Comprising a diverse array of assorted technical articles, tutorials and answers to questions thought to be of possible usefulness/interest to a wider audience.
Blogging is a bastardised term short for Web Logging.
A log, in simplest terms, is a collection of notes with respective times and dates; a Blog the same, but on the World Wide Web.
In evolution blogging technology now provides publication of HTML and images to multiple formats, including email and newsfeeds, as well as directly to the web.
Blogging is actually really easy to do (hence the article classification).
Blogger is the granddaddy of blogging and technically provides all you need in an easily accessible/usable web interface.
Five minutes is required to set up a (free!) functional blog of your own.
As with many things, blogs can be developed to provide a great deal of sophistication, some of which is demonstrated in the Faber Optimé web site. Note that the News; Faber Technicus; Inspiratio Optimé; Effluvia and Linx sections are all based upon Blogger technology.
Posted 5/07/2006 11:49:00 PM, Sunday, 7 May 2006, by Faber Optimé. Post permanently located here. Click here to email the author about this post.
So you've discovered web pages on the Internet, but how best to go about making a web site?
Even the most negligible of exposures to the World Wide Web reveals that web pages usually appear in some organised, more complex context, that usually being its Web Site.
Manually constructing a web site (though a valuable learning exercise) is not recommended. The greater a site's content (in terms of both number of pages and semantic composition), the greater the implied ongoing management overhead to maintain.
Better to use tool(s) that provide effective, collective means of managing a site's contents, including: look and feel; structural organisation and navigation; and access to resources.
Three key, underlying technologies that provide web sites via the Internet are:
TCP/IP
An acronym standing for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
This is the key, low-level, underlying protocol used by computers for Internet communication.
HTTP
An acronym standing for HyperText Transfer Protocol.
This protocol is used to provide files over the Internet (using TCP/IP), most typically web pages, though can also be files of other types.
HTML
An acronym standing for HyperText Markup Language.
Is a computer language defining the structure and layout of a web document by way of a variety of tags and attributes.
The lingua franca of the World Wide Web.
Pretty much all web pages comprise HTML. It is a relatively simple computer language, programmed in plain text. As such its basics are easy to learn, though it is capable of a great deal of complexity.
Readers are recommended to refer to other good web sites for further info on the basics of web page creation. With the basics in hand, the world's your oyster.
The Faber Optimé site includes many examples of more advanced HTML-based technologies and techniques, though its basic composition is still good old HTML.
Tip: Using your browser's "View Source" command (in Internet Explorer, click on "Source" in the "View" menu) you can see the HTML making up any web page.
This is a great way to learn how other authors have achieved things for use in your own web pages!
Posted 5/07/2006 12:55:00 PM, , by Faber Optimé. Post permanently located here. Click here to email the author about this post.
Q: Can I send SMS messages from/using my Outlook contact phone numbers on my computer?
A: Yep!
All you need is a GSM mobile phone you've configured your computer to connect to; a copy of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and the free Microsoft add-in, (LATER - read on first!) downloadable from the above link.
The tricky bit is getting your computer "talking to" your phone. Of course pre-requisite is a phone capable of such connection, so if it's 3-4yrs old, you're probably flat out of luck, though connections may be possible with relatively inexpensive interface cables (USB is best but may not be an option), if you've no nice, wireless infra-red or Bluetooth handset options.
In any case your phone manual should provide the substantive instructions on how to set up a connection in Windows. That's what you're after. Though the procedure of setting up a connection in Windows is prerequisite to (and often detailed in the context of) connecting to the internet, you'll not be using the internet with this software solution. Once you've got a connection to your phone configured in Windows, you can select it in the Outlook SMS add-in and that's it all ready to go.
You can compose/send SMS messages and reconfigure your settings from your new Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Add-In toolbar, as shown opposite.
Since SMS infers short text messages via mobile only, it's not a bad idea to set the toggle to ignore contacts w/o mobile numbers to save time adding message recipients, though this does rely upon your contact's mobile numbers having been correctly specified in Outlook as such!
You'll find the message compose and send dialog self-explanatory.
Set messages are retained in a discrete "SMS" Sent Items sub-folder.
Advantages in using Outlook in this way include: automatic retention, archiving (as determined by your own Outlook auto-archive settings) and searchability of messages; as well as ergonomic and efficient use of your contacts' phone info in Outlook on your PC. Price is right (free), light on additional resource requirements and is robust. For best effect ensure that you're also regularly synchronising your phone data to Outlook.
Drawbacks are pre-requisite requirement for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and limited functionality of the free Microsoft add-in, inferring that messages are only sent, not received back into Outlook. Also got to have Office 2003 - doesn't work with preceding versions.
Happy SMSing :)
Posted 5/01/2006 06:43:00 PM, Monday, 1 May 2006, by Faber Optimé. Post permanently located here. Click here to email the author about this post.
Welcome to Faber Technicus! This posting marks the launch of Faber Technicus - an online repository for the sharing of technical knowledge. This Blog contains a diverse array of assorted technical articles, tutorials and answers to questions thought to be of possible interest to a wider audience.
Posted 5/01/2006 02:53:00 AM, , by Faber Optimé. Post permanently located here. Click here to email the author about this post.
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