SPLAT Archive
Getting SPLATTY Across Idaho
No more Google Reader?
I found this news to be crushing--at first. I rely on Google Reader both at home for personal use and at work to keep up on all kinds of great content. Lifehacker says Feedly is the best replacement for Google Reader, but I found The
Slideshare: Get Your Presentations Out There!
In my perusals and journeys through the library infosphere, Slideshare is a website that I have stumbled across multiple times. Basically, instead of presenting a PowerPoint and have your participants forget it in a couple of hours (unless they took notes or you just knocked them dead of course), you could just share
F-ree and O-pen S-ource S-oftware at FOSS4LIB
I've written a couple of times in the last year about open source software because the VALNet consortium, the consortium my library district belongs to, began using the Koha open source ILS last April and because we at the Latah County Library District decided to start loading all of our new public computers with Libre
Synchronize Bookmarks Between Computers with XMarks
I don't have a lot of bookmarks on any of the computers I normally use. I just don't spend a lot of time surfing the net and when I do, I don't bookmark pages. I figure that if I can get to drdemento.com, facebook.com, weather.com, and Google, well, what else do I need? I figure
PrivacyFix
About a week ago a friend of mine told me about Privacy Fix – a new add-on for Firefox and Chrome – that helps users identify holes in your privacy settings on your Facebook and Google accounts. PrivacyFix can also help you see which websites are tracking you.
I downloaded it and liked how
Digital Ads on the Web – Ad* Access by Duke University
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio,
Useful links for managing your online presence
You know that time you asked yourself, "Did I create an account with this website?" Or, "Did I really delete my account, because that was vague." Or have you wondered lately what apps or websites have access to your personal data? Well, I have, and I found these awesome sites for managing the security of
iPad and Apps
For the last month I've been playing around with an iPad from the SPLAT Gizmo Garage. Many of you who attended the ILA conference in Pocatello saw members of SPLAT walking around with our various tablets and eReaders and somehow I lucked out by getting the iPad. I've been an Apple fan for many years but couldn't ever justify