Sep 23, 2009

Submitted by Brekatann from Google Reader: Creating these lists takes an inordinate amount of time and I really wish Amazon would add an Independent Author List. Anyways, here’s an approximate list of the Top 100 bestselling, best rated independent authors in the Kindle Store (very well reviewed stories have stars against them) -(Do check the whole list as several t (Read More)

Aug 12, 2009

Lifehacker With the start of the academic year, it's time to switch out of vacation mode—pronto. What you do the first week of classes can majorly impact your grades four months from now, so don't skip these first week must-dos. Photo by wohnai. Editor's note: This guest post originally appeared in an altered form at the Professors' G (Read More)

Aug 12, 2009

Lifehacker If your note-taking skills are suffering from summertime rigor mortis, now's as good a time as any to throw a new technique into the mix. Let's take a look at some new and old tools for improving your ballpoint repertoire. Photo by JasonRogersFooDogGiraffeBee. The Cornell method This oldie is a highly-regarded, very common (Read More)

Aug 13, 2009

Mashable! It’s been a while since we looked at ways to download YouTube videos to get local copies of your favorite vids, and we thought it might be time to take a look at which options are still left standing and what new apps are worth checking out.For those of you new to the concept, you’ll need to know a couple of things. Many of (Read More)

Aug 13, 2009

Social Networking and Collaboration Feed Retweeting, as we’ve highlighted previously (see HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter), has become a handy way to share content on the web. If you find an interesting Tweet, retweeting helps spread that content to your own Twitter network.But what are the mechanisms that affect retweets? In his Mashable article The Science of ReTweet (Read More)

Aug 10, 2009

AppScout It's already back to school time, so maybe you ought to start thinking about download some app other than Peggle to your phone. Here are some applications to help organize your soon-to-be busy academic life. AndroidWikiPock Basic: Why wait for an Internet connection to view Wikipedia articles on your phone? Download this a (Read More)

Jul 27, 2009

Submitted by Brekatann from Google Reader: This is a post in response to David Lee King’s post on How Not to Tweet. He correctly pointed out some things you shouldn’t do. He also said you should think about the big picture like “What do you want to get out of it?” But people often wonder, what sort of things should our library tweet about? Here’s a list:Library even (Read More)

Jun 30, 2008

vBulletin SEO Forums Today has been pretty good day. I started reading the book One Minute After You Die by Erwin W. Lutzer. It is not as easy to read as the book on grief was but it is interesing and provides some insight on life after death. I am half-way through the book now so probably in another day or so I will be finished. I am still kee (Read More)

Jul 10, 2009

Submitted by Brekatann from Google Reader: You know you’re in the mood for a movie but not sure what you want to watch or where to watch it.  Today we take Hello Movies which lets you easily search for different movies and shows you where to watch them.  This is a fun site to use for getting your movie fix and is just fun to browse.  The site is nicely laid out and (Read More)

Mar 17, 2009

Submitted by Shayna from Google Reader: The next time you’re out at a pub drinking a pint of Guinness with your pals, pocket a few cardboard beer coasters to take home with you. Once you get home, put them to use as buffers from liquid dribbles in your refrigerator and cabinets. The coasters can live under items like soy sauce, steak sauce, and honey. The flat ca (Read More)

Jul 01, 2009

Submitted by Brekatann from Google Reader: I don’t think there’s any denying that Firefox 3.5 is late to the party concerning other browsers have had features (like private browsing) FF is only getting now. Regardless, here’s my real-world review on it.Instead of getting into the super-techy details on this I’m going to concentrate on what most would care about.Will (Read More)

May 04, 2009

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May 02, 2009

AppScout Google has wandered into another social minefield, archiving controversial details of Japan's caste system.Specifically, its Google Maps division has published an overlay of the historical locations of "burakumin," the Japanese underclass which was socially shunned because of its association with death, such as butchering a (Read More)

May 01, 2009

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