Category: Web/Tech
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The Fall of Screencasting
Ha! Got you with the title of this post, didn’t I? No, screencasting’s not heading downhill; quite the contrary. That’s just me being witty, see, ’cause it’s Fall, and there’s lots going on with screencasting. First up, both Adobe and Techsmith have new versions of their screencasting products out this month. Adobe is now shipping…
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DistLib LinkDump
Gosh I hate to do a link dump; each of these deserve their own post, but I’ve just had so little time over the past couple of weeks, and see no real openings in the next few that I’ve got to clear these "to blog" tidbits out. Lots of good stuff here, and I’m sure…
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Sony eBook Reader PRS-500
Looks like the North American version of the Sony eBook reader will be out in time for Xmas. Still a little light on important details like price, and whether it will be possible to borrow books from a library, but Engadget has a slew of pictures that make me think I could do just fine…
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Examples of screencasts built with Wink
It’s been an awful long time since I took a look at Wink, one of the free screencasting tools that are floating around for Windows. Last time I looked, Wink didn’t even support audio, something that has come to be a necessity in my checklist for screencasting tools. It seems it now does, and I’ve…
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Libraries and Google – Internet Reference Services Quarterly
I wonder if I’ll ever fully understand the World of Serials. I just got an email alert that Volume 10(3/4) 2005 of Internet Reference Services Quarterly is a special issue titled "Libraries and Google". We have a paper and electronic subscription so I checked and see that we received this 2005 volume one week ago. …
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Website Heatmap
OUseful Info blogs about a neat tool called the Clickdensity heatmap. Check out the neat screenshot, and note that they provide a free trial. I’m passing this one on to our webfolk. Technorati Tags: usability, heatmap
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Free Online Books
Rich at eContent has pointed to two interesting sources of free books in the past week. The first is to a site called FreeLoad Press that sounds really familiar, but I didn’t blog it before so I must’ve not seen it before 😉 From the site: “Thanks to our sponsors, you can “freeload” e-textbooks and…
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Adobe Captivate 2 webinars
Last week Adobe announced the imminent release of version 2 of Adobe Captivate (formerly Macromedia Captivate). I didn’t mention it then ’cause you can’t actually get your hands on the product yet – they say another 3-4 weeks before it ships. Oddly, in one of the comments the product manager says this delay is due…
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How does your site stack up?
I only finished this short article today, but it was "published" a year ago – not sure how I missed it then, or found it now – probably someone’s delicious feed. Regardless of the provenance, I’d like to recommend the following article: Nicholas, M., Tomeo, M. (2005). Can You Hear Me Now? Communicating Library Services…