For those fed up with using spreadsheets to track billable project time, Madpilot Productions has launched 88 Miles. First up, I will admit that Myles had to point out the Back to the Future reference in the name. Cryptic 80’s … Continue reading
Category Archives: Tools
Audio/podcast transcripts
An important but often-overlooked part of creating an audio file for podcasting is preparing the transcript. Having a transcript is important for accessibility reasons, but also because if they’re anything like me, your audience may not have time to listen … Continue reading
April 20, 2006
by Kay
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Recording a live presentation for podcasting
Not having had much experience with audio production, recording the Perth Web Standards Group presentations involved a bit of a learning curve. Based on some excellent advice from the other WSG city groups, we managed to get a pretty good … Continue reading
December 13, 2005
by Kay
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Squidoo: First Impressions
Do you Squidoo? If you’re marketing something, there’s a new tool that might be useful. I’ve been playing with Squidoo – I’d read about it when Seth Godin first announced it, but didn’t check it out fully until I read … Continue reading
Got spam? Make casserole!
I’d heard that Google had been testing putting links to RSS feeds into Gmail accounts, but hadn’t seen it until a day or so after it was officially announced. Yet another item competing for my attention! But I don’t mind … Continue reading
December 5, 2005
by Kay
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Measure Map: a Review
I’ve been using it for two weeks now and yes, it is very, very cool. When I was at WE05, I saw Measure Map screenshots in one of Jeffrey Veen’s presentation slides. I frantically scribbled in my notes “measure map … Continue reading
November 26, 2005
by Kay
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Google Analytics: a one week review
As an Urchin customer who feels rather neglected, the launch of Google Analytics as a free service upsets me a little. I’ve made that point already: Urchin, Google, and why I’m not thrilled. But I’m doing my best to be … Continue reading
Urchin, Google, and why I’m not thrilled
So Google bought Urchin, that’s old news. Before the acquistion, PerthWeb bought a licence of Urchin 5, the stand-alone edition, for our hosting service. It’s a nice product, I’ve sung it’s praises here before. We bought it at the end … Continue reading