'Internet' Category
The Moth!
Lately, I’ve been enjoying podcasts from The Moth. What’s The Moth?
Webkit is smokin’
It has been awhile since I’ve tried Webkit, but the latest version is just freaking me out, it renders pages so quickly. This is on a Mac. On Windows, I’ve not run the latest version. The last time I did try it on Windows, it was clunkier, but still pretty impressive.
I am so used to [...]new Drupal site for Lane Libraries staff
We unveiled our new Drupal-based staff site last week: http://staff.lanepl.org (or lanelearning.org).
Drupal isn’t as intuitive as WP, but I like it, and I think it is a good platform for us for this purpose. Our host is anhosting.com and I can’t say enough good things about that outfit. Cheap, and excellent service. Usually don’t get [...]
“The promise of Google Apps includes a shrinking IT staff”
ArsTechnica article on GAFYD implementations resulting in a loss of IT jobs in universities.
Comments section of the article worth a read, too. More positive GAFYD comments there than I usually see. Some cite corporations as the next target, but that will be more difficult (at least until the GAFYD-using college students graduate and move along [...]MindMeister - online mind mapping tool
is an online mind-map tool I ‘ve used for a few weeks.
Here’s a link to a screencast about it.
We called this “clustering” when I was in high school. I usually don’t fool with these online and just do paper ones, but sometimes it is useful to share and collaborate on one. MindMeister does a pretty [...]uTIPu.com - very easy screencasting tool
Someone the OPLINTECH listserv turned me on to uTIPu.com, a simple but powerful screencasting tool I really like. You can download the tool here.
Registered users can also upload and share screencasts at uTIPu.com. Here’s a decent one GoogleDocs . Worth checking for existing screencasts, rather than recreating one.“Intel’s problems are Microsoft’s problems”
Very interesting discussion about cloud computing/Web 2.0 and Intel’s interests over at ArsTechnica.
Free filtering via OpenDNS
I have been using OpenDNS at home and on the network I manage at work for several months now. At first I was just curious about it, but it has proven to be
fast (I can tell a difference, I think. Really!)
easy to administer
and, increasingly…
feature-rich.
It offers a phishing filter, smart typo-correction for “.cm” (.com), and [...]
GAFYD - early notes from an administrator
My organization of approximately 13o users has been “live” on the Premium edition of Google Apps for Your Domain for several weeks now. Overall, I’m pleased with our transition from another hosted mail service. We moved with minimal disruption. Though we provided less hands-on training than I would have liked, staff seem to have taken [...]
A busy week: fiber, GYFYD
I haven’t written much lately, partly because I have been very busy with some exciting new initiatives at work, and partly because I’ve been lazy.
Today we lit a fiber optic connection between our Hamilton buildings (Hamilton Lane Library and our Admin Center.) A building formerly limited in bandwidth by a single T-1 line (1.54mb) [...]
