Live Writer is a desktop application from Microsoft that allows the user to easily post to Microsoft Live Spaces, Blogger, wordpress, and other blog software (either hosted or on your own server). The WYSIWYG tool is amazingly easy to setup and use and posting to multiple blogs is a snap. Learn more about Livewriter here (and download it, too!) So,
Well, this is kind of old news (2005!), but CVS now sells a disposable video camera.I wonder if they sell a disposable waterproof video camera … Anyhow, kind of interesting, but then considering how many phones and cheapie digital cameras now shoot video, I wonder how long this will last? Or perhaps, everything will move towards disposability. At least, the
It sounds like Microsoft is continuing to head down the path to standards compliancy… http://blogs.computerworld.com/web_standards_in_ie_8 and a quick overview of some of the new features on the way (webslices looks amazingly like snapshots, which provides a little rollover live popup of a page as used on this website…. hmmmm…) http://blogs.computerworld.com/five_things_youll_love_or_hate_about_ie8 I won’t be testing IE8 as I gave up on
Here is a prototype of a library catalog (III’s Millenium) wrapped on the library website with Drupal (a MOSTLY opensource website content management system — mostly because a commercial version of Drupal is now under development). The Drupal module for integrating the library catalog includes modules like ratings (Fivestar), Faceted Search, and Similar by Terms. Drupal is built with modules
Of course, if the functionality isn’t there, I think people wouldn’t buy it to begin with (I wouldn’t!) but as anyone who has tried to learn to use a new software that comes with a booksized manual can attest…. usability does matter. ———————————– …But when it comes to realizing the value of a deployment, a new study finds software functionality
I feel an apology is in order. I’ve slipped off of the blogsphere for a while, mostly because I’ve just had so much project work going on. I’ve been busy tidying up my metadata for a project and I’m getting ready to teach a little workshop on advanced powerpoint (online materials forthcoming). I’ve had a couple of high priority-time sensitive