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Useful Links: Open source, STEM programs, iPhone unavailable–sometimes

Monday, December 28, 2009

Say Hello to the Open Source Decade by Laura Scott. Open Source has been around for quite some time, but odds are most people you ask won’t know what “open source” is. This isn’t because open source is obscure, but rather it has slipped into the mainstream, and unless you’re already in the know, there’s [...]

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Geek Memorabilia

Friday, September 18, 2009

Want to bid on a computer once owned by Gene Roddenberry and presumably used to write Star Trek episodes? According to Where No Mac Had Gone Before you can do that. It’s serial number 0001, possibly a Mac Plus but maybe not exactly a Mac Plus. Looks like a Mac I once had, except there’s [...]

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Useful Links: CSS Backgrounds, missing Quicktime Pro?, HTML 5

Friday, September 4, 2009

Backgrounds in CSS: Everything you need to know by Michael Martin in Smashing Magazine is an excellent post and worthy of a class reading assignment if you’re teaching web development. The article includes changes to the background property coming in CSS3. At a Webuquerque meeting on Podcasting and Vodcasting recently, speaker Vince Ascoli mentioned in [...]

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Useful Links: Snow Leopard and AT, HTML5 and RDFa, Flash accessibility, and writing tips

Friday, August 28, 2009

Snow Leopard Assistive Technology Compatibility List is a very helpful compilation of what works and what doesn’t work on Snow Leopard. From ATMac. There are so many posts about HTML 5 and RDFa flying around these days that it’s hard to keep up with them all. But here’s one that takes a different approach, Burningbird’s [...]

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Summary of eHow articles for June

Monday, June 22, 2009

Summer is here. A mini-vacation for my family was a fast trip to Sea World San Antonio. My kids and grandkids and myself took in the heat, the shows, and the water. We wore ourselves out having fun. I also got a few things written for eHow in June: How to Style a Form Label [...]

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Summary of eHow Articles for March

Thursday, March 19, 2009

The bulbs stretched their heads above the ground, the trees bloomed, the grass took on a new green hue, and web geeks from around the world gathered in Austin for SXSW Interactive. Amid all those distractions, here’s what I wrote on eHow in March. More . . .

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iPhone questions

Friday, January 9, 2009

Every once in a while I get infected with the desire–the urgent NEED–for an iPhone. So far, I haven’t succumed to the urge because it will be so expensive to get out of the contract I have with my current phone company. I need your advice.

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Useful Links: Being Thankful, Fireworks CS4, protect your Mac

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful For lists some great things to be thankful for. You can suggest more objects of your gratitude if the list isn’t inclusive enough for you. Way back in 2005 I published a rant here called Why colleges should stop teaching Fireworks as a primary web design tool. [...]

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Women in Tech: Shelley Powers

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

This is the first of several interviews with women in technology. Today you’ll learn about Shelley Powers. Shelley is perhaps best known as a writer. Her most recent books are Learning JavaScript and Painting the Web. She’s also a programmer and web developer, and she applies a powerful and logical mind to everything she does. [...]

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Follow the bouncing icon

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Those of you familiar with Mac OS X know that you can set preferences so that icons in the dock bounce up into your line of vision to alert you to incoming mail and such. I finally realized that I was spending all my time checking on the bouncing icons in my dock at the [...]

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