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    Archive for March, 2009

    Scott Webber’s Formula for Success

    Dear Scott Weber and the rest of Vola­tus Advi­sors, LLC, GET A NEW WEBSITE! Yours is embar­rass­ing in every sense of web site eval­u­a­tion. Thanks, Web Design­ers Every­where P.S. Here’s some­thing to get you started: <script type=“text/javascript”> <!– var cur­rent­Time = new Date() var year = currentTime.getFullYear() document.write(year) //–> </script> Before I get on to […]

    IU Lecturer Uses Flip Camera to Show Rather Than Describe

    I some­how got on this Oncourse mail­ing list awhile back and usu­ally dis­re­gard most of the emails, but today they were show­cas­ing a fac­ulty mem­ber at the Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity East cam­pus who is using a Flip cam­era to record short lec­tures for his course. I think it’s brilliant!

    Dreamweaver Isn’t Dying– It’s Dead

    Yes­ter­day, I read a great write up over on PC Pro about how Adobe’s Dreamweaver is dying off as an option for design­ers look­ing to make the switch from print to web design. I couldn’t agree more! Like they point out, the web is no longer sta­tic mean­ing you can’t run a site by building […]

    Backups of Backups: Effortless Personal Data Management

    I’ve been very lucky over the years and have only had one hard drive crash. That time didn’t mat­ter because it was on an older sys­tem that didn’t have any­thing impor­tant on it. Now, I live off of my Mac­Book and iPhone for school, work, and per­sonal life so I take back­ing up my data […]

    Safari 4 Beta problems with WordPress 2.7.1

    I installed Safari 4 Beta ear­lier this week and it is wreak­ing havoc with Word­Press! When you try to insert a link or media via the WYSIWYG edi­tor but­tons, the pop up dia­log is hid­den behind the dark opaque screen. This doesn’t hap­pen when you click on the icons above the WYSIWYG edi­tor by “Upload/Insert”. […]