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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Calendars are always tricky. There's rarely a perfect solution for publishing and sharing calendars on the web, but I've found a way that works for me. Here's how I keep faculty up to date on the workshops offered through the Center for Excellence. First, I use the free, web-based calendar ...
I've been playing with gnomz to create comics for a class project. Unfortunately, the help at gnomz is a little sparse. I found a comic on someone's blog and looked at the source so see how to publish a comic without having to take a screenshot, crop, and optimize ...
One of the things that's always annoyed me about gmail is that they hide the delete button. I went searching for a Firefox extension that would help me get around this problem, and sure enough I found one. Install this extension (get the full extension, not just the script unless you also use ...
You might get this error if somebody vacuums around your server's power cord and accidentally disconnects the cord and you have to reset (ouch!) the power. To fix the errno: 145 (can't open some file.MYI) problem: REPAIR TABLE tablename USE_FRM; and no more error. You might fix one table and think you're ...
Kevin Jarrett asked on Edtech how we synchronize files between school and home pc's. He shares his solution using an external hard drive and software. I responded with my solution using Unison and thought I'd share a little more detail here. I use Unison because I work on ...
If you've got a VHS video that's not available on DVD and that you'd like to preserve for future use, you can digitize the video at the IDEA Center. I will assume that you have taken the proper steps to ensure that you may in fact convert the video from ...
Despite the quality introductions to RSS that are already published on the Web, I took it upon myself to write yet one more. This, Countdown to RSS, the Gateway Technology, is supposed to introduce the casual Web-using instructor to RSS in 15 minutes or less. I haven't tested it ...
