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Summary of eHow articles for February

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Links for the numerous articles I posted in February on eHow. More . . .

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Useful Links: Screen Reader Survey, px to em, speech impaired

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

WebAIM’s screen reader survey results, a nice px to em converter, and advice for the speech impaired from one who knows. More . . .

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CSS Super Scrub

Thursday, January 1, 2009

CSS Super Scrub says it will significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names. I gave it a try with the style sheet for this site. With just the option Indent CSS selected, it saved 4.7% on the Web [...]

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Smart Board for teachers on a budget

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Are you wishing your school could afford a white board for your classroom? Want a smart board to use for presentations? Here’s an inexpensive idea from Johnny Lee: Lee has other human computer interaction ideas at Johnny Chung Lee and at Procrastineering. The free software to use a Wii remote as a smart board is [...]

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Useful Links: Development Tools, the Economy, Mobile Future

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools from Smashing Magazine summarizes a number of good plug-ins, inspectors, debuggers, evaluators, and other tools that work right in your browser. Michael Heller and the Gridlock Economy is a book review at World Changing. It talks about ownership. Heller says when too many people own something, gridlock results. Here’s [...]

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Can you be won away from Google search?

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Have you followed any of the links from this blog to BlogHer? Perhaps you’ve noticed that the search feature on BlogHer now has a Lijit logo in the search box. Under that, you see two options. Search blogher.com or search the BlogHer network. If you search the BlogHer network, you find posts on your search [...]

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Gates and Seinfeld Selling What Exactly?

Saturday, September 13, 2008

I’m still amused by Apple’s Mac vs. PC guy ads, especially the one where PC pokes his head up out of a pizza box and explains he wants to attract college students. Microsoft apparently decided it was time to try it’s own version of funny ads. Microsoft has teamed up Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld [...]

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Cool stuff to do in Albuquerque

Monday, August 18, 2008

Particles in 3D Animation and Motion Graphics Join 3D animator Aaron Barreras as he gives us a look at particle emitters by showing a variety of examples using Maya and After Effects. This session takes place Tuesday, August 19 from 7:00-8:30 pm at UNM ARTS Lab, 131 Pine Street NE Adobe AIR and Social Networks [...]

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Useful Links

Friday, July 11, 2008

How magic might finally fix your computer, an article by Bob Sullivan at the Red Tape Chronicles, describes the issues that plague us in regard to computer security, and explains why folks like The Amazing Randi might be able to help us. Then and Now in Standards: What’s Different at Burningbird’s Real Tech talks about [...]

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Photrade’s all new–a second look

Sunday, June 15, 2008

In September of 2007, I reviewed a new site meant to help photographers sell their photos in An In-Depth Look at Photrade at BlogHer. The review was pretty critical. I had a lot of usability problems with the site. In the months since then, Photrade has been through tremendous changes in an effort to become [...]

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