Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Task #1 compleated

Webolution is a good way to keep up with the ever increasing amount of information that can be found on our website. Although it can seem like traveling though a corn maze, there are helpful bits found along the way to your destination.

I thought that question number 5 was a bit tricky. There were so many possibilities and the specific sort of error message wasn't part of the question.

As for the grand prize, I think a gift certificate to downtown would be nice.

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Most useful....hmm. It's probably last.fm.com If I had a way to hear that throughout the house (instead of just at the computer) I'd probably buy a subscription so it could play all the time.
The site Makeuseof has a good guide for navigating Photoshop. It's call the complete idiots guide to Photoshop. I think even those who have some experience with photo editing programs would find it helpful. Getting the most out of this complex photo program as painlessly as possible - ah, what a relief.

Lifehacker has clever little bits of information (snack size) that just might fill the need to learn something new and useful. There's a post on getting the best out of gift cards. Some of the comments were helpful additions to the original post and some were useless - par for the course.

As for blogs I read, I don't subscribe to any. Between the listservers and the other e-mail subscriptions I have that's about all I can work with at the moment.

Some days the cats take over.

Yes, I did this with Picnik. They have some very clever tools (the messages that appear as a file is loading are funny!) and it is easy to use.

I can see that this would be really handy for touching up snapshots.
Another site with lots of information (Mesa County). I did go on the Assessor's page and found our house. The information listed was interesting even though I didn't know what all of it meant. That page would certainly be easier to use than the alternative, which is probably going to the Assessor's office and trying to explain what you're looking for.

The home page had a link to a page about the H1N1 flu - everything from statistics to freqently asked questions to if, when and where you can get the vaccination. And it seems to be updated frequently.

As for the Colorado page...that's one busy page. It even has this winning Lotto numbers. The site has some good information for small business that might be hard to locate any other way. It is however, a site that's almost overwhelming.
100%!

There is a boat load of information on our wiki. Thank goodness for the search function and I'm so glad that we're not trying to keep all that information up to date in paper format. What a mess that would be.
I've seen tinyURLs in postings on various listservers, I never knew it was so easy to do.

Here's the one I made: http://tinyurl.com/yje8shl

It started out like this: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food-network-videos-from-alton-brown/videos/index.html

The link goes to the page on Food Network's website that has some of the coolest Alton Brown stuff. There are several short videos about cooking. One of them I saw was on how to cook hard boiled eggs with less energy! How's that for going green?

With Zamzar I change a file from jpg to btm. Kinda clever! I can see how this would be really helpful for the bewildered library patron who can't figure out why they can't see the attachment that some one sent them.