nbsp;Makeuseof.com has a free download called The (Very) Unofficial Facebook Privacy Manual that goes over tips on protecting your privacy including: * Making sure a comment meant for your friends isn’t seen by co-workers * Understanding what it means to upload content to Facebook * Control whether others can check you in to certain locations [...]
The Smashing Magazine blog has a wonderful posting called The Beauty of Knitting, Sewing and Crochet: “Where does the beauty come from? It isn’t necessary to travel around the world in its most quiet places to experience it. Beauty is always near us — you just need to want to explore it. And you can [...]
Good news from Iraq! (Yes, that’s right: Good news from Iraq!) Google has embarked on a project to put images of the Iraq national museum collection online to make it accessible to people all over the world. “I can think of no better use of our time and our resources than to make the images [...]
Garrett shared some cool links in his weekly email, including news about Google’s search changes I read in The Boston Globe earlier. I’m just going to copy and paste from his email. How to Search For Certain Colors in Google Images http://ow.ly/1owr (Source: neiljohnford) … Top 10 Electronic Reminder Services http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,234… (Source: ResourceShelf) Two new [...]
Erica Smith, journalist, newspaper and multimedia designer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a nifty multimedia website called Paper Cuts which lists all of the layoffs, closings and other news in the newspaper field. As of March 16, 2009, 5,046 plus jobs have been lost in the United States. For more info: http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts/ Posted by [...]
Facebook reports that people have uploaded 10 billion photo to the site: “Now, that’s a big number, but we actually store four image sizes for each uploaded photo, so that’s over 40 billion files.” Other stats: * 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day * We have just over one [...]
Heather Johnson of BestCollegesOnline.com has a list of “100 ways to improve usability in libraries”: “With the popularity of Library 2.0, libraries are getting more complicated these days, and it’s becoming harder to make sure that everyone is happy. You have to stay on top of online collections, new library programs, websites, and more. Read on [...]
Sarah Houghton-Jan of the LibrarianInBlack blog has a list of nifty readers advisory online tools: # AllReaders.com – One of the first free, online readers advisory tools, no list of this nature would be complete without AllReaders. Search by what you’re interested in – title, author, plot, setting, character, adversaries, setting, style, etc. The guided searching [...]
nbsp;Lifehacker.com, a nifty website, usually posts Ask MetaFilter roundups, one of which had the following question: “What am I missing in my diet that I crave Chocolate Chip cookies all the time?: “I want to eat chocolate chip cookies almost all the time. The only time I don’t want to eat them is the couple [...]
Smashing Magazine has scores of nifty resources on free icons, WordPress themes, wallpapers, web newspaper designs, fonts, pictures, Ajax and Java scripts, tools and screensavers. Though you might check each site for any copyright info: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ Link via What I Learned Today: