I build eLearning courses at work. We use various formats and technologies, but some of our recent course-ware is HTML based with LOTS of embedded video and flash .swf files.  I work on a several new courses at a time so building them out can get tedious. We host our videos outside of the root [...]

I have 46 usernames and passwords.  In the old days, I kept all of these running under one or two usernames with 2 or 3 passwords shared among them.  With the recent activity of groups like Lulzsec and Anonymous, this is a dangerous game to play.  One of my email address, username, and password was [...]

Installations and applications fail with no warning. I've run into this several times lately on Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows 7.  On Windows Server it was a Tomcat installer, on Windows 7 a SqueezeBox client installer and several other installations.  There's no warning or real clue that it's admin privileges that are required.  It seems [...]

Writing styled email with images and css styles is a pain in the ass.  Premailer is one site that can help! The site will take all of your stylesheets, and convert them into inline style attributes.  Since most email clients can't read linked stylesheets or the style tag, inline attributes are the way to go. [...]

StarTeam continually blows my mind with how much you can do with it. We use StarTeam internally as our change management solution for all of our courseware (web based training, mostly in HTML/Flash). We use StarTeam in conjunction with Moodle, which for some time has required quite a bit of manual maintenance in keeping things [...]

In my organization most documentation, tutorials and many other assets compiled over the years have been produced in Word. Unfortunately, on repeated occasions, I've been assigned the arduous task of migrating these to web based format for distribution online and via Learning Management Systems. For anyone that's done this before - you'll know what I [...]

This posts describes the WD LiveWire tool and links to instructions on how to set up a secondary router either using LiveWire or standard cable to connect a second router. Like many of you, I live in a large house (actually not that large, just skinny and deep) that doesn't quite cut it when using [...]

Got a lens reversal thingy for my t2i and gave it a try tonight. Really tough to get the focus correct as it's an obscenely shallow depth of field. Here we go! Guess what they are... Answers at bottom. Answers: strawberry, eyeball, Crunchberry, jeans, tattoo, ring, burn, eyelid!

I've seen the ipad camera connector before, read about it, but really couldn't see the need for it given that I manage my photos in Adobe Lightroom. Sure it's nice to view them on the ipad, but really provides no additional functionality. Along comes PhotoSmith.   Yet to be released and still in the approval [...]