I loved YouTube, I've never been able to access it at home on my PC, so it was good to discover it here at work. Loved the Masterchef video as I've never seen the show-looked like fun. Was good to see Laurel Dingle present the Music Queensland video.
I think we could certainly make more use of YouTube here at the library. Perhaps we could video events and podcast them on our website?
Almost time to start work so I will sign out and find some good old seventies DISCO to bop to, oh maybe not the other staff are starting to arrive :(
Dancing Queen
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Google galore
Google Translate:
I've been translating words from Google for ages, but translating a whole website is very useful. We can no longer change the characters on our library webpages for the public which has been very frustrating for our visitors. Now we can direct them to Google Translate and they can translate whatever page they are using.
Google Books:
I looked at The Iliad by Homer, the whole book is available as a PDF! I didn't have time to look up other titles but think this could be a very useful tool for out of print books- maybe in the future we won't need as many interlibrary loans?
IGoogle:
I set up my page and it looks nice but it would be great if you could add your own websites not just feeds, for example have Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, weather, tidetimes etc all on one page as gadgets not as favourites.
I really enjoyed Test Drive No.5 see you next week,
Dancing Queen
I've been translating words from Google for ages, but translating a whole website is very useful. We can no longer change the characters on our library webpages for the public which has been very frustrating for our visitors. Now we can direct them to Google Translate and they can translate whatever page they are using.
Google Books:
I looked at The Iliad by Homer, the whole book is available as a PDF! I didn't have time to look up other titles but think this could be a very useful tool for out of print books- maybe in the future we won't need as many interlibrary loans?
IGoogle:
I set up my page and it looks nice but it would be great if you could add your own websites not just feeds, for example have Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, weather, tidetimes etc all on one page as gadgets not as favourites.
I really enjoyed Test Drive No.5 see you next week,
Dancing Queen
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Firefox ADD ons
I was beside myself when I saw COOLIRIS (photographic add-on), and loaded it onto my PC (took hours). Unfortunately I can't get it to work on my computer, I read some of the reviews and it seems that the quality of the photos is not good anyway. Very dissappointed,
Dancing Queen
Dancing Queen
Google Chrome vs Internet Explorer vs Firefox
Well I found the video comparing the browsers VERY interesting. Internet Explorer, the browser that we use at the library for the public and staff rated the lowest.
I downloaded Google Chrome & Firefox @ home to see what all the fuss is about. I'm on dial-up so this took forever....
I've been using all 3 for the past week, I don't really have a lot of time to compare them properly, however I'll use the following example.
I tried to load photos onto Facebook, and it was taking forever and playing up as per usual on Internet Explorer. So I tried it on Google Chrome and it wanted me to download a new version of JAVA. I decided against that and tried it with Firefox, and it automatically loaded the version of Java for me that I needed and VOILA I loaded my photos!
I also like the layout on Facebook better with GC & FF.
I will continue to experiment but I think I'll use Firefox from now on for Facebook at least, I think Google Chrome is fast but not 'up to speed' in other areas.
I'm really happy to have learnt this thanks State Library!
Dancing Queen
I downloaded Google Chrome & Firefox @ home to see what all the fuss is about. I'm on dial-up so this took forever....
I've been using all 3 for the past week, I don't really have a lot of time to compare them properly, however I'll use the following example.
I tried to load photos onto Facebook, and it was taking forever and playing up as per usual on Internet Explorer. So I tried it on Google Chrome and it wanted me to download a new version of JAVA. I decided against that and tried it with Firefox, and it automatically loaded the version of Java for me that I needed and VOILA I loaded my photos!
I also like the layout on Facebook better with GC & FF.
I will continue to experiment but I think I'll use Firefox from now on for Facebook at least, I think Google Chrome is fast but not 'up to speed' in other areas.
I'm really happy to have learnt this thanks State Library!
Dancing Queen
Sunday, November 1, 2009
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