Eliminate distractions. These two were my biggest.
On a hunch, I decided to place an order with another questionable online camera huckster (see earlier post on the shady Broadway Photo). Just like my previous experience, I received an email that I needed to call them to confirm my order. The edited recording of that call follows. ...
My family has needed a new digital camera for some time, and I've been holding out for a Nikon D40. With a little help from Uncle Sam, I decided to go ahead and buy one. I searched for the lowest prices online and Broadway Photo was among the lowest. I ...
It's been a while since I last wrote about my experience switching to Mac from linux. There are just a few things that continue to irritate me. These issues may or may not be resolved in Leopard. List folders first, please. You can set up Finder to list folders first, ...
I'm cleaning out my Documents folder and found this screencast of a live chat session with what I believe was EarthLink, which has a cable internet and digital phone package similar to Time Warner. Here I simply try to find out the rate for telephone calls to Hermosillo, Mexico. The ...
Here's a screencast of embedding flash video (FLV) in Blackboard using Flowplayer. The post I reference containing the HTML code you can copy-and-paste is Sensible settings for Flowplayer. [tags]flowplayer, howto, screencast[/tags]
I recorded segments of Hillary Clinton's economic summit in Zanesville, OH, using a Flip video camera. The video was worthless as I was too far away and the lighting completely washed out the panelists. Since the Flip only holds an hour of video, I had to pick and choose what ...
If you listen to NPR's coverage of Hillary Clinton's visit to Zanesville yesterday, you'd get the impression she was out courting the poor, uneducated, white voters that have supported her in the past. I hear this mantra that uneducated Whites are her base and it seems to go pretty ...
The Jing project is surveying users to see what sort of editing capabilities, if any, they would like to see in Jing. Read all about it on the blog. [tags]jing[/tags]
This so used to be me. via xkcd
Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard file format OpenOffice.org and others use. File extensions include .odt (text), .ods (spreadsheet), and .odp (presentation). By default, Microsoft Office does not open these file formats; however, it is possible with a plugin. Office 2007 Install Service Pack 1 for Office 2007. Install ...
Yes, you can embed Jing movies in a PowerPoint! Enable "Developer tab" in PowerPoint (Office button > PowerPoint Options > Popular) Go to Developer tab Locate More Controls button (hammer and wrench icon) Scroll to Shockwave flash object Click and drag to create the object Right-click the object and choose properties Fill in the full path to ...
Some folks on the EDTECH list don't like that Jing saves screencasts as .swf files. If you choose not to upload your screencasts to screencast.com and share them that way, you can still share them by embedding them in a web page. Here's how you'd do that. Go to your Jing ...
I first heard Vusi Mahlasela on our local public radio station. It was one of those "write down the name" moments. I bought the album Guiding Star soon after, and now I'm hooked. Enjoy....
These have come in handy for me lately. runPHP lets you include and run PHP code in individual posts. Raw-HTML leaves the HTML you hand-code in an individual post alone. In other words, the WP engine doesn't b0rk your HTML. Mime-config provides an interface for you to allow uploading of ...
Or, embedding FLV videos in Blackboard (walled in) using Flowplayer. Full-screen capability with email and embed options disabled. User has to hit play for it to start, and it doesn't loop (but does auto rewind). This seems to make sense for inclusion in a LMS like Blackboard. <object data="FlowPlayerLight.swf" width="320" height="240" ...
APG (Automated Password Generator) is a command line app for generating passwords. I use it quite a bit on Linux and today I was poking around to see if I could use it on my Mac. It was easy to install with MacPorts. Assuming you have MacPorts installed, it's ...
This comes in handy if you need to rescue data from a Windows box. I am familiar enough with mounting drives in Linux, but for some reason I could not get this Windows drive to mount. It turns out that DSL has a bunch of boot options. As it boots, ...
Unless you are taking a course on using a specific MS Office application, such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you don't really need to pay for MS Office to read documents your instructor posts on Blackboard. Here are a few MS Office alternatives that you can download and use for ...
I've been experimenting with microblogging services Twitter and Jaiku for a couple of weeks now. While Twitter has a huge user base, I prefer Jaiku for a few extra features it has. Jaiku has a more convenient system for posting comments or replies. I noticed in Twitter that if you try ...
Hoosgot a free file archiver/splitter for Mac? I couldn't find one so I'm resorting to the command line to split and join big files. Splitting a file You can use the 'split' command to chop up a file into parts. If you have multiple files or want to split a directory, archive ...
Here I try to summarize Carol Dweck's research on motivation, touching on perceptions of intelligence and goal orientation. I am interested in Dweck's research on motivation for a very personal reason: I have two young girls. If you have children you will want to check out her work for ideas ...
The last few quarters I've been working on a project with a couple of faculty to integrate weekly podcasts into their courses. I didn't want to force faculty to start recording hour-long lectures, so I approached them with making brief (five minutes or less) weekly audio recordings. Rather than mini-lectures, ...
Can anybody offer me an invitation to Jaiku? I don't have any invites to offer in return, just my thanks. :( Update: I received an invite. Catch me at dontodd.jaiku.com. [tags]jaiku, invite[/tags]
Afloat brings this capability, though it doesn't seem to work on all windows. It's nice to have for IRC and IM, though. A semi-cool feature I can't decide if I like is that when you set a window to float and you have another window under it, the top ...
