Ruth Stalker-Firth

At: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ they offer a service to upload any picture and get it turned into a favicon that you can put in the header of your page. Last time I created a favicon it took me a good while longer. I followed the tutorial http://photomatt.net/2003/11/13/how-to-create-a-favicon/ which was good but it did take me longer than the two minutes I spent today on choosing a suitable picture before uploading it to chami.com. Perhaps my attention span is getting smaller as I get older.

Following up from Digital Web Magazine and my card sort article, here is one way of analysing your results using a spreadsheet.
In the spreadsheet we need to set up two tables which will sit next to each other:

• Table 1 stores the number of users and their cards.
• Table 2 counts cards and identify patterns.

Download your own copy of the spreadsheet to tinker with, at http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/CardSortSample.xls

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This MP3 is the size of a USB memory stick but with a stainless steel shiny wrapper – not just smart to look at but also very useful for reapplying lipstick. It has a massive two gigabytes of memory on which you can store about 500 songs on it and is much neater and smaller than the now defunct ipod mini. (more…)

With the Humax DVD recorder gone are the days when you can’t set the video recorder because it is too complex to use. This machine is the size of a DVD player with a hard disk inside so there is no more fiddling around with videotapes or DVDs. No grinding sounds when your DVD is burning either. The Humax records so quietly to itself you won’t even notice that it is switched on let alone recording. The interface is really simple to use too. (more…)

LaTeX (pronounced ‘lay-tech’) is a free word processing tool that can be easily downloaded from the Internet. It has been around for at least 20 years but is only now making its way into the mainstream. LaTeX is as equally addictive to academics as its namesake is to fetishists. (more…)