Category: Hacks
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Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries?
A hackerspace or hackspace (also referred to as a hacklab, makerspace or creative space) is a location where people with common interests, usually in computers, technology, science or digital or electronic art can meet, socialize and/or collaborate. A hackerspace can be viewed as an open community labs incorporating elements of machine shops, workshops and/or studios…
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DIY Guide to Infographics
The folks at Marketing Tech Blog have created a Do It Your Self Guide to Infographics as an Infographic!
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The Evolution of Web Design Affects Course Sequencing
From Kissmetrics come the infographic on the left. Think about your course sequencing people, the last College I visited was still teaching Introduction courses that didn’t include Mobile Browsing, Content Management Systems, or even introduce CSS3, let alone seriously use CSS from Day 1. Move on! Can you believe that the first published website is…
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Chrome Extension of the Day: Google Font Previewer
Google Font Previewer – Lets you choose a font from the Google Font directory with a few text styling options, and preview them on the current tab. Simple sentence, simple tool, powerful results. Install it, click on it, change the font on all of my blog, or just one style. Copy the code. This is a…
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Summertime and 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life
No, just kidding. I was reading 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days at Lifehack.org out of my Instapaper bin of unread articles and I remind everyone that I believe large lists of items such as these are damaging in general, too large, too overwhelming. My approach is to read the…