Category: Web/Tech
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Gale’s new eCatalog
Received an email about Gale’s new eCatalog which I almost deleted, but then decided to take a look at. I thought they did a good job in the email selling it as a green alternative, but was curious to see how useful it’d prove. It’s actually pretty nifty – you can link to a specific…
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TeamViewer for Desktop Sharing
Haven’t had a chance to try this, but TeamViewer, free for non-commercial use, offers desktop sharing for both Windows and Mac. They claim 10 million users – wonder if they were known as something else before?
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This one’s for Walt C. – Create PDFs from RSS feeds
As reported on Lifehacker, Feedbooks will create a nice PDF of an RSS feed. I found it a little convoluted once I signed up for an account, but figured out I needed to choose to create a newspaper, then click the RSS tab. I was then able to create a custom PDF with one of…
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Screencast.com v. 1.0
I’d forgotten that all this time Techsmith’s screencast-hosting service, Screencast.com, has been a beta product. I just received the following email indicating that they’re going official with version 1.0: Say hello to Screencast.com 1.0! Our hosting service is all grown up. And we’re making it official by moving Screencast.com out of beta and into version…
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Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
From TL Infobits, news of a draft report from UC Berkeley called Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An In-depth Study of Faculty Needs and Ways of Meeting Them. (This is almost exactly the topic we asked candidates for a recent position here at the U of C to address!) Some of the questions…
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Bye-bye Live Search Books and Live Search Academic
Roy Tennant points out that as of next week(!) Microsoft is switching off Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. Wow. I didn't go there first (ever), but it was good to have some competition for Google Book Search and Google Scholar. Interesting, definitely.
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Survey on the use of IM Widgets
Danielle Dennie at Concordia University asks for your assistance in a survey she’s running on your use of Instant Messaging Widgets: Dear all, I will be conducting a study to learn about and compare usage of IM widgets on online subject/research guides from different North American academic libraries. I would like to see the types…
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Relais products go Open Source
This is interesting, at least to those of us who are using Relais for our Document Delivery system: For Immediate Release April 22, 2008Relais products go Open Source Relais International is excited to announce that we will be moving all or part of the Relais software to an open source model. Why are we doing…
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Podcasting in Plain English
Another CBC Podcast to recommend, or at least a specific episode: Spark podcast. In the most recent episode they interview Lee Lefever, part of the creative force behind the …in Plain English series of screenpapercasts. The title of this post comes from the end of their interview where Lee is put on the spot to…