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Personalise Your Google + URL

By on August 11, 2011 in Technologies

If youve got a Google+ account youll know that your profile address is pretty long and looks something like mine:

https://profiles.google.com/u/0/113004850354752077612

Well you can use some of the URL shortening services, but Im using this one – www.gplus.to.

Screen Shot 2011 08 11 at 9.48.41 AM1 Personalise Your Google + URL

I like that its short and sounds so Google+ making it easier to remember and connected with G+.

So now my link which I can place in emails, blogs etc looks like:

http://gplus.to/csmythe

I like that better….

 

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Skype for iPad Released

By on August 2, 2011 in Technologies

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Skype just made available “Skype for iPad” today Aug 2nd.

But what a bummer – iTunes tells me it’s not available in the Australian iTunes Store when I click on the Skype icon.

But wait – just click the FREE button or the dropdown arrow and choose Download, and it works!  Skype for iPad will download to your computer.

Skype for iPad app is said to work on both iPad 1 and iPad 2 – remember though iPad 1 users wont be able to send video as that model never had a camera……

14:56 EDIT – Just saw a Skype tweet saying they just pulled the app to ensure users get the best experience, maybe thats why it wouldnt show when clicking the icon.

15:03  EDIT – Just revisted the iTunes Store and now the Skype for iPad isnt even showing at all, looks like you had to be quick to get it folks.

 

 

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Google+ Twitter Facebook Comparison Infographic

By on August 2, 2011 in Education, Technologies
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Found this online this afternoon but couldnt load the original creator’s site.  A useful page to give a quick comparison of Google Plus, Twitter and Facebook to someone.

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OS X Lion wont play AVI WMV files

By on July 23, 2011 in Technologies

What a pain…..

osxlion1 OS X Lion wont play AVI WMV files“Upgraded” to OS X Lion and now my AVI movie files wont play.  Had a search online and most results were just recommending to install a converter and convert all the movie formats into something that was Quicktime playable – MOV format.

Instead this is what I think I did to make it work – I say think because I was rushing, but it ended up working.

If anyone sees this and does similar can you let me know so I can edit this post?  Cheers in advance!

Timeline…..like I said, as far as I can remember…..

  1. went to view AVI movie in Finder window – no joy, no preview
  2. went to open AVI (my default is Quicktime, I like being able to preview with the space bar….) and got an error message – Quicktime couldnt play it.
  3. searched online, suggestion was to uninstall DiVX – did that using Appzapper, tried opening movie – Quicktime opened it, but had sound only.
  4. searched online, suggestion was to uninstall Flip4Mac- did that using Appzapper, tried opening movie – Quicktime opened it, but had sound only.
  5. searched online, suggestion was to uninstall Perian then reinstall it – did that, tried opening movie – Quicktime opened it, but had sound only.
  6. restarted the laptop during this whole process more than once…
  7. decided to check in Library>Quicktime to see what was there – spotted two  DiVX things, deleted them – now AVI movies preview in Finder and play in Quicktime.

If anyone having the same trouble can confirm or refine the explanation, please comment and Ill edit this post.

EDIT: I also had 3ivx installed (well I saw it in System Preferences didnt really know it was there, removed that too)

 

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Moodle – Introduction Videos

By on May 24, 2011 in Education, Technologies

I needed a couple of video clips to use as a way of explaining to various education and administration leaders just what Moodle is.  After a bit of a hunt around on the web I came across these two videos which I liked.

Thanks to – @iAlja

and also thanks to @lasic

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