Category: Computers and the web

I used Stretch Break when I was working at Lawrence Hall of Science, spending much time daily at the computer. It has a nice combination of stretches, both sitting and standing. You can set it to remind you at any time interval you chose (default is every 30 minutes). It’s a great program for those of us who get caught...

I just found a great piece of software that allows you to easily record what you are doing on your computer screen (with your own voice over) and save it as a .AVI or Flash movie. The software is called CamStuio, and being open source it is free. You can find it at http://camstudio.org/. I used it for making a...

It’s not just that it’s by Micro$oft. It’s that it’s not standards compliant. A little bit of history: When the web first started to use browsers (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.), folks weren’t quite sure how to write the code so it would display “correctly” on every browser. Slowly, standards were developed, with the goal of writing HTML and other web...