Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Okay. Now in the last couple of posts I’ve uploaded and embedded JPEG images in the blog postings. On my iBook in Firefox and Safari they show up. On the Windows XP Acer they show up in Firefox. But in Internet Explorer on the Acer there are just blank spaces where the images are meant…
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WorldChanging : Another World is Here : Digital Curb-Cuts is a blog post about using computer graphical user interfaces if you’re blind. The argument being that effort put into making computers easier to use for minority groups benefits the majority in both the short and long runs. Chances are you’re not blind, and you probably…
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As the start of the undergraduate academic year looms I’ve been playing around with Moodle – an open-source learning management system (LMS) that will support students I’m tutoring this semester (as well as for other courses). I’ve been pleasantly surprised with its features and hopefully it will allow me (and others) to bring together learning…
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Is it wrong to want to write an imprecatory psalm about spammers? Or to carry out the wishes of said psalm upon the physical bodies of said offenders.
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Cost for a new printer drum for my laser printer ($243) Cost for a new printer including the same drum, a (small) toner cartridge & warranty ($248) Welcome to the disposable society – please place your old printer in the landfill on the way out the door. And we wonder why concepts of stewardship are…
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Article from latest Wired on the development of the Firefox web browser: The Firefox Explosion I use Firefox under OSX and WinXP. On the Mac it chugs a bit on the G3 from time-to-time but it doesn’t have any of the problems with the upstream cache that Safari has (how they [Apple] could release a…
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One of the things that annoys me about blogging systems is that they tend to be printer unfriendly. By the time a header/title and side bars have been added typical of most templates the content becomes squashed into a narrow column. Good for reading online – bad for printing out. So you end up with…
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Finally bit the bullet and bought Ecto so I could write posts off line and edit them more easily than in a web browser. I found that Safari wouldn’t refresh edits properly due to the upstream cache and Firefox (under Mac OS X 10.2) didn’t render the edit boxes properly. I would have preferred to…
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Nerd Vittles has some really helpful articles on cheap web & mail hosting using a Mac Mini (as well as some other stuff). While it’s slanted toward the Mini that same thing could be done with any OSX box. Whether or not you could get cheap net access here to make it worthwhile is another…
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If you’re heading off overseas from NZ and you looking at keeping online with some sort of global roaming service with your ISP it pays to check the small print on pricing. See: