Archive for the ‘Web technology’ Category
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Phillip Torrone over at Make: Blog has found a site with instructions for making customized Google Maps the easy way. Well, relatively easy anyway. You'll still need to know something about HTML, but Chris Houser's "How to Use Google Maps EZ" makes it about as simple as possible until someone ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Google is now officially supporting RSS feeds for its news service. Besides feeds for their news categories, you can generate a custom feed for any Google News search. This was possible before, but my understanding is that it was a 3rd party solution and not officially supported. It's nice, if ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Right on the heels of my post about custom podcast feeds I found that the other Tim has been thinking along the same lines. He's discovered a feature over at del.icio.us that allows you to search for particular filetypes in addition to tags and generate RSS feeds that include enclosures.
It's ...
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
If you're using Flickr and iPhoto, you need Fraser Speirs's Flickr Export Plugin for iPhoto. It makes uploading photos from iPhoto to Flickr, tagging them, and adding descriptions as easy as it could possibly be.
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Tim points to a post at O'Reilly Radar that has a nice summary of about 15 Google Maps hacks. I predict an explosion of these types of hacks now that Google has released an official API. (I'm really sticking my neck out on that one!) :-) More importantly, we need ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
I started installing Plone on a test server last week at work. If all goes well, the combination of Plone and some cataloging technology created by the folks at the Gateway for Education Materials (GEM) will form the foundation for the curriculum sharing tool that I've posted about recently. We're ...
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Friday, July 1st, 2005
It's about time. Google is now officially supporting external use of its maps.google.com service by publishing an API that makes it possible to embed Google Maps in any Web page. My first application will be creating a page that has all of our school locations flagged. That will make it ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Google purchased a company called Keyhole a while ago and everyone has been wondering how they would incorporate the technology. Now we know. They've just launched a new version of the Keyhole software called Google Earth which is available for free. This will make a great addition to any geography ...
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Friday, May 20th, 2005
Do you need a content management system (CMS) for your school or district Web site? Absolutely. In a world where Plone, Drupal, Mambo, and many other free and open source solutions exist, you would need to convince me that you shouldn't use a CMS. It's clear to me that individually ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2005
I just discovered Nvu and I think we'll include it on the student laptops in our one-to-one computing project next fall. Nvu is the latest incarnation of the old Netscape/Mozilla Composer which, like the Firefox browser, has been split out of Mozilla into a standalone application.
Most of the people who ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
A post at the Web Standards Project alerted me to some great Web standards materials at the MACCAWS site. I don't know about you, but when I look around at most school Web sites I see a lot of sites that could use Web standards makeovers. If you're looking ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
Lots of people have posted today about Google's new Q&A service. SearchEngineWatch, for example, has a useful summary.Let's try some sample Q's and check Google's A's:who is governor of minnesotawhat is the population of canadawho wrote war and peacewho was neil armstrongwhat is the length of the mississippi riverNot bad. ...
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