Seek Bar (Easy Way to Transcribe Using Bookmarklets)

Rob · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:33 am

I found a good website with bookmarklets. There is one that is very helpful when transcribing. It will temporarily put a seek bar and pause button under a flash object. This allows you to easily go through different parts of a toon and even access easter eggs without clicking on anything but the seek bar. To enable the bookmarklet, you drag the bookmarklet link to your Favorites/Bookmarks. When you want to use it, click on it in your Favorites/Bookmarks.Here is where it's at. It is called seek bar or seek bar for IE.

porplemontage · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:59 am

I remember else someone talking about these before. Anyway, those are very cool when watching a toon, because you don't have to start from the very beginning to see a certain part.

Tompkins · **Joined:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:37 pm **Posts:** 1391

I cant get them to work. any help?

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:19 pm

Follow the instructions and make sure you're getting the right version.

Tompkins · **Joined:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:37 pm **Posts:** 1391

I followed the instructions and it still wont work!

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:25 pm

What browser are you using? How did you install it? Does it appear on your links bar or in your bookmarks? What happens when you click on it while there is a Flash movie on the page you're looking at?

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:51 pm

Very nice. Maybe I'll start doing some transcripts again.

TheNintenGenius · **Posted:** Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:24 pm

This would help me quite a bit when doing transcripts, believe me.

Hysterical Woman · **Posted:** Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:00 am

I usually use the swf file if I want to pause, but this seems like a better way. Unfortunelty, I'm using a public computer currently, so I'll have to keep bookmarking.

Mrs Commanderson · **Posted:** Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:24 am

Personally, I'm not going to use these. I prefer the conventional way of making transcripts. It's boring to do it the conventional way, but I still do it.

This may put me out of a job making minor edits, though.

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:19 pm

Bumped for an interesting find.

If you've used the seek bar to watch the emails, you'll know that the easter eggs are contained at the end of the flash file, and you can view them by sliding the button forward instead of clicking. Well, I was watching Mile today, and when I watched the easter egg, I noticed that there was still a little bit of the flash file left after the egg was done. So I slid the button forward, and this is what I saw:

Figure 1

It dances for a few seconds the way Homestar danced in The House Tha Gave Sucky Treats. I'm going to start watching all the emails with the seek bar on to see if there are any more unfinished easter eggs hiding in there.

[Edit by InterruptorJones: Don't post huge pictures that widen the page -- just link to them.]

homestrar1334 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:10 pm

its not working for me either.

Tompkins · **Joined:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:37 pm **Posts:** 1391

It keeps telling me I have no scriptable flash on the page...

Edit: I got it working!

homestrar1334 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:45 am

tompkins wrote:

It keeps telling me I have no scriptable flash on the page...

also for me.

porplemontage · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:46 am

tompkins wrote:

It keeps telling me I have no scriptable flash on the page...

That's probably because there is no scriptable Flash on this page. Try using the link on a page with Flash actually on it, like any homestarrunner.com toon.

But if it isn't working on a page with Flash on it, all I can tell you is to make sure that you're using the right code for your browser.

homestrar1334 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:48 am

i tried with email and toon.

Rob · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:54 am

Are you using the right bookmarklet? If you're using Mozilla Firefox, drag the "seek bar" button (on the page I showed you to in the first post) into your Bookmarks. If you're using Internet Explorer, drag the "seek bar for IE" button (on the page I showed you to in the first post) into your Favorites. Then go to a toon on H*R.com, go to your Bookmarks/Favorites, and click on "seek bar" (or "seek bar for IE").

Tompkins · **Joined:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:37 pm **Posts:** 1391

Rainer wrote:

Are you using the right bookmarklet? If you're using Mozilla Firefox, drag the "seek bar" button (on the page I showed you to in the first post) into your Bookmarks. If you're using Internet Explorer, drag the "seek bar for IE" button (on the page I showed you to in the first post) into your Favorites. Then go to a toon on H*R.com, go to your Bookmarks/Favorites, and click on "seek bar" (or "seek bar for IE").

wow! I got it working! I finally get to see headless homestar dance in the "mile" email!

TotalSpaceshipGuy3 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:29 am

Tompkins wrote:

wow! I got it working! I finally get to see headless homestar dance in the "mile" email!

Dancing Headless homestar in mile?

edit: oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

edit after edit: They should have thrown in the "Strong Badia welcomes Swedish Goods" sone to dancing Homestar

The Japanese Geek · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:57 pm

I get this:

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:02 pm

The Japanese Geek wrote:

I get this:

I don't think that's an error you would get if you following the instructions.

The Instructions wrote:

To keep bookmarklets in order to use them on other web pages, drag them to your Bookmarks Toolbar.

And make sure you're using the correct version for your browser (i.e if you're using Internet Explorer, make sure you grab the one labelled "seek bar for IE").

DumDeDum · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:14 am

Woah! I found a secret thing in email "pom pom"

Use your seek bar and go between the two easter eggs.

ramrod · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2005 2:48 pm

DumDeDum wrote:

Woah! I found a secret thing in email "pom pom"

Use your seek bar and go between the two easter eggs.

What the crap is that thing? Looks like a baseball with rockets on it.

Dark Grapefruit · **Posted:** Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:54 pm

*checks* Yep, definitely there and definitely weird. WTFrig. Good find.

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