Flock aims to take searching and browsing on the ‘net social. I dunno, sometimes I’m not interested in being social — I just need to find something quickly. 😉 IE8 is now in beta and sounds like it will be rolled out with new versions of Windows and sounds like they will continue to move down the standards compliancy road.
Because I can never remember where these are located on the webpage (FAQs, actually)I’m snipping this out for myself with the search links, of course (i.e., just click the link to execute the search in IA). The IA has great stuff for digital collagists, movie makers, & other arty folks.I used stuff from the Prelinger Collection to make my movie
Although I still have lots more work to do it, I managed to get drupal upgraded to 6.1. As I stated in one of my previous drupal posts, the difference between 4.7(? I think that was my latest version pre-upgrade) and 6.1 is amazing. It looks like on the “to do” list for the upcoming upgrades is a WYSIWYG theme
For those unfamiliar with Drupal it is a largescale opensource CMS for a website which is used by the likes of Tim Berners-Lee. Drupal is scalable and modular built which even includes design elements. Each Drupal website is like a house built out of legos — just like legos fit together to create something (a working door, a roof, etc.)
So, I decided I would put all of Powerpoint handout stuff into my website to make it a little more interactive and interesting than just downloading a Word doc. I couldn’t quite figure out how to dump a Word doc into drupal and in looking around on the messageboard I discovered I was 2 versions behind anyhow. Isn’t that the
This breaks my heart. I have a collection of polaroid cameras from the late 60s – 80s and I use the film for art projects. AP article (via Boston.com)http://tinyurl.com/27auph Impact on professional photographers (via Elle.com)http://tinyurl.com/26rjw5 and Polaroid press releasehttp://tinyurl.com/2znmm4
The ad-supported streaming video site, and product of a partnership between NBC Universal and Fox, is opening its doors to the general public tomorrow after approximately five months in private beta. For the first time, users will be able to freely stream Hulu’s Flash-based, ad-supported TV and movie content….. Updated Techmeme article list here:http://www.techmeme.com/071029/p1#a071029p1 Hulu live here:http://www.hulu.com/
To see it full size:http://www.xkcd.com/256/
If you’ve not seen the tutorial from the Univ. of Auckland before, it is kind of an interesting (and different!) approach to teaching users about Voyager — very video gamesque, in as much as a tutorial probably can be. 😉 It’s not the most indepth, but looks to cover the basics. Main table of contents, which also provides some story
This is a much abbreviated version from an email: Convert 4:3 powerpoint presentations to 16:9 (wide-screen)Keynote (apple) can resolve this problem. 1) Open the original presentation in Apple keynote.2) Open the inspector, choose document >slide size Choose the new size 3) Export the new presentation from Keynote to Powerpoint. Workaround from Microsoft:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA011420901033.aspx