Thing 13 Del.icio.us

A good friend who started a new career as a web designer years ago shared his many bookmarks with me on Del.icio.us and I remember looking them over and just marveling at the time at how many technology sites there were, and I had fun then, as now, playing with them. It's a little strange to see my familiar bookmarks displayed this way, but I like being able to choose who sees them and keeping some private, since a few are personal log-ins for other email accounts. Using the cloud feature should be familiar to all of us who play with BCPL's public catalog and instruct customers in its use! Again, great fun here. If you want to check out my bookmarks, here they are: http://del.icio.us/jtsanford

Bear in mind that some of there are old and not visited for a while, but I hope you have some fun with them.

Thing 12, Rollyo

Creating this search engine was fun and fast, and I did mine on home improvement sites. It's called "Homewerks." Here is a search I did on kitchen remodeling using it.

http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=kitchen+remodeling&sid=304676

I guess this would be useful if you like to search for very specific things limiting your search to several unique sites that you trust to always have the information. Cool name, Rollyo, sort of friendly.

Thing 11 The Library Thing

I guess you have to be amazed at how many other people own the same books you do. And I thought I was the only person in the universe that owned and loved Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family...



Here are a few of my favorites: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jtsanford

Week 5 Thing 10 Again

Here is the link to a funny name badge that I made with another image generator from Big Huge Labs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9741559@N06/860778398/

Week 5 Thing 10 Fun Image Generators

I tried out the personalized CD cover from Big Huge Labs--really fun. Not only can you use any photo to be a cover for a CD but you can use the template to make cool personalized wrapping paper for those gift cards everyone likes to get! This was a great (and easy) exercise. Hope others try this one also.

The thing that was really a riot was that the photo actually looked better as a CD cover than as an actual photo...

Week 4 Thing 9

The MERLIN site is welcoming and if you use Firefox, a click away from subscribing. Great colorful photo. This really is addictive, but nobody has time to read all the things we want, right?

Week 4 Number 8 RSS

Finding the time to read posts was the challenging thing here. The Bloglines site (and Firefox) make this easy to do; the hard part was figuring out how to share the feeds I have with other folks. You can find some of the ones I like here: http://www.bloglines.com/public/jtsanford

Week 3 Number 7

I like technology that allows my computer and my stereo to work together. RCA makes a device called Lyra that consists of a small transmitter and receiver (they look like little pork pies). You connect the transmitter to your computer via a USB port and connect the receiver to your amp or stereo receiver. Then you can play streaming Internet radio through your stereo system.
I found out about this by reading an article in the Sun. If you Google RCA Lyra you can find where they still sell these. They cost about $30 and you don't have to use the Musicmatch software to operate it.

Week 3 Photo Fun

Fun with Flickr. Never realized how all these applications can share things between them. Really liked the trading cards and the wallpaper/calendar toy. Putting things in categories and adding key words really appeals to librarians, right?

Behramkale Sunrise

Behramkale Sunrise, originally uploaded by jugglrjanet.

Turkey offers some fantastic opportunities for shooting great photos of the Mediterranean. It's an ancient history lovers paradise. I almost fell out of my hotel window trying to get this one.