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#68 Playing with pretty pictures

Tag galaxy is certainly entertaining you

(need the latest flash ) but a bit fiddly to get the globe to the blog by resizing and saving as jpeg etc but because not images have creative commons lic usable images need to be sorted you could just as easily go straight to Flickr

Flickrcc should be no fuss all images have creative commons lic however many still require attribution. If larger than a certain size.This one under attribution and share alike lic
Its possible to edit using in house tools for text,borders, re size etc

#67 sad useful and weird

Dial a human made me sad so this is what we have come to, the beginning of the cyber wars, us against them, how we can out smart them, bypass them etc by pressing 000 From little things big things grow. Or words to that effect(seem to be stuck in a cliche loop) I usually get a person when I ring companies may be we are behind the ball(there she goes again) here in Australia or is it we just won't talk to a machine about some matters. Watch this space(stop that) .
Custom guide is a great, just what the doctor ordered (oops) for a quick training guide the format is good all you need to know on one double sided sheet easily laminated and accessed however more training is available at a cost.
Looked at Where is your Username Registered? totally weird, my pseudonyms came up all over the place but none of them were me. Nothing original under the sun (and thats it with cliches today folks)

#66 organising the bookmark monster

Yet another attempt to organise the universe of information. All myFaves has the advantage of the visual icon to speed up access but how long is a piece of string this could go on forever. Currently it has weekly faves but not linked back to the basic organising page of mainly US based Internet sites. 43marks on the other hand allows personal development and privacy . Having it all out there as a directory home page instead of hidden in the bookmarks would be a reminder. Somewhat like the weblinks page created for reference staff at Boroondara libraries

#65 Dragging everybody down with them

Global economic crisis. Cheap money, costly results. If I am P...sed how much more so the money managers of so many countries. But can't really blame the US it is a global game now. Greed has its own rewards. Smoke and mirrors and shady deals, someone must have done well out of this mess, find them and borrow from them.(and or hit them with a large blunt object) Ah well! there goes the super.

#64 Springing into apps

So Spring has...(and so forth) up and out of the cave I go

Something useful is only useful if you use it.Will I ?will we? incorporate them into our daily tasks. Workplace Internet restrictions can slow downloads and make many of the tools practically useless however if we can just find a few each wemay convert each other.
character copy and past would have been great for a patron last week who wanted to translate English to Polish and got a strange result which he said was because the characters were not
available
Regator is great, some more needed organisation in the blogosphere , however many great blogs are missing I tried a search for Boroondara and found none. I find I haven't been using Bloglines as much as I used to, may be this format will be more useful. It does provide the option of creating ones own blog directory and organisation tools. So popped the library ones and a few professional ones in my directory maybe I can link it into another tool grazer and have it just there on the blog.
Kuku Klok
Your computer yelling at you in the morning how irritating would this be, not going to happen.
Stormpulse when hurricanes threaten Melbourne we will need another version meanwhile maybe I should put off that holiday in Florida this year.
Pixadus
Not as good as some other picture sites
Fake Name Generator
This is me (not) of undefined gender (never know could be useful.Not)

Gérard Tardif
62 Dossiter Street
Recherche TAS 7109
Website: Skipnte.com

Email Address: http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/GerardTardif
Phone: (03) 6275 2069
Mother's maiden name: Mercier
Birthday: August 16, 1980
MasterCard: 5231 7228 8490 0076
Expires: 8/2011

PicApp useful resource for library images but it seems can only be used on the web otherwise copyright infringement.

#63 Foxit pdf

More pdf fun ? with software from Foxit a pdf reader.
Ok so a patron wants to fill in a pdf form online in your library and they can't, do you let them down load this program to your terminals? Once again there is a catch, an evaluation mark is left on the form so it cannot be sent online for that job application and some extra costs to fulfill some changes etc. You can print this form off without the evaluation mark but where is the advantage you still have to post it, you had to do that anyway you could have just printed it out at the beginning and just written neatly then sent it off. (maybe you could scan it in)
It may well be a quick and and small pdf reader but if you already have a reader installed would you bother with this one.

Winter vacation, now where did I leave that cave?