Archive for the ‘About the Internet and the Web’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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In fact have you ever wondered what the Jesus and Mary Chain would sound like with synths or with a Cure (think Faith) fixation? Wonder no more. I give you A Place to Bury Strangers.
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This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more.
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urn to this list for 100 useful Web tools that will help you with your career, your sanity and your creativity whenever your write.
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Simple living — aka voluntary simplicity — has just about as many definitions as there are individuals who practice it.
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No doubt about it: Bookmarks make the Web a friendly place. As you collect bookmarks in Safari, you’re able to immediately jump from one site to another with a single click on the Bookmarks menu or the buttons on the Bookmarks bar.
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Welcome to OS X help. If you are new to the Macintosh, OS X, and Apple, you have come to the right place. If this is your first time here, we suggest you start at the beginning, and work your way to the current post, which you see below.
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Integrate a variety of USPS Web Tools™ into your website, shipping operation, or customer service center - for no additional fee! Our Application Program Interfaces (APIs) provide U.S. Postal Service® rates, shipping labels and much more
Tags: api, aptbs, mac osx, search engines, simplicity, writing, xml
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
The journal listed below has several links to interesting articles that deal with several of the technologies, such as blogs and wikis, that I and others at UMW have been using in our teaching.
In today’s Web 2.0 world, wikis have emerged as a tool that may complement or replace the use of traditional course management systems as a tool for disseminating course information.
Tags: collaboration, course management, web2.0, wiki
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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Flipswap makes it easy for you to get something out of your old cell phone. Choose any of the options below and you’ll be doing yourself, and our environment, a favor.
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we saw the best band of the festival and the worst/dodgiest venue of the festival. We saw A Place to Bury Strangers, who were brilliant grunge/fuzz/distortion/noise/rock/atmosphereic/rad.
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Pingdom stores a lot of monitoring data every single day, and considering how much we take today’s storage capacity for granted, it’s interesting to look back and get things in perspective. some interesting storage devices from the early computer era.
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Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.
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Tags: amazon, programming, recycle, storage
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
A Place to Bury Strangers
CSS
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explore the ways in which you can design a great-looking form, and provide you with the necessary code
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Welcome to the SitePoint SitePoint CSS Reference! We’ve worked hard to make this the most detailed and up-to-date reference on the subject available.
HTML
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POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML to author web pages.
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This article highlights and answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HTML. HTML is the foundation of the Web, and both developers and designers need to understand it.
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Welcome to the SitePoint HTML Reference (beta)! We’ve worked hard to make this the most detailed and up-to-date reference on the subject available.
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a character encoding is the way that letters, digits and other symbols are expressed as numeric values that a computer can understand.
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take a look at four simple things you can do to make sure your HTML has that nice, new markup smell
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, css
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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Brainwashed liked them so much that they put out APTBS’s debut LP on their own Killer Pimp Records this past fall.
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The social network’s technology manages a vast and rapidly expanding web of connections for its millions of users.
Tags: aptbs, facebook, Internet
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits.
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Text messaging, blogging and social networking have reached critical mass, with more than half of adults now relying on at least one of these so-called Web 2.0 platforms for communicating with friends, family, or colleagues on a regular basis
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web-based image editors to apply effects and edit your pictures, new image search engines that make it easy for you to find all kinds of images, as well as a free multimedia player to embed and distribute your image slideshows.
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Social media strategies for the web, scanning information, learning via dialogue and participation, how micropublishers manage their information and publishing workflow are just some of the interesting topics that are included in this juicy weekly digest.
Tags: social media, visual communications
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Technologies & Collaboration
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Questioning and deconstruncting our long established educational paradigms. Thinking and looking at how to cope with our need for survival and growth in new, innovative ways.
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The best, coolest and newest online collaboration tools are back again personally selected for you by Robin Good and Nico Canali De Rossi. we have selected new tools for video conferencing, collaborative project management, VoIP, and file sharing.
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Yugma, Vyew, CoolConferenceLive.com, and openacircle.com all offer free conferencing but they all take a different approach to this problem.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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One things you need to know about A Place To Bury Strangers: they’re incredibly loud.
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The swirling atmosphere of guitar feedback and reverb-drenched vocals immediately bring to mind the most obvious comparison: vintage Jesus and Mary Chain.
Tags: A Place to Bury Strangers, aptbs, collaboration
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
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Internet tutorial
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Searching the World Wide Web: a basic tutorial
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As a librarian, you want to be able to share information with patrons and students in the easiest way possible, and social networking offers a great way to do just that. With social networking tools, you can create bookmark collections, share notices, ..
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Wikipedia is a great place to find information, it’s subject to incomplete citations, biased views, and inaccuracies. when you have to have undisputable facts, there are plenty of alternatives that can deliver with high quality accuracy,
Tags: searching, tutorial
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