Sunday 5 June 2011

Skype and Yugma for Teaching on-line

YugmaSE is free software which works brilliantly with Skype. It allows you to switch to desktop view & has controls that define how a student can use your desktop.

Tuesday 17 May 2011

"SCIENTISTS DISCOVER THE FAT GENE"

"Recent figures have revealed that almost 62 per cent of British adults are obese...." Read the article published by Marie Claire

Monday 16 May 2011

Harsh winters = increased skype education?

In countries where harsh winters are commonplace, education need not suffer in winter-time; with skype it is possible to still link up to teachers...

Adobe Flash Player updated

Adobe have updated Flash and appear to have tried to nullify many of the concerns Apple had over security etc. For more information, please visit Adobe Flash Player

Latest Dreamweaver = less dependence on Photoshop

With CSS3 support in the CSS panel. You can do things like add border radius & opacity using RGBA colors to really take away some of the dependency on Photoshop etc. Read more: Business Insider

Content aware fill = national ID cards?

Govts will soon wake up to the fact that technology makes it easier for people to fake their identity & get away with it. Does this mean National ID cards?

Photoshop 'Content aware fill" and credibility?

The new Content aware fill tool being unleashed from Photoshop is brilliant for graphics - BUT, makes it harder to spot a 'real' photograph from a faked one.