Archive for 2008

Link to specific time inside a video

Here’s an article from the Information Week blog called “Deep Linking Now Possible with YouTube Videos” Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has created a way for people to link to specific times within their videos, meaning you can jump straight to the action. How many times has a friend shared a video with you and said something like, “Wait until it gets to 2 minutes 38 seconds!”? The time spent waiting for the good part your buddy wants you to see can be anywhere from entertaining to downright boring. In order to allow friends to share their favorite parts of videos, YouTube announced... [read more]

Meeting topic on Nov 20th: Drupal

Topic: Drupal Intro and Experiences Date: Thursday, November 20 , 2008 Time: Noon to 1pm Where: N42 Demo Center Back by popular demand, this month’s webpub meeting will be on Drupal (I promise not to cancel it this time). Many of you have been hearing of Drupal, an open source content management system that has gained a certain fan base at MIT. What is Drupal? What makes it so great? Come find out! Dr. Ann-Patrice Hickey is a software developer and trainer who in Jan 2007, was brought in to the IS&T website project to create Alfresco templates, and to write scripts to migrate the... [read more]

Opera Updates to v9.6

Not that I’m advocating that MIT support more browsers, but here’s one that I’ll be taking for a test drive….Opera (Windows/Mac/Linux friendly) only had 2& of the market share as of Sept ‘08, but is enticing users away with new features and speed improvements. Features include: Better syncing across multiple computers Preview a site’s RSS feed before you subscribe to it Low-bandwidth mode for faster email performance …as well as its standard features which include Speed Dial, mouse gestures, note-taking, BitTorrent support, and voice-controlled browsing.... [read more]

Stock imagery clichés

This article from Justcreativedesign.com is part of a series of “most overused” elements in web design. While its not heavy in actual written content, it does have examples of the overrated/overused shots typically used on corporate sites – the shaking hands, the “diverse” group shot, the growth chart… Top 7 Most Cliché Stock Images Used in Web Design …Sometimes clients ask us to implement ‘not-so-unique’ elements into our designs and sometimes it seems almost impossible to convince them otherwise, however, hopefully this post can suggest... [read more]

Move over IE! There’s something leaner…

Google has released a beta version of their new open-souce browser, called “Chrome.”  Here’s a few selections from PC Magazine’s article entitled ” Google’s Chrome Officially Enters the Browser Wars: The 7-Mbyte download is available now via http://www.google.com/chrome/ in 122 countries and 43 languages. It will run on Windows-based computers running XP or Vista, but Mac and Linux versions are still in the works… “What we wanted to build was not so much a traditional content viewer but more of a window manager for web pages and applications,”... [read more]