Heidi Cool did a fantastic presentation for CDPUG at the Thursday, August 30th meeting. There was a great turn out and lot interest in the topic of WordPress.
For follow-up information from the program, check Heidi’s link for useful information about WordPress.
http://www.coolwebdev.com/samplewordpress/about/wordpress-links-resources/
MacGroup Detroit presented Adobe Muse in January. Terry White as is customary most of the time, did the presentation. For those of you interested in Adobe Muse, it’s worth viewing in iTunes.
Click here to View In iTunes
The July 28th, 2011 CDPUG program “Making Joyful Noise With Your Computer For Fun and Profit” has been posted to the CDPUG Slideshare Account. To view it, go to the CDPUG Slideshare Page.
The meeting description is…
Sure, music has charms to “soothe the savage breast”, but it also has been known to help out in movies (can you imagine “2001″ without daaaaaaaaaa, daaaaaaaaaa, daaaaaaaaaa, DA DAAAAAAAA, boom boom boom boom, etc? Me neither). It’s also good for podcasts, home videos and it’s just plain fun. Computer music and sound has come to the point where anyone can produce professional-quality recordings on a laptop for not a lot of money. At the July CDPUG meeting we’ll be talking about the equipment and techniques needed to get sound into and out of your computer so you can join the fun.
Will Cheshier is a graphic designer and regionally active singer/songwriter and guitarist. He also suffers from Musical G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome). He has been recording in professional studios and at home since the 80s with an excessive amount of acquired gear, so he knows a thing or two about what works and a lot about what doesn’t when it comes to computer sound.
CDPUG Meeting Videos have now been posted on-line. Richard Sandy, CDPUG Multimedia Director has been hard at work recording, editing, and posting content from recent meetings. Way to go Richard.
The videos can be viewed on-line at http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=103450 .
The content can be viewed at the Podbean site, but you can also subscribe in i-Tunes. To do so, you need to paste the site link into iTunes. In iTunes, go the Advanced Menu, and choose Subscribe to Podcast. Paste (feed://cdpug.podbean.com/feed/) there and choose OK. You will see CDPUG listed in iTunes under the Podcast Library. Choose Get All and you are on your way.
The videos currently available for viewing are Stan Kohn on Presentation Techniques to CDPUG on April 28, 2011; LinkedIn presented by Susie Sharp on April 28, 2011; Jeff Darcy Editorial Cartoonist for the Plain Dealer on February, 24, 2011; and Web Design, HTML, and Beyond presented by Bill Cohen-Kirally, Stuart Smith, and Reminton Phillips on January 27, 2011.
A Word Cloud is a visual representation of some text as a bunch of words based on a weight associated to each word.
Typically, the frequency (keyword density) of the words in the page is used as the weight even though some other metric might be used.
There are a number of online free word cloud generators that uses word frequency as the weight. Hence, the generated word cloud of a page gives a quick understanding of how the page is optimized for certain words.
These applications are also smart enough to extract phrases and works much better than most other word cloud generators on the web. The word cloud of a blog, news page, feed will give a quick idea about what topics are being discussed.
Tag clouds are popular in the web 2.0 world. If you have a blog or an account with social networking websites, you can use these applicatoins to display a word cloud of your pages and impress your friends and visitors. If you are a SEO specialist, you can use this tool to get better insight into your customers’ web pages.
Tag Clouds are a great way to graphically promote branding for your clients.
Want to try it yourself?
Use this Google search string to see a bunch of word cloud applications. Below is a rich example of how they work from one of these sites.
TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud.
It was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University.
A word cloud is a beautiful, informative image that communicates much in a single glance. TagCrowd specializes in making your word clouds easy to read, analyze and compare, for a variety of useful purposes:
The list goes on and continues to grow. Plug in any web site or blog to get a cloud tag.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer release candidate now available
Microsoft maintains Internet Explorer release candidate 9 includes advancements in standards compatibility and user experience. The Release Candidate supports 
geolocation, WebM video (with the installation of a V8 code on Windows) and playback of H.264-encoded video using the HTML5 video tag. Speed has reportedly been improved by 35% over the initial beta.
Internet Explorer’s market share has eroded relative to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Seeking a leaner brower experience, the search and address bars are consolidated into one, while a translucent frame places the Web front-and-center over the browser interface.
Microsoft claims that IE 9’s design allows it to leverage both HTML5 and Windows 7 to deliver rich content faster.
The final version of IE9 is set for release in April 2011.
Mozilla Firefox 4 coming soon
Tentatively scheduled for release in early 2011, Firefox 4 beta, is currently in the beta stage with the eleventh beta released on February 8, 2011.
It will bring a new user interface and is said to be faster. Early mock ups of the new interface on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux were first made available in July 2009.
Other features include improved notifications, Firefox Panorama, application tabs, a redesigned extension manager, integration with Firefox Sync, and support for multi-touch displays.
Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 engine, which adds/improves support for HTML5, CSS3, WebM, and WebGL. Also, it includes a new JavaScript engine (JägerMonkey).
A road map indicates that Mozilla hopes to release versions 5, 6 and 7 later in 2011 following the release of Firefox 4 in early 2011. These versions will be smaller incremental updates. The aim is to get new functions to users faster.
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If you don’t like either of these browsers, there is always Opera.
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