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,
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
Since my calendar thingie is not working so well, here is what I have on my schedule for upcoming talks/presentations: Sept. 19, Digital Initiatives w/ Tim Daniels, GPLS Director’s Meeting,Current and emerging trends in library technology — is my part Oct. 22 Semantic web. vs. Social Media, Master of Internet Technology Program, Gwinnett Campus: What REALLY is the semantic web
A few free web tools:http://freetools.edublogs.org/
Link roundup… Lots to read and consider and ponder…. Very cool…Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.http://academicearth.org/ a multi-year, international exploration of the strategies being used to support digital initiatives over the long term.http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability Social networking site for researchers aims to make academic papers a thing of the pasthttp://www.physorg.com/news166943362.html LC tests cloud storagehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10286280-62.html Yahoo pipes… if you haven’t
So, google pages (the online editor/hosted website creator available for free to google/gmail customers) is going away. It will be replaced by google sites. I, as well as a ton of other google users, received the following message (prompting a question from friend, about whether her site would migrate properly): However, we’ve identified you as using Google Page Creator to
I love this little website with lots of text tools (I do know there are other websites and scripts/software/text editors, which will cleanup text, even stripping out formatting from Word) … however, this is one that I keep handy. 😉 http://www.textfixer.com/ So, what other online webtools do you find useful? I use a lot of validators and I have a
http://bryanconnor.com/2009/06/10-browser-testing-tools/
Although I was late, I managed to attend the Carolina Conversations webinar in Second Life. Yep, I actually got my avatar to the presentation and I got her to sit down. I’ve been wanting to attend an academic event in SL for a while, but they always seemed to either cost money (real money!) OR were at 3AM my time.
Cogmap is an online organization/project group chart creator.http://www.cogmap.com/ Someone has created one for microsoft, too. http://www.cogmap.com/chart/microsoft Kind of an interesting idea!