it's not likely to produce something that looks like a good black and white
photograph. Also, "desaturate" takes all the color out of the image, but it looks horrid. It
takes looking at each color channel separately. Doing an "auto levels" on each channel is
a big improvement, but sometimes it requires a little judgement to adjust the levels to "almost"
what the autolevels would do. Then when the channels color channels are recombined, the image
can be converted to grayscale. The last example has subtely that the others don't.
This
is a digital example of what a good black and white printer goes through in the darkroom.
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