Category Archives: software

iBorrow Wireless Technical Report

December 18, 2009 – 12:15 pm

Chris French, of the Network Technical team, has written a technical report that outlines the issues and difficulties encouuntered during the iBorrow project and how they went about resolving them. The Network Technical team were responsible for the wireless connectivity and real time location systems for device tracking and data capture.
Download: Wireless Technical Report (.docx)
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By Wayne Barry | Also posted in hardware, location aware, project, rfid, team, technology, wifi, wireless | Tagged | Comments (0)

iBorrow Client Technical Report

December 18, 2009 – 12:08 pm

Geoff Kimmons, of the Client Technical team, has written a technical report that outlines the issues and difficulties encouuntered during the iBorrow project and how they went about resolving them. The Client Technical team were responsible for the netbook build, terminal services configuration and the development and configuration of the virtualisation (App-V) services.
Download: Client Technical Report (.doc)
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By Wayne Barry | Also posted in asus 1000, client, hardware, netbook, project, research, team, technology, terminal services, thin client, virtualisation | Tagged | Comments (0)

iBorrow in action

December 18, 2009 – 11:15 am

Below are some images of the iBorrow netbooks in action. To see more images of the iBorrow netbooks, please visit this Flickr site.

By Wayne Barry | Also posted in assus 1000, hardware, iborrow, ict, netbook, technology, thin client, virtualisation, wireless | Tagged | Comments (0)

Archiving twitter feeds

August 13, 2009 – 1:12 pm

Here’s a great posting on 10 ways to archive your tweets (twitter messages)…
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_to_archive_your_tweets.php

By andrewl | Also posted in archive, rss, tools, tutorials, tweets, twitter | Tagged | Comments (0)

Mashup origins and tools

August 12, 2009 – 9:35 am

Here are two great articles from Developer.com that cover the history of mashups and discuss the tools that are available to create a mashup.
Web and Enterprise Mashups for Web Services and Data — Developer.com http://bit.ly/1aEcEN
Implementing Visual and Data Mashups Online — Developer.com http://bit.ly/pNXzs
Please note the Microsoft Popfly mashup tool and Google Mashup Editor are no [...]

By hussaii | Also posted in mashup, tools | Tagged | Comments (0)

Getting content from sites that do not have an RSS feed

August 3, 2009 – 4:50 pm

There are a number of free tools that you can use to get content onto your sites using these “screen scraper” services.
I used the twoLER Facebook page as the page I wanted to generate the feed from. The ones that I have looked at so far that seem to be decent enough to use are:
Feedity [...]

By hussaii | Also posted in mashup, rss, tools | Tagged | Comments (0)

Converting RSS feeds into WordPress posts

July 31, 2009 – 4:24 pm

Just tried out a nice plug-in that syndicates an RSS feed and converts each element into a WordPress post.
It’s called FeedWordPress and can be found at http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/

By andrewl | Also posted in posts, rss, syndication, tools, wordpress | Tagged | Comments (0)

Wordpress as an RSS engine

July 31, 2009 – 12:36 pm

Wordpress is known to many as a blogging tool, and increasingly as a CMS tool (http://www.number10.gov.uk/, http://www.stephenfry.com/) but less so as a source of RSS feeds.
Some will have seen the orange RSS logo on Wordpress sites and may even know how to obtain the feed URL to use in an RSS reader to read the [...]

By andrewl | Also posted in feed, rss, tools, tutorials | Tagged | Comments (0)

Drivers for Logitech Webcam

July 29, 2009 – 1:27 pm

Below is the link to the software to use the webcam
http://bit.ly/eCjL3
You have to select which operating system you are using and then select which type of file, 32 bit or 64 bit (most likely 32 bit). You are then presented the link to the file at the bottom of the page and some instructions.
If you [...]

By hussaii | Tagged | Comments (0)

Word docs to Drupal – workflow

July 15, 2009 – 4:30 pm

I have tested a workflow to get ISLS documentation – in Microsoft Word with embedded screen shots – into Drupal, in order to use the excellent autocategorising and taxonomy features of Drupal.
The workflow is:

Copy and paste from MS Word into Windows Live Writer.
Post from Live Writer to a Wordpress blog.
In Drupal use the SimpleFeed module [...]

By andrewl | Also posted in documentation, drupal, publishing, rss, wordpress | Tagged | Comments (0)
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