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Download books for free from Google Book Search

Aug 29, 2006

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Business Week and BoingBoing both alerted me to the fact that you can now download public domain books in their entirety from Google Book Search! I haven’t visted GBS for a while, but when I went to check it out tonight I see that there’s a new search option radio button to limit to Full…

Embedded chat

Aug 22, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Electronic Reference, Service, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Amit at Digital Inspiration has a brief review of three embedded chat options; MeeboMe, Stickam, and Gabbly. I played with MeeboMe a couple of weeks ago and found it simple to use, but didn’t like having to remember to be logged in to the Meebo page at all times. I haven’t tried the other two…

Why D’Arcy Norman is a minor deity – reason #27 (Screencasting on the Mac)

Aug 18, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Tutorials, Web/Tech

D’Arcy Norman works in the Teaching and Learning Centre here at the University of Calgary, and has helped me with at least 26 projects or ideas prior to this, but I just wanted to share the latest with you. As you know, I’ve been looking for a tool that will produce screencasts on the Mac…

Writely available again

Aug 17, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Miscellaneous, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Back in March when Google acquired Writely they suddenly closed to doors to new users. Good news – as of today, you can sign up again for a Writely account. A highly-recommended collaborative writing tool – similar in idea to wikis, but different in execution. If you want/need to collaborate with someone but don’t feel…

Using Feed43 to track a del.icio.us search with RSS

Aug 15, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Linking, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Ok, so it’s a piece of cake to track an individual tag in del.icio.us in your aggregator – while looking at any tag page in del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/tag/mp3 for instance) you’ll see an RSS button all the way down at the bottom. Alternatively, you can just stick an "rss" in any URL before the /tag/, like…

Amazon for home delivery of items to library users?

Aug 9, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Document Delivery, Ideas, Web/Tech

Sarah passes on a great idea from Helene Blowers to use Amazon Library Processing to ship books to the end user, and when s/he’s done, the book will be returned to the library and thus be entered into the circulating collection. I like that idea a lot. It’s very similar to what we’ve been trying…

PrinterAnywhere for Document Delivery?

Aug 4, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Document Delivery, Ideas, Web/Tech

Amit posts about a new product/service called PrinterAnywhere (beta), that allows one to send a print job to any printer that’s connected to an online WinXP computer. Interesting idea. Got an international student? Why not send a print job consisting of a requested document directly to her printer? The service is free, but requires Windows…

StatsCan Internet and Canadian Life Project

Aug 4, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Social Networks, Web/Tech

OK, that’s not really what the report is called, but Statistics Canada did release a study the other day called The Internet: Is It Changing the Way Canadians Spend Their Time?, and according to them, I am a bona-fide Internet crackaholic! They have three categories of users; 1) non users, 2) moderate users, and 3)…

How important is audio quality in Screencasting?

Jul 31, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Tutorials, Web/Tech

Is good audio quality for your screencasts worth $100? I’ve never had a student complain that they couldn’t understand what I was saying in one of my screencasts, but the other day I was experiencing some techno-lust and wondered if D’Arcy’s fancy microphone would make a measurable improvement to the quality of the audio in…

Screencasts on your Tivo?

Jul 31, 2006

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Miscellaneous, Service, Web/Tech

We only oficially got Tivo here in Canada earlier this year, so this won’t be a good distribution method up North for a little while yet, but Bryan Zug is reporting that it may be possible to post a video, including a screencast, to a service called Brightcove, and then have it available on your…

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