Friday, December 12, 2008

Link Love

Let's start off with a great computer tip that I have used dozens of times in the past week!

“Tired of Clicking Over and Over on your Address Bar Trying to Highlight the Whole URL?”

Press F6 or CTRL+L. (Thanks LibraryStuff.net)

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Web 2.0 Services for Smaller, Underfunded Libraries

The Librarian in Black recently gave this presentation, available as a PDF.

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KidZui Brings its Child-Safe Browser to Firefox

Readers of this blog know of my affinity for the Firefox browser. Here is another reason to use it.

"Once installed [as a Firefox extension] and activated by a parent, it locks the child (or anyone else for that matter) out of accessing non-Kidzui approved sites, or other areas of the computer, by taking up the entire screen. A password, which is chosen by the parent, is the only way to exit the KidZui browsing experience, essentially turning your computer into a kid-friendly Internet kiosk."

Check it out!

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Magazines have been added to Google Book Search

From the official Google blog:

"You can search for magazines through Google Book Search. Try queries like [obama keynote convention], [hollywood brat pack] or [world's most challenging crossword] and you'll find magazine articles alongside books results. Magazine articles are tagged with the keyword "Magazine" on the search snippet.

Over time, as we scan more articles, you'll see more and more magazines appear in Google Book Search results. Eventually, we'll also begin blending magazine results into our main Google.com search results, so you may begin finding magazines you didn't even know you were looking for."

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My two favorite TV shows debut in January... Lost and 24.

The season seven premiere of "24" is Sunday, January 11. Wet your appetite with the Season 7 Trailer

The season five premiere of "Lost" is Wednesday, January 21. Season Five Trailer

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Unshelved's Pimp My Bookcart Contest has a Winner

You can look at the winning entries, but here are two photos of the First Prize bookcart. Mmmm, I'm getting hungry.


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