Using social media is exciting but what about learning how to program your very own web applications? How about those 10 year olds who read about using IM (instant messaging) and rejecting email as bring for ‘oldies’? Could it be possible for those same 10 year olds to be writing their very own instant messaging [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Developer tools'
Stop spam and help correct OCR errors – at the same time!
May 26th, 2007 Comments Off
reCaptcha is a nifty project that uses the now familiar ‘Captcha’ web form spam prevention technique to help fix OCR problems in global digitisation projects. Currently this great example of socially responsible crowdsourcing is helping fix digitisation errors and inconsistencies in books scanned for the Internet Archive – books that will be reproduced in the [...]
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So many image gallery options – 30 scripts from Smashing Magazine
May 18th, 2007 Comments Off
Smashing Magazine’s 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes is, like most of their ’round ups’ an impressive selection of image display scripts. If you’ve been trawling the net yourself trying to find the right set of gallery scripts for a project then drop by Smashing. I’d highly recommend subscribing to their RSS feed as [...]
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A study of museums and ‘digital accessibility’
April 24th, 2007 Comments Off
Jim Spadaccini forwarded me Wendy Constantine’s thesis project looking at digital media projects in museums that also manage to be accessible to users with different levels of disability. From the abstract – This research explores the bridging of technological resources with user-centered design for the purpose of making online cultural learning more accessible and usable [...]
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Stutzman on customizing the Del.icio.us Tagometer
December 22nd, 2006 Comments Off
Fred Stutzman shows how to customise the brand new del.icio.us Tagometer by overriding the default CSS for the Tagometer. The Tagometer is a simple widget to enable visitors to your site to ‘del.icio.us it’ as well as showing the number of people who have tagged your site and the most popular tags for it. As [...]
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