Category: Miscellaneous
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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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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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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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Some Google and Schoogle notes and updates
The Centered Librarian points to 100+ Amazing Google tricks that will save you time at school at Eternal Code. The post consists of approximately 10 tricks for each of the following services: Search, Stuff specifically for education, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Mobile, Chrome, Books, and Services and Apps. Some really neat stuff in there. Beyond the Reference…
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BarTab – my new #1 Firefox extension
Chrome still doesn’t have a couple of what I consider are my vital extensions, so I still use Firefox whenever I can. Problem is, with all the extensions I use on it, plus the fact that I usually have something like 20-30 tabs open across several windows, Firefox has kind of become a bloated beast,…
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EBSCO Content Clarification and a Mea Culpa
This morning I received the following email from Susan at EBSCO Publishing (published with permission): Hi Paul, At ALA, EBSCO had a customer luncheon where we mentioned that our databases will have some newly unique content relative to other full-text database vendors. There are many unique full-text publications in our databases. These can be due…
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Distant Librarian’s top 10 posts from 2009
I was poking around Google Analytics for work yesterday and thought it would also be fun to peek at the top ten posts for my blog for 2009. Here they are, without comment: Crappy Experience at the Apple Store A little more info on the Harvard linking BS Jing Pro and Jing Free Is 2009…
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The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook
TeleRead has a great post on The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook. It’s written by one of the developers of Calibre, a program for managing ebook collections, and as such touts Calibre as pretty much the perfect tool for handling your conversion needs. What’s really nice…
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HarperCollins now also thumbing nose at e-book industry with digital delay
Engadget reports that we now have a trio of big publishers who will experiment with embargoes on ebook versions of major new releases. Basically the publishers will release a the hardcover, but delay the ebook version for some time. The commenters are not pleased. On one hand, if this is compared to the paperback delay…