Posted on 31st October 2007 by Chris in General
I’ve been placing Google ads on the site. Hopefully, you won’t even see them.
You see, I get a lot of search engine traffic for a few posts some time ago. Why not try to recoup some of the hosting costs?
Using Planet Ozh’s masterful plugin, Who Sees Ads, theoretically none of you should see the ads when you visit the site, and they should only show up for folks who come from a search engine or on posts that are over 30 days old.
Please let me know if it’s not working (that means visit the site so you can see if they’re there!!) so I can fix it or ditch the entire experiment.
Posted on 31st October 2007 by Chris in Software
I love me some Skitch, and I use Jing on the PC. Jing takes a while to load and can be a memory hog when it’s loaded, and then there’s that creepy orb staring me in the face. What if I want to take a quick screenshot (using the work PC), annotate it and go!
Enter Fireshot. It allows you to take quick screenshots, add the requisite arrows and text and save it as a PNG, JPG, or more. I know Jing is against JPG as a format, but Fireshot embraces it.
Here is a quick one I did a few minutes ago…(click to see bigger version)
I like that it integrates seamlessly with Firefox, adding a Superman-esque S in the top right corner of the browser window. There’s no Flickr integration like Skitch, but it’s an easy upload anyway.
Way to go Fireshot! I’ll be keeping this one around.
Posted on 29th October 2007 by Chris in Life Round Here
Curious as to how the Life Round Here project is turning out?
Well, the wait is over, some of the schools are posting stories and they are ready for you to watch!
Click the image for the entire list, and check back often (or better yet, subscribe to the page feed!)
Posted on 29th October 2007 by Chris in Feeds
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Posted on 24th October 2007 by Chris in Presentations
I am in Myrtle Beach, SC at the Suth Carolina 2007 Educational Technology conference. Here is a quick picture I snapped…
I’ve finished one session about effective presentation design and have two more tomorrow. Fun! Updates later, this is from a couch in the lobby and this mac is hot!
Posted on 24th October 2007 by Chris in Feeds
Posted on 23rd October 2007 by Chris in Feeds
Posted on 19th October 2007 by Chris in Life Round Here
PbWiki announced a new feature that I think is fantastic, and the implementation is just great. Any page you tag with template will show up when you click create a new page.
For me, that’s darn nice. For Life Round Here participants, that’s really nice.
All you have to do now is log in with your contributor login (remember to use the my.pbwiki.com page to make it easier) and then click on Create a New Page. Once you do that, you’ll see this screen…
Use the indicated one and you’ll be automatically set up with the exact format we want! Good stuff, just good stuff.
