Link Dump
links for 2006-10-13
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When the big thing on the web now is corporate blogs (and I LOVE them), where are Apple's? I personally find Adobe's, Microsofts and others' blogs the most informative places to learn about what's going on. It seems to me that Apple could say and communic
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Eudora has long been dead in my opinion. I still see people use it from time to time, but generally by those that are either resistent to change or just stubborn. The email client landscape on the Macintosh isn't anything spectacular, but there are much b
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This is really an amazing initiative and I'm glad that Gates didn't convince investors that $100 computers were a stupid idea. They may not fly well in the U.S., but internet access is internet access (sort of), however the thought of Wikipedia becoming
links for 2006-10-12
links for 2006-10-11
links for 2006-10-09
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I don't understand dot com finances. How can anything like this be worth 1.65 Billion dollars? I realize that it is stock, but the fact that Google can spend that much is just ridiculous too. It's like play money.
links for 2006-10-06
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These drilldown animations done in Adobe Flex are amazing and the source code is available to see how they were done.
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Ars Techica details a new beta service from Google allows visitors to search through source code.
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Nice, Free Icons!
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This is a cool web application that lets you feed it a series of DIV names (for a proposed web page) and it kicks back the HTML shell including the an embedded css style sheet with the requested DIVs.
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This is a great firefox/flock add-on that I found today. It tells firefox to reload a page's css every second. This allows you to have a page you are currently designing up in a browser window while you are coding in another. Every time you commit changes
Acrobat 8 Webinar
If you haven’t seen a demonstration yet of Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Connect, you can catch one here (done of course with Acrobat Connect - formerly Breeze).
Songbird
Have you seen songbird? It’s an open-source application that looks a lot like iTunes. I’ve always thought it was an iTunes knockoff to give all those poor folks on Linux something to feel included with. This screencast on the songbird site showed me and will show you that while it looks like iTunes it is much different and if you like audio files on the internet, may deserve a place on your computer.
technorati tags:songbird
links for 2006-10-05
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Everyone's using content mangement systems but is anyone effectively managing their content?
Flash Player Does Full-Screen Video
A newly available flash plugin supports full-screen video. You can download the plugin here, then try out some samples here. It looks great and is very welcome on the Macintosh where full-screen video is hard to come by. Quicktime doesn’t support running embedded movies as full screen. Real does, but few use it anymore and DivX also supports it but again is rarely utilitzed. Prepare to see it everywhere.
technorati tags:flash
Contribute 4
Contribute 4 has been released by Adobe. I was pretty surprised as Macromedia NEVER released a product without announcing them almost a month in advance. I have downloaded it and am using it right now to create this blog posting. That’s a new feature in Contribute 4! Don’t get too excited thoughâ??this is the most painful posting experience I have ever had. So painful in fact that I’m going to stop right here. I’ll use it some more today and write something more informative about it later.
One Blog
On this blog, you will find increasing amounts of ‘religious’ news. I didn’t just find anybody, but have become the webmaster of my congregation’s web site. Since this blog serves as the center of the content I put online, it is unavoidable that content I collect for this relatively new site to arrive here.
Because I am also the webmaster for a public school and this blog is aggregated on a page there, there could be issues. Therefore, I will put everything that is non-religious into a new ‘non-religious’ category. This category has it’s own rss feed and will be the one that I point distrct resources to. Those that prefer the top-level feed will begin seeing much of this new information.
Since this post is a part of that non-religious feed, I have avoided names and links here. You can visit my web site for links to other sites that I’m involved with.
Links... again
I’ve added my links back to my blog. I’ve posted about this a few times and I’m sure that no one cares, but I want my thought process to be here. I have long had my del.icio.us links displayed on my blog, but I have gone back and forth on including them in the blog postings.
It’s easier to say why I think that this is sometimes a bad idea. First, if you have a bad system, as I have had from time to time, you can end up with a lot of empty posts if you aren’t creating del.icio.us links every day. Second, if you aren’t posting but are linking, it still seems to be kind of goofy to have a blog that’s nothing but links (still preferrable to no blog at all in my opinion).
So, why put them in? Most of you reading my blog are reading it via a news aggregator of some sort, meaning that you are never actually visiting my site. So if I find a fantastic site and link to it, even those that are reading my blog every day do not find out about it because its not being included as a post. Also, not including them creates extra work. When I find something on the internet worth noting, I have to decide whether to create a post, a link or both. It is much easier if I just create the link and then let del.icio.us post the link at the end of the day.
So, that’s the story. I’m using del.icio.us to manage my bookmarks. I’m using the blog poster built into del.icio.us to create the postings and every day at 5pm a post will be created with things that I have linked to that day.
Thoughts, ideas? Drop them in the comments…
links for 2006-10-04
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A social networking newbie? Want to get up to speed? This article will give you the history, the present and show you where it maybe going.
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Interesting article in Tuesdayâ??s USA Today about how â??Todayâ??s Young â??Digital Nativesâ?? Canâ??t Live, or Study, Without Technology.â? The focus was on Ball State U. in Indiana, the most wired campus in the country. It gives a lot of examples of h
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Our degenerate neighbors to the south seem to be getting on the ball with Podcasting, although a commenter on the linked page notes that the whole thing is locked behind blackboard which makes me wonder if it is a podcast at all. Audio files without a RSS
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I've fallen off of the wiki wagon but need to get back on. This is a pretty comprehensive list of wiki applications available.
MacForge
NECC Workshop Submission
Today is the deadline for presentation submissions for the National Educational Computing Conference occuring in Atlanta next summer. I got mine in last night. I proposed a three hour workshop covering the creation of web pages using web standards (xhtml, css, xml, etc.). I’m not real hopeful as it sounds dull and I was tired when I wrote the submission so I may have not sold the idea real well. Sometime in December I’ll learn whether I’m in.
Shooting yourself in the foot
A co-worker of mine sent this out today. It’s called “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language”. My favorite is CSS: “You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a banana.”
Go2Web20
It’s a Web 2.0 application that serves as a directory to Web 2.0 sites. I wonder if it lists itself…
Fresh Apollo Information
Adobe Labs has posted new information regarding Apollo â?? their upcoming build-an-application-out-of-html-css-javascript-and-flash development environment.
CNet
Looking to add a few new programming languages to your repertoire? CNet has 10 suggestions.
Link Dump
MaxUP at Max
MaxUP is a un-conference that will run in parallel to max in October. An un-conference is a conference where you must participate to attend. Think open-mic night at the coffee shop, then require that everyone take the stage if they would like to listen.
Google to Archive Newspapers
Google plans to add 200 years of newspaper history to its search archives. Perhaps they will run into the same problems with this that they have encountered in trying to put books online but I hope that they succeed. The internet, I believe, has introduced a barrier to history that has not existed before. If I want to look something up on the internet and learn about it, I have to consider how long ago that event happened. If it happened anytime after the mid-90’s I will probably be able to find writing on the internet from that time about the event. If it was before that time, the internet may not give me the kind of perspective I’m after. What are newspapers but a ‘blog? Add 200 years of newspaper history and the internet just got 200 years older. Exciting!
NECC Call for Participation
The Call for Participation for NECC 2007 in Atlanta is Open. Deadline is October 4.