Super Screenshot Tool

Heads up on a fun tool - Super Screenshot! It does just what it says - enter a URL, hit the Go button… and you get a screenshot of that website. Pretty cool!

CIL2008, Day 1: Widgets, tools and doodads for library webmasters

Speakers: Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone
Firefox tools:
safecache: protects privacy, defends against cache based tracking techniques
safehistory: protects your privacy by defending your history cache
FoxMarks: automatically synchronizes bookmarks
FEBE: Firefox Environment Backup Extension - syncs extensions between computers
Other webtools for collaboration
meebo chat widget
LInkBunch: lets you put multiple links into one small link
DocSyncer: automatically finds and syncs your document files [...]

CIL2008, Day 1: Fast & Easy Site Tune-ups

Speaker: Jeff Wisniewski
Keep content fresh
- Update your copyright date! You can use code to do this
- add a last updated script to your page (do it as an external script so you use one script in many places
- add photos to contacts! Goes a long way in increasing user’s trust in a website
Turn boring old [...]

Participating in Digital Community, or Lots of Links to David

I’ve been doing some thinking about all the different digital communities I participate in on the web, so I thought I’d create a list of them. It’s not a short list.
Things I use the most:

My blog (it’s an active community)
Flickr
Twitter (as I write this post, someone else just started following me on Twitter!)
Facebook
del.icio.us
AIM (I’m [...]

Tracking words with Twitter

Twitter recently added a Twitter Tracking feature that lets you track keywords and phrases that twitterers use while twittering. Just for kicks, I tracked the word library for 24 hours - every time someone entered the word library into twitter, I received the update… Here’s what I got back from Twitter:
First, my own test updates:

testing [...]

Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets

Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina Pacifici, Aaron Schmidt
What’s coming - better blackberrys and treos, google cell phone, smartphones with two keyboards, more gaming, etc…
Treos: Many of them!
Palm, Windows Mobile
Depends on phone service
Shredder Scissors… five pairs of scissors in one!
TI’s Projector Phone: DVD quality can be broadcast on the wall from a phone
iPod (fifth generation!)
iCharge for iPod: easy [...]

Computers in Libraries 2007: Day 1 - Webmaster Cool Tools

Darlene Fichter, Frank Cervone, Jeff Wisniewski
Another extremely packed room - I’m sitting on the floor with about 20 other people!
Jeff Wisniewski:
Yahoo pipes - it’s a feed aggregator. You can apply logic to the feeds (ie., filter the feed in various ways), it’s graphical (no coding involved).
- He uses it to pull in feeds for faculty [...]

Tracking SXSW with Netvibes

Click To Play

SXSW is this week! For those of you not familiar with SXSW, it’s a very cool “content” conference. It used to be pretty much just focused on music, but in recent years it’s also included film and “interactive” tracks. The Interactive track is the cool one - it’s all about techie web 2.0 [...]

Check out Gliffy

Really - go check Gliffy out (also mentioned by Stephen Abram and the Librarian in Black). Now. Especially if you are in charge of your library’s website or mess around with web design.
What is Gliffy? Gliffy is a free, online version of Microsoft’s Visio, which is a flowchart, diagramming, layout, floorplan designing kind of software. [...]

Finding Sounds

The LibrarianInBlack posted about the Soundogs sound effects search engine. It seems to be pretty cool… But FindSounds is cooler.
FindSounds is a specialized search engine for sound effects and musical instrument samples. You can specify audio resolution, sample rates, file formats, mono/stereo, and file size in the search. And all the sounds found using FindSounds [...]

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