Here is a quick podcast on a method of importing Appleworks Drawing Documents into Microsoft Word.  Although Pages and Numbers are good at opening and converting most of the older Appleworks wordprocessing and spreadsheet formats, Appleworks Drawing documents are not easily imported into Word.  Although they can be if you copy and paste from Appleworks Drawing Document  into a new Appleworks wordprocessing document – then open with Pages 09 – then export To Word.

Video Podcast

Here is a cool plug-in I came across that makes embedding an external web page into a WordPress post or page simple. The Plugin is called Iframe Embedder and can be downloaded through WordPress admin console or from here.  This plugin works with the latest version of wordpress 2.9.2 and is pretty easy to use.

Below I have a link to an external site.  Below this link using the Iframe Embedder plugin I have embedded this page -audio, flash and all into this post.

http://s8s3eks.edu.glogster.com/glogburnin-up/

To embed this content into the A Blog post you must activate the Iframe Embedder plugin and then in the post use the following syntax: You can adjust the numbers at the end to fit your specific blog theme.

Here is the syntax above working below but using our district website.  Notice that you can use the links on the page and it contains the website inside the frame.

*NOTE  Firefox 3.6 is still a little buggy – using Iframe works with Firefox 3.7 Alpha, Firefox 3.5.x, IE Explorer 6,7,8 and Safari.  Also works with the Beta Release of 3.6.1 which means this is just a temporary issue with Firefox

It is important to not get too carried away with embedding external webpages as this is not really a best practice in most cases.  But still this is a nice simplified way to add an external site when appropriate directly to you web site.

Here is a quick Podcast on Installing the Iframe Embedder and using it in a post.

Podcast Iframe Embedder and WordPress

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Probably the best overall aspect of using WordPress is its seemingly never ending library of plugins.  In a school setting with primarily Mac’s one easy way to capture Video (with Audio) is to use the program Photobooth – easy to use – fun for students and staff.  To post and embed one of these videos into WordPress is simple using the plug-in WordTube or the Add Video button.  WordTube works with the latest version of WordPress as of the time of this writing (2.9.2) and easily accepts movies from Photobooth.  You can download version 2.2.2 directly from Here – or better yet add it through WordPress directly – see Podcast Below.

First off the advantage to using WordTube is that you can resize a movie, embed it directly in a wordpress post/page and use a built in player to start and stop.  If you use the built in Add movie button in wordpress you will save time but the movie will open in a different windows and will appear only as a link in your post.

Here is a Podcast on how to get WordTube, convert – upload – and embed a movie from photobooth nicely into A wordpress Page.

Here content created from a teachers Macbook in Photobooth uploaded to WordPress.  Here is a sample movie from Photobooth Embedded into WordPress using the WordTube Plugin.  (I also embedded my screen podcast using this plugin as well).

I came across a great plugin for WordPress today that simply makes your website look good and work easily on an Iphone.  The theme is called WPTouch and it is free and setup is almost effortless.

You can download the Plugin from the admin console of your wordpress, and simply click Activate.

After activating the Plugin – Here is a screenshot from an Iphone.

The Plugin Preserves media content and images, and overall makes reading and navigating the website pleasant from an Iphone.

You can read more about the plugin from the authors website here.

If you are not happy with the default settings, you will find under the wordpress settings WP-Touch panel – almost all themes icons, colors are customizable.

Having managed a number of Windows 2003 Servers and optimizing various Windows Desktops you will quickly see the built in disk defragment tool is lacking in speed and efficiency.  Especially in the server environment the built in defrag tool simply fails to defrag a large variety of formats, backup sets, log files, etc.  Having tried a multiple products over the years, idefraggler, Ultra Defragmenter, my defrag, contig, and Auslogics Disk Defrag – it is clear that the latest version of Ausologics Disk Defrag  is ahead of the competition.

The latest revision of this free utility tops that of many of its commercial competitors.  This is the safest, quickest and most overall effective disk defragging software available – free.  Although Disk Defragging is not a common day to day activity – it is nice to have a utility that can accomplish this task in minutes rather than hours.

I would recommend this tool for anyone running Windows Operating systems Windows XP, Vista, or Server 2003.  If you are already running Windows 7 or Server 2008 I would stick with the built in utilities as Windows has done an excellent job upgrading the scheduling and functionality of this utility in their latest iterations of the Windows OS.

Download Below or from CNET

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