tag:www.wou.edu,2009-03-13:/~gilberts/blogs/1887   "The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:" - Lewis Carroll information and ideas concerning the Western Oregon web site plus commentary on new media Movable Type 4.23-en tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10669 2010-07-14T00:24:00Z

Able to fix slow internet connections with a single ethernet cable

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10579 2010-06-01T18:44:15Z

Flash is a complicated tool that use has the ability to use high level elements from graphic and interactive designers as well as relying on a wide range of coding options. Of of the needed skills sets the individual user will only feel comfortable with about 30% of the traditional Flash working enviroment. The following tool uses the flash development engine, but packages it in a WYSWIG that simplifies the learning curve for the individual who may be working on a specific piece of the project. OF NOTE: the demo video probably uses the flash engine software Captivate that is built on a similar concept tailored to building interactive training tools

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10584 2010-05-11T23:31:31Z

Both Dreamweavear and Contribute have methods to check out a file and leave a flag on the network that does not allow other users of this software to make edits while it being worked on. Unfortunately this flag file does not always go away when the content provider is done making the changes. Read the following email and response on how to deal with this issue.

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10556 2010-05-05T19:08:45Z

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10554 2010-04-15T22:32:57Z

Urchin is Web based software that reads the server logs and gives reports based on user habits on the WOU Web site. Unfortunately sometimes there is too much information that needs to be filtered out. Here is a filter (regular expression) for removing non-essential file types from most reports that look at requested pages.

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10436 2010-04-09T20:23:19Z

This is a tricky question because it was obvious that the image file was linked to properly.

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10438 2010-04-07T20:58:52Z

I have been hitting my head against a wall for weeks because I want a product that solves all of my problems, and I mean every last single one of them. So enter the smart phone.

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10388 2010-04-01T01:06:21Z

Here is a collection of links & references related to Win7 - IE8(mostly) - and 64 bit systems. As one poster pointed out, many of the problems come from poor coding for registry keys. There are also issues with Active X controllers plus Level 1 and Level 2 browser support.

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10265 2010-03-18T22:30:48Z

This entry is not a sales pitch for the OpenOffice software (it is free), but a heads up notice of the quality templates available online. These templates, built by users, are not as cliched or overused as those by their competitors. The templates data management for calendars, finances and other can allow you to bypass purchasing software or downloading questionable shareware.

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10241 2010-03-09T19:37:25Z

Many of my print are for reference pages - for layouts or technotes. These I only use one side. I have gotten used to switching to single sided for these. The other side of the coin is that for big...

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10148 2010-02-12T20:34:01Z

Keyboard shortcuts are the salvation of any high end OS or specific software user. Not only do you save precious time, but the repititive stress on your hand can be drastically reduced. Having recently switched to Windows7 and also using MAC machines and other XP features that I really wished I stil had. I found these shortcuts on the Microsoft site. The short cuts are for Windows Media Center keyboard for vista - but they appear to work fine

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10114 2010-02-01T20:17:36Z

I have my holiday animation up on a Web page. Internet explorer will refresh the animation, but Firefox won't. Any ideas why?

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2010:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10115 2010-01-22T20:29:29Z

This is the method I am using at home to print to pdf with out having to purchase/install Acrobat Pro

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2009:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10025 2009-12-18T20:04:58Z

The following is an example of the malicious intent of internet scams that surpass annoying spam and the way UCS web team assists individual areas within the WOU community.

Stewart Gibert tag:www.wou.edu,2009:/~gilberts/blogs//1887.10005 2009-12-10T02:57:35Z

This tutorial shows how to move an item across the screen using FLASH software. Please beware that this was designed using FLASH CS3 and the new CS4 is not as user friendly for some of the more basic user features. The text is all in the flash file if you want these instructions in pure text, please leave a comment and I can send or post them.

Stewart Gibert