I really don’t like the entire Windows experience (when I installed my XP pre SP 1 OS I had to endure four hours of upgrades to get it to SP2 with all the latest patches), but I need to run GroupWise (I’m pushing to have us look at something else) and my character editor and this makes it convenient. Performance is great and coherence makes you almost forget you are using Windows. I’d say that if you can’t wait to see what Leopard holds then snag a copy of Parallels.

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Also love “White and Nerdy” probably because I never figured out what “Ridin’ Dirty” means.

Enter a CSS only version by CSSPLAY. This is really cool, but you do not get the full-size image floating above the active page. This is because the Javascript in LightboxJS is what allowed the floating full-size image. If you can live without the floating full size image then this may be the gallery for you. I am going to play with both of these on some of the other sites I maintain.

There is also a new version of LightboxJS to try.

If there are themes for WordPress 1.5+ that you like and would like considered for addition to the site, leave a comment.

ProfCast allows one to capture the slides (it supports Keynote and PowerPoint) and audio of a presentation and keeps them in sync. To use the application requires OS X 10.4 and either presentation application. The only difference for the presenter is to start their presentation and then start ProfCast. When they are ready to present they press the Record button on ProfCast and the presentation starts and progresses like normal. At the end of the presentation ProfCast comes up and asks you to Publish the presentation as a Podcast. We canceled that and saved the session as an enhanced Podcast. This created an m4b file which was uploaded to the server.

If you view the video, you’ll notice the default size is a little small. Visitors can download the file and open it in QuickTime Player and choose to view it at Double size for a clearer picture. It is a little unclear as to what purpose we might use ProfCast in the classroom, but we will probably experiment with it for the remaining Faculty at Large events.

So what am I doing? First I’m using the three column layout from A List Apart. This layout has all three columns being the same height. Then I added CSS based tabs which I found at the Kalsey Consulting Group. The tabs aren’t overly styled but the design does have the nice advantage that the sublists show up under the main tabbed list. It still needs some work so if you have ideas let me know.

PS- It has a built-in spell checker which I must say is very cool.

Maybe this is my first encounter with a Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 way of thinking about things. I’m trying to replicate a static website in an age of dynamic content. A transition to Mambo will require a huge rewiring of people’s brains regarding how they think of their websites.

A quick explanation of what the problem is. Some of you may know that all computers on the internet are idendified by a set of 12 numbers broken into groups of three. When you type www.wooster.edu into a browser that name needs to be converted to a number. This is what a DNS does. Herein lies the problem. All of the blogs are on the same machine so we need all the username.blogs.wooster.edu to resolve (be associated with) to the same number. This is accomplished by using what is called a wildcard DNS entery. It seems that the wildcard is not being handled properly by OarNET or that they are not doing a zone transfer for the domain blogs.wooster.edu. Once this is fixed everything should be super.

I really like the fact that the image is placed over the current page and then disappears when clicked on again. It is so much more convenient than being taken to a new page and then having to go back.

If you decide to check out the installation on my personal blog, be aware of the fact that the images are huge. They are huge so that family members can download them to make prints up to 8 by 10.