November 2009
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Magically displaying an RSS feed
Well, maybe not magic. Javascript.
Here’s a scenario: you want to show a list of recent tweets, blog posts, news items, or anything else with an RSS feed on your website. But your CMS won’t let you, or your templates can’t easily let you slip in a suitable widget.
Enter Feed2JS. This service lets you specify an RSS feed, and customise a piece of javascript to control how it is...
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The Magnificent Seven: my favourite tools for...
A couple of months ago, I did a talk at Tim Davies’ Connected Generation unconference held at BIS’ offices, aimed at youth workers and others with an interest but not much background in using social media tools for digital engagement. Here are the slides:
ConnectedGeneration: Social Media Tools
View more presentations from Steph Gray.
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Whole page screenshots in Firefox: Pearl Crescent...
Screenshots are great, for illustrating slides or blog posts, telling the story and as an archive. It’s a shame then that as most websites have interesting content below the fold, a regular screenshot on either a Mac or PC will only show you what’s currently visible.
Pearl Crescent’s Page Saver is a plugin for Firefox on Mac or PC which gives you a contextual (right-click) menu...