July 2011
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How to use bookmarklets on an Android tablet
Liam Green-Hughes has come up with a nice little app that lets him use the delicious bookmarklet on his Android tablet. If you use other bookmarkets on your android tablet but don’t want to create an app for it here is how you can do it in the browser:
1. On the page you want to use a bookmarklet on tap to get address bar
2. Open your bookmarks
3. Choose the bookmarklet you want to use...
May 2011
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Why I'll be voting SNP
A friend just emailed me to ask why he shouldn’t vote for SNP this is what I said:
Ah it was only 4 years ago when we had our impassioned debate about the upcoming election. There was me thinking the SNP were a shower of fools destined to plunge the country into the dark ages. Roll on 4 years and I would be quite happy if they got a second term. Meanwhile if a Labour or Liberal candidate...
February 2011
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My first Google Gadget to embed a flickr photoset...
The xml link for this is here
Google Gadgets are really easy all you need to do is wrap some XML around html content.
Here’s more info on getting started and there is even an online editor for creating and hosting your own gadgets
If you’re interested in developing gadgets for Google Apps, the following guides will help you get started writing gadgets for the different Google...
January 2011
6 posts
Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month:
Online learning needs a strategy, says new report – January 27, 2011 – Haven’t had a chance to read this myself, but right worth sharing
Focusing on BigBlueButton – January 24, 2011 – This is a very useful post to get a flavour of who is looking at the open source webinar tool BigBlueButton
ds106 Radio….lock it in!!! –...
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Bookmarklet for who can see your twitter @reply...
Previously in Who can see your @reply in twitter I highlighted Tony’s Common Friends or Followers on Twitter script. For this you had to download some code and create a html file to run locally. Having played with the SNAPP bookmarklet which lets you ”visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies” in various VLEs I thought it would be...
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Who can see your @reply in twitter
I’ve been a serious twitter user for over a year now but only learned a fundamental of Twitter’s reply mechanism a couple of weeks ago (how embarrassing). Looking at the behaviour of some of the people I follow it makes me think others don’t know this little fact either.
If you were like me you probably assumed that if you @replied a person at the start of a tweet, this message...
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Caching and displaying @rsc_ne_scotland Twitter...
Update: Hmm, you could just use a service like Feedburner or Yahoo Pipes to handle the caching of the RSS bit.
On our JISC RSC Scotland North & East homepage we use a version 1 of the Twitter widget to display tweets (to tweak appearance we’ve actually modified the JS slightly, our local version of twitter.js here).
A problem we’ve had is the Twitter API rate limit would often...
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Trouble at JISCAdvanceUberTwitStream Twitter Feed
To make sure we have a steady flow of tweets on our @rsc_ne_scotland twitter feed for some time we have been pulling news and events from JISC and JISC Service websites, publishing them using the dlvr.it service.
dlvr.it has some great features for manipulating RSS feeds like adding item prefix or replacing text, but because JISC/JISC Advance Services all have their own way of publishing news and...
Hello world
I’ve set up this site because I feel I need another place to post the bits and pieces I come across or things I do which aren’t worth putting on my main blog but still worth sharing. It all a bit of an experiment really.
