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CMS’s and work so far

Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 30 August 2008

One of our consultants installed two FOSS Content Management Systems in his own server so we could play around with them. Here are the notes I took while doing just that:

MODx: Manager users cannot log in from the front; Web users can’t log inĀ from the back. Moderators/Admins need both a Manager and a Web account.
WordPress: [...]

Google Notebook + Blind Webwasher

Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 8 August 2008

Okay. Been working for over a week now, and I haven’t had time to blog. I have the rest of my lunch break to finish this post, though. :)
I started using Google Notebook today and found it to be a great way for me to stay organized.
The little planner that I bring along with me [...]

Portable GIMPing

Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 7 July 2008

I know Portable Apps has been around for a while. In February, I wanted to present my thesis using OpenOffice.org Impress – to Impress them with Impress, so to speak. Because my thesis was about FOSS, I wanted to go from start to finish using FOSS. But because I didn’t have a laptop from which [...]

Why I have a DKNH MD-305

Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 20 June 2008

… and whether it’s a great speaker.
The Story
My dad decided to take my CPU with us when our family went home from Manila. The initial idea was to just take my hard drive – to keep it safe, he said – but when he had trouble removing it from the case, he decided that we [...]

CleVR Thing

Posted by: Kat on: Sunday, 15 June 2008

Check this out!
CleVR (created before Flickr, in case you’re wondering) is a free, online host for panoramic pictures. Upload your pan, then wait for the Flash viewer to load. You can scroll in different directions, zoom in and out of the pans, and embed them ala YouTube in other sites.

Unfortunately, WordPress won’t let me embed [...]

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