Travis Jonker has created a gallery of creative barcodes he's found on the back of picture books. Do you know of a creative barcode Travis should add to his gallery at the 100 Scope Notes blog?
Do you know you can tap a key on your keyboard to jump forward or back 10 seconds on a YouTube video? Or to jump to the beginning or end? Or to rewind and fast forward?
I didn't, but now I know I'll use these YouTube tips in the future — I like the keyboard controls way better than using my mouse or fingertip to move the video slider control.
Watch a 30-second video tutorial to get all the YouTube keyboard controls at...
Get ready to showcase your library's technology offerings during Teen Tech Week™. This year, TTW is March 8-14th and will be celebrated with a theme of "Libraries are for Making."
The purpose of Teen Tech Week is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of digital media, especially the nonprint resources offered through libraries, such as e-books, e-readers, databases, audiobooks, and social media.
There are lots of ways your library can participate in Teen Tech Week: you can offer special programs or activities, or simply encourage teens and parents to come to the library and check out your tech resources.
Here are free toolkits to plan for TTW at your library:
We all want to save money, but getting freeware from free software vendors is a bad idea. Lowell Heddings, better known online as the How-To Geek, says there are NO SAFE freeware download sites.
No matter how tech-savvy you are or which antivirus you've installed, it's unwise to try your luck downloading freeware. Hidden bundled software could give your computer a "crapware" infection that plants browser hijackers to redirect your search engine, change your home page, put extra ads everywhere, and install a proxy to send all of your web browsing through it.
To show you how bad it can get, the How-To-Geek did an experiment by installing ten applications from a free software vendor's most popular downloads list. Here's the gory details on why freeware download sites are so dangerous:
If you receive an email that looks like it's from a trusted vendor asking you to confirm an order, or a package shipment message that looks like it's from UPS, USPS or FedEx, resist the urge to click any of its links. Even if the email contains a logo that looks official to you, it might be a copy or a screenshot of a company's logo taken from their webpage; it's easy to make an unauthorized copy of any logo.
Learn how your Excel 2010 worksheets' data can be understandable at a glance by applying conditional formatting to cells. See how easy it is by reading the quick-start step-by-step instructions or take 3 minutes to watch this tutorial video to learn how you can improve your next spreadsheet:
If you weren't able to attend the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) Annual Conference last month, or were there but missed a great-sounding presentation, you can still access presenters' handouts and resources.