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WordPress Themes are more than just “skins”, they play a vital role in how a blog develops. This IT Tutor blog is currently powered by WordPress and the Mimbo Theme, which is really intended more as a magazine theme which places an emphasis on featured categories and does clever things with images. I’d better upload a few more images then!
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Mar 09

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Here is the Information Technology news for the UK as supplied by Google news.

</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-31" title="it-news-it-tutor" src="http://it-tutor.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/it-news-it-tutor-300x250.jpg" alt="it-news-it-tutor" width="300" height="250" /></p> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-13"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">Jan</span> <span class="post-day">19</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/how-to-search-for-pictures-you-can-use/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How to search for Pictures you can use">How to search for Pictures you can use</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/how-to/" title="View all posts in How to" rel="category tag">How to</a>, <a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/screencast/" title="View all posts in screencast" rel="category tag">screencast</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/how-to-search-for-pictures-you-can-use/#comments" title="Comment on How to search for Pictures you can use">1 Comment »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <div style="float: left;margin: 3px;"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div><p>This screencast video shows you how you can search for pictures on the internet which you are allowed to republish because they have a creative commons license.</p> <p><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.screentoaster.com/swf/STPlayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="video=stUEtcRUBIR1pdQ1RZXVJdV1dc" /><param name="src" value="http://www.screentoaster.com/swf/STPlayer.swf" /></object></p> <div style="width: 425px; text-align: right;"><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.screentoaster.com/');" href="http://www.screentoaster.com/">Free online screencasting tool</a></div> <div style="width: 425px; text-align: right;"></div> <div style="width: 425px; text-align: right;"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-33" title="how-to-search-for-pictures-you-can-use-it-tutor" src="http://it-tutor.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/how-to-search-for-pictures-you-can-use-it-tutor-300x242.jpg" alt="how-to-search-for-pictures-you-can-use-it-tutor" width="300" height="242" /></div> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-12"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">Nov</span> <span class="post-day">28</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/eddies-edublog-awards/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Eddies – Edublog awards">Eddies – Edublog awards</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/edublog/" title="View all posts in edublog" rel="category tag">edublog</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/eddies-edublog-awards/#respond" title="Comment on Eddies – Edublog awards">No Comments »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p>The “Eddies” are here again so it’s time to make some nomiations for the <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/edublogawards.com/2008/');" href="http://edublogawards.com/2008/">2008 edublog awards.</a></p> <p>I’m going to nominate the <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/usefulwiki.com/displays/');" href="http://usefulwiki.com/displays/">Classroom displays</a> blog as best resource sharing blog (<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/edublogawards.com/2008/best-resource-sharing-blog-2008/');" href="http://edublogawards.com/2008/best-resource-sharing-blog-2008/">category 4</a>)</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-35" title="classroom-displays-and-bulletin-boards" src="http://it-tutor.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/classroom-displays-and-bulletin-boards-300x290.jpg" alt="classroom-displays-and-bulletin-boards" width="300" height="290" /></p> <p>and the <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/usefulwiki.com/page/Main_Page');" href="http://usefulwiki.com/page/Main_Page">UsefulWiki</a> as best educational wiki ( <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/edublogawards.com/2008/best-educational-wiki-2008/');" href="http://edublogawards.com/2008/best-educational-wiki-2008/">category 12 </a>)</p> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-11"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">Nov</span> <span class="post-day">26</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/visual-thinking/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Visual Thinking">Visual Thinking</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/media/" title="View all posts in media" rel="category tag">media</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/visual-thinking/#respond" title="Comment on Visual Thinking">No Comments »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p>Often IT processes are better described using diagrams than writing.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-27" title="visualthinking" src="http://it-tutor.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/visualthinking-297x300.jpg" alt="visualthinking" width="297" height="300" /></p> <p>Which software is best for visual thinking?</p> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-10"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">Oct</span> <span class="post-day">21</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/evernote-widget-about-organic-boxes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Evernote Widget about Organic Boxes">Evernote Widget about Organic Boxes</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/organic-boxes/" title="View all posts in organic boxes" rel="category tag">organic boxes</a>, <a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/tools/" title="View all posts in tools" rel="category tag">tools</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/evernote-widget-about-organic-boxes/#respond" title="Comment on Evernote Widget about Organic Boxes">No Comments »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p>This is an Evernote Widget that should display a clipping I made earlier and published as a notebook all about <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/organicboxes.org.uk');" href="http://organicboxes.org.uk"><strong>organic boxes</strong></a>. Let’s see how it works….</p> <p><object width="385" height="285" data="http://widget.evernote.com/widget/widget.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashvars" value="feed_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.evernote.com%2Fshard%2Fs1%2Fpub%2F33781%2Faroberts%2Forganicboxes%2Frss.jsp" /><param name="src" value="http://widget.evernote.com/widget/widget.swf" /><param name="wmode" value="window" /></object></p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-29" title="evernote-widget-about-organic-boxes-it-tutor" src="http://it-tutor.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/evernote-widget-about-organic-boxes-it-tutor-300x227.jpg" alt="evernote-widget-about-organic-boxes-it-tutor" width="300" height="227" /></p> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-9"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">Oct</span> <span class="post-day">05</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/place-about-information-technology-it/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to place about information technology IT">place about information technology IT</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/it/" title="View all posts in IT" rel="category tag">IT</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/place-about-information-technology-it/#respond" title="Comment on place about information technology IT">No Comments »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/daneelariantho/810800207/"><br /> <img class="reflect" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1172/810800207_fbeaa734e2.jpg?v=0" alt="Virtual Reality Center by Daneel Ariantho." width="500" height="375" /></a></p> <p>Great place about information technology.<br /> … and Molecular Engineering, Nanotechnology.<br /> Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality …</p> <p><strong><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.flickr.com/photos/daneelariantho/');" title="Link to Daneel Ariantho's photostream" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/daneelariantho/"><strong>Daneel Ariantho</strong></a></strong></p> <p style="font-size:10px;text-align:right;">Tags: <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/technorati.com/tag/informationtechnology');" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/informationtechnology">informationtechnology</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/technorati.com/tag/Molecular%20Engineering');" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Molecular%20Engineering">Molecular Engineering</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/technorati.com/tag/%20Nanotechnology');" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/%20Nanotechnology"> Nanotechnology</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/technorati.com/tag/Virtual%20Reality');" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Virtual%20Reality">Virtual Reality</a>, <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/technorati.com/tag/%20Augmented%20Reality');" rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/%20Augmented%20Reality"> Augmented Reality</a></p> <p style="font-size:10px;text-align:right;"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-25" title="it-tutor" src="http://it-tutor.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/it-tutor-300x234.jpg" alt="it-tutor" width="300" height="234" /></p> <p></p> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-8"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">Sep</span> <span class="post-day">03</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/documenting-eurostar-deals-eurostar-deals/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Documenting Eurostar Deals | Eurostar Deals">Documenting Eurostar Deals | Eurostar Deals</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/media/" title="View all posts in media" rel="category tag">media</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/documenting-eurostar-deals-eurostar-deals/#respond" title="Comment on Documenting Eurostar Deals | Eurostar Deals">No Comments »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p>The post below shows how pdf files can be embedded in an online document. That’s like a merging of the old and the new technologies with benefits for both the document publisher and the blogger.</p> <blockquote><p><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.eurostardealsblog.co.uk/eurostar-deals/documenting-eurostar-deals');" href="http://www.eurostardealsblog.co.uk/eurostar-deals/documenting-eurostar-deals">Documenting Eurostar Deals | Eurostar Deals</a><br /> Documenting Eurostar Deals</p> <p>Eurostar Deals Document</p> <p>Viewable below is a Eurostar Deals Document which gathers together some articles and blog posts to provide a downloadable portable document file.</p></blockquote> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-7"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">Aug</span> <span class="post-day">11</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/twitter-wikis-and-blogs/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Twitter Wikis and Blogs">Twitter Wikis and Blogs</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/tools/" title="View all posts in tools" rel="category tag">tools</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/twitter-wikis-and-blogs/#respond" title="Comment on Twitter Wikis and Blogs">No Comments »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="http://it-tutor.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/twitter-on-dar-wiki.jpg" alt="twitter-on-dar-wiki.jpg" align="right" hspace="10" />The best idea is to use a wiki for compiling a <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/distributedresearch.net/blog/2008/08/02/twitter-lists-gathered-on-a-wiki-blog-or-forum');" href="http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2008/08/02/twitter-lists-gathered-on-a-wiki-blog-or-forum">list of twitter accounts</a>. Having an endless thread going on in a forum is not really so helpful.</p> </div> </div> <div class="post" id="post-6"> <div class="post-date"><span class="post-month">May</span> <span class="post-day">17</span></div> <div class="post-title"> <h2><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/useful-tool-dropio/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to useful tool Drop.io">useful tool Drop.io</a></h2> <span class="post-cat"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/category/tools/" title="View all posts in tools" rel="category tag">tools</a></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://it-tutor.co.uk/useful-tool-dropio/#respond" title="Comment on useful tool Drop.io">No Comments »</a></span> </div> <div class="entry"> <p>Drop.io is a quick and simple way to share files, links and pictures without even logging in. Here’s one which was made for a pack of bloggers to share twitter accounts.</p> <p><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/drop.io/ABpacktwitter');" href="http://drop.io/ABpacktwitter">Drop.io ABpacktwitter</a></p> <div style="width: 230px;"> <div><object width="230" height="125"><param name="movie" value="http://drop.io/fe627fafdfaae39f1b7bf109e5bf0dc8ba4422ad/9ac83040-0642-012b-7f12-00127994f632/uploader.swf"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param> <embed src="http://drop.io/fe627fafdfaae39f1b7bf109e5bf0dc8ba4422ad/9ac83040-0642-012b-7f12-00127994f632/uploader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="230" height="125"></embed></object></div> <div style="text-align: center; color: #595653; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 5px;"><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/drop.io');" href="http://drop.io">drop.io</a>: simple private sharing</div> </div> 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