Category Archives: Suggest a Feature

About the Moose’s eye contact. I’ve read that there is an 80-20 rule for friendly eye gaze. Do direct eye contact looking directly at user 80% of the time, and look away 20% of the time. However that statistic comes … Continue reading →

Here’s a feature idea. You know how, when you hear a funny joke, you like to tell someone that joke before you forget it? Well, I think it would be good, to look at the “What did the Moose just … Continue reading →

I’m planning to put a button on the new Moose’s control panel, that briefly tells people how they can get new abilities coded into new Applets. It would give a short explanation on the control panel, and then provide a … Continue reading →

I plan to have a button on the new Moose’s Control Panel, telling people how to get started in translating the Moose into other languages. Then it would hopefully show a link to open a webpage on this website, with … Continue reading →

I think I’ll get a feature coded into an Applet for the Moose to speak about sunrise, sunset, and full moons. I actually have this working already on the VB6 Moose, but it currently works by fetching a PHP webpage. … Continue reading →

I got this idea for a feature for the Moose today. I was looking for RSS newsfeeds that would tell me the names of new Movies being released into theatres, and stumbled onto RSS newsfeeds telling you what’s on TV … Continue reading →

With the new 3D Talking Moose, I want him to be able to “look right at you”. But because the Moose can appear in different corners of the screen, and because users have many different sizes of monitors, it will … Continue reading →

For as long as I can remember, for as long a computers had speech synthesis, there have been products for sale that allow people to have their text documents read out loud. I personally don’t enjoy that, but some people … Continue reading →

Although the Moose will ship with a collection of >1100 jokes and sayings, the internet has huge collections of jokes. Tapping into these, perhaps using the Moose’s RSS newsfeed abilities, would be useful.

At the moment, I use a webpage created with PHP, that calculates the moon phase, and the time of moon rise and moon set. PHP makes that easy, with built-in commands for moon times, and GeoIP for making good guesses … Continue reading →