Category: Web/Tech
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Using Google SMS to find the way
You may recall that a week or two ago I had some trouble finding my way from the Monterey airport to the San Francisco airport. The woman at the car rental counter didn’t have any maps outside of Monterey, and couldn’t give me directions up to SFO. I don’t have a fancy phone, but the…
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Instantbird – New Open Source Cross Platform IM client
Learned from Tom Boone at Library Laws that there’s a new cross-platform IM client out called InstantBird, “based on Mozilla technologies and Pidgin”. And it’s open source. It’s pretty spartan right now being on its first release, but worked right out of the box for me. Just enter your account details in the account wizard,…
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Meebo Alert for Firefox
Yet another reason to use Firefox – Aaron just pointed out that there’s a new plug-in for Firefox and Meebo that will really help with the alerts – you still have to have Meebo open in a tab, or a sidebar, but you no longer have to have that tab in the foreground for fear…
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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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oskope.com – a potental catalogue interface?
Just learned about the oSkope visual search engine, currently searching Amazon, eBay, Flickr and Youtube. Kind of fun to play with – here’s a quick screencast. Would a display like this make it more "fun" to use the library catalogue? Technorati Tags: oskope
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Meebo does file transfer
I haven’t heard of any libraries making use (or wishing they could) of file transfer over meebo, but it could be useful to push a subject guide or something. Meebo just announced they now support file transfer between the different networks. Technorati Tags: Meebo
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Free your content! RSS for Libraries: recording now available
Last month (August 7), Meredith Farkas and I did a SirsiDynix presentation called Free your content! RSS for Libraries. The recordings (audio and video) for that session are now available on the SirsiDynix website, as is a PDF of our slides. The video is in WMV format and doesn’t play very nicely for those of…
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Accessing MeeboMe Widgets in Pidgin
Chad Boeninger has a comprehensive post at Library Voice describing how to view your MeeboMe widgets while using Pidgin (formerly GAIM), thus obviating the need to have Meebo open in a website at all. I haven’t tried Pidgin in a long time, but would LOVE not to have to have a web page open in…
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Comparison of online Powerpoint hosting options
Amit at Digital Inspiration has a great comparison of the following tools, all of which can be used to host PowerPoint presentations online: Zoho Show, SlideShare, Scribd, SlideAware, and Splashcast. You can also skip to the end result and see the same slideshow displayed from each site all on the same page. Technorati Tags: PowerPoint,…
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iLibrarian: Subscribed
Over the past few weeks especially I keep seeing references to the iLibrarian blog run by Ellyssa Kroski at Columbia University. If you’re at all interested in the stuff that makes up “Library 2.0” you should check it out.