Archive for the 'tools' Category
HSPH Unveils Comprehensive, Public Online Library of Firearms Research
March 10th, 2010Press Release – “A new firearms research database launched by the Harvard School of Public Health makes scholarly articles more accessible to reporters, law enforcement, public health officials, policymakers, and the general public. The Firearms Research Digest (www.firearmsresearch.org) provides summaries of articles gathered from social science, criminology, medical and public health journals and is written [...]
How to save and share ridiculously large files
March 9th, 2010CNET – “A few years ago it was a big deal to find a place that would let you share 1 gigabyte of files. Things change, though. Bandwidth keeps growing, and the cost of Web storage keeps shrinking. That’s good news for people looking to share increasingly large files, be it an HD video recording [...]
Take a Look at Imo.Im – A Web Based IM service
March 3rd, 2010Blackweb – “We have another web based IM service that has hit the alpha stage. This service is called imo.im. This service comes to us courtesy of ten of the first Google employees and is based in Palo Alto, California”
Sign me up! Event registration with GoogleDocs and Calendar
February 17th, 2010LibraryTechTalk – “By now, if you’re not a GoogleDocs convert, you at least know enough about it to resist it’s Google-y charms. If you fall into the latter group, well, you might just come around by the end of this post. Nestled among Google’s answer to the trifecta of productivity software is a gem that [...]
7 Ways To Become More Productive With Firefox Tabs
February 14th, 2010A great list from MakeUseOf
PrintFriendly
February 14th, 2010Make any web page print friendly, with PrintFriendly (via)
FillAnyPDF Lets You Electronically Fill In and Sign Any Form
February 4th, 2010LifeHacker – “Fax machines are going the way of the dodo, yet sometimes there’s no easy way to transfer forms back and forth, especially ones that need to be filled out and sent back. FillAnyPDF steps in to fill the gap. FillAnyPDF\ is a free web-based service where you can upload any file in PDF, [...]
Tools for Remote Collaboration and Interaction
November 18th, 2009Karen Coombs – “Over the last two years I’ve been doing a lot of work with folks who are geographically dispersed. My second book is being authored with a colleague in upstate NY, my boss at LISHost is in NY as well, I been working with and helping folks in KY, OR, and CA. To [...]
Distraction Free Writing in Google Docs; No Add-Ons Necessary
October 22nd, 2009Lifehacker – “Over at Digital Inspiration they’ve created a simple Google Docs template that emulates the green-on-black minimalism of early word processors. All you need to do is visit the link below to open the template in Google Docs, hit CTRL+SHIFT+F (to “Fullscreen” Google Docs), and then hit F11 (Fullscreens most web browsers). Two keyboard [...]
Tracked.com
October 21st, 2009CNET has a review. On first glance, it looks very useful. Take a look.
San Francisco, the city that’s open for data
October 15th, 2009Guardian – “DataSF.org makes publicly available more than 100 data sets from local government, including from the police, the transport authority and public works.”
Direct to the site
7777 Betas
October 13th, 2009Congrats to MOMB
Shorter URLs May Offer Tracking Benefits to Marketers
May 3rd, 2009NYTimes – ‘They have the ability to keep track of use — how many times a particular link was clicked and the geographic location of the clickers — which could be valuable to marketers, news outlets and companies looking to measure the impact of a link, tweet or mention online.’
Where is your Username Registered
October 26th, 2008Wow! Talk about managing your online identity. Take a look at UsernameCheck and find out were your favorite ID is registered. Very cool!
PrintWhatYouLike: Make Any Web Page Printer Friendly:
September 21st, 2008Technology Bites – “Printwhatyoulike.com is a useful service to save ink while printing web pages. With this tool you can print any web page by removing unnecessary elements with mouse clicks.”
Very cool. I tried it out and it works very well. Into the 130 tools in 160 minutes presentation it goes.
be nice, highlight
March 11th, 2008be nice, highlight is an interesting site, reminding me of CiteBite. The URL that they give to the highlighted page didn’t work, but I’m sure it will soon.
Sullr
February 10th, 2008Sullr is a quickie reverse number look-up tool. Works pretty well. (via)
Kwout
December 26th, 2007Wowza!!
Check out kwout. If you want to grab an image from a page and then embed it in a blog, send it to Flickr or Tumblr, Kwout performs this task easily. The image below was created with this fantastic tool. (via)
Library Stuff via kwout
Need a Wrench?
November 25th, 2007Christina Hall – Libraries lend out art, tools and more
Convert Convert Convert
September 19th, 2007Alan Henry – “Everyone needs a good file converter.”
True indeed. You Convert It looks slick.
YAs Are Getting Served
July 24th, 2007ALA – “The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association, applauds two recent surveys that illustrate progress in staffing and use of library services to young adults.”
PikiFX
July 24th, 2007Pikifx – “Pikifx is a website that allows users to upload their image and add a range of cool effects” (via)
I’m still hopelessly devoted to Piknik…
Tools for Researchers and Book Lovers
July 19th, 2007eHub – “Libraries, students and book lovers can take advantage of several Web 2.0 tools to help them manage their book collections, do research, and create bibliographic citations”
