Archive for the ‘tools’ Category
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Have a delicious account, and can’t remember the website you want or the tag? Do you need to see a picture of it to jog your memory? Or, do you just like to see things rather than read plain-ole text? For you visual folks out there who also happen to have a delicious account – try out Favthumbs! I am really diggin’ the layout – I can see my bookmarks in grid format or I can choose a “carousel” version (which reminds me of my iTunes album layout). One minor problem is that there isn’t a search function like the delicous site has. One must click on the zillion tags you have and look at what come up. However, overall — it sure makes my bookmarks look so pretty!
Update 8/2/09: R.I.P. Favthumbs. Looks like favthumbs is no more! Clicking on the favthumbs link will kick you to “PicClick, the visual Ebay Shopping Experience.”
Tags: bookmarks, delicious, favthumbs, tools, visual
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
I was trying out Sprout today. Now this is way, way, way cool! Sprout “is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more… Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.” After about 15 minutes of playing around, I created a little twitter widget, added a lil’ music and embedded it to my blog here. It’s nothing fancy at the moment, but what’s especially cool about Sprout is I can log back in, make changes, save the update and it will automatically update the widget below with the changes. I did read on their website that starting sometime soon – in fact, they said mid-February – they will start requiring paid subscriptions for use.
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.783675&w=425&h=350&fv=] <–No longer working, boo hoo!
Music Credits: August (Reggae Rework) ft. Calendargirl from CCmixter user el-B
update 12/16/09: as you can see, sprout is no longer working…my stuff has vanished. I tried logging into my old account and I was redirected to a site requiring me to resubscribe—for a price ($19.99/month was the cheapest option).
Tags: design, fun, sprout, tools
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
I wanted to comment on tiltshiftmaker – a nifty lil‘ site that allows you to tilt-shift your images. I tried it out with one of my funny-retro motel pictures. (I like to take pictures of old-school colorful vintage signs. When I lived in Florida, there were lots around the central-Florida area. I have a very small collection of them on my flickrstream). I tried out tiltshiftmaker and it was super easy and kinda fun. I recommend taking a try at it!
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Short and sweet post… Check out Twitter’s new search for people: http://twitter.com/search/
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
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I created a video as part of my LIS 5313 web 2.0 article. (We had to incorporate media into our posting). I decided to focus on the third-party applications and tools that make Twitter so easy to use and so accessible. I based it on the top 10 applications/tools that libraries/librarians in my survey research mentioned they used to enhance their experience with Twitter.
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