Monthly Archives: March 2009

Firefox’s Legacy is in its Add-Ons

Posted on March 24, 2009 by pattyb

There has been a lot of negative talk lately about Mozilla’s Firefox browser, indicating that Firefox is dying a slow death because of mistakes the Mozilla developers have made with its architecture, causing it to be slower than other browsers … Continue reading →

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Teaching 2 Workshops on Web Accessibility

Posted on March 4, 2009 by pattyb

I have committed to teaching two workshops on Web Accessibility during Enriching Scholarship 2009. Registration opens on April 1. Best Practices for Making Accessible Websites Today our websites need to be accessible to persons with all types of disabilities. In … Continue reading →

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Add Twitter search results to your Google search result pages

Posted on March 4, 2009 by pattyb

Via @webaddict on Twitter I found a post about a Google-Twitter search hybrid. Since there is a lot to read there, here are quick instructions for altering your Google search results to include twitter results if you use Firefox or … Continue reading →

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Social Media Zeitgeist Takes Over Skittles.com

Posted on March 2, 2009 by pattyb

Social Media Zeitgeist Takes Over Skittles.com – MarketingVOX Fascinating. When you go to skittles.com with a scripting-enabled web browser you see existing social media websites with some annoying skittles widgets on top. You can’t get rid of them. I took … Continue reading →

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