Archive for September 3rd, 2006
September 3rd, 2006 | 
Author: I’ve been looking at Text to Speech Flash applications trying to find that something that would allow me to dynamically generate a TTS based flash animation and have had zero luck. However, during my search I came across crazytalk from www.reallusion.com. This thing is hilarious. Unfortunately, it wants you to use it’s own ActiveX plugin to get the full effect of the animation and I’m hesitant to install a plug-in or require others to use my plug-in. It would be ideal if they supported direct to Flash animations. However, I did come up with a reasonable substitute.
Posted in Applications, The Cool Stuff, Web Technologies | 
Tags: Applications, The Cool Stuff, Web Technologies | 
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In case you haven’t heard you no longer need an ‘invite’ or have to wait to get a google analytics account. It’s now open and free to anyone to instantly create an account.
Google analytics is the result of Google’s purchase of urchin, a pretty decent web stats (ok, fine analytics) which previously was pretty pricey if you wanted to deploy it on your site. The downside is code has to be loaded on every page and it then calls a link out to google and stores your data there. Honestly, I enjoy it. When comparing Google’s analytics to our own Smarterstats install, I think you’ll find they both have their advantages and disadvantages, however smarterstats I think provides more in depth information where google provides a nice overview.
