Thing #15

I created an account with Librarything because I thought it would be interesting to see how it works. I've added a few books from my personal collection and tagged them. If anyone is interested in checking it out you can go here: http://www.librarything.com/profile/Dayzid480 but be warned, I have weird tastes in reading materials... : )

I tried the suggester/unsuggester too, with some good/unusual results.

Not sure how the library might use this site. Maybe to highlight books on a subject pertaining to one of the programs going on at the time or with the displays or something. I can't really see us putting the whole catalog in there... that would probably be waaaaay too time-consuming.

Thing #14

I always wondered what that checker-board icon was. I've seen it on several sites before, but never checked it out. Now I know! Kool and very useful tool if you have a crummy computer like mine. When it crashes, I lose all my bookmarks. Now I have a place to go to find them again! Woo-Hoo!!

The Library might be able to use Delicious to bookmark interesting and/or related sites for patrons to check out.

Thing #13

I knew about tagging before this, but never really paid any attention to using it. it was interesting to see the difference in searching using quotes and not using them. The results were quite different. I found that the more specific my tags where, the more the results seemed closer to what I was searching for.  Searching using tags: purple, butterfly, and flower I got pictures of regular yellow butterflies on purple flowers or against a purple background. When I searched using "purple butterfly", I actually got a purple-ish butterfly.

Thing #12

Everyone, meet Ziggy!

Sorry. She gets cranky when I disturb her cat-naps. ; )
(image created using LOLcats)

This was fun! I'm sure the library can find some use for image generators, like funny posters or some other promotional stuff... maybe bookmarks (?)

Thing # 11

Let's see... I checked out Flickr colr pickr. I found some kool purple pics, but I don't know how a library might use this tool.

Tried Spell with Flickr: its kinda fun to play with. I can see the library using it for fun lettering on flyers or posters or something. One problem: I can't figure out how to save the generated image!! : (

Montagr was pretty kool too. I searched for books, and the mosaic was made up of books using the color palette from one photo of books. : ) I suppose this could also be useful in creating some kind of graphic for posters and stuff.

Retrievr: I drew a purple butterfly, and got a bunch of pictures of purple stuff; a couch, a flower, a ring. no butterfly. So I drew a simple purple flower. No flower in results... just purple stuff again... hmmm...and I thought this one was going to be the best gadget thingy...

I actually like the color palette generator. I uploaded a picture of my cat, Ziggy, and it gave me squares of all the colors in the pic! I can use this to paint on my PC! (Which I'm in the process of learning how to do using GIMP. YAY!)


Trading card maker was kinda fun too. I can see the library using this for some kind of activity for the kids or something.

As far as posting pictures goes, I think one should be really careful of what they post because once its out there, there's really no telling who will use it for whatever purpose.

Thing #10

I picked this photo by Garron Nicholls because I thought the sky in it looked really kool. I wish I could visit Stonehenge someday...

Anyways if you want to check out the original image it can be found at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garron/226549834/#/

Thing # 9

Google: I've used their maps, calendar & translator before. I have a Google Android phone and the first two are on there as apps. I did not know that Google Docs existed though. I have used similar sites like that one before though to back-up my crummy, slow, ancient, PC. I would recommend using something like this to anyone who does not have a flash drive! (Like myself ) It was interesting to see the new stuff in the works in the Google lab. I also checked out Picasa. I had heard about it before, and I think I may have had their app on my phone too...It's pretty cool if you like editing your pics. I didn't know about Google books either. It seems like a pretty useful tool. Sort of like an e-book reader, only its online and FREE! YAY!  I liked the little similar books section. When I looked up Lucid dreaming (I know-- I'm weird), it showed several books about the same subject. This might be useful in the library with kids doing reports and research projects.