Author: Paul R. Pival
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Book Review – The Best of Instructables Volume I, by Eric Wilhelm
I am SO not a hardware geek. I've always been aware of it, but was sadly reminded of that fact as I read The Best of Instructables Volume I, the latest book I received as part of the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program. There are over 120 project in this book, all with pictures and clear instructions. What…
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Edupunk goes mobile: Mobile library sites with zero budget
Tiffini has a great post on her blog about the importance of a mobile website for libraries, along with a couple of excellent suggestions for how YOU can do this for your library with little to no cost at all: Edupunk goes mobile: Mobile library sites with zero budget. In a nutshell, she suggests using LibGuides…
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Some great screencasting thoughts and examples
I've had a few posts floating around waiting for me to blog about them. Embedding tutorials into physical objects – Jason Fleming talks about an incident with a photocopier that prompted him to create tutorials for print, and use a QR code to guide end users of physical objects to relevant online tutorials on how…
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Book Review – Head First WordPress by Jeff Siarto
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program. I thought I'd give it a try and requested a copy of Head First WordPress. While I've long been a big fan of the O'Reilly "animal cover" books, this was the first Head First title I'd looked at, and…
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Hosted Proxy Servers
Today Serials Solutions announced "the industry’s first hosted proxy service: 360 Access Control". That caught my eye as a little odd, as on Dec 1, OCLC announced that EZproxy is now available as a hosted option as well. Regardless of who was first, this is probably pretty good news for the smaller institutions out there. There…
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How to add stamps to Snagit for Mac
Techsmith, makers of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt, recently started using GetSatisfaction to interact with their customers. I thought I’d give it a try to see if I got a response to a question I had posed on Twitter (and gotten no response)- is it possible to add stamps to SnagIt for the Mac? Officially, the…
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Using Bluefire Reader to read Overdrive ebooks on your iOS device
I carved out a little time this afternoon to explore the several posts I'd bookmarked about the new Bluefire ebook reader, which is notable for being able to support ebooks containing Adobe DRM. Here are the links to follow: How To Get Library Ebooks on the iPad/iPhone, No Sync Required – Josh Hadro, LJ Insider…
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Google knows what time it is where you are – Random Tech Tip Tuesday
This is likely very old news, but it's new to me so I thought I'd share. I just noticed that within Gmail, Google will tell you what time it currently is where the sender of an email is: A little thing, but pretty cool and potentially very useful! OK, I did my homework – Google…
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Livening virtual reference with screencasting and screen sharing
Just finished reading this article: Heidi M. Steiner, (2010) "Livening virtual reference with screencasting and screen sharing", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 27 Iss: 4/5, pp. 9-11. DOI 10.1108/07419051011083172 Heidi takes a look at Jing, Screencast-o-matic, Screencastle, and Screenjelly for screencasting, and Dimdim, Yuuguu and ShowMyPC as screen sharing tools. Missing from her list is a…