Linda Cole

Whether you design your website from scratch, use WordPress or a CMS, you are probably going to have trouble with Drupal. One issue that many Drupal newbies struggle with is creating a simple directory listing or ‘index’ page of articles. The solution to this problem is as simple as understanding that Drupal handles content differently. To create your index pages you have to stop thinking like a web designer and begin to think like a Drupal developer.

Read the full article at HTMLGoodies:
Creating ‘Old-School’ Web Page Indexes in Drupal

I must have missed something somewhere. I thought the goal was to become paperless. We have computers, tablets, e-readers, smart phones, but apparently our roots call to us because now we have the PaperPhone or I should say we will have the PaperPhone, in five to 10 years.
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A major new feature and 27 bug fixes herald the release of Chrome 11, including fixes for cloud print, a security update to the built-in version of Adobe Flash, user agent (UA) string changes, URL bar spoofing during navigation errors, at least four stale pointer issues and three use-after-free memory flaws. Google reportedly paid security researchers $16,500 in awards for reporting flaws.

A significant new feature of Chrome 11 is support for the HTML 5 speech input API. The HTML 5 speech input API allows web developers to replace keyboard input in a web browser, an ability not available with standard speech recognition software.
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Interesting day today; TeamSHATTER believes Oracle is misleading database customers, iPhones are spying on their users and Facebook launches discount deals in five test cities.
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I Tweet and I FB and I Digg, and even Stumble on occasion, but will I Color?  It’s not likely; not because I think it’s creepy (I do) but because I live in an area where cell service is as close to non-existent as you can get without actually not existing.  There’s also the no crowd factor, which would make Color-ing fairly pointless.  Having said that, would I try it if I were in an area where all of the required elements came together?  Probably.  I’m as curious as the next person, not to mention that it would be fun to play around with the new social app.

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If your heart yearns to create and your soul longs for more than flat, two-dimensional images, then what you seek might be DAZ Studio.  DAZ Studio is a 3D graphics program, geared towards the beginner as well as the seasoned designer.  I am by no means an expert, yet I was able to create the image to the left in a few hours. Now, if that sounds like more work than you want to put into creating a single image, I should let you know that the majority of the time involved is waiting for the image to render, especially if you’re like me and want to render after each and every little change.

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In many ways, social Business Intelligence is a convergence of several themes; it’s business intelligence plus knowledge management, plus social, all combined into a new style interface in the BI environment. I recently caught up with James Kobielus, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, to discuss what you need to know about social Business Intelligence.

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Internet Explorer 9 is picking up speed, loading webpages faster and allowing you to interact with webpages faster. IE9 uses hardware-accelerated text, video and graphics, loading webpages more like an application on your own Windows PC.  If
your PC doesn’t have the required hardware, Internet Explorer automatically uses the Software Rendering option. 

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The browser wars are heating up again, with two new releases and one scheduled for next week. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have met on the front lines, each ready to prove their browser is the fastest, coolest and most secure.

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Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for Netflix, Apple and Hulu? Only time will tell as we all sit with faces glued to Facebook, watching ‘The Dark Knight’. Or will we.
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