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Friday, September 3, 2010
Western fonts and typefaces fall into one of two identifiable categories; either they have small features at the end of strokes to distinguish each character, or they don’t. Serif fonts (or “Roman” fonts) are the ones with the swishes, and sans serif typefaces are the ones that don’t. Am I complaining? No way. hate Lucida Handwriting. Why not?
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to boost productivity. While most of the keyboard shortcuts are listed besides the menu items in Cp5, there are few which are hidden underneath. Here is a list of some of those shortcuts. Editing shortcuts. Shortcut key. Action. Ctrl + I (Win), Command + I (Mac). Left indent selected items. Decrease magnification.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Chris Anderson’s article The web is dead: long live the internet , in the August edition of Wired magazine, has attracted a lot of attention, including mine, but for many the title of the article would mean very little. The opening question asks, “When was the World Wide Web officially launched?”, with options for the 70s, 80s or 90s. Do I mind?
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Friday, September 3, 2010
I stumbled across an interesting paper linked to in a post by Karl Kapp. The paper describes a Professor of Reading’s teachers experience and learning from playing digital games and describes some of the learning principles good games incorporate. In fact, nothing happens until a player acts and makes decisions.
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Friday, September 3, 2010
Next week is the annual bash for learning technologists here in the UK. ALT-C 2010 looms, and Nottingham beckons once again for a gathering of the clans. have worked with many of these on a regular basis since, and count them among my most valuable colleagues, as well as great friends. And coffee. 1) A four gang mains extension cable. 11) iPhone.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
The software industry is loaded with help manuals and tutorials. It doesn’t matter how complex or easy the product is, a help manual or a tutorial is a must have. Why would someone need a help manual or a tutorial if the product is self-explanatory, obvious, easy to use? Let’s begin with the basic question. What users want? Reasons.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Write this day down in history. Today we shot the first episode of The Forge ! In this episode, Matt Pierce talked with Jon Udell all about screencasting. One of the things they discussed was the history of the name "Screencast". You can see a list of all the names suggested for this genre of videos here. The video runs (35:38). Stay tuned. Topics?
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