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April 24, 2007
Three sites worth your time
The lo-fi librarian does a periodical listing of "this week's useful tools," and a recent post listed several things that I think have real potential for library use. Let me know if you're using any of these, especially in/for your library.
- Cluztr: This is a tool that lets you share your favorite websites with others, and get recommendations from friends. It like del.icio.us, but (imho) with a slightly more friendly interface.
- Yugma: Free web conferencing tool. There are premium subscriptions available, but this puppy allows you to share your screen, audio conference, include a whiteboard, have chat, and all without ads. It also lets you create a widget that you can add to a website to let users web conference with you in one-click. Wow! Can we say "another virtual reference competitor" y'all?
- Blackle: *drumroll please* This is my absolute favorite. It's a Google Custom Search that is basically Google's basic search, but done in all black to save energy. You get the same results as you do in Google, except without the "sub" results, the "page within a page" results, which is fine by me. The homepage notes how many watt hours users have saved by using it. It's my new home page. It's black--what did you expect? ;)
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I'm always confused by this. I have read that on an LCD screen, a black pixel uses more than white, but on a CRT it's the opposite. I don't know what to believe.
I use a stylesheet to turn Google black. Also del.icio.us. It's just easier on my eyes.
Posted by: karindalziel | April25, 2007
Blackie's cute, but essentially nonsense for anyone with an LCD display (as the cited article makes pretty clear). Still, cute, if you can abide white type on a black background.
Posted by: walt crawford | April25, 2007
Well, as I understand it, the color doesn't matter for those with LCD displays, but for those of us who still have CRTs (and we are many, in the library world), it makes a difference...and that's kinda cool.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack.net) | April25, 2007
Thanks about Yugma. I used it 4 times today and it's awesome. very easy and fast. an amazingly useful free app. I see a lot of uses!
Posted by: Marcy | April25, 2007
Yes! Thank you for the Yugma link! Actually, thank you for everything you post!!!
Posted by: Amanda Lemon | April26, 2007










