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There have been so many great blog posts and interviews about this event.
I’ll briefly say what a useful and intense event it was for me. Just getting my talking points organized for it was really helpful. Meeting the other artists gave me a perspective that was as useful as the reviewers feedback. I want to thank Review Santa Fe for putting together such a well organized event – they thought of everything.
I’ll share a couple event images and some other images I shot in Santa Fe. Read More
Do you have a page where you want to simply center it both vertically and horizontally? Looking for a pure CSS solution?
The best WordPress event plug-in is:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-calendar/
It allows you to add ‘events’ to any blog post. So the blog post becomes the ‘more info’ listing and then can be viewed in various calendar formats. It’s powerful.
MONITOR SERVER UPTIME/DOWNTIME
http://www.visistat.com
server uptime is only one small feature of their analytics package.
http://watchmouse.com
features a nice mac dashboard widget
http://site24x7.com
Can pay for just a limited number of sms messages on an otherwise free account.
http://aremysitesup.com
They have an iPhone app with push notification that can alert you to your site’s status.
http://www.SiteUpAlert.com
Allows for searching for a particular string of text on a page. great for looking for updates.
BROWSER TESTING SERVICES
updated 1/23/2012
adobe browserlab
Screenshots only. A new service… (introduced mid 2009; still free – until april 2012 although they keep extending the free period). This is really impressive – my new main tool and it’s free. I wish it had a better interface – some simple buttons to allow browsing through one shot after another would save alot of clicking. This is only for screenshots but it’s got a useful onionskin feature for comparing different browers one on top of another for that pixel-perfect situation.
crossbrowsertesting.com
Screenshots + virtual environment live testing. Their service allows for full control of a remote computer. They have a full range of platforms and browser versions. The best part is you can get 5 min free for a quick test. (update: no more free, now you pay by the minute based on a monthly miniumum subscription). The interface is not as slick as litmusapp but has many more features and now supports mobile browsers. Free trial.
litmusapp.com
Screenshots only; includes email testing. Although they seem to be having growing pains now this is one of the best services for my needs (update: I have not used them since early 2010). They offer unlimited tests — starts at $50/month. One advanced feature they have is being able to share a set of tests by publishing it live. That sets up a convenient way to dialog with clients. Only covers 8 web browsers – it seems they are changing their focus to just be on email testing – they have spam testing and other email-specific features. Free account allows for ie7 testing only – but not sure if that’s only for existing accounts that have expired their monthly subscriptions (like me…). Free trial.
browsershots.org
Similar as above but free. I found it to be slow but it’s still really useful.
browsercam.com
Screenshots + virtual environment live testing. More like litmus – a fully featured offering.
2012 UPDATE:
browserstack.com
virtual environment live testing only: This is for VPS but not for screenshots. They’ll give you an hour of free testing for signing up so try it. I found it to be very very fast so that was great.
If you just want a screenshot of what you can see on your own screen check out this great (but older) list. Or this list of browser testing services.
BROWSER TESTING APPS
BrowserSeal
A PC app that has all the major browsers in it.
IETester
A free app for PC that has all the IE versions within it. Even IE9 preview.
EMAIL CLIENT TESTING
The other email client testing I’ve used is the Inbox Inspector from MailChimp. But you have to pay for each test — $13. Overall, MailChimp offers a great service and lots of really useful (free) articles on email marketing.
Other useful articles:
ARI’S HARD-WON TESTING NOTES FOR HTML EMAIL CLIENTS
Why fight with display inconsistencies when you can just take it from me? These were mostly learned form testing at Litmusapp.
1) For screen sharing
http://www.oneeko.com/
Free for one-to-one. Allows sharing of only part of a screen – interesting interface. Guests don’t have to download anything – it runs in flash.
Paid version has support for 8 guests, whiteboard
But users can’t control each others cursor. So skype screen sharing is tough competition for them since it’s already ‘right there’ for many people.
2) Interesting input device:
TrackBar Emotion Roller Bar Mouse
http://www.ergodirectusa.com/Roller-Bar-Mouse-p/trackbar.htm
http://www.specialneedscomputers.ca/em-swheel.htm
3) all o’rielly books online free!
Safari Techbooks Online
Full-text online access to over 1000 computing, IT, and management titles released by leading publishers that you can read online. The collection includes all of the Safari Techbooks titles for the current and previous two calendar years.
http://jason.vox.com/library/post/oreilly-safari-access-for-sfpl-members.html
3) simplified web marketing
http://www.yieldsoftware.com/
Offers a tool for placing ads on google, yahoo and msn from one web-based interface. Includes other tools to simplify advertising options like landing page optimization.
Interesting security note:
http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
If your laptop memory is removed from your computer the information on it can be copied for up to a few minutes before fading away. So even encrypted hard drives are vulnerable. There is a video here that explains the procedure clearly.
Here’s a start of a list of lists—all about finding the right competitions, grants and awards. There are so many available but I find most of them are not worth the time and expense of applying.
Mary Virginia Swanson: List of approaching deadlines
Swanson is well known in the photo world. I had a chance to met her briefly at Review Santa Fe but not for a one-on-one portfolio review session. I heard a number of other photographers talking about how useful her advice and encouragement has been.
PhotoShelter’s Rachel Hulin: here and here
A great resource even though she has ended that blog and now set up shop as simply A Photography Blog.
Without Lenses: Events
Erin is a co-member of BAPC and does great work with Web UI and alternative process photos.
New York Foundation for the Arts
This site offers access to the most comprehensive list of resources for artists in the nation, opening doors to the widest range of financial, educational, technological, and institutional resources and information.
This site was great:
http://photographygrants.blogspot.com
but is now discontinued.
Please leave comments and share your favorite resources.
Each of these articles I found online adds another small facet to the strange history of this building.
I’d heard of this idea of converting the Armory to creative uses a long time ago when I moved to the Mission in 1993. A couple years later I visited PS1 in New York and it occurred to me that the Armory could be just as cool.
WordPress: adding extra line breaks, vertical space and more
There are issues with all the wysiwyg editors out there. It’s a problem with Drupal too. It’s hard to make a browser-based tool that just works right.
What WordPress is trying to do is “clean” the code. This is useful in many situations but not always. Read More »