January 2005

Transferring Large Files

This sounds great! In various published items I exhort people not to send large files via email, but most of my clients wouldn’t have time or patience to learn other methods. One button upload to a web page and one click download sounds like just the thing. Transferring Large Files via Email: It’s a problem. [...]

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Real-life computer users

Back on 1 Dec 2004 a client emailed me this. I now have permission to post it. This kind of comment makes up in some part for all the hard stuff in a year. Of course, it doesn’t make the decision to stop providing support any easier… And what’s the difference between support and training [...]

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Google launches TV show search

Google Video started indexing the content of thousands of TV shows from Dec. 2004. A search for a phrase will return an excerpt of a matching program transcript and a still TV image of exactly when the phrase was spoken. [Via Computerworld.]

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Managing cookies in Safari 1.2

It’s been a busy week and when I had a problem logging in with Safari to one of the WordPress blogs I use. I knew it was a stored cookie at fault. I didn’t have time to mess around though and used either Camino or Mars Edit instead. I don’t know why I’d forgotten I [...]

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Web Content Accessibility abroad and here

Rachel McAlpine reminds us to take a look at the working draft of Draft 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to see a fresh approach to a formidable challenge. WCAG 2.0 builds the guidelines in three “layers”. The layers differentiate between: principles, guidelines and measurable criteria for success: these are designed to survive major [...]

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Survey for NZ community organisations – CommunityNet Aotearoa

CommunityNet Aotearoa are looking for comments from New Zealand community organisations, who can complete a survey to tell us how well CommunityNet Aotearoa meets your needs. We’d also like your views on CommunityNet Panui, our monthly email newsletter. I create the monthly Panui for the site and also look after the Community Centre and Links sections. If you’re [...]

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