http://keirabytes.com Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:19:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Life was good, and there I was humming along with my new Microsoft Office 2008 for the MAC... having a grand ole time inserting the new MACish clip art into a new artsy PowerPoint template. Things were going great, and I was actually thinking about praising Microsoft for a creating ... http://keirabytes.com/2009/09/22/no-alt-for-images-in-microsoft-office-2008 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="235" caption="Petz, Dogz Family for the Sony PSP Go handheld game device"]E3 ... Sausage Fest? (Image © Jens Jäpel) I experienced the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles this year. Wading through geeks and LA Lakers fans on my walk to the convention center, I anticipated seeing what ... http://keirabytes.com/2009/06/08/girlz-play-too What the Flock? Flock is a "social web browser" designed to display the user's social interaction for several different social media applications, like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc. Instead of flipping back and forth between browser tabs favorite social media apps, the user can take quick glances to see what's going ... http://keirabytes.com/2008/07/23/what-the-flock Last week, I was skimming my feeds at lunchtime and BA-BING... Google Friend Connect, the projected answer to our univerity's social networking prayers and user authentication nightmares. Social networking for dummies. With a bit of research, I found that others out there, like Facebook, also have do-it-on-your-own-webpage networking doohickeys, but ... http://keirabytes.com/2008/05/20/google-friend-connect-social-networking-widgets-for-dummies I entered the millennium this weekend with the purchase of my iPhone. Like a kid in a candy store, I tasted each button one by one learning the functionality of my new toy. One of my many luddite questions to the saleswoman was, "Can I install other browsers on this ... http://keirabytes.com/2008/04/07/firefox-dreams The cloning process began 15 years ago. Everything went exactly as planned... blonde hair, blue eyes, etc. Then out came the personality within the specimen. She was creative, strong and athletic, which also fit the bill. Much to our surprise, the young specimen is transforming into a tech goddess. Teaching ... http://keirabytes.com/2008/04/01/cloning-project-nearly-complete Spent a partial day with fellow employee Phil Lomboy discussing the finer points of video captioning with Camtasia. I'm looking forward to getting all of my "head notes" into a powerpoint presentation / resource list for more than one person to utilize. We are on our way to a more ... http://keirabytes.com/2008/03/12/video-captioning-presentation Published in In Touch with Student Services, Vol. 16, No. 1 By now most of us know that our websites and other campus technologies need to be accessible. A common question I hear is, “Is my website ADA or whatever?” The mystery of accessibility seems daunting at times, especially when we ... http://keirabytes.com/2008/03/04/accessible-technology-made-simple Static webpages are dying. Each day continue I pump out static pages, one by one...punching that Dreamweaver "put" button like a robot, waiting for the files to transfer over a choaking connection of growing millennial users. Oddly enough I'd rather be strategizing sitemaps in Visio, planning information architecture, using my ... http://keirabytes.com/2008/03/03/static-is-dead