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I have found the need to acknowledge people's failures in an obnoxious way, so i decided to make this little emergency keyboard cat button, good for playing off even the smallest of failures.

Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQf9cZYb50

Heres how i did it:

1. Get the keyboard cat video from mtube or similar video downloader

2. Copy the icon attached to this post to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
(you'll probably need to do this as root with the command 'cp keyboardcat.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scaleable/apps/')

3. refresh your icon cache with the command 'gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor'

4. Install personal launcher from maemo extras

5. edit personal launcher and add a launcher for Keyboard Cat by clicking the '+' button
use this command:
mplayer -aspect 16:10 -af volume=10 -softvol -softvol-max 500 <path to keyboard cat video>

to select the keyboard cat icon click 'select icon' and choose 'applications' under the 'type of icon' drop down menu at the top of the window.
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Last edited by overfloat; 2009-08-20 at 06:50.
 

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Genius! Thank you!
 
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This is awesome. Thanks.
 
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Thank you! This is very usefull, might become a killer app
 
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What is this? A practical demonstration we don't need no stinking iPhone developers?
 
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that was fun -- I 5-starred ya
 
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Originally Posted by luca View Post
What is this? A practical demonstration we don't need no stinking iPhone developers?
The iPhone version requires multiple clicks and stuff... i like adding music to failure with just a single click.

set up your tablet on your desk and whenever someone makes a mistake - just bash the icon once and you have instant gratification.
 
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