Earlier this week, the Web Action Team received honorable mention from the prestigious Larry L. Sautter Award Program, which highlights innovations and achievements in UC information technology. To celebrate, we may give ourselves an extra 21 days off next fiscal year!
In other news, we've made one upgrade to a system that warrants some announcement and explanation. We have a universal file handler that we use in many places like Collaborative Tools, Site Builder's Calendar, the Master Gardener Volunteer Management System and other applications. I added special handling for Flash files (FLVs and SWFs), so that they will appear embedded rather than as links.
Give it a try! The function will capture the size of your file and, if the file is an FLV, create a first slide for the player. It will also reduce the size of your video to fit on the page you have displayed it.
If you need a tool to capture a FLV from the 'net (and I'm not saying you should, since it's probably illegal), you can use Keep Vid dot com, a site that merely gives you the direct path to the actual Flash file so you can download it to your computer.