In the June 2009 issue of Consumer Reports, they compared the best software for protection against viruses, malware, and spam. Interestingly, in addition to comparing commercial suites, they also looked at freely available software and came up with a “suite” of programs that could protect you as well as most of the commercial products.
The three [...]
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Free Security Software As Good As Commercial
Posted in Money, Security, Software on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Basic Computer Skills for Library Staff
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Security, Software on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The October 2008 issue of Computers in Libraries has a great article by Rachel Singer Gordon and Jessamyn West on the basic computer skills needed by every library staff member. Although you may add others, this is a great place to start:
Rebooting
Troubleshoot rebooting problems
Copy/paste
Save/move/copy files
Ask for help
Basic printer troubleshooting
Basic printer options
Printing frames
Basic word processing
Checking electrical [...]
Emulator for Digital Materials
Posted in Digital Libraries, Research, Software, Web Design/HTML on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research being done in Europe hopes to create KEEP – Keeping Emulation Environments Portable. The goal is to create a universal emulator that can open and play obsolete formats from the 1970s on. Although we normally think of digital documents, this emulator hopes to also allow people to work with multimedia files and games.
[BBC]
Swype
Posted in Accessibility, E-mail, Fun, Handhelds, Software on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve ever tried to type using a cell phone, you’ve probably encountered the T9 system. It’s the predictive typing system. So, when you type a letter, you get a list of words you’ve used before that start with that letter. The more letters you type, the more likely your word will be in the [...]
T-Mobile G1 Phone
Posted in Handhelds, Software, Telecommunications, Trends on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Most people may recognize this as the “Google Phone” — or at least the phone everyone thought Google was going to make. Instead, Google created the operating system — Android — for this phone, called the G1. T-Mobile is the first to use this operating system for a real phone. We should see other cell [...]
Google Chrome
Posted in Browsers, Software on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Google has entered the browser marketplace with it’s open source Google Chrome. It’s name refers to the chrome-like look of the browser.
I’ve been using it for a while now and, I have to say that, although it’s missing a few features for me, I really like it. It allows me to close just the tab that crashes, [...]
Top Ten Techie Traits
Posted in Internet, Software, Trends, Web Design/HTML, XML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t resist this one, even with #10 staring at me. Roy Tennant has pulled together the top ten traits for any techies today. If you’re looking to get into or stay in this field, I’d say he’s hit the nail on the head!
The ability to speak simply and directly about technical topics, either without [...]
Catalog Interfaces Getting Better
Posted in Catalogs, Searching, Software, Trends, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When the North Carolina State University Libraries integrated their library catalog into their website, I was excited. Why do we move our patrons to a different interface just to search our collections?
Now, other libraries are following suit and, thanks to Roy Tennant, I’ve seen the cleanest implementation yet at Villanova University. Only four tabs in the [...]
Library APIs
Posted in Searching, Software, Web 2.0 on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to Roy Tennant! He’s created a list of library APIs – a great place to start!
[from Catalogablog]
