Hi. Darren Pearson here from DNP Consulting. Please feel free to leave feedback on any of my blog postings. I especially encourage feedback from Disqus users.
Aug
28
Magma Screenshot
Aug
20
Just finished getting our Mac Lab up on the fourth floor configured to dual boot Mac OS X and Windows XP. We will also be having open lab hours for Fall Semester on Tuesdays and Thursday from 3 to 5.
Students can get up to 25GB of free storage space using Skydrive through Microsoft. Students need to sign up using their new student email account. Very handy place to store homework files, plus any photo/music/video files you want to access from anywhere in the world.
Enrollment services put together a great Online Orientation Presentation. Strongly recommended for students starting their first semester at SPC.
I plan on using Desire 2 Learn for some of my classes this semester. To initially sign up, click on tinyurl.com/spcd2l
Students will need to migrate from
username@student.saintpaul.edu to username@my.saintpaul.edu
by September 30th. The old email account will quit working on October 1st.
Last but not least, SPC is putting on a theatrical production in cooperation with the culinary arts program this school year. It’s the first time the SPC theater has been used since the early 70′s. Auditions for “Our Town” will be during the first month of Fall Semester and the dinner and a play production is scheduled for April 16 and 17 this spring.
Aug
12
David Pogue over at the New York Times has started a campaign called “Take Back The Beep“. His main complaint is that all the major cell phone providers (Sprint, Verison, T-Mobile and AT&T) have these long messages like
At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up, or press 1 for more options. To leave a callback number, press 5
It’s 2009 and most of us know this information pretty well. Same goes for the messages you here when you check your own voicemail. The message is an annoying time waster for the user and lets the cell phone companies charge you extra. Over a year of cell phone usage, you’ve wasted a lot of time listening to this message again and again, and have been charged by the phone companies to hear it.
If you want to let your cell phone provider know you’re unhappy with this, you can contact them below:
Aug
11
Just saw that version 1.1.8 of the Chris Pederick Web Developer Toolbar was released. Was trying to run a previous version under Firefox 3.5 but had some problems. Looks like this works just fine. This is a must have for web developers and designers. One quick note, it was easier to install directly from the Chris Pederick website than through the Firefox Add-On option.
Aug
11
Like a lot of people, I’ve been less than enthusiastic about migrating to Vista. One of the issues I had was that the old Rehan FX package for Windows Movie Maker didn’t work in Vista. Well, Shader is here and works like a charm. You can install it for free and play with it for 15 days. After that time, certain features still work but you’ll need to pay $15 to continue to get the complete functionality, definitely worth it in my opinion. I still haven’t had a chance to play with the chromakey features but they look like fun. In addition, some great PIP and gradient effects/transitions are included.
Shader can be found on the Rehan FX website. Patrick Leabo has added a ton of extras to compliment Shader that are all free. His website contains tons of transitions, along with demo videos on Vimeo for each. Check it out when you have time.
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