Archive for February 2009

How to embed the Vocaroo voice recorder in your website

Just another Vocaroo tip!
A proper API and toolkit for adding voice recording functionality to websites is planned, but until it’s ready, here’s a way you can let people send you a voice message directly from your website, using an IFRAME:
<iframe src="http://vocaroo.com/?replyto=email@address.com" width="600" height="700"></iframe>
(replace “email@address.com” with your own email address)
This will give:

It’s a bit ugly though, [...]

10 things to do with Vocaroo

10 things to do with Vocaroo, the online voice recorder.
1) Send someone a voice email. Duh :)
2) Start a game in a web forum or community you belong to. Compare accents from around the world.
3) Post a link to your voice on bebo, myspace, facebook…
4) Use it in a school as a teaching aid.
5) Use [...]

rm -R /

Ahhh. I just did
rm -R /
It was strangely liberating.
I’ve just transferred Vocaroo from the VPS it was on to a dedicated server, the same one I run some web proxies on. So I no longer need the VPS.
But the command is hanging… surely it shouldn’t take this long. But the free disk space amount in [...]

I got’s me a wordpress blog!

The old blog can be found here…