Find out the last modified date of the web page you are viewing

Here’s a trick I just learned:

Javascript Bonus: Curious about when the page you’re on was last updated? Just type javascript:alert(document.lastModified) in the address bar and press Enter to see the date and time in a pop-up window.

And here’s a link (Last Modified) can drag to your toolbar. Once there, you can click on it on [...]

Youtube blocked at school? Got a blog? Show those Youtube videos!

We are getting ready to roll out Google Apps for Education, and there was a video on Youtube from Google on sharing documents that I wanted to show to the staff. Unfortunately, YouTube is blocked at school, so embedding the video was out. To show the video, I did the following (requirements are Wordpress and [...]

Microsoft Word annoyances and fixes

I’ve noticed people have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft Word, more hate than love I’m afraid. In fact, when I mentioned to some teachers that we have to start moving off of AppleWorks, I got some from angry reactions. Mostly it’s because Word tries to help the writer a little too much, moving things around [...]

Make your old extensions (add-ons) compatible with Firefox 2.0

So you’ve upgraded to the newest version of Firefox, but there is that one add-on that you can’t live without. This article shows you three ways to help make your old extensions compatible with Firefox 2.0.

Customizing Firefox for your school/classroom with the CCK

You’ve already made the change to Firefox, and have been jonesing on the extensions, but now you would like to use it in your classroom. Unfortunately, out of the box, Firefox doesn’t really let you set a lot of defaults for your students. Without help it’s also impossible to set the student’s installation at their [...]

Using a RSS reader (Bloglines.com) to keep up to date

A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) makes it really easy to keep up to date with websites, blogs, and news sites.