Author: Paul R. Pival
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Screencasting for the iPad
I haven’t tried this, but Techsmith’s Visual Lounge has a post about optimizing your recording and editing settings for optimum screencast playback on an iPad. Remember, iPads and iPhones won’t play Flash (though they will play files hosted at YouTube). I’ll repeat Betsy’s question – anyone out there recording screencasts specifically for the iPad?
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David Lee King on Microphones
David’s got a couple of posts that are relevant for screencasters: 5 Mic Tips for Presenters and Three Nice Microphones. I use the Samson myself.
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A sign from the Internet Gods?
Hmm, first my dad calls me out on multitasking, and then within 10 minutes of reading his link to the review of Hamlet’s BlackBerry I see a tweet to this older article in the NYT: Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price. I’m sure my wife and kids would easily identify with the family…
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Lots of eReader news – linkdump
After teasing you about the Kobo several months ago, one actually did show up in my house; my wife bought one a month or so ago, and really likes it. I’ve compared it to reading on an iPad (which I don’t own either), and find the Kobo a much better form factor for what it’s…
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Charleston Advisor reviews Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service and WorldCat Local
The current issue of The Charleston Advisor 12(1), July 2010 includes a 6-page comparative review of three of the big names in Web-scale discovery; Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service and WorldCat Local. It provides a nice overview of each service, and compares them on similar points. Check out the full article for all the details, but…
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EBSCO Publishing and Thomson Reuters Agreement Enables Mutual Customers Access to Web of Science via EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO just put out a press release (PDF) announcing that “institutions subscribing to both EDS and Web of Science may conduct their search via the single search box of EBSCO Discovery Service, access the valuable content in Web of Science within the results and be able to link over to the full Web of Science…
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My Summer Vacation
Hey, it's the rare and elusive Personal-type post! Yes, my Summer vacation has already come and gone; just got back from a two-week road trip with the family, and thought I'd share some product highlights I you might enjoy. We rented a fully-loaded Ford Taurus Limited rather than take one of our smaller family trucksters.…
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SummonCamp 2010 at ALA in Washington, DC
Those of you who already have Summon probably already received this via email, but in case not, or in case you're on the fence, I suspect prospective customers would be welcome as well: (oops, this is definitely only for existing customers) Hello Summon Customers I am pleased to announce the first North America Summon user…
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Canadian DMCA (Bill C-32) is an improvement
If it makes Access Copyright unhappy, and the Canadian Library Association happy(ish), Canada's newly-proposed Copyright Modernization Act must be doing something right. It's still got a major flaw in that it's always illegal to crack a digital lock, which effectively removes many of the rights the Bill introduces. As always, Michael Geist has all the…
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Serials Solutions to compete with EZProxy
Serials Solutions has a press release today to announce the development of a product called Access Control Service, which is a hosted authentication and proxy service. Last year OCLC announced they were going to offer a hosted version of EZProxy, to go into production sometime this year, but I haven't heard anything more about it…