http://webservices.unc.edu ITS Web Services Marketing Site Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:50:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you created a UNC VoiceThread account yet? VoiceThread is a web-based application that "allows users to post media files and then invite others to provide comments in writing, with voice or with video." ITS Teaching and Learning has partnered with the VoiceThread folks to roll out a UNC VoiceThread ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/07/01/the-heliotropic-entrepreneur/ Tired of compromising your beautiful designs or being forced to find work-arounds that don't work when using transparent PNGs? There is a way... By invoking the CSS behavior found in this script you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/06/27/transparent-png-support-for-ie-6-55/ A roommate in college maintained a popular Radiohead fan site, "Lift." It boasted more traffic than most sites hosted at the University of Kentucky, our school, back in 1997. I was inspired and wanted to display stuff on a computer screen too! But how? Jon showed me around Netscape Composer ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/06/25/webmonkey-returns/ Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you're invited to the party! From the Mozilla Developer News blog: 'After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we're proud to announce that we're ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/06/12/firefox-3-to-ship-tuesday-june-17/ Web Services has been researching screen recording software for demos, presentations, and training videos. We recently purchased a product called Camtasia Studio (with education discount). Ultimately, the goal is to add voice narration, text annotations, and integrate the videos with a training app such as Moodle. ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/05/30/show-me-dont-tell-me/ Remember the first time you saw a little web site icon pop up in your browser's address bar? It was like, "Cool! How did they do that?" Fast forward to 2008 and with the most recent software update for the iPhone, users can save bookmark icons (webclips) to their ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/05/12/custom-webclip-icons-for-iphone/ John Resig, creator of the JavaScript library jQuery, today released a new library: Processing.js. A port of the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, one application of this library is to provide an alternate to Flash for animation and interactive graphics content. Among the drawbacks are browser support (the library is ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/05/09/flash-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-flash/ When James Karl Buck was detained at an anti-government rally in Mahalla, Egypt, he got the diplomatic cogs turning with a simple message via his cell phone to Twitter: "Arrested." Over the next several hours, Buck was able to update friends and family using the micro-blogging site, some of whom then ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/04/25/get-out-of-jail-free-twitter/ Checked out edustyle? The site is described as a "web design gallery dedicated to higher education websites and powered by higher education web design professionals. Users submit, review, and comment on sites they like (or don't like). The aim is for higher ed web professionals to learn from ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/04/17/stylin/ Adobe launched the Web-based Photoshop Express on Thursday, March 27. Available for free with 2 gigabytes of storage space, the online image editor is targeted towards consumers that want a simple way to touch up, share, organize and store photos without the cost attached to Photoshop or Photoshop LE. The application, ... http://webservices.unc.edu/2008/03/28/photoshop-express/