I’ve talked about blogs before – they are web logs where the author posts regular articles, generally on a given topic. People use them to show off a hobby, keep their audience updated on a project or event, demonstrate their expertise, or many other reasons. Blogger (www.blogger.com) is a free blog creation tool and hosting … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ann Treacy
Vacation Tips
Here in no particular order are some sites that might help you on a trip or while planning for a trip. Sadly this is purely academic for me; I’m not actually going on a trip any time soon. Oanda http://www.oanda.com/ This is a great online money conversion tool. Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm Now I … Continue reading
Lily’s Podcast
OK I guess I’m kind of into podcasts now. Lily is my 7 year old daughter. We just recorded her first podcast yesterday, “10 Questions About.” She started by writing down 10 questions she had about lions. Then we researched lions together online using Yahooligans (www.yahooligans.com), Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), and an online dictionary (www.dictionary.com). We … Continue reading
Google for Enterprise-Wide Email
Today’s Byte is for readers who work with an office of folks … I’ll start by saying that I don’t know much about this firsthand as I don’t have an office of folks – but this looks interesting. Google is beta testing a program that would bring Gmail to every user in your domain. Since … Continue reading
What’s a Google Mashup?
Google creates tools to help web site developers build more interactive web sites. They started a few years ago when they created search function that a developer could add to a web site. (You can see a sample here: http://www.minnesotaruralpartners.org.) Their latest tool is a mapping function that lets you tap into their tools … Continue reading
4th of July Quiz
Just for fun I created a 4th of July quiz for the Byte this week. You can access it here: https://treacyinfo.com/quiz.htm I created it very easily using the FunBased Learning Quiz Maker: http://funbasedlearning.com/tools/quizMaker/default.htm Really I just filled in some form fields, pushed a button, saved the file and uploaded it to my site. I looked … Continue reading
Byte of the Week Podcast
OK I finally did it – I created a podcast! You can access it here: http://odeo.com/channel/108348/view Mostly I just go over the instructions to start your own very simple podcast. It was very easy and took less than 10 minutes. I signed up for Odeo, made a phone call, and hit record (well # really). … Continue reading
YouTube, Prosper, Squid Labs
am just back from a wonderful vacation in Detroit Lakes. Those of you who know me will be amazed to hear that I went a week without a TV. What more amazing is that I’ve been home 5 hours and still haven’t watched it! While on vacation I picked up a copy of Wired just … Continue reading
On Vacation
I am at a wonderful conference (Symposium on Small Towns and Rural Summit) today and head out to vacation to a wonderful resort tomorrow. So, today’s Byte is brief. Below are instructions for setting your email to the automated out of office reply when you go on vacation (although I’ll actually be checking email in … Continue reading
Spam Protection and a New Library (not necessarily related)
Last week I talked about how email addresses (IP addresses actually) get blacklisted. Rosemary, from St Paul, wrote in to tell me that addresses can also be blacklisted when there is a poorly constructed email-based form on their web site. It’s a good reminder to check your web forms too. You can learn more here … Continue reading
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