|
 |
Thursday, February 03, 2005 |
PrintKey 2000 for creating instructions.
What? PrintKey 2000 is a screen capture tool that makes it easy to make
an image of your entire desktop, a part of the desktop or the "object".
The object could be an active window. Yes, there are other ways to
capture those images as is explained here. I just think the ease of
use, and additional features make this a nice piece of free software.
There is a Pro version but I have never used it.
Some features I like are:
The ability to delay the screen capture which allows you to pull the menu down
The ability to show or not show the cursor
Intuitive interface
Multiple image types
Here is an example of an "object" grab with one of the application menus pulled ... [edugadget]
11:43:39 PM  Google It!.
|
|
Do People Really Pay Attention During
Online Meetings?. I once wrote a paper called Synchronous
Learning on the Web in which I observed that
"the less you want to be at the class or the meeting,
the more you want to use some form of conferencing, because
it's easier and - especially if you're online - you can do
other things at the same time." As this article makes
clear, I am not the only person to have reached that
conclusion. "90 percent of audio conferencers
multitask by doing things other than paying full attention
to meeting content." What surprises me most, I think,
is that ten percent of attendees are paying full attention.
By Robin Good, Kolabora, February 02, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
5:03:57 PM Google It!.
|
|
Schemas for smart documents. In a session entitled Contextualized Data in Document Authoring, John Durant
gave a nice overview of how to connect XML elements to the Office task
pane. First, the bad old crufty way using VS.NET 2003, and then the
good new elegant way using the beta of VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for
Office) 2005. In either case, the idea is to animate the task pane with
context-sensitive controls that sense and react to navigation within
the document. ... [Jon's Radio]
1:07:59 PM Google It!.
|
|
IMS Content Packaging & Content
Interoperability Call-for-Issues. Announced by IMS today, this review will look
at the content packaging specification with the intent to
"enable the managed exchange of any content
package-based data model using web services (including the
usage of attachments to the SOAP messages)." Because
the specification has been opened, a call for issues and
suggestions has been made; the committee is expected to
start looking at the specification at the end of March with
a proposal due in October. Interestingly (and oddly - but
hey, it works), submissions are to be made through the
IMS
problem tracking form. By Press Release, IMS
Global learning Consortium, February 2, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
9:28:36 AM Google It!.
|
|
JavaScript Triggers. This is a bit technical, though all designers
should heed the opening paragraph: "The front end of a
website consists of three layers. XHTML forms the
structural layer, which contains structural, semantic
markup and the content of the site. To this layer you can
add a presentation layer (CSS) and a behavior layer
(JavaScript) to make your website more beautiful and
user-friendly." The rest of the article describes how
to trigger executions of Javascript based solely on
elements in the presentation layer. Start messing around
with XSLT and you see how important this becomes. By
Peter-Paul Kock, A List Apart, February, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
9:26:30 AM Google It!.
|
|
Googling the Bottom Line.
Ranking high on a Google search is advantageous for businesses, but how
much is it really worth? Depends on who's tailoring the results.
Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg. [Wired News]
8:48:46 AM Google It!.
|
|
© Copyright 2005 Bruce Landon.
|
