looking forward

As the song says, “You’re gonna to trip stumble and fall”  After deleting the previous post (Online Tools vol 2) and rewritting it, and recreating the graphic in it, I have discovered that I really don’t know how to use the mentioned tool.

So, having some time on my hands and an overly developed stubborn streak I decided to keep trying.  I know that it can work, as the post I originally saw it on had a working graphic, and the ones created by me worked in the kwout website.  I think part of the problem lies in the fact that the edublogs site seems to be stripping the embed code out when I post (once again, probably something that I am doing).

After getting nowhere with this I did the next most obvious thing: I visited the kwout website and help blog … and found no help in the existing questions.  I’m still waiting on a reply to my question to them, so we will see how it turns out.

Anyway, to the point (yes, I do have one, and I will get to it, albeit in a long winded and rambling manner).  I have learned a valuable lesson here.  I got a little excited by the potential of the kwout system (tool? toy? call it what you will) because I saw some potential in its use.  What I should have done is to make sure that I knew what I was doing with it before I opened my mouth.  (Not bad for someone who a couple of posts back was bemoaning the fact that he overthinks things and never just acts.  Either I’m getting better at this or I don’t know myself as well as I thought).

So, it has been in my mind to take down the previous post until I figure out where I went wrong, but then I decided I should leave it up.  I need the reminder that I need to do my homework before I post anything – I don’t need to be an expert, but a passing understanding would possibly be of benefit.

Looks like 2008 is off to a flying start, which reminds me: Happy New Year to you all.

Originally this post was going to be on graphic editing, but I have just come across what could be a very cool tool.  Post Christmas and New Year, I have been trying to catch up on my RSS feeds while dealing with all the things that the Real World seem to throw in the way.

It was while reading through Scott McCleod’s blog Dangerously Irrelevant that I came across a post on Kwout (apparently pronounced “quote”).  This little tool allows you to take a screen shot of any webpage:

looking forward via kwout

The thing that makes this different to most screen captures is that the hyperlinks remain active within the image.

I’ll be honest here; I haven’t played very much with this (the above image is the only one I have made), but am already seeing any number of uses, especially in “how to” guides.

Time to go play …

edit: hmm.  Defintiely need to play a bit more: the links in the above image are supposed to be active.  Not sure what I did there.