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Google has finally released their long awaited competitor to Dropbox, SkyDrive, and iCloud, which they are calling Google Drive. Individuals can get up to 5GB of space for free but a premium service is available for 25GB at $2.49/mo, 100GB for $4.99/mo, and $49.99 a month for 1TB. Users of Google Docs will find Drive [...]
TechTips: Optimizing the New iPad
It’s been a few weeks since the release of the new iPad and early adopters have uncovered a few “features” which can be optimized to get the most out of the device. Data Plan Management Edward Baid at USA Today wrote about how the new iPad’s 4G service can use up a data plan’s allotment very quickly. [...]
TechTips: Optimizing EndNote to Access Full Text
Many researchers take advantage of bibliographic management soft to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs, and to create bibliographies and figure lists. Although the a central site license provides campus access to RefWorks, many researchers instead use EndNote. Bibliographic management tools like EndNote can not only help researchers to manage references, [...]
TechTips: The “Quora” Question and Answer Service
One of the hot emerging social media sites is a service called Quora. Started by former Facebook employees, Quora is a “continually improving collection” of questions and answers that are user created, edited, and organized. Quora aggregates all the questions and associated answers while allowing users to collaborate on any of them. Yes, question and answer [...]
TechTips: RockMelt: The Social Web Browser
If you are a heavy Facebook and Twitter user, you might want to hunt for an invite and try the RockMelt web browser. RockMelt works like any other browser with one big difference: it integrates Facebook and Twitter. In short, one can use the browser to browse web sites AND keep up-to-date with your friends without opening Facebook or Twitter. [...]
TechTips: Read It Later With Instapaper
How many times a day do you come across articles or interesting items online that you don’t have time to read at that moment? The most common method of saving such content is to create browser bookmarks. However, over time browser bookmark lists can become very long and unorganized. Another common approach to saving content [...]
TechTips: URL Shortening
URL shortening is the process of taking a long URL and turning it into, well, a shorter one. For example, instead of using the 168 character URL http://library.ohio-state.edu/search~S7/?searchtype=a&searcharg=+gee+e+gordon&searchscope=7&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=ae+gordon+gee, one could use the 27 character shortened URL of http://tinyurl.com/geebooks. The mechanism for resolving a shortened URL is relatively simple. The long URL must first be registered [...]
TechTips: Extending Cellphone Battery Life
I recently purchased a new Android-based mobile phone. I spent the first day checking out all the features and options, downloading a bunch of applications, and experimenting with the GPS and location-based services. It didn’t take very long to notice the battery drained relatively quickly. The problem with the current generation of phones is that all [...]
TechTips: What is Website Clickjacking?
Clickjacking describes a Web page / browser attack where user initiated mouse clicks trigger an unintended action, such as disclosing passwords and other confidential information. This action is done primarily by hiding clickable Web page elements inside an invisible frame. Clickjacking can affect all the major Web browsers — Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and [...]
TechTips: Sharing Content Using Shareaholic
Shareaholic is a Web browser plug-in which makes it easier to share, e-mail, tweet, and bookmark news, videos and blog postings on any of your social network sites. Share links, videos, news articles, images without cutting and pasting Toolbars, buttons and bookmarklets are no longer needed for every social media site you use Works with [...]