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Questions about Flickr, Picasa, iPhoto and Google+ Photos

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

What are Mac users doing about photos since Google+? My current status is to use iPhoto and upload what I want to share to Flickr. Whether Flickr is going to fade away due to neglect on Yahoo’s part, or whether Google+ is going to take over the world – it looks to me like it [...]

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Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2011

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Apple announced OS upgrades and new products at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2011 event yesterday. There was news about updates to the computer operating system – Mac OS X Lion – about the iPad and iPhone operating system – iOS 5 – and about a new service/product called iCloud. No new gadgets this time [...]

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Useful Links: CS instruction, emergencies, smart bike

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Restore meritocracy in CS using an obscure functional language takes on the issue of leveling the playing field in CS classes with an interesting suggestion. What do you think of this idea? In case of Emergency, Update your Facebook status talks about what is happening the the world of social media and how it’s changing [...]

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Useful Links: Accessibility Failures, Gates on Education, downgrade your iPhone

Monday, August 9, 2010

10 Common Accessibility Problems from Dingo Access is a well explained list of common failures. For each problem, the solution is provided. The list is derived from WCAG 2.0 recommendations. Bill Gates: In Five Years the Best Education Will Come from the Web. What do you think about this? I haven’t had a bit of [...]

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Useful Links: jQuery, Women in Tech, DMCA and jailbreaking

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

jQuery: A Designer’s Perspective at scriptjunkie is a good introduction to jQuery. Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you probably know that Jailbreaking iPhone apps is now legal. Well, it’s legal according to the DMCA. Apple says it voids your warranty, however. Women in Technology is a thoughtful essay at Stubbornella (Nicole Sullivan’s [...]

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10 Terrific Tech Blogs by Women

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Tech tips, geeky how-tos, thoughtful analysis of issues, news about the latest gadgets, ideas for improving your blog—you’ll find it all in these 10 terrific tech and science blogs. They just happen to be written by women. I. Hacker Chick The Hacker Chick Blog is a beautiful starting point. I say beautiful because the graphics [...]

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Embedding fonts the Google Way

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

For a while I toyed with the idea of using embedded fonts to liven up my web pages. I would read articles on how to do it and get discouraged. Some browsers needed one kind of font, some another—it was too much bother. Then Google came out with a font embedding system that is dead [...]

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