generators

expressivo

I wonder if you’ever heard of expressivo? If you haven’t, have a look; if you’ve seen that, play with it again icon_smile-4711243

By and large, expressivo is an online service that provided text-to-speech reader (and not only). It produces speech in English, Polish and Romanian. To generate speech it uses IVONA TTS.

I don’t know Romanian but English and Polish TTSs …

Web 2.0 buttons generator

Web 2.0-styled buttons are quite popular these days. In fact, they look fine. Actually, I love them icon_smile-7942167

Today, I learned you don’t have to do it on your own with graphic software. I’ve found www.mycoolbutton.com – Web 2.0 buttons generator. It allows you to create a button in four steps:

  1. define the size
  2. define the color
  3. set up the icon

AJAX activity indicator

Users are familiar with indications of work performed in background since first versions of MS Windows. Besides being fancy, they are also informative.

AJAX, a Web 2.0 technique, aim at exchanging only small amounts of data with a server; this should be performed behind the scenes. If so, why not expose the moments when user interaction brings about reqest and …