The perfect use of a pie chart.... (1)
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The perfect use of a pie chart. Hattip: Information aesthetics
70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials (10)
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by Dirk Metzmacher Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results. Of ...
Official Google Blog: Project 10^100 (35)
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If you could suggest a unique idea that would help as many people as possible, what would it be?It's a question worth considering. Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time so many people (in all walks of life) could use some help, in small ways and big. In the midst ...
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rorowe said:
What would *you* come up with?
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eschnou said:
Anyone interested in brainstorming on a proposal ?
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Davide said:
this is so cool!
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Umang Saini said:
I like the input form. 20th Oct is deadline. 25 days to go.
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Ognjen said:
To mark our 10th birthday and celebrate the spirit of our users and the web, we're launching Project 10^100 (that's "ten to the hundredth") a call for ideas that could help as many people as possible, and a program to bring the best of those ideas to life.
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Chris McQueen said:
Wow...
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Kenny Stoltz said:
Reminds me of 1MLN!
Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses (18)
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DeviceGuru writes "Stanford University will soon begin offering a series of 10 free, online computer science and electrical engineering courses. Initial courses will provide an introduction to computer science and an introduction to field of robotics, among other topics. The courses, offered under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), are nearly identical to standard courses offered to registered Stanford students and will comprise downloadable video lectures, handouts, assignments, exams, and transcripts. And get this: ...
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TheUnixGuy said:
No credits... but free Stanford Comp. Sci and Robotics classes....
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Chris McQueen said:
I'm interested to look at the course design and setup. I've never taken a computer course, but I do feel online learning should be extend to more engineering courses.
Scoop: Windows Scenic - Windows 7’s Ribbon-based UI platform (2)
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It looks like the much anticipated new user-interface platform for Windows 7 and Windows Live Wave 3 applications is being called “Windows Scenic”, if the recently available Windows Live Wave 3 Movie Maker and leaked screenshot of Windows 7’s Paint application is any indication. They are both built with one and the same UI framework. Several months ago there were indications Microsoft was working on an Office 2007 Ribbon-inspired interface for Windows 7 which at ...
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Chris McQueen said:
Seems like even Microsoft hates the application (orb) menu.
Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right (16)
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Content today is increasingly delivered by audio both online and in the real world. We have radio shows and newscasts, and in recent years, podcasts, audio books and navigation/car assistance systems have been added to the field. Audio is more emotional, as sound effects and acoustic atmosphere enhance content to help deliver its messages. It also affords users the opportunity to interact with content while their hands and eyes are busy (i.e. when doing physical ...
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Chris McQueen said:
Wow, this should be required reading for any aspiring podcaster.
How I Create Video Tutorials (2)
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Creating video tutorials is no trivial task. When you sit down to create 20+ video tutorials for a project, you’re faced with dozens of questions. What screen size should the videos be, what recording tool should you use, what microphone is best, how long should the videos be, what file size is acceptable? Should you use voice or captions? Where will you create the recording? You can create video tutorials using dozens of different methods. ...
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Chris McQueen said:
I have a similar process; only I record all of my audio first and then bring it into Camtasia. It's different style and not nearly as casual, but it works.
Silverlight to support H.264, AAC (1)
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Follow-up to <video> and Flash from [Ux] Microsoft has announced that Silverlight will be supporting AAC audio and H.264 video. With regard to my previous entry about the video tag, this will make it even harder for Theora and can only consolidate H.264 as the current codec of choice. The announcement comes as no surprise to industry experts, but this move proves that MS is aggressively going after online video in a big way, but ...
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Chris McQueen said:
This is really huge. Suddenly there is one video codec on the web; h.264. Quicktime does it, Flash does it, and now Silverlight.Now, I wonder what the next disruptive technology will be. No one has de-throned MP3, which became the web audio format.
Search experiments, large and small (60)
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In my previous post, I described the components of your web search experience and the principles behind creating a great search experience. There are complex algorithms underlying simple features such as spelling correction and the two line snippets that describe each search result. We figure out what works by running experiments - tiny tests for a small number of users which help us determine whether that feature helps or hurts. Experimentation is a very powerful ...
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Jorge said:
It's rather interesting to see that changing minute details on a page can yield measurably different results.
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Chris McQueen said:
It's all in the details.
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francks said:
Hard to be more anal than that...
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Damon said:
For those that think UI design is for the birds...
abc NEWS - Universities Giving out iPhones (1)
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This is AWESOME!!! Universities handing out iPhones to new students. University of Maryland ROCKS! abc NEWS runs a story on it and its hilarious. The reporter asks this question "Are iPhones useful learning tools or simply goof-off machines?" Clever, eh? <insert ROFL>Here's a soundbite they used from the cranky old professor [Robert Summers, Cornell Law School]: "...they're pounding away on their laptops rather than listening closely to the content of the arguments and counter arguments." ...
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Chris McQueen said:
Does group discussion still work when you have the entire internet available? What is the point of the Socratic method when everyone in the room has the same availability to information. I'm not saying this is wrong, but how does it change the instruction and learning?
Set Up Personal FTP (and website) Sharing (5)
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Do you have a website or FTP server? Do you want Jing to be able to send images and video up there? If so, click the More ball > Preferences > FTP. Once there, you can check out this image for an example of how the fields should likely look. Or, check out this video (3:48) for a more in-depth explanation. On a related topic, what is the difference between embed and share links? Let's ...
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Steve said:
This is the most bomber feature of Jing. To get the full power of Jing, set up FTP today!
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Chris McQueen said:
Ahh, Dear Jing, you are so wonderful.
U.S. Federal Government Silences Typo Spotters; Forces Them To Stop Encouraging Others (1)
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In a nation that prides itself on its freedom of expression comes this ridiculous story—Typo Vigilantes Answer To The Letter Of The Law—featured in The Arizona Republic. The story starts our like this: “Two self-anointed grammar vigilantes who toured the nation removing typos from public signs have been banned from national parks after vandalizing a historic marker at the Grand Canyon...In addition to being banned from national parks for a year, the defendants, who pleaded ...
Debunking The Myths of Multitasking [Exclusive Lifehacker Interview] (60)
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In a fast-paced business culture of "get everything done yesterday," it's easy to admire and reward those busybusy people who always seem to be juggling fourteen things at once. But business coach Dave Crenshaw argues that the most common kind of multitasking doesn't boost productivity—it slows you down. In his new book, The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done, Crenshaw explains the difference between "background tasking"—like watching TV while exercising—and "switchtasking," ...
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Chris McQueen said:
If I stopped multi-tasking I might be able to implement this...
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Simon said:
I've been trying to focus on a single task at a time at my new job and I have really noticed a difference. Mind you, my new job doesn't have nearly the pressure of the old so I can focus on one thing at a time.
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Sean said:
More discussion on this ever present problem.
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JayCrossler said:
Rich Byrne once challenged me that the more you multitask, the less quality all of your result are. I took that as advice to stop checking my blackberry and texting someone on my iPhone while he was talking.I think there is another story, though - multitasking at the right time is very valuable. I see many people who attend 4 hour meetings without brigning their laptops - and then during the 2.5 hours where their attention isn't needed, they just doodle or try to inject their great ideas into areas that don't need them. I think if we understand that most people don't deserve my full attention (though, Rich Byrne definitely does) then we can all get much more done.Anyone know a polite way of saying, "Excuse me for typing while you are talking, but you're only worth 28% of my attention"?
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Timothy said:
For some reason this made me think of what Ashley has to deal with on a daily basis in the ER.
Beautiful Black and White Photography | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine (29)
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If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation. Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its ...
Required Reading for Training Managers (1)
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Great post from Karyn Romeis -Either it matters or it doesn't. It discusses the all too common issue that learning professionals receive assignments to create learning solutions only to find out that the client doesn't really know what they want/need, and worse yet, really don't care, or the audience isn't willing to give time / attention to it, or you lack SME attention, etc.There is often the perception on the part of the client that ...
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Chris McQueen said:
Trainers also need to know when a project is doomed to fail and let it go. I guess that's easy for me to say since I don't chase contract work, but it seems that a successful project is better than a wild goose chase.
Why Elearning Is Dead (1)
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Tom King makes some excellent points in response to my last post which means its time for me to get serious and add some real meat to the discussion rather than just dumping gas on the burning carcass of elearning and dancing gleefully. ;-) Here are a few things to consider when analyzing the depth of the problem: Reusable content, the raison d’être of SCORM / AICCC, sounds like a great idea, but never materializes. ...
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Chris McQueen said:
Brooks makes some great points. I'm young in the elearning field, but I can't say anything here was out of sorts.
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