By Kirsten on September 4, 2010
Posted in Productivity, Tips for Trainers
By Kirsten on August 5, 2010
I am not usually bothered by cookies and will delete them as I need to but the “special” flash cookies that are hidden from regular cookie control windows are really bugging me. As fate would have it the lovely and talented Woody from Windows Secrets highlighted just this issue in his latest newsletter. Here is [...]
Posted in Browsers, Tips for Trainers | Tagged Cookies, Flash
By Kirsten on June 2, 2010
Ok, I’m a huge fan of the Adobe Captivate Blog but having videos autoplay is really, really annoying! I do not want any sound on my laptop that I did not ask for or install. I have some whirrs and clicks and itunes running in the background (playing whatever middle eastern pop tune struck my [...]
Posted in Adobe, Tips for Trainers
By Kirsten on April 26, 2010
There are many places that will help you adjust the embed information from YouTube – however, if your site is XHTML Strict (like this one is) you will still not validate. In swings Tools4Noobs to the rescue! They have many great resources in the Online Tools section. I went through five or six different sites [...]
Posted in Tips for Trainers, Web Design
By Kirsten on April 26, 2010
Putting video on a website is more tedious than hard. There are resources for getting a video onto a page, post, or sidebar but you usually will need to know what the dimensions should be. If you have a large YouTube video that you want in a sidebar, you will need to scale it to [...]
Posted in Tips for Trainers, Web Design
By Kirsten on April 21, 2010
There is a great website – http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/ for critical Acrobat information. This covers more things than just legal specific topics and links to free e-seminars. If you want to expand your Adobe Acrobat knowledge free seminars and blog articles are a great way to do it. There is a huge Acrobat community out there.
Posted in Adobe, Featured, Tips for Trainers, Tutorials and Demos | Tagged acrobat, free help, stuff for students
By Kirsten on April 4, 2010
If you had asked me last week what the best book for Actionscript 3.0 was, I would have said “Learning ActionScript 3.0″ from O’Reilly press. I have totally changed my mind on that. I recently picked up “Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers” from friends of Ed press. It is a fantastic book for Flash CS4 [...]
Posted in Recommended Books, Software, Tips for Trainers, Web Design
By Kirsten on January 5, 2010
Huzzah! FileJuicer is my new favorite thing! Try it if you have a mac – there’s a demo (and it’s cheap)
Posted in Productivity, Software, Tips for Trainers