{"id":246,"date":"2023-06-28T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuff.frankdux.de\/?p=246"},"modified":"2023-10-15T18:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T17:55:53","slug":"coldmonkey-com-a-simple-prompter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff.frankdux.de\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Coldmonkey.com – a simple prompter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My colleagues were running a presentation in front of a larger audience, and I acted as (silent) time keeper in the background, giving them subtle signs to either speed up, slow down or explain something in more detail when I realized that the audience wasn’t following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried different ways: small hand gestures, eye contact, even small hand written signs. But in today’s digital times, there must be a better way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenting to you: coldmonkey.com<\/a> – a very simple site to bring small bits of information across to someone else. Basically, you open coldmonkey.com<\/a> on one device (a phone, tablet, computer) and type a short text there. The website will generate a second site with a random URL – use a second device to access that URL and display the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So the time keeper (me) accesses coldmonkey.com<\/a> and updates the text to be displayed if needed, and the presenter (my colleague) has a second mobile somewhere in front of him where he can read the text if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He does not need to do anything on his device; the text will update automatically every two seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If needed, the time keeper can change the background colour of the displayed text to express more (or less) urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This site is free to use, requires no App installation, has no ads and only one cookie (which is the unique random code of the generated page); no marketing ads or similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For developers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The site returns the information also as JSON object – when calling the displayjson.php<\/code>-script, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/coldmonkey.com\/displayjson.php?ac=xV2ikfPafhEUMU2ZzHtebcvvwJp3v3CH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result will be something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

header('Content-Type: application\/json; charset=utf-8');
{\"text\":\"This is the text\",\"style\":\"2\",\"updated\":\"2023-07-29 21:03:37\",\"accesscode\":\"xV2ikfPafhEUMU2ZzHtebcvvwJp3v3CH\"}<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four returned attributes are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n