Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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While I won’t be owning an iPhone in the near future I was interested to stumble across this Flickr app for it created by my ‘cousin-in-law’ : Mobile Flickr, coming to an iPhone near you — Sneak. Videos of it working over at Mobile Flickr | Apple iPhone School Being an old UNIX programmer I…
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Via Hacking Christianity – The Social Principles Word-Cloud I’ve found Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds. Here’s a word cloud for the presentation/paper I did this week. (Click on it to get slightly bigger picture)
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When the combination of WYSIWYG graphical user interfaces, scalable fonts, laser printers and desktop publishing software started to make its presence felt at the end of the 1980s it was a time of serious typeface abuse in newsletters, invitations and home-made greetings cards. It seems everyone wanted to go and put as many jarring and…
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The fusion of technology from Weta Digital’s work on animation technologies using human subjects finds an application in helping doctors understand children’s motion with a view to corrective surgery and other therapy. See Wellywood technology helps children to walk – NZ Herald: Technology News
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An interesting article over at Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Designing Accessible Games. You see articles about making things like web sites usable or accessible, but not so much about making computer/video games accessible for people.
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Something I didn’t know when making MP3 disks in iTunes – Macworld | Playlist | Creating navigable MP3 discs.
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Ages ago (way back in 1990-91, I think) one of my flatmates had the game OIDS on his computer. It ran just fine on a Mac Plus and on the new Mac LC’s that had just come out. Good memories of the flat all taking turns to see who could get the highest score. Any…
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The iBook power adaptor died. After years of faithful service the cable that wrapped around the yo-yo adaptor broke, and I’ve spent a reasonable bit of time trying to find an old style iBook adaptor to plug in. However, I found one this morning and we’re up and charging. Luckily, backups had been made so…
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Various learning management systems (LMS) like Moodle allow you to create online activities like quizzes and polls as part of the course content and engagement. But what do you do if you need something like that but you don’t have access to an LMS that does it or you need to put that content in…
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Useful Problogger article on different ways of getting a design for your blog – from the free through to the expensive. See Problogger: How Do I Get a Professionally Designed Blog?