http://www.beatnic.co.uk Observations and questions from Nic Price Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:22:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've quit smoking and you're wondering what to do with your extra 30 minutes at work every day, why not spend 18 of them watching one of the many great talks on TED (technology, entertainment, design). This week TED clocked up 50 million viewings. Jill Bolte Taylor's talk (below) is the ... http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/06/27/stopped-smoking-have-a-ted-break/ Good news if you do online banking with several different banks. You only need one card-reader. The card-readers are all the same bar the branding. So if you bank with Barclays, NatWest, Nationwide, RBS and no doubt others too, you can get away with only carrying one card-reader around with you. I've tried it ... http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/05/09/one-card-reader-fits-all-for-online-banking/ Make someone's day! Tell them they can use the Tab key on their keyboard to move through a web-page. To those who already know, it seems obvious, taken for granted. But if you've ever watched people filling out boxes on forms on banking websites or when setting up an account on a website ... http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/04/30/talking-of-tabs/ We've been running some design research sessions which involve several scenarios, each of which uses a slightly different design version for a website. Each scenario has its own starting page, each of which we put in a different tab in Firefox. This means setting up all the tabs and start pages for ... http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/04/30/quick-user-research-tip-open-all-in-tabs/ TED Talk: Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head Via Joe Lazarus via Scobleizer on Twitter. http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/04/21/musical-inspiration/ According to Bruce Lawson, a web accessibility expert working in the legal sector, Sharepoint fails to meet one of the priority 1 requirements (which must be met), and breaks some priority two requirements (which should be met). See Bruce Lawson’s personal site : SharePoint and Web Accessibility. http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/04/18/sharepoint-and-web-accessibility/ A good reason not to move entirely to virtual money... I thought the six coins could make up a shield by arranging the coins both horizontally, as with the landscape idea, as well as vertically, in a sort of jigsaw style. I liked the idea and symbolism of using the Royal ... http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/04/04/keep-the-change/ SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model. It's a widely adopted and internationally recognised standard for tracking progress in online learning. It was first developed by ADL in the United States in 1999. The current release is SCORM 2004, though most large LMS vendors currently conform for to SCORM 1.2. At ... http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/04/02/e-learning-scorm-resources-on-the-web/ Using Plone Signup Sheet to Manage Event Registration — Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management (tags: eventregistration) Idealware: A Few Good Event Registration Tools (tags: eventregistration online tools events) SignMeUp.com | Event Registration, Event Management, Event Planning, Online Tickets (tags: eventregistration events online tools) http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/03/21/links-for-2008-03-21/ http://www.beatnic.co.uk/2008/03/19/observation-test/