Category: Web/Tech
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The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources
Mashable has just posted The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources which provides briefly annotated links to tools in the following categories: RSS Readers for Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Cross-platform, and Mobile, RSS to email converters, Feed validators, Browser plugins, RSS Managers, Feed mixers, Ping tools, Feed Directories, Tips and Hacks, and Miscellaneous. Impressive! …
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Lat/Long Bookmarklet for Google Maps
Not your typical distance education-related posting, except you might want to know where your students are – yeah, that’s the connection! 😉 Last week my family started geocaching – great fun and I highly recommend it if you don’t live deep in a big city. Even then it can be done, but it’s different. Anyhoo,…
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Two more screen sharing tools
I’ve had each of these on my "to-try" pile for a week and haven’t gotten around to it, but they each look promising and you might want to give them a go. Both offer web-based cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) compatibility. Both appear to be free. LiveLook – http://www.livelook.net/ Easy as 1-2-3(1) Click "Show My Screen"…
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Google Book Search: is it Good Enough?
Good post at the American Historical Association blog called Google Books: What’s Not to Like? In it, a historian points out three big things not to like: Poor Scan Quality, Faulty Metadata, and Truncated Public Domain. Well-supported with examples, it gets even more interesting in the comments where people point out that crappy though it…
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RSS Alerts in EBSCO Databases
Earlier this week I got a mailing from EBSCO in which they claimed they were re-launching RSS alerts for searches. I tried to follow their instructions but had no success, and assumed this must be a feature we had to manually enable in our admin module, but Ken Varnum at RSS4Lib pointed out that the…
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Yugma for screen-sharing
Another link from Sarah at LiB (this one via the lo-fi librarian): Yugma. I haven’t tried it, but it looks to be a solid option if you’re considering tools to share the desktop (co-browsing). The basic service is free and cross platform. It doesn’t offer voice over IP, so you’re stuck texting with whoever’s on…