Tools

Guides and resources

Guides and resources

Over the years I have created a number of ‘how-to’ documents and presentations for a variety of desktop and web based software tools. They are usually available from the various workshop pages I thought it might prove helpful to link to all the documents from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred(…)

WordPress

WordPress

What is WordPress? WordPress is a browser based web site creation tool that is relatively easy to use. This tool allows you to create highly polished and professional web sites. You can create sites that are hosted on the WordPress.com server or download the free package from WordPress.org yourself and host the new site on(…)

Dragon Dictation

Dragon Dictation

I am creating this blog post using Dragon Dictation. This iPhone app allows you to record your voice and it converts your voice to text. You can publish that text to Twitter or Facebook or you can e-mail it to another person. For example I intend to e-mail the text to my blog. I will(…)

Query post pages

Query post pages

WordPress is an excellent tool. Simply brilliant. There is a feature in WordPress that allows you to query posts based on criteria that you set. For example, you can label posts with a specific category and with that information create a page that lists or displays simply those specific posts. There are WordPress themes, such(…)

Google Reader

Google Reader

RIP Google Reader Google Reader is to be retired on July 1st 2013. A sad day indeed. What is Google Reader? Google Reader allows you to keep track of the various web sites that you have bookmarked or  subscribed to in the past. In this manner you can easily keep track of any new items, stories(…)

Twitter

Twitter

What is Twitter? Twitter is an interesting beast. You need to give it a go and sort of figure it out as you go along. Find out what works best for you. My usage waxes and wanes lately. I need a new driver to make me tap into its value once again. Many individuals simply(…)