Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Instagram is a photography app for iPhone. Mashable recently wrote Is Instagram the Next Distribution Opportunity for News Media?, which included an interview with Andy Carvin, a senior strategist at National Public Radio (NPR). Carvin talked about how NPR is using Instagram to connect with photographers. There’s an NPR Tumblr blog where photos from people [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator is one of the ColorZilla tools. It’s online as an app. It creates a pure CSS gradient using a Photoshop-like interface and provides cross browser code. The other ColorZilla tools are downloadable and include a color picker, an eyedropper, Firebug and more. Disabilities Act may be expanded to Net and Beyond [...]
Monday, September 27, 2010
Here’s an Xtranormal video by patob2000 that is a chat between Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ) and Learning Management System ( LMS ). Which character are you? Helpful Blogging Links: How Can I Move My TypePad Blog to WordPress has resources for those who are wondering what to do now that TypePad has sold. [...]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
I saw a movie made using xtranormal.com and couldn’t resist trying it out myself. Registration was easy. The free options are few. If you wanted to turn out something really powerful, you’d have to pay to do it. I did make a free movie just for fun. It was easy to do. Here’s my first [...]
Have you played with the map function on Flickr? I’ve been ignoring it, choosing not to give my location on my photos because I put up a lot of family photos and I didn’t want them identified by location. I administer a group on Flickr for Women in Tech. Maybe you’ve noticed the tiny slideshow [...]
InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning [...]
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
I share my photos at Flickr. I like Flickr because it is easy to use, I have unlimited space for a low yearly fee, and linking to the photos is simple. Flickr has great features for sharing, editing, promoting, copyrighting, and doing things with your photos like making them into various printed items. Thousands of [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
There are many ways to style links with CSS. One possible way is to use the background-image property to distinguish the various link states. Link states are represented in CSS by selectors involving the a element, which targets an HTML a tag in a link like <a href=”somepage.html”>Some page</a>. The potential states of a hyperlink [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Nick Bilton on Multitasking and Media is a live-blogged report from (Re)Mixed Messages by Rachel Barenblat from PopTech. Bilton delivered many fascinating gems, which Barenblat captured with quotes like: What does this mean for newspapers? “We talk about business models,” Bilton says, “but that’s getting ahead of what we really should be talking about — [...]
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