Author: Paul R. Pival
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More tablets to ship than desktop PCs for the first time in 2015
Gartner claims that next year, for the first time, more tablet devices will be sold than desktop PCs: Gartner Says Worldwide Traditional PC, Tablet, Ultramobile and Mobile Phone Shipments to Grow 4.2 Percent in 2014. This despite the report noting that tablets are actually cooling down – guess that means PCs are going cold?
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OS X Yosemite Makes it Easy to Screencast iOS Apps
Here's a nifty feature to look forward to in the fall – the ability to record screencasts of your iOS apps in order to incorporate them in to tutorials, etc… Once you connect an iOS 8 device to your Mac running OS X 10.10, it will be automatically available as a video camera. You can…
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Open Sourcing the Wellcome Library
I've had this open in one of my tabs for weeks, and just haven't made the time to play with it further, but it's definitely worth checking out – so go do it! The Wellcome Library ("We are one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history. We also offer a growing…
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What the Heck is Happening up North?
Amanda Wakaruk, Government Information Librarian at the University of Alberta, has written a comprehensive article outlining the BS (my words, not hers), libraries in Canada have been dealing with over the past several years when it comes to accessing Federal information. Her entire paper is available on the UofA Institutional Repository: What the Heck is…
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Camtasia Studio 8.4 & Camtasia for Mac 2.8 Now Available: Cross-platform Screen Recording
To be honest, I kind of assumed they already talked to each other, but I guess the ability to record on one OS and edit on another is just new today. Camtasia Studio 8.4 & Camtasia for Mac 2.8 Now Available: Cross-platform Screen Recording. We’ve updated our screen recording file format, so you can pass screen…
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Distance Students’ Attitude Toward Library Help Seeking
A recent article of possible interest: Distance Students' Attitude Toward Library Help Seeking. AbstractDistance students' attitude toward seeking library help was examined in a medium sized university. A web-based survey was conducted for indentifying library help seeking attitudes among distance students. A 30-mile radius of the campus was used to arbitrarily distinguish between near campus and…
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An experiment in privacy and disclosure
"On April 29, 2014 the Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Chantal Bernier, revealed that Canadian telecommunications companies have disclosed enormous volumes of information to state agencies." This lead sentence comes from Citizen Lab's recent post, Responding to the Crisis in Canadian Telecommunications. I heard about that post after listening to the most recent episode (#31) of Jesse Brown's…
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The Best Online Tools To Know Everything About a Website
Earlier this year I mentioned a couple of useful tools to help you determine what CMS and plugins are being used on a given site. Amit has an even better list of Online Tools To Know Everything About a Website, including things like what hosting company is being used, and a tool to determine whether a…