Ubiquity: A Mozilla Experiment in Web Searching
Stolen from Wikipedia:
Ubiquity is a collection of easy and quick natural-language-derived commands that act as mashups of web services, thus allowing users to get information and relate the same to current and other webpages. It also allows web users to create new commands without requiring much technical background.[2]
The Future…Today!
Multi-monitor widgets
Have 2 monitors? Here are a couple of apps that I find useful:
Multi-Monitor Mouse - teleports your mouse pointer back and forth between multiple monitors - reduces side to side mouse waving.
Multi-monitor Taskbar - extends the taskbar to extra monitors. Allows moving application windows between monitors with a simple ctrl-alt-arrow.
These are freeware for MS Windows only.
Data Presentation with some flash…
Flowingdata.com is chock-full of great ideas for graphing and presenting data. For instance: a flash animation representing world Twitter traffic during the recent presidential inauguration.
No Squint - Set the default zoom level for Firefox
Are you always changing the text zoom level when you open a new browser window? Do you find some sites you visit have impossibly small fonts and you are constantly changing your text zoom back and forth as you visit different sites?
NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful if you have a small display or run at a very high resolution. NoSquint also optionally remembers the zoom level per site. Until website designers (typically those who know of no life outside Internet Explorer) who insist on using font-size: 50% are administered a harsh LARTing, NoSquint exists to make web browsing tolerable in Firefox.
You can view the Online Help to get a sense of the features NoSquint supports.
Welcome friends…
I’ve been a csa for about 13 years now (if I remember correctly, and I probably don’t) and have often thought that the library CSA’s could use a web site where they could share the resources, tips, and tricks they use to keep the gears of education rotating smoothly. This is that web site.
In the course of my work, I’ve often wondered, “Has some other poor fool already solved this problem?” and “Why can’t I just steal that person’s idea?” Yes, we’ve all scraped the internet for solutions to our problems, but often internet solutions do not perfectly translate to the IU computing environment. I’d like to think that we’d all feel happy to share our small triumphs with our co-workers, as well as useful information we discover in our web searching.
Got an IT question? Post it here.
Finally, I never intended this blog to be limited only to work matters - we should all feel free to post other information as we see fit, with the knowledge that any library IT employee with a desire to read this blog will be so enabled, and that everyone will know who you are. This blog is run on an IU server and administered by IU employees. Anonymity is out.
Have fun and enjoy your space.
Keith Welch
LIT - temporary blog admin
p.s. everything about this blog can be changed. Don’t like something? email me and we’ll put changes up for a vote. -kw
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