Author: Paul R. Pival
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Search Google Maps via shortcuts
Lifehacker has a post describing how to Map Anything From the Chrome Address Bar. Sounds great, except I recently switched back to Firefox after many years away, so found that there are a pair of extensions for FF that allow you to do pretty much the same thing. Map with Google Maps takes care of…
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Free access to the Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility Collection from de Gruyter
Until the end of 2017, de Gruyter is offering free access to its Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility ebook Collection for "all students and faculty". You do have to register, and it appears that when I did so, I did so for my entire University! I had expected an email with a username and login, but…
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Factiva filters for Fake News Phenomenon
Thanks to a tip from my colleague Dani I learned that Factiva has recently added a filter for fake news. Like many things with Factiva (IMHO), it's not terribly intuitive to find, so here are the steps. You can either add this as a filter to a search you've already run, or just use it…
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Shape file and .KML for First People’s Language Map of British Columbia
I spent a couple hours today helping a student look for a shape file of the First People’s Language Map of B. C. (or anything even close to it). No luck, but feel free to chime in if you know of something we missed! Finally while Inspecting and Viewing Source, I tripped across an embedded (or…
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If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine
Last month I railed on the new Wayback Machine plugin for Chrome. Well they've been busy, and the current version solves many of my nitpicks on the initial version. Archive.org has a post detailing 6 ways you can save pages to the Wayback Machine, and that Chrome plugin makes the list because it now allows…
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Sorry, the new Wayback Machine extension for Chrome needs some work!
Feb 2, 2017 update: improvements have been made! The other day I saw a headline about a new extension for the Chrome browser from the Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. I had initially ignored this, assuming it was the same thing as Wayback Chrome, but upon further inspection, the latter, which has been around for quite…
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First run on autoEdit 2, open source transcription tool
Having had this tab opened for what seems like forever, I finally got around to running some tests of autoEdit 2, an open-source automatic transcription tool (automatically creates a text file from a given audio or video file). This tool only runs on the Mac, and there are two flavours, if you will. One, Gentle…