Blog Add-Ons: Put a Human Clock in your Blog

If you enjoyed the Human clock widget above, here are simple instructions on how to embed it in your own blog. The file is around 75kb in size so might take some to appear on a slow internet connection.

1. Download the Clock Animation and upload it to your webserver.

2. Copy paste the following Flash embedding code anywhere in your blog template.

Remember to change the HEIGHT and WIDTH parameters depending on your site layout. Since it's a vector animation, it will scale smoothly.

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/_
_pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab"
WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="100" >
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="clock.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="clock.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF
  WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="100"
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED></OBJECT>

Animation & Full Credit to Billy Chasen and Kaileena Suza for the pictures and the animations.

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