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Easton Area School District on Twitter

September 9, 2009 by Ken Newquist

The Easton Area School District is on Twitter: @easdnewsflash. It has updates about district news and events, as well as breaking stuff like the district’s reaction to President Obama’s recent speech to grade school kids and announcements about UStreams of board meetings. Unfortunately they’re not being very interactive. They’re not following anyone (which half defeats … Read more

A 1 Terabyte Desktop

July 27, 2009 by Ken Newquist

My geeky heart went a flitter this morning when my new Lacie 1 TB external hard drive arrived. It replaces my earlier 150 GB one, which I use for Time Machine backups with my Mac. The old one had worked just fine … right up until I filled most of my Mac’s hard drive. Suddenly … Read more

Virtual Worlds in Education Global Conference

March 25, 2009 by Ken Newquist

The Virtual Worlds in Education Global Conference is being held in Second Life this weekend (March 27-29). My avatar is a sad, pathetic little pile of pixels (nothing like Hiro Protagonist) but I might need to drop in and see what’s happening with this conference. Lafayette has a Second Life island that we’ve been experimenting … Read more

Mac Tip: Right-clicking with the Trackpad

March 18, 2009 by Ken Newquist

I discovered this today while poking around the mouse settings on my Mac: if you put two fingers on the trackpad, and then click and a file, it acts as a right-click/contextual menu click. Very cool — I’ve had my MacBook Pro running 10.5 Leopard since September ’08 and had no idea you could do … Read more

Save ink with Ecofont

March 16, 2009 by Ken Newquist

I’m not one to go nuts about green stuff, but this is pretty damn cool: Ecofont. It’s a font that’s designed to use less ink, thus consuming less resources (assuming, of course, that you don’t go on a printing binge because of all the ink your saving…). As you can see from the Word screen … Read more

Silverback: Screen Capture Test (Mac)

March 9, 2009February 20, 2009 by Ken Newquist

Here’s my test of audio/video screen capture using Silverback, in which I use Google to find Waldo. It was recorded on a Mac OS X 10.5 machine with a Logitech Desktop Microphone. The final Quicktime video is 468×300 pixels (about 25% of the original screen size) It is 1.01 minutes long, and 19.22 MB in … Read more

Forcing a Google mini to show “omitted results”

February 12, 2009February 12, 2009 by Ken Newquist

Google’s motto may be “don’t be evil” but that doesn’t mean they can’t occasionally be overly helpful. Case in point our Google Mini (which serves up search results at Lafayette) was omitting results from the Library web site because it felt those results were too similar. You could still see them by forcing Google to … Read more

Stirring a little WordPress into your coffee…

February 9, 2009 by Ken Newquist

I’ve moved the ITS Coffee Break to WordPress, or at least a good chunk of it. I was able to import the entire show archive via an RSS feed from Soapbox (which I was able to throw together using Views in Drupal, which drives Soapbox … score another one for Drupal!) Unfortunately, while WordPress will … Read more

Mac OS 10.5.6, Mail and GPG Mail

February 9, 2009January 29, 2009 by Ken Newquist

After upgrading to Mac OS 10.5.6 , I discovered that Mail would crash whenever I tried to open an email message, then blame my GPG Mail encrpytion plugin. To fix it, I had to upgrade to GPG Mail 1.20.