Category: Web/Tech
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RSS to Email wrapup
Last month I posted about and got some really good feedback and suggestions on an RSS to email solution. I just wanted to wrap that up here for those of you who don’t get the comments. The two best solutions seem to be RSSFwd and Rmail, both of which, with a minor amount of HTML…
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CLA Calgary Wiki
I’ve never gotten into wikis. I just never found myself in a project where a wiki seemed the perfect solution. I’ve been toying with them for a couple weeks though, and then lo and behold, Meredith throws up the ALA Chicago Wiki. Now that makes sense to me! Know what? There’s a Canadian Library Association…
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Google Print Bookmarklet
A few months ago I promised I would build a bookmarklet for Google Print, but I quickly realized the way they had things configured meant I wasn’t able to do so. Well, they’ve changed things and you can now search Google Print directly (instead of getting results at the top of a regular Google search),…
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TAL Annoucement of the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library
This will be interesting to watch! There’s a link to a PDF with more info at the bottom of the page… Link: TAL Annoucement of the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library. The Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library will provide post-secondary students and faculty with a vast collection of research articles, textbooks, journals, images…
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Even more on Jybe (probably not the last word)
Have spent a fair amount of time with Jybe 2.0 the last two days and am forming a pretty favorable impression. Yesterday I was a little worried after I spent some time on it with Sherri at UNLV and we ran into some bugs where we would appear to be co-browsing nicely, but would pretty…
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Thoughts on Jybe 2.0
Earlier this week Jybe version 2.0 was released, and tonight I finally got a chance to play with it. I think. See, I haven’t had time to line up any co-testers, so I did it all myself through VNC – hosted the session on my work machine, then joined that session from my home machine…
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Blended Librarian Event: Developing Multimedia Teaching and Learning Content
Last August I discovered the Blended Librarian site, which now resides exclusively at the Learning Times Library Online Community. There’s some really good stuff available through this site, but you have to register to see any of it (it’s free). Personally I find the site confusing. I get emailed updates when there’s new content added,…
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More Captivate vs Camtasia
A followup to yesterday’s post on exactly the same subject, there’s an article in the March 2005 issue of Presentations magazine called Screen-Capture to Go that compares these same two products. Well, it’s mostly about Camtasia, but includes some overview of Captivate as well. I learned that Camtasia has a powerpoint plugin that would seem…
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Amazon indexing and selling articles?
This may be old news that I missed, but I just happened by Amazon today to attempt a "search inside the book" and the first result I got was actually to an article I could buy for $5.95! Here’s some of the information that came along with the page: Editorial Reviews Excerpt. © Reprinted by…
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Guide to Distance Learning
This is a nice use of Flash, though I have to agree with Stephen’s criticisms, and of course point out that the library gets pretty short shrift in the overall picture. It’s mentioned a few times towards the end of the Study Guide section, but pretty much only in passing. It’s nice that the library…