Running Baby Smash Offline

scott cate — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:01:00 GMT

Last night Cameron and I posted about BabySmash, and how much fun we were having with it. This morning I was trying to show some folks the app, but I was offline.

Knowing how the technology works, I was able to find the local storage, and still run the last version of the program. I thought this may be helpful for others to see, so I screen cast it, while I was opening the file to show.

The file structure will be different for XP vs. Vista (this is Vista) but somewhere in your profile you'll find Apps\2.0\ .......

Enjoy the 90 second screen cast.

I was in a hurry to post this, so I didn't do the pan/zoom but I think it's good enough to get the point across.

Cameron loves BabySmash!

scott cate — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:59:00 GMT

My son Cameron is 2.5 years old, and loves to play on the keyboard. He knows his alphabet, and numbers, both written and in sign language. Sitting in front of the computer for him is very exciting because he watches mommy and daddy play with the letter toy quite a bit.

Last week (maybe two weeks ago) Scott Hanselman started a fun project called BabySmash, that simply plays a sound and displays a character or shape on the screen when a key is pressed on the keyboard. if the keystroke is a letter or number, then the corresponding character is display, along with a sound bite. Other keys show random shapes. All display figures change background, border colors, and screen location, so repeatedly pressing the letter "C" produces a nice effect.

I'm sure there is a wish list of features for this application, but al the things I could think of were for me, not Cameron - and the app is written for Cameron - who really enjoys it.

Here is a 90 Second video showing Cameron and BabySmash.

Scott Cate's WebLog : babysmash

Running Baby Smash Offline

Cameron loves BabySmash!