Would You Use iBooks as your iPad PDF reader?

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I’m not sure this is a great idea, but it is certainly a nice option: Once you’ve got the files uploaded to Dropbox, though, how do you get them into iBooks? Just find the PDF in Dropbox on your phone, hit “Open With” and choose iBooks. It’s easy as pie, and your PDF files will [...]

Building Websites with WordPress Class Slides

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During today’s class, several people asked if the slides would be made available online… So here they are: You can download a PDF version or view the slides on iWork.com Beta. One fantastic surprise from today’s class was that WordPress.com now supports WordPress 3.0 menus: While only the new Twenty Ten theme can use the [...]

Building Websites with WordPress Course Outline

In case you’d like to know what I cover when I teach my Building Websites with WordPress class, I’ve uploaded the course outline to iWork.com and you can download a PDF version of it for yourself. Directly related to this outline is that I’m often asked if I’m teaching the class at other times, the [...]

Twitter Search is Failing Us: Is There a Solution?

One of the crucial parts of using Twitter and social media for business intelligence is is search. The problem is that when using Twitter search for information is that Twitter holds all the cards, and I think Twitter is dealing from the bottom of the deck. Here are a couple of examples. First my Twitter [...]

Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People) Next Week: Do you have a domain?

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Next Saturday (May 29th) I get to teach one of my favourite classes: Building Websites with WordPress (for Normal People). Although it’s one of my favourite classes to teach, it’s also the one that poses logistical problems to teach it really well. First, here’s how the class is described in the UBC course catalogue: Build [...]

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