Christopher Howie

Hello world

Christopher Howie — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 15:49:57 +0000

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Testing Internet Explorer on OS X

Christopher Howie — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:24:29 +0000

The only real downside to developing websites on Mac OS X has been finding the right tools to test my work in Internet Explorer. I recently discovered a simple way to test IE from our friends at Tuts+.

RemoteIE is a free tool from Microsoft when you sign up for developer account (which is also free) and if you would like to try it out, I recommend getting started the way that I did by using the tutorial at Tuts+ that I mentioned earlier, called A Fast, Accurate Way to Test Internet Explorer on iOS, Mac OS X, and Android.

How to juggle your cloud communications and stay sane

Christopher Howie — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:23:35 +0000

Challenges to using and managing online communications

So many services, so little time
Managing so many different service can be confusing and tedious
Difficult to have all of your connections using the same services or tools

Ways to create private groups

Facebook Private Groups
Google Drive share with private group of individuals
GroupMe Group https://groupme.com/about
Slack http://msu.slack.edu

Connect Everything with IFTTT

Create a spreadsheet (Google Drive) of tweets (Twitter) with Hash Tag
- example: #Blizzard2015
Gmail messages received with #Hashtag added to spreadsheet
- #Week1Assigment in subject
Automatically upload attachments from GMail to Google Drive
- celtalnl in subject and has attachment
Tag articles in Feedly and shared in GroupMe
- Tag Web Dev
Facebook status update with hastag to GroupMe
RSS to Slack
- Great Google Alert RSS Feed
- All new RSS entries posted to Slack Private Group
Twitter hashtag to Slack
Post a voice message to WordPress
Send voice notes to your email inbox

See all my recipes at https://ifttt.com/p/chrisemaj7/shared

This is a test sending a voicemail to my Email inbox.

Christopher Howie — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 20:14:06 +0000

from Voicemail http://ift.tt/15Kr78J
via IFTTT

Concrete5: Manually Configure a Link to Open in a New Window

Christopher Howie — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:33:19 +0000

The 5.7.2 Version of Concrete5 does not give us the option to make a link open in a new tab. Concrete5 staff have said, in their discussion forum (read the discussion), that they plan to add this functionality in the next release. But, for now, the way to configure your links so that they will open in a new tab is to edit the HTML directly.

First, click on the source code button:

Next, find the link you would like configure:

Then, edit the anchor tag, inserting the attribute target=”_blank”:

here

target=”_blank”>here

How to Embed HTML Code into Blackboard

Christopher Howie — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:31:38 +0000

Many teachers are using the Blackboard LMS that is provided by their school and ask me how they can embed one CLEAR’s Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), such as Conversations, Audio Dropbox and Video Dropbox, into the courses they are building. Here is a link to a tutorial that demonstrates the process. While the video specifically demonstrates how to embed a video, this process should work for the RIAs as well.

Screenr – amyode: This is how to embed HTML code into Blackboard so that you can embed a video from Screenr.

WebRTC Closer to Uniform Browser Support?

Christopher Howie — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 02:11:42 +0000

WebRTC has been considered an experimental technology. AT&T’s announcement to use this technology for browser-to-phone calls in 2015 may indicate that WebRTC is on it’s way to becoming a widely used technology.

AT&T is the first US carrier to support WebRTC

Hello world!

Christopher Howie — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 02:36:03 +0000

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!