Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

The Future of Shared Digital Imagery?

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

This is really incredible stuff.

View the presentation.

Faster Blog Posting with Scribefire

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

A rather nifty little (well, rather large, actually) plugin for the Firefox browser that facilitates faster blogging is Scribefire. A small icon resides in the status bar which, when clicked, opens a panel from which you can write and submit your post.

It’s quite useful.

Include the Wordpress Sidebar on Single Post Pages

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Here’s a simple change to include the Wordpress sidebar on all single post pages

Edit the “single.php” template.

Change this line at the top:

To this:

and to the bottom of the file, add:

above the similar call for the footer.

That’s it.

You can also make this change to the other pages that display without a sidebar by default.