Technology

The Problem:I needed a PowerPoint presentation to loop and play looping background music as well. The Solution: Select the slide you wish to insert the… Read More »Looping Background Music

A friend sent me a neat site named Simpsonizeme.com. The site is a collaboration between BurgerKing and the Simpsons Movie. You upload a picture of… Read More »I’ll take a burger, fries… and Simponize me please

You may have noticed the feed or RSS icon occasionally appearing in the address bar of your browser to indicate that an RSS feed is… Read More »The RSS icon in the browser address bar

Often times I see needlessly big PowerPoint presentations. The culprit is often pictures that have been inserted at a higher resolution that needed. The Fix… Read More »Your Powerpoint Presentation is So Big that…

Freakonomics, the blog, has decided to hate PowerPointers not PowerPoint. The article accuses PowerPoint, which turned 20 recently, of reducing presentations to bullet point boredom… Read More »Hating the PowerPointers

We started a new blog at work yesterday to discuss happenings on the SMU website. It’s called WebMonkeys. Fair warning, it may not be interesting… Read More »Web Monkeys

Google maps has added street level photographs of some streets, in some cities to maps.google.com. The new feature allows you to virtually walk down streets… Read More »Walk the streets with Google Maps

I just added ScribeFire (formally Performancing) as a Firefox extension. It’s supposed to make it easier to blog more often. We’ll see if it works.… Read More »ScribeFire makes it easier to blog?

Time magazine has named YouTube as the invention of the year. While AdHurl points out that YouTube was launched in 2005, I think the hype… Read More »YouTube best invention of the year?

There are three key components of search engine optimization that should be considered in every search optimization effort: content, coding and external links. This post… Read More »Search Engine Optimization Basics: Content