WordPress goodies
Wish I’d found this sooner. WordPress Help – Podz @ Tamba2. Looks really useful.
Site migrated!
Ok, transferring my blog entries over to my new hosting service was not as straight-forward as transferring over my Moodle stuff. Someone really ought to write an easy-to-use plugin to backup/restore WordPress entries. Or if it exists..make it more easily available. Didn’t bother to go through the hassle with my Mambo site though – simply re-created the entire thing, especially since it’s still rather bare anyhow. Since I was re-doing stuff and my old photo gallery was sparse anyway, also…
Unbearable slowness
Urgh, Globat might be incredibly cheap, but the frequent unbearable sluggishness is really getting to me 🙁 This can be a problem if my site gets real slow at a time when I need to do online learning with my class. So I decided to spring for a different host i.e. Focushub, which offers local i.e. Singapore-based hosting. It might not be as cheap as say differenthost but users in local forums claim that it is more reliable. Ah well,…
the “iCheap” arrives
More than a year ago, I decided that I needed a desktop Macintosh; alas, Apple’s consumer desktops i.e. the eMac and iMac, all offered integeated monitors, which I simply do not need. So I had to settle for an old used PowerMac G4 instead, and has since juiced it quite a bit with processor, memory and hard drive upgrades etc. Never stopped me from wishing Apple would release a cheap, headless, desktop Mac though. An iCheap, as I would call…
Moodle on a flash drive!
Last week, I started using a Course Management Software called Moodle for one of my classes. It’s really good, and I can see a lot of potential uses for it. One thing I don’t really enjoy, though, is the somewhat non-instaneous..urm ok slow response to my clicks, especially on a slow internet day (which does happen regularly in school). Moodle for Windows installers seem to be the answer to my annoyances. It’d appear that I can very quickly set up…
Moodle Mambo time!
Although I’ve had a school-based webpage for school for most of last year, I was really racking my brains over how exactly to fully utilise online resources. Sure, I could make worksheets downloadable off site, but surely there’s more that I can do with an online presence? So I did some research online, and it led me to Moodle This is a Course Management Software (CMS) that has so many amazing features, it’s shocking that it’s actually FREE. If you…