Flip pictures in Photobooth

October 30th, 2007

Photobooth by default takes pictures backwards. Here’s how to change that: 

"There is a nice option in the Photobooth menu that will let you flip the photo instantly. If you don’t want to worry about that all the time though, you can simply choose "Auto Flip New Photos" from the Edit menu." from: A New Mac Tip Every Day: Reversed pictures in Photobooth!

Flip pictures in Photobooth

October 30th, 2007

Photobooth by default takes pictures backwards. Here’s how to change that:

“There is a nice option in the Photobooth menu that will let you flip the photo instantly. If you don’t want to worry about that all the time though, you can simply choose “Auto Flip New Photos” from the Edit menu.” From: A New Mac Tip Every Day: Reversed pictures in Photobooth!

Spotlight Search Tips from Macworld

October 29th, 2007

From a Macworld article on Leopard Tips and Tricks: 

 

"…these two helpful Spotlight commands:

name:"filename"

"search phrase"

With them she can use the Spotlight field to search for a specific file name and easily find documents that contain a specific phrase."

 

Macworld: Editors\’ Notes: Leopard and my mother\’s Mac

Remote Access: Whose Tools? Theirs.

October 26th, 2007

Remote Access: Whose Tools? Theirs.Article about how the students in two classes that were trying to digitally connect circumvented tech that was getting in the way and made their own connections. It illustrates the disconnect between The Way Things Are Done?in education and the world the students actually live in. It’s worth thinking about.

Posterize Your Pictures

October 23rd, 2007

I found a few ways to take an image, blow it up, and print it over several sheets of paper. You can find solutions here for the Mac, here for Windows, and here online.

Printing posters across several pages

October 23rd, 2007

If you need to print a large picture across several pages (instead of squeezing it into one page or printing just part of it) just drop the picture into Excel (“Insert>Picture>From file”) and print!

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – O\’Reilly Ruby

October 23rd, 2007

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – O\’Reilly Ruby

WordPress QuickPost Plugins

October 23rd, 2007

"QuickPost is a plugin consisting of a bookmarklet which will be added to your links toolbar, and a blog editor triggered by the bookmarklet. WordPress › QuickPost « WordPress Plugins"

Google For Educators

October 23rd, 2007

Google has some nice activities, handouts, and posters available for download. Find them at:
http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html and
http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html