Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Print Friendly VS. Print Preview



For me, I will continue to use print preview. There are however, those times when you are in need of an article that is embedded in a web page. Print preview is just that tool.
It was super easy to use. Not only that, it makes the process of formatting something correctly (for print) quite speedy.I found it intuitive and will use it next time I want a piece of a web page without printing off 50+ pages of weird little internet noodling....

Monday, March 8, 2010

learn - a - test

This is so valuable! I had fun poking around the different tests and you can bet that I will share this information with our patrons. So many times, the library is the first place that people go when they are looking for a career change. I get that(career change patron) a lot. they are here trying to research what it takes to become a weed killer guy or a postman. Bravo on another great web.o.lution task. Oh, I like how you can stop your test and see how it's going...

Friday, January 29, 2010

Web.o.lution

The e-book reader from Adobe has been an interesting task. First let me say that making this our first task is very important.Most everyone that I've spoken with (myself included) has had questions about the Overdrive library.
That said...I dove in head first to tackle this downloading of e*books and ran into some hang ups. It seemed that every title I was interested in did not give me the "put in my book bag" option. Certain that my ignorance had soared to new heights I summoned the courage to ask why I couldn't download anything. My personal answer oracle (Sheila) clued me into the fact that we only secure the rights to so many copies of a given title. Ah HA! so I searched around until I finally found one that had availability.
My book downloaded super fast and I found the Adobe Digital Reader very easy to use.
You may think that this story has a happy ending - but it does not. When I went back to the computer that I originally downloaded both the reader and the e*book to - it said that my title had expired. I had only just downloaded this book today (the same day that it expired). Yeeaaah, so I'm a little confused. I'm sure it's something really obvious; but let me know. And even though I'm confused around seemingly every corner - I am learning.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

the final destination

Webolution was fun and informative. I really like the Creative Commons and I also loved the Weebly exercise. I remembered from Information Technology I that web design was easy and fun, but I think that time has made web design all the more user friendly. Thanks for all of the good tips and tricks.

Fun sites.

I am new to the whole blogging thing and so even reading peoples blogs has been interesting. I don't dink around on the computer too much when I'm at home except for the obvious social networking sites (which I'm not even sure that I'm that crazy about) and checking my work email. I do love etsy as most of us do and I'm also partial to the site: Ozark Mountain Mini Tack (for the extra teenie horse on my shopping list).

Picnik

Picnik is maybe better than the photo editing suite that I use at home, so once again I have learned something new. Webolution has been great for someone like me because although I have a pretty good working knowledge of computers and what to do when; these helpful tips and new sites are a treat and I love the feeling of learning skills I didn't have before.

Tiny URL / Zamzar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeSbITit5U
Very cool and it auto copied it right to my clip board? Hurrah!

Zamzar is also awesome and I thought that it was pretty special that I could convert files to ipod format. I'll have to check when I get home and see how that works.