Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Posts about web applications such as Moodle, Drupal and WordPress.
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 the college) was omitting results from the Library web site because it felt those results were too similar. You could still see them by forcing Google … Read more
Here’s my test of audio/video screen capture using Camtasia Studio, in which I use Google to find Waldo. It was recorded on a Windows XP machine with a Logitech Desktop Microphone. The final Quicktime video is 640c494pixels (full-size; I recorded a portion of the screen) It is 1.16 minutes long, and 2.95 MB in size. … Read more
Here’s my test of audio/video screen capture using Adobe Captivate, in which I use Google to find Waldo. It was recorded on a Windows XP machine with a Logitech Desktop Microphone. The final video is actually a series of Flash audio and video files. I can’t easily insert it into this post, so I’m attaching … Read more
Here’s my test of audio/video screen capture using ScreenFlow, 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 960×600 pixels (about 50% of the original screen size) It is 1.04 minutes long, and 7.7 MB in … Read more
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
Here’s my test of audio/video screen capture using Camstudio, in which I use Google to find Waldo. This was done on a Windows XP machine running Camstudio 2.0. The audio was recorded using a Logitech Desktop Microphone. The final video uses the Intel Indeo Video 4.5 codec. The AVI video full-screen, 1.05 minutes long and … Read more
We’re gearing up for a major round of usability testing this semester. I’ve found two good video screen capture apps for the Mac in the form of Silverback and Screenflow but finding equivelent programs on the Windows side is proving to be more of a challenge. Jing is very close to what I want — … Read more
By default, Moodle ships with a default number of emoticons turned on — filters that turn text smilies into graphical ones. This is all well and good — the nuances of speech can be lost in the written words, and emoticons help with that — but it can cause problems, particularly with some of Moodle’s … Read more
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