"This book was very boring. It had too many characters and too many numbers, so i would like to return it."
The librarian says to the other librarian, "So that was the person who took our phone book!"
Friday, September 25, 2009
Library Joke of the week
"This book was very boring. It had too many characters and too many numbers, so i would like to return it."
The librarian says to the other librarian, "So that was the person who took our phone book!"
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Mashups
Mashups? (Sounds like what I’m having with my meat and veg for tea tonite!!)
A Mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single window. A Mashup brings applications together, enhances existing data, improves usability and makes a web page or blog more dynamic and engaging!
To get a better idea of Mashups I headed to The Mashup awards website (Http://mashupawards.com/winners) and I found some amazing Mashups you must try!!
Twitrans
This is a Mashup for all you twitter lovers out there, just say, you have a friend on the other side of the world and you speak different languages and find it hard to communicate. Simply tweet to @twitrans Eg. en2de Hello! Wait for the translators to do their job and it will be translated on your home page. Eg. Gutentag!
en2de is code for English to German. Here are the rest of the language codes:
Ar – Arabic, Zh – Chinese, NL – Dutch, ES – Spanish, Fr – French, RU – Russian,
EL – Greek, HE – Hebrew, HI – Hindi, JP – Japanese, PT – Portuguese and IT – Italian.
Check it out at http://www.twitrans.onehourtranslation.com/
140it
One more for the Twitterers! Do you find it hard to keep to your tweets 140 characters or less? Then this little Mashup is for you! It works by reducing words and removing spaces, shrinking URL’s and exchanging company names with their stocktwits logo. There is more information and a demonstration video on the website. http://www.140it.com/
Pixelpipe
Liberate your media!! Upload photos, videos and audio through the pixelpipe gateway and distribute your content across 100+ social networks, photo/video sites, blogs etc. with mobile and desktop applications. No more loading the same photo over and over again, do it once! Distribute your content to any of these: Flickr, YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, Picasa, Photobucket, Zooomr, Photobox, Snapfish, Shutterfly, jaiku, Blip.tv, Twitter and Blogger… just to name a few!!! Check it out yourself!! http://www.pixelpipe.com/
A Mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single window. A Mashup brings applications together, enhances existing data, improves usability and makes a web page or blog more dynamic and engaging!
To get a better idea of Mashups I headed to The Mashup awards website (Http://mashupawards.com/winners) and I found some amazing Mashups you must try!!
Twitrans
This is a Mashup for all you twitter lovers out there, just say, you have a friend on the other side of the world and you speak different languages and find it hard to communicate. Simply tweet to @twitrans Eg. en2de Hello! Wait for the translators to do their job and it will be translated on your home page. Eg. Gutentag!
en2de is code for English to German. Here are the rest of the language codes:
Ar – Arabic, Zh – Chinese, NL – Dutch, ES – Spanish, Fr – French, RU – Russian,
EL – Greek, HE – Hebrew, HI – Hindi, JP – Japanese, PT – Portuguese and IT – Italian.
Check it out at http://www.twitrans.onehourtranslation.com/
140it
One more for the Twitterers! Do you find it hard to keep to your tweets 140 characters or less? Then this little Mashup is for you! It works by reducing words and removing spaces, shrinking URL’s and exchanging company names with their stocktwits logo. There is more information and a demonstration video on the website. http://www.140it.com/
Pixelpipe
Liberate your media!! Upload photos, videos and audio through the pixelpipe gateway and distribute your content across 100+ social networks, photo/video sites, blogs etc. with mobile and desktop applications. No more loading the same photo over and over again, do it once! Distribute your content to any of these: Flickr, YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, Picasa, Photobucket, Zooomr, Photobox, Snapfish, Shutterfly, jaiku, Blip.tv, Twitter and Blogger… just to name a few!!! Check it out yourself!! http://www.pixelpipe.com/
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Google Docs
I use Google and Gmail almost everyday and always wondered what all those google applications were. Well, today i'm going to tell you about Google Docs.
Google Docs is a free online service where you can design documents and publications online and save them securely for future use. I have made a small presentation on Google Docs called Strange...but True! and then published it onto Rhy in the Sky for all to see. (Below)
The best thing about Google Docs is I can allow collegues/small group of people to edit the presentation and add their imput without overlapping. Also if you dont have any word processing software on your computer as long as you have a web browser and an internet connection your hot to trot. Upload from and save to your desktop , edit anytime from anywhere, pick who can access your documents, share changes in real time, files are stored securely online and it's free!
This software would be useful in a Library environment because all library staff could have their say on the same document/presentation while sitting at their stations, bouncing ideas of each other.
Google Docs is a free online service where you can design documents and publications online and save them securely for future use. I have made a small presentation on Google Docs called Strange...but True! and then published it onto Rhy in the Sky for all to see. (Below)
The best thing about Google Docs is I can allow collegues/small group of people to edit the presentation and add their imput without overlapping. Also if you dont have any word processing software on your computer as long as you have a web browser and an internet connection your hot to trot. Upload from and save to your desktop , edit anytime from anywhere, pick who can access your documents, share changes in real time, files are stored securely online and it's free!
This software would be useful in a Library environment because all library staff could have their say on the same document/presentation while sitting at their stations, bouncing ideas of each other.
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