Category: Web/Tech
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ScreenConnect – another remote-assistance tool
A year ago I blogged about an article I had read that looked at different tools that could be used to either create screencasts, or allow screen sharing, in support of virtual reference transactions. Six months ago a representative from ScreenConnect sent me an email suggesting that tool would be a good addition to the…
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Recording a screencast of your iPad2 or other tablet device
Kelly Rush of Techsmith has just posted a video showing how you can record a screencast of your iPad2 or other tablet device. To do it you have to capture the video out from the tablet; you can't do the recording on the tablet, which would be ideal, IMHO. Kelly's solution consists of the following…
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What’s missing from EVERY iOS cycling app
I've tried a fair few of them by now, and have settled on iMapMyRide, because it's accurate (most are), and it shows hill categorizations, which I think is tres cool. There are a lot of hills in Calgary, so it's nice to get some tiny tangible recognition for climbing them. But there's something EVERY iOS…
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New (DE) Kid on the Block
When I first started this blog (7 years ago!) it was in part to fill a perceived gap in the blogosphere on the topic of library service to distance students. Since then I've broadened the scope of The Distant Librarian to library tech in general, and there have been a fair number of other blogs…
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Making Safari more like Firefox with Glims (OSX)
Ahhhhh, that's so much better. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but Firefox, my old standby, has slowly become, well, slow. It's no longer my default browser, but it's always had a couple of features I've missed. The biggest one was Firefox's ability to search through the text of a page w/o having to…
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Join.me desktop screen sharing app now available for iOS
Aw man, I *so* wanted this to be a way to view a live iPhone, iPod or iPad screen remotely, but alas, it's the other way around. Install this free app and you can watch a computer screen shared with you by another user. Very cool, and works very well in my limited testing –…
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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…