Thing #26 Widgets

I have widgets at home on my Mac and also use iGoogle so am aware of the wonders of widgets. A lot of it becomes useless clutter but you end up keeping what you need and sometimes can find a gem. I thought this quote one was cute, but it remains to be seen what type of quotes they are ......

It would be great if we could create library widgets for staff to drag onto their desktops (catalogue, eLibrary etc)!

I searched for an AFL widget on yourminis and there is only US football :-(

Thing #25: Letterpop - newsletters

This looks fun for creating personal newsletters and would be great in some organisations. Letterpop

With our style guide and templates I don't suppose we could use it for work, outside the library anyway. It may have some application for eAlerts and SDI's but would probably be too difficult to maintain a list of subscribers.

Bibliophile newsletter

Thing #24 - Zamzar

We are able to access this site at work - after some work arounds! I have converted a word doc to pdf but the link they send you with the converted doc only lasts 1 day, not good if it's sent late on a Friday. Anyway, seems like a great way of converting files without messing around with software. One issue I have is that often the files I need to convert are marked 'in confidence' and it may not be appropriate to upload them to an external site.

I am very attached to the little chameleon/iguana's too Zamzar :-)

Learning 2.1

Thing 24: Zamzar - where do they get these names?? File conversion, sounds very useful.....

Can't open this one from work, I'll check it out on the weekend. Good to be back blogging though!