Sounds Effects on the Cheap [Free]
What blew me away is that I hadn’t come across this web site before! I’ve done a few sound projects before and I always had to deal with what I could find, what I was given, or have to make the sound effects myself.
Usually the web sites that offer sound effects offer low quality stuff, or preview only. Other professional sites will offer a small free collection and keep the good stuff under lock and key. Still other sound effect sites look like a high school project hastily thrown togther with excessive animated GIFs and too many text colors.
Well, I was delightfully surprised to find Soundsnap. Soundsnap is a community web site where users upload, share, and download sound effects and music loops. Best of all, it’s all free and most of the stuff I previewed where of good or high quality. This isn’t a small collection either, there’s something like 80,000 different sounds. Though, 50,000 clips are music loops, but I suppose if that’s what you’re looking for, you’re in luck!
Here are some samples of stuff I was looking for:
127 BPM Monkey (I wasn’t really looking for this, but came across it, thought it sounded neat…)
Also, according to the FAQ and the Terms of Service, everything is offered at no cost and users are free to use for any purpose, commercial or not.
WordPress Fixed Pinging for Future Posts
It took me some amount of time to find this answer, but it seems that WordPress will process a “ping” for your blog when a post goes live. Previously, WordPress would send a ping as soon as any post was published, regardless if a post was scheduled to go live at a later date. After version 2.3 (I believe), the ping will be sent after the new post is public.
One thing to keep in mind, though, is that when your blog pings whatever services you have set up, it’s not telling the service what’s new, only that there is something new at your blog and the service should send a spider/robot/crawler/killer coding ninja monkey at your blog to discover the new content.
Either way, it’s a pretty important feature… But, so are killer coding ninja monkeys… and they don’t have that integrated into WordPress yet, damnit.
(Yes, this post was scheduled for a future time… heheh.)
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