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Category Archives: Software

Useful links: Forms, WeTopia, Moodle, 24 Ways

How to Make Forms more Usable with HTML5 is a good tutorial from Steven Bradley. The new WeTopia game on Facebook is described by TechCrunch. This game is a perfect example of what Jane McGonigal and other thinkers say about using game theory to create social good. NC State U evaluates the accessibility of Moodle [...]

QR codes resources

The Daring Librarian has a lot of material about QR codes on Flickr and her CC license allows for use with attribution. Check it out.

Useful links: top 25 books, edu conferences, blue beanie day, semantics, Think Up

The top 25 books for web developers and designers from .net is a good list to check to see if you’re keeping up with the latest. I noticed that several of the 25 are from A Book Apart. That led me to tweet this: Is there some sort of brain implant that would directly feed [...]

Useful links: Triberr, Hidden, WebVTT

That Tech Chick has a post about a new social tool called Triberr. You might want to give it a spin to see if it increases traffic to your blog. Hidden is a nice app for Macs. If your Mac is stolen, it sends you a location and photos of the thief. Recent developments around [...]

Useful links: captioning YouTube, HTML5, or not, Final Cut Pro X

YouTube’s instructions on how to add captions to your video. How is HTML5 changing web development? An interview with Remy Sharp. Stop Obsessing over HTML5 and CSS3. Paul Boag has some ideas about what we should be thinking about instead of merely worrying about learning HTML5 and CSS3. What I want to know is does [...]

BlueGriffon

A new web standards compliant WYSIWYG web editor is now available at bluegriffon.org. Features include that it’s open source and free, plus it does: HTML5 – including forms, video and audio CSS3 – including D Transforms, Transitions, Shadows, Linear/Radial Gradients and Repeating Gradients, Border Images, Columns, Flex Box Model SVG MathML a user interface to [...]

Big News from Adobe

In Introducing Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Product Family, Adobe made some announcements important to educators. First, they are moving milestone releases such as CS3, CS4, and CS5 to a two year cycle. The in between years will get updates like the just announced CS5.5. Here’s what they are doing to the web suite. For Web [...]

Useful Links: Rent your software, new RFP rules, Photoshop SDK, higher education

You Can Rent Photoshop and other Adobe Software gives you some useful and potentially helpful information. The New RFP says RFP and procurement process for software should start with finding software that doesn’t suck. Speaking of Adobe, because of an open SDK, developers are now creating Photoshop apps for tablet devices. Adobe Turns the Tablet [...]

Blogger gets a makeover

[Ed.: This article was cross-posted at BlogHer.] At SXSW Interactive this week, Google announced a refresh of the interface for its popular Blogger blogging platform. The software hasn’t been updated in years, although it remains one of the most popular blogging tools on the Web. Blogger Product Manager Chang Kim calls the refresh “our next-generation [...]

HTML/Text editor recommendations

I got this email the other day: I have a rather odd request to ask. I am trying to learn how to write web pages for fun and maybe more down the road. At present I have several different editors to choose from, and was wondering if you could give me some advice as to [...]