Chris and Roy’s D.C. Adventure

The following are the latest two blog entries from McCollum High School students Chris Cantu and Roy Aguillon. They, along with classmate Juany Torres, have traveled to Washington, D.C., to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama.
Roy: Today was a wonderful day, although it got all the way down to 6 degrees, we somehow made it. [...]

Wheelie good stunting

(Rosenda Rios recently tagged along with motorcycle stunters for a story. She wrote this blog entry to talk about her reaction to what she witnessed and her experience with the stunters.)
I know little about motorcycles.  My husband had a couple of them at one time and an ex-boyfriend had a motorcycle as his only transportation.  [...]

Delegate Diary

As both Democrats and Republicans begin their respective conventions, KSAT 12 and KSAT.com have found two delegates to serve as correspondents and give us their respective views of the convention experience.
Elise Boyan is a Democratic delegate and has worked in law and politics for most of her adult life. She also attended Harvard Law School [...]

The wheels on the bus go round-and-round

With record gas prices all around us, what are you doing to cope with the high cost? VIA Transit’s ridership is on the rise but what if you’ve never hopped on a bus?
Do you know where to start?
We decided to see for ourselves just how easy is it to get from point A to [...]

Share your dollar stretching tips

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been running special segments called “Stretch Your Dollar” in an effort to help you make the most of your money in your everyday life. See some of our favorites after the jump.

DWTS, Women’s Murder Club available online — FREE

Just wanted to pass along that Tuesday night’s episodes of “DWTS” (both hours) and “Women’s Murder Club” are now available on KSAT.com/ABC.com.
http://www.ksat.com/abcdownloads/index.html
http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing?lid=ABCCOMGlobalMenu&lpos=FEP

Instant information?

This isn’t so much a post as it is a survey. I’d like to find out how many of our readers would be interested in having a Twitter feed (or even another similar service for information from the KSAT.com newsroom).
If you remember from a few weeks ago, I liveblogged a standoff that happened just as [...]

Photoshop (Express) goes free

As reported by the crew over at Gizmodo, Adobe’s Photoshop Express was launched yesterday as a free beta.

Triple Flyby Video

We saw how popular the information about Tuesday night’s flyby was, so we wanted to let you see the video from the event in case you missed it or just want to experience again.
Enjoy.

A genius way to get around broadcast restrictions

The NCAA and CBS have restrictions on how TV stations (and Web sites) can show video from the NCAA Tournament. Last week, a bunch of us were crowded around the TVs in the newsroom watching the Duke vs. Belmont first-round matchup, and we also knew that we couldn’t show the highlights of one of the [...]