Category: Linking
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MozBackup – for transferring Thunderbird and Firefox profiles
So I moved offices this weekend, and also moved to a new desktop machine. Used MozBackup to transfer my Thunderbird and Firefox profiles, which includes all bookmarks, preferences, extensions, cookies, etc. In a nutshell, after only about 10 minutes, I was fully functional w/o having to hunt down and reinstall anything – wonderful time saver!
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Worldcat Meets Wikipedia: Open Library
I haven’t been paying much attention to the announcement early this week about the new demo of Open Library, but I finally found myself on the site of the Disruptive Library Technology Jester, Peter Murray, and he’s got a 12-minute screencast of how the thing works. In a nutshell, to me it seems like Worldcat…
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Science Direct showing up in Google Scholar
O’Reilly Radar reports that Google Scholar is now indexing content from Science Direct. Is this the end of Scopus? Technorati Tags: Scopus, Schoogle
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Lat/Long Bookmarklet for Google Maps
Not your typical distance education-related posting, except you might want to know where your students are – yeah, that’s the connection! 😉 Last week my family started geocaching – great fun and I highly recommend it if you don’t live deep in a big city. Even then it can be done, but it’s different. Anyhoo,…
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Two more screen sharing tools
I’ve had each of these on my "to-try" pile for a week and haven’t gotten around to it, but they each look promising and you might want to give them a go. Both offer web-based cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) compatibility. Both appear to be free. LiveLook – http://www.livelook.net/ Easy as 1-2-3(1) Click "Show My Screen"…