Category Archives: software

Trying to post to ee and blogger at the same time

robinna/ October 18, 2010/ software, social media/ 0 comments

So, I have decided I’d rather just blog in one spot. Really, I just got tired of managing multiple identities on the ‘net — too much work. I really like blogger and while I like ee (ok), it is so much easier to push blogger to well… just about anything. except….I’ve hit a stumbling block with labels. I can get

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National Historical Park database with Edison-era sound recordings

robinna/ December 13, 2009/ software, Libraries, watch.see.hear, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Sounds interesting….—————The National Park Service (NPS) Library Program recently loaded the Thomas Edison National Historical Park (TENHP) MARC-format database of recorded sound holdings into the NPS Voyager catalog. The NPSVoyager catalog is available for public searches on-line at http://www.library.nps.gov/ .The TENHP database in Voyager includes MARC-format data for the 10,000 cylinder records and 28,000 disc records preserved at Edison’s Laboratory

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Drupal 7 news

robinna/ December 2, 2009/ software, Design/ 0 comments

The Drupal community is eagerly anticipating the unwrapping of its newest version 7 release. While there is speculation on when the official release date will happen, the end result will be a number of significant enhancements. The underlying focus has been on improving usability. In fact, an internationally renowned design firm was engaged to spearhead the efforts and facilitate community

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Blue beanie day — support the semantic web

robinna/ November 21, 2009/ software, social media, semantic web, Design, that's cool, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Arches @ noon. Nov. 30.The 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day will be celebrated on Monday, November 30th, 2009see http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136079874938 On Monday, November 30, 2009 thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content. Join the fun! The 2009 event page is here:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136079874938 It’s easy to show your

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Question of the day: My “hand” tool is stuck in Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.?

robinna/ October 20, 2009/ software, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tools/tips, tutorials, Training, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

So, I had the dreaded stuck “hand” tool in MXFireworks 2004 (yeah, I know, way behind, I work for the govt….) where I absolutely could do nothing except move around using the hand tool.After much googling, here are the responses I came up with (and I now share in hopes of helping somebody else) : The first three are duhs,

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Question of the day: Corrupt PDFs

robinna/ September 30, 2009/ software, meetups/conferences, my projects, question of the day, tools/tips, Training, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 1 comments

Question of the day: Has anyone seen the following error when you try to open a pdf file:There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired. My answer (I have lots of experience with bad PDF files… long story .. not my fault, though, I was just an innocent bystander… lol): a few

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