Google as calculator…
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech, Usability on Monday, February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
…and other ideas from Top 10 obscure Google search tips from Lifehacker.
From American Libraries Direct 1/9/2008.
Archive for the ‘Usability’ Category
High-school English
Posted in Blogging, Language, Usability on Thursday, November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Apparently the reading level of this blog is high-school:
I wonder how they determine it, though. Vocabulary?
Via Stephen’s Lighthouse. Like he notes, matching your language to your target audience is good. I’m just not convinced this is the tool for it.
Now they’ve done it!
Posted in Solutions, Usability, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Feedity offers a way to generate RSS feeds for any web sites. I only found one useful short review, so I don’t know how useful it is.
Found via What I Learned Today.
I see tormenting a search engine in my future
Posted in Language, Searching, Usability on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
It seems that natural language searching is within our reach, if we can believe the recent report in Technology Review:
“The engine does more than merely accept queries asked in the form of a question. The company claims that the engine finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related [...]
Useful links
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech, Usability, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Via LibrarianInBlack:
The Festsite Party Printer website allows you to print out text in waves, spiral, or heart shape, for instance. Straightforward and nifty.
The Web Video Cheat Sheet lists a multitude of video sharing sites and their features.
There’s also a list of portable freeware for software that you can carry around on your flash drive. (Remember [...]
Books on (eco-friendly) wheels!
Posted in Clever, Reading, Storage, Usability on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m not a big friend of modern design, but with these two characters I might not mind it (found via librarian.net):
Bookinist – a chair for reading, thinking, moving. Notice the lamp!
Bibliochaise – store your reading literally under your seat!
…and more borrowed links!
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0, Studies, Tech, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
(I’m obviously going through my aggregator tonight.)
I found these through Library 2.0 – An academic’s perspective:
At The College of New Jersey, the modern languages librarian has added a tag cloud with links to pertinent links at del.icio.us to the library’s Italian Studies resources page. In addition, some of the del.icio.us bookmarks have been inserted on [...]
Borrowed links…
Posted in Library 2.0, Museums, Searching, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
A few interesting things found via What I Learned Today:
Laura Cohen wrote A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto with several good practices on keeping with the times regardless of the type of library you’re in.
The WikiMindMap lets you browse Wikipedia graphically. Clicking links on the image takes you to the article in question. Nice for the folks [...]
Making .pdfs
Posted in Digital rights, Tech, Usability on Monday, July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Via lo-fi librarian:
The CC PDF Converter (a creative commons licensed pdf converter) claims to make pdf documents from “almost any application”. The demo posted on the web site would benefit from a more detailed description, but the conversion itself seems pretty straightforward.
Borrow a museum ticket
Posted in Museums, Travel, Usability on Sunday, July 8, 2007 | No Comments »
The Toronto Public Library has a program that allows patrons to ‘borrow’ family passes to participating museums. That’s a great idea.
I haven’t heard of anything quite like that before. A comparable program, perhaps, on the old continent is the Swedish initiative to attract more museum goers by removing entry fees to museums run by the [...]
