Wednesday, 18 November 2009
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What a nice grouping of fun stuff!
Although I belong to several library listservers, this list provides a different way to find out what's going on.
The blog by Helene Blowers, LibraryBytes, has some thoughtful writing about a variety of topics. I particularly like the picture she included of the 101 year old woman with a iPhone. The comments posted by readers of the blog also add to the quality of the blog.
The ResourceShelf had quite a few articles about people reading text from things like iPhones and Kindles. I find this quite interesting as it might have an impact on our holdings. Not this year, maybe not even next year, of course. However, it might be sooner than we think.
Good site. I bookmarked it.
Although I belong to several library listservers, this list provides a different way to find out what's going on.
The blog by Helene Blowers, LibraryBytes, has some thoughtful writing about a variety of topics. I particularly like the picture she included of the 101 year old woman with a iPhone. The comments posted by readers of the blog also add to the quality of the blog.
The ResourceShelf had quite a few articles about people reading text from things like iPhones and Kindles. I find this quite interesting as it might have an impact on our holdings. Not this year, maybe not even next year, of course. However, it might be sooner than we think.
Good site. I bookmarked it.
Open Source
Open Office sounds like a fantastic idea. Why spend so much of our cash to support Microsoft is Open Source does the same thing and is less of an aggravation. If I had never worked with any Open Source products I'd be on board with this and how. Their Open Source Definition is fantastic.
However, my experience with Open Source was moderately ugly. A library I know purchased a thin client computer system that used Open Source software. It was a disaster with everything from grade school kids in tears because their report/project wouldn't print out as it was supposed to up to and including very angry older patrons who reported spending huge amounts of time on a resume, document, etc. only to have it reformat itself into something utterly useless.
From what I can tell, Open Source sure looks like Word, Excel, etc., however, it is not. As long as what you're doing is fairly uncomplicated, it works well enough and it certainly is a whole lot cheaper than Microsoft products.
I can't recommend it.
However, my experience with Open Source was moderately ugly. A library I know purchased a thin client computer system that used Open Source software. It was a disaster with everything from grade school kids in tears because their report/project wouldn't print out as it was supposed to up to and including very angry older patrons who reported spending huge amounts of time on a resume, document, etc. only to have it reformat itself into something utterly useless.
From what I can tell, Open Source sure looks like Word, Excel, etc., however, it is not. As long as what you're doing is fairly uncomplicated, it works well enough and it certainly is a whole lot cheaper than Microsoft products.
I can't recommend it.
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