Category: Technology

  • Looping Background Music

    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 Background Music Loop. Select “Slide Transition” from the Slide Show menu option. A Slide Transition pop-up window should appear. Select the “Sound” pull down form in the lower right hand…

  • I’ll take a burger, fries… and Simponize me please

    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 yourself to be transformed into a “Simpsonized” version. The site also pokes fun at itself as a blatant marketing ploy which is very fitting for a promotion based off of…

  • The RSS icon in the browser address bar

    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 available. The display of the icon is controlled by a specific line of HTML code: <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Alumni News Blog” xhref=”http://www.smu.edu/alumni/news/blog/rss.xml” mce_href=”http://www.smu.edu/alumni/news/blog/rss.xml” /> Simply placing this line of code…

  • Your Powerpoint Presentation is So Big that…

    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 Right click on one of the pictures in your presentation Choose “Format Picture” Click on the “Picture” tab Click the “Compress” button Choose the web/screen setting Click Ok Your done!…

  • Hating the PowerPointers

    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 sessions. Don’t Hate PowerPoint; Hate the PowerPointers

  • Web Monkeys

    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 if you don’t work at SMU.http://blog.smu.edu/WebMonkeys

  • Walk the streets with Google Maps

    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 with full 360 degree views of your surroundings. Google Maps Street View Some are already raising questions about privacy though. While Google has reportedly removed pictures of women’s shelters from…

  • ScribeFire makes it easier to blog?

    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. The setup was fairly easy, changing my blogging frequency may be more difficult. ScribeFire extension

  • YouTube best invention of the year?

    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 around YouTube has clouded the minds of Time’s editorial staff. The list of inventions is geared towards consumers and YouTube has had the greatest impact of the items they featured.…

  • Search Engine Optimization Basics: Content

    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 is the first in a three part series that will examine each of these components in detail. The first and most important, content. Optimized Content Sometimes the end goal is…