Category Archives: Technology

A friend sent me a neat site named Simpsonizeme.com. The site is a collaboration between BurgerKing and the Simpsons Movie. You upload a picture of yourself to be transformed into a “Simpsonized” version. The site also pokes fun at itself as a blatant marketing ploy which is very fitting for a promotion based off of [...]

You may have noticed the feed or RSS icon occasionally appearing in the address bar of your browser to indicate that an RSS feed is available. The display of the icon is controlled by a specific line of HTML code: <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Alumni News Blog” xhref=”http://www.smu.edu/alumni/news/blog/rss.xml” mce_href=”http://www.smu.edu/alumni/news/blog/rss.xml” /> Simply placing this line of code [...]

Often times I see needlessly big PowerPoint presentations. The culprit is often pictures that have been inserted at a higher resolution that needed. The Fix Right click on one of the pictures in your presentation Choose “Format Picture” Click on the “Picture” tab Click the “Compress” button Choose the web/screen setting Click Ok Your done! [...]

Freakonomics, the blog, has decided to hate PowerPointers not PowerPoint. The article accuses PowerPoint, which turned 20 recently, of reducing presentations to bullet point boredom sessions. Don’t Hate PowerPoint; Hate the PowerPointers

We started a new blog at work yesterday to discuss happenings on the SMU website. It’s called WebMonkeys. Fair warning, it may not be interesting if you don’t work at SMU.http://blog.smu.edu/WebMonkeys

Google maps has added street level photographs of some streets, in some cities to maps.google.com. The new feature allows you to virtually walk down streets with full 360 degree views of your surroundings. Google Maps Street View Some are already raising questions about privacy though. While Google has reportedly removed pictures of women’s shelters from [...]

I just added ScribeFire (formally Performancing) as a Firefox extension. It’s supposed to make it easier to blog more often. We’ll see if it works. The setup was fairly easy, changing my blogging frequency may be more difficult. ScribeFire extension

Time magazine has named YouTube as the invention of the year. While AdHurl points out that YouTube was launched in 2005, I think the hype around YouTube has clouded the minds of Time’s editorial staff. The list of inventions is geared towards consumers and YouTube has had the greatest impact of the items they featured. [...]

There are three key components of search engine optimization that should be considered in every search optimization effort: content, coding and external links. This post is the first in a three part series that will examine each of these components in detail. The first and most important, content. Optimized Content Sometimes the end goal is [...]

If you’ve never heard of searchmash.com, that’s okay with Google. Searchmash was created by Google to test new search features apart from the Google brand. According to SEO Chat, Google is hiding under the secret identity because it’s studies show that consumers tend to rate Google interfaces in light of the company’s branding. By separating [...]