Posts tagged as "howto"

Posted by Melissa on 20th December 2010

Adding YouTube Videos to your Facebook Page

This method will create a new tab on your Facebook Page displaying the YouTube videos of your choice – these can be from your own YouTube account, or from others. Step 1: You will need a YouTube account We will be using the Favourites of this account to specify what videos to be pulled in.  [...]

Posted by Melissa on 16th December 2010

Tim Hortons What’s Brewing: Single Column Pretty Email

Just received a “What’s Brewing” this month type email from Tim Hortons.  In the end, it was a pretty weak email because with images turned off, almost nothing came through. If we ignore this and turn the images on, it’s a great single column email template: What I think is worth discussing, is the placement [...]

Posted by Melissa on 16th December 2010

Using Dual Monitors with Remote Desktop (and an iPad)

With some help from Air Display and Splitview, I am now happily working at home, remotely viewing my work computer on two monitors – one of which is my iPad. Step 1: Connecting iPad as a Monitor Some quick googling told me that Air Display was limited to Mac computers and that my PC option [...]

Posted by Melissa on 29th November 2010

WordPress Full Text RSS Feed Fix for Firefox and Safari

Should I choose to, I would like to read your blog entirely within my RSS reader. WordPress seems to have a funny quirk where in Firefox or Safari environments, each item in the feed gets cut off abruptly shortly after getting started. Troy Chaplin helped me find a link a few months ago, explaining that [...]

Posted by Melissa on 26th November 2010

Faculty Blogging

I’m reading an article by Andrew Careaga called “Why researchers should blog” and thought I would note some of the best points for you. Andrew’s blog starts with the case of Peter Janiszewski, a health sciences researcher, who released one of his publications as a five part blog series and went from unknown to being [...]

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