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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Animated Video Tool - #GoAnimate.com #vmvwiki #vmvdlt

A new Twitter follower for @virtualMv

However experience shows a 14 day free trial in an education setting just doesn't work, and the pricing structure suggested does not work for students.

For education a trial needs to work over a minimum of a semester to be of any use, no student can devote enough time in 14 days (alongside their other assessment work) to create a useful artifact. There is nothing like having students learn then promote a product when they go into the workforce, and it doesn't hurt to have a copy available for the lecturer either.

In the past some software companies have discretely watermarked with "Educational Copy". In some cases "Educational Copy" was so visible as to make the software unusable - so we didn't!! )

http://goanimate.com/business/videoplans/

Sent from my iPad

Monday, September 9, 2013

Photoshop CS6: What happened to png? #vmvwiki

Had a pdf with an image I wanted to save, but Save option was missing PNG. Quick search by Dr. Google revealed that you need to change the Image > Mode > to RGB.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Getty Museum announce Open Content Program releasing 1000s of high quality public domain images. #vmvwiki

Open Content, An Idea Whose Time Has Come

James Cuno | August 12, 2013

The initial focus of the Open Content Program is to make available all images of public domain artworks in the Getty’s collections. Roughly 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose.

- See more at: http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/

Thursday, June 20, 2013

A VLE Course #vmvdlt

Using Google Sites and open software to create a virtual learning environment

https://sites.google.com/a/thevleisdead.com/www/home

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Computing e-books for $5

https://app.packtpub.com/#

Make sure you go through the app store for the discounted books.

Friday, December 28, 2012

Google Drive Crop Drawing

While there is no actual cropping tool, this is achieved by

putting the image on the top left of the canvas then click and

drag the bottom right hand corner of the canvas until the canvas is the same size as the image.

Actually quite simple really !!!

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Domain Name cloaking using frames

Learn't something the other day. We have a wordpress web site on hostable.com and the Domain Name is with Freeparking.

We have been having trouble with the url displaying in the browser. So you get "http://mydomain.com/" no matter what page is displayed - this is pretty useless if you want to bookmark a page.

Lots of web searching revealed that Freeparking cloak your site in a 100% frame - which is VERY bad form as search engines tend to ignore any frame based sites (we couldn't figure out why the site rated so poorley).

So the actual page HTML looks like

<frame name="top" src="http://xxxx.12345.a.hostable.me/wordpress/" noresize="noresize" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" />
<noframes>
<body>
This document uses a frameset.
<a href="http://xxxx.12345.a.hostable.me/wordpress/">Click Here</a> to view the page.
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>

Ok.. so off to Freeparking Help desk .. and their response

Subject: [WebFarm/Freeparking #1400011] URL Redirection - xxxx.co.nz

Hi , There's no good answer to that unfortunately. Cloaked wont show much in the way of filenames, or anything else, as you mentioned. You can really only cloak it or not cloak it. -- Regards, Chris

So the choice is either show xxxx.co.nz on all pages or forget the domain and wind up with urls like http://xxxx.12345.a.hostable.me/wordpress/be-involved/ .. so whats the point of the domain name???

There does not appear to be away around this apart from:

Host the site with freeparking or

register the domain name with someone else (though check if they also do cloaking the same way - I have been told godaddy does the same)

Any ideas welcome....

13-Aug: Suggestion from Inga - does require certain conditions to be met before this will work. http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/frame-blocking-anti-clickjacking.shtml

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Future (and present) uses of Glass

A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning

Miku 39 on youtube. Computer performer using #Vocaloid s/ware in a live concert. http://trunc.it/f1yst

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Web page Colour scheme designer

Another link from JJ to help you with the colours in your web site.

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Best/worst web sites page in wiki

Just added a best/worst web site page to my wiki. Feel free to add/comment (you will need to login first)

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Multimedia:Design:Examples

Monday, July 26, 2010

A database-ERD (+more) diagram tool (like visio)

Another recommendation from JJ.

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Examples

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

GimpShop (Photoshop emulator)

A free Open Source image editor is Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/).

A hack is available to give it a photoshop feel (http://www.gimpshop.com/index.shtml)

Friday, June 11, 2010

Free Clipart

From @catspyjamasnz

http://www.openclipart.org/

Under creative commons licence.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

To Flash or not to Flash this is the question...

Looks like a tsunami of change again for Multimedia.

Flash CS5

Microsoft Visual studio/Silverlight

HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript?

With Steve Jobs firing a major salvo across Adobes bows:

Apple Didn’t Kill Flash, HTML5 Did -http://bit.ly/dzFV3V

Steve Jobs: Adobe's Flash "has major technical drawbacks"http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=8179

(Thanks Steph)

I'm going to have to think about how we will deliver multimedia in the future.

Darn!!!!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Lots of diagram styles

From Sam M.

Based on sustainability, but can give lots of ideas for adaption in other areas.

http://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/visualising-sustainability/
..and more
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-informative-and-well-designed-infographics/

Sunday, March 28, 2010

PowerPoint: Adding an animated clock

http://screenr.com/uQg

(other effects too)

I guess I'm going to see a lot of these at the next conference!!

Monday, March 15, 2010

Using JavaScript to increase browser text size

When I display my wiki on an overhead in class it is useful to increase the text size. At present I have to use page>Text Size> Larger. Using my "friend" Dr. Google (he/she?) who knows much more than me, came up with a solution by David Walsh ( a Sun Developer) http://davidwalsh.name/change-text-size-onclick-with-javascript. There are lots of very tricky solutions out there including those that restyle every individual tag on the page. Note however the resize is only active on the current page (as its JavaScript) so if you go to another page you will have to resize again, unlike the Browser setting which persists.

Am looking to implement this in http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki soon.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ways To Jazz Up A Virtual Classroom

A link from Joyce

http://www.slideshare.net/shend5/ways-to-jazz-up-a-virtual-classroom

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Blender - 3D Image Manipulation

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite

http://www.blender.org/

From another blog

http://www.teach2thefuture.net/home/2010/2/2/blender-3d-image-manipulation.html

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009

From JS:

Lots of icons to give you ideas for your own ones.

http://speckyboy.com/2009/12/21/the-top-50-web-development-icon-sets-from-2009/