John Johnston

Category: howto

  • YouTube EDU Test

    Just do this:

  • ICab test


    This is A test of the iCab iOS browser. It allow file upload so I can chose this picture from my iPad camera roll. Worth the £1.49p hat tip David Baugh ADE HTTP://www.digitalcreator.org/divined/?p=1194

  • iPad glow blogging easier with tabs

    Tabs by denn
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

    It is a lot easier to blog with an iPad on this more recent version of Safari which has tabbed browsing.
    One of the problems with glow blogs is their lack of support for the MetaWeblogAPI so that the many blogging apps on iOS do not work.
    One of the problems blogging with an iOS device is the lack of support for file uploads in web browsers.
    This mean if you want to use an image in a blog post you need to use one previously uploaded to the web. Here I have searched Flickr with A flickr CC search toy which finds safe images that you can legally use and provides an HTML snippet to insert the image with the attribution.
    The new safari with tabs makes it easy to write a post in one tab and search for an image in the other. Remember that Mobile safari does not support the wysiwyg editing of posts you need to switch to the HTML editor.
    Hopefully when we hear of the next ‘version’ of glow it will include the ability to use the MetaWeblogAPI in glow blogs.

  • Vimeo Test

    All I did was this:

  • How to link

    Today we are learning to put in a link.

    First Type a word(s) that you want to use as the link:

    Snow Days Activities

    Click the link button and paste in a URL. Hit Update. & Publish.

  • Posting NLC podcast videos to glow blog

    Glow blogs provide an easy way to post to the web. You can post text, audio & video. The only limit is the upload file size which is limited to 5mbs. This is fine for audio but you need to keep video short and small. There is a way around this. You can have a podcast set up on the NLC Podcast server where is is very easy to post audio and video file of up to 50mb. Here is a screencast showing how easy it is: Uploading a podcast even easier than using a glow blog.

    Once it is there is is simple to post this to your blog:

    These instructions are for Safari (tested on v5)

    1. Go to your podcast server blog where you video si published
    2. Click on the RSS link in the address bar
    3. When Safari displays the feed, highlight the link to the media file and copy
    4. Go to youe glow blog Dashboard, create a new post. Click in the editing box. Paste.
    5. The video link will appear in the editing field. When published the video will show. (you need to have the anarchy plugin turned on)

    Here are some pictures of the process. click the first thumbnail and then on the left to move on.

    and here is an example movie, this one shows how to create a header for your blog using Keynote.

    5faa0.m4v

  • Video Splash Screen

    slides

    Here I have uploaded a video and an image file

    The video’s file name is slides.mov

    the images file name is slides.mov.jpg

    the slides.mov.jpg image replaces the default Anarchy splash screen.

    Music in video by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0

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