Category: Random Tech Tips
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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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Dropbox – Random Tech Tip Thursday
I searched my archives and was surprised to learn I hadn't ever recommended Dropbox before. I was reminded when I received an email from them letting me know they had a new video from CommonCraft (the xxx in Plain English folks) explaining how it all works. In a nutshell, Dropbox is a cross-platform folder synchronization…
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Using Google Analytics to track screencast usage
Paul Betty of Regis University offered the following link on the OFFCAMP listserve earlier today. Using Google Analytics to track screencast usage. In his screencast he covers how to embed a javascript call in Adobe Captivate, Qarbon ViewletBuilder, and Camtasia Studio, which will then allow Google Analytics to track pretty much whatever you might want…
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JSTOR – PDF Incompatibility with Mac Preview
JSTOR reports “We are glad to report that we have located and fixed a problem that caused an incompatibility between JSTOR PDF files and older versions of Mac Preview. This problem caused only part of the article to be viewable in Preview. The fix released today means that JSTOR PDF files should now be viewable…
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Google’s RSS-embedding tool
Here's a quick screencast I created to look at Google's (new?) tool that allows ordinary folks to embed RSS feeds on a website: Pretty nifty!
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #5 – Aardvark Firefox Extension
The other day I came across a Firefox extension called Aardvark that makes it really easy to clean up websites to print, or even to read online w/o lots of advertisements and fluff around the text. Here’s a quick demo of it in action:
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #4 – Google Reader Keyboard Shortcuts
I’ve been using Google Reader for quite some time now – really like it. I used to use a desktop aggregator because it was a lot more flexible and customizable, but being tied to a single machine eventually did that one it for me. I’ve found Google Reader to be very reliable, and it gets…
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #3: Keep it Clean
If you use any kind of electric toothbrush – make sure you turn it off before you take it out of your mouth, or you’re going to spray the toothpaste all over the mirror, which is a pain to clean, and if you’re already wearing your work clothes, you may get them messy too. Don’t…
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #2 – No more bleeps while adjusting audio
Here’s one for the Mac users, and I’m surprised more people don’t seem to know about it considering the "bloops" I hear as people adjust their volume during podcasts. As I don’t use a desktop, I can only vouch for this on the Apple laptops, where the volume is adjusted using function keys. Quite a…
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #1 – Auto-generate text in MS Word
The other day I learned a neat Word trick that has nothing to do with libraries, but since part of the reason I keep this blog is to annotate things that are interesting to ME I thought I’d throw it up here in hopes that it’s also of interest to you. I’ve got a few…