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Picasa for Higher Ed Image Management

by Whitney Anderson on May 29, 2009

One of my Twitter friends, Rachel Reuben, was recently asking about our experience with Picasa and  I emailed her my pros and cons.  I decided to post that information here, as it might be helpful to others.  We had Extensis Portfolio right when I started working here and nobody particularly liked it.  We tried several [...]

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WordPress Plug-in of the Week

by Whitney Anderson on February 23, 2009

My favorite plug-in for the week is Twitter Tools for WordPress.  It’s an easy to use app to add your twitter updates to your blog.  I have had problems with other twitter plug-ins, and really like this one not only because it works (!), but also because there’s lots of great options built right into [...]

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The new Online Admissions Application Wireframes are Here!!

by Michael Santoroski on February 21, 2009

I admit that getting excited about the wireframes for the online application is pretty lame, but our on-line app has been stuck in the stone ages (I mean pre-AJAX days!!) for so long, it’s exciting to see the process more forward for the redesign. We have partnered with our friends at New City Media to [...]

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Easy, custom flash photo galleries – Slideshow Pro Director to the rescue

by Whitney Anderson on December 11, 2008

So, we’ve been using Slideshow Pro here for a long time, as has probably at least half of the higher ed community.  [Example gallery] It’s been used in conjunction with a web app written by my colleague, Michael.    However, it’s been a real pain to do these galleries. Here’s a few of the problems I’ve [...]

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A Little Ajax Makes People Search Load Faster

by Michael Santoroski on October 31, 2008

Ever since we changed our people search to return results across all person types (student, faulty, staff, retirees), performance has been pretty poor. I was able to use some of the built in Ajax functions of Coldfusion 8 to break up the processing and return results faster. The old way: 1 – Get a result [...]

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We tweet. Do you?

by Whitney Anderson on October 1, 2008

It seems that Twitter has taken quite a while to catch on amongst the masses.  People, even seemingly techno-savvy ones, don’t really get it.  But, we get it and we like it and think it’s really catching on.  I like to think of it as a mini-blog broadcasting tool. So, why do we Twitter? Here’s [...]

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Back to X1 search

by Michael Santoroski on January 15, 2008

I have spent quite a bit of time evaluating desktop search. Recently I have moved back to X1. This was after Xobni proved to be a resource hog and kept crashing Outlook. Here is a list of solutions I have tried, but no longer use: Copernic – http://tinurl.us/525ed1 I actually love this product, but recently [...]

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My Top Firefox Addons

by Michael Santoroski on January 3, 2008

Here is my list of firefox addons, I hope you find something that you can use. 5. IE Tab Love it or hate it, you need to use IE for certain sites.   Anything Microsoft, for instance. Just set those pages to use IE Tab and you are all set. Also, adds a nice little button [...]

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New Software I am Trying This Week

by Michael Santoroski on December 19, 2007

#1 Alertbear – RSS Reader – www.alertbear.com I’ve never really tried a standalone RSS reader, I have always been a go to the site or google reader kind of person. I have tried Yahoo Widgets and Google Desktop, but nothing that I have really liked. But I think this Alertbear might be the program for [...]

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Digital Personal Assistant?

by Michael Santoroski on November 16, 2007

So I have tried pretty much every online task management web site out there. And I haven’t found any that I really like. Remember the milk comes about as close as any to being perfect, but I just find that I don’t use it. But, I think I have finally found “the one.” Sandy (iwantsandy.com) [...]

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