Subscribe to RSS FeedTechTips: 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: OSU Branded Doodle
Anyone that has had to schedule a meeting with participants across campus departments, or at other institutions, knows how challenging it can be. One emails out a list of possible times and sorts the replies looking for a common time. The process is repeated if no time can be agreed upon. Well, this has been [...]
TechTips: foursquare
Foursquare is an location-based social networking service (some call it a game) that is a combination a Facebook status, a Twitter update, and a Yelp restaurant review. Users “checkin” at different locations, unlock badges, post “to-dos” and “tips” for different locations. The goal of the service is to help users find new ways to explore a city [...]
TechTips: Google Wave
The folks at Google released 100,000 invites today to preview their new model of Web-based communication and collaboration, called Google Wave. Since it has been in private beta, one has to rely upon others to explain what Wave is. It has been described “as much of a real-time chat room as a platform for editing [...]
TechTips: Augmented Reality
In the movie The Terminator, the viewer is taken frequently to the Terminator’s point-of view. We know this is Terminator’s POV because there is image digitization and the people he is chasing are more luminous than objects in the foreground and background, which suggests infra-red. In the margins of the view we see columns of [...]
TechTips: Managing Multiple Twitter Streams
A growing number of university organizations are now managing an online presence on Twitter. In a complex organization like OSU’s library system, there could be accounts for news and events, accounts for any number of special collections, and accounts for projects and initiatives. The larger the organization the greater the likelihood that several people will [...]
TechTips: Twitter Phishing
The other week I got a ‘tweet’ from a new colleague. The update seemed harmless enough. It enthusiastically pointed me a web site they thought was humorous. Suspecting nothing, I clicked on it. I thought it a bit odd when my browser opened to my Twitter account requesting that I log in, odd since I [...]
TechTips: Customized Google Search
Do you have a particular hobby or interest that you have compiled a collection of Webs sites and blogs for? Do you keep extensive bookmark lists for these collections? Are you frustrated that you need to visit each of those sites? Do you finding yourself sifting through pages of results that come with a generic [...]
TechTips: Micro-blogging
Most readers should have at least heard of Twitter by now. Twitter is one of many social networking micro-blogging tools which are available. Simply defined, micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows individuals to publish brief text or multimedia updates. If you are a Facebook user, you become a micro-blogger every time you update [...]
