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Clean out the root of your SCORM 2004 package

Anyone who works with SCORM 2004 has seen something like this: With just a little effort, you can make it look like this, and still be perfectly valid: SCORM manifests are required to specify a slew of schema files via the schemaLocation attribute. Here’s what you’d typically see:

I guess there's no such thing as a secure PDF

I was reading the SCORM 1.2 reference docs today. I wanted to copy a passage for my notes, but the PDF is password-protected and prevents anyone from copying text. (REALLY irritating, considering the ADL is a quasi-government organization and the docs should be open to all.) What to do?

iTunes, TV Shows and Apple TV

iTunes vexes me. For better or for worse, we’re an Apple household and own an Apple TV, so I’m kind of stuck with iTunes for managing my media files. My wife and I have also purchased a significant amount of DVDs over the years, which I ripped to

Setting OS X Desktop Picture Based on Time of Day

I recently changed jobs (Hello, FireEye!) and was issued a new MacBook Air. I spend a lot of time looking at the screen and was getting bored with the supplied desktop pictures. I also start work very early most days (7am-ish), and thought it would be nice to have a

Important Adobe Captivate SCORM template update

Over the last few weeks, I received a few reports that scores were not being saved in the LMS when using my template. Turned out to be a simple oversight on my part, which I have just fixed. Please download the latest version of scorm_support.js (v1.20120328) from

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