Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Week 4, thing#13: Delicious.com
The old website tutorial "del.icio.us" is no longer available. PLCMCL2 is also gone. The site was re-sold to AVOS Systems on April 27, 2011 and relaunched in a "back to beta" state on 27 September 2011. There is a new video to introduce its new feature called "stacks". The web link for the new tutorial for the feature is "http://del.icio.us/help/getstarted". The site encouge people to use Firefox. I registered the new account and try to create a Stack with subject of 23 things and tried to collect various images to show how the features will work. My work is demonstrated at http://delicious.com/stacks/nationfrank. The problem I had is the website is not that fast and it took long time for me to move from one action to another.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Week 3, Thing#12: Rollyo
Free photos link on the 23 things blog has been identified by Rollyo site as spam so it is not usable. PLCMC is now having 11 sites in its family list but search is not working when I tried to do it on 10/7/2011. The site is very user friendly in terms of creating "Searchrolls" and add your onw blog site to the searchbox. It is also easy to add Rollyo's Searchbox to your own website as it displays below.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Week 3, Thing#11: librarything.com
Librarything is a very good software with attractive web interface. It is easy to arrange page layout and you can add and edit tags quickly. I particularily like the way it allows you to select beatiful covers for your collection. You can find my sample collection at: http://www.librarything.com/home/Frank0001.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Week 2, thing#10: Image Generator
I found "Letter James" is a good image generator site which is easy to use and has many good photos. I am not very impressed with "Generator Blog", especially the instrution and guides are confusion.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Week 2, Thing#9: RSS Applications
I think copy and paste RSS feed icon in the reader is the most efficient way to get updated news feed. The kay is not overdo it. Developing a good layout and organizing them in an efficient way is also important. Feedster is still under construction. Technorati' blog directory is a useful tool but search is really slow. I found it is easier to find news feeds than blog feeds. Topix.net is an interest site to get latest news and blogs on many subjects while syndic8 is a good one to find feeds on various topics.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Week 2, Thing#8: RSS
Most links are broken and tutorials on original posting in 23things are outdated as of 9/26/2011. I think Bloglines has totally redone its interface with better tab function for organization. Many RSS feeds in LJ are outdated also. I think RSS feature is great for getting updated information on interest topics in one place. The trick is to organize the pages in such a way you will not be overwhelmed by information. Also now you need to set a public page through "Enable" function by Netvibes/Bloglines account. My public page address is: http://www.netvibes.com/nationfrank
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Week 1, Thing#7: iPhone 5 is coming
To general public, no product is more exciting than iphone which you can use surfing the web, playing online games, taking pictures and zillions of other activities if you download enough apps to do all the task. As October gets closer, iPhone rumors get louder and louder. According to The Times' Nick Bilton, "an engineer familiar with the new iPhone" told him it would be "fairly different" than the iPhone 4, with an 8-megapixel camera and an A5 dual-core processor. Furthermore, Bilton writes that sources told him that either this phone or the next one will contain a telecom chip made by Qualcomm which includes near-field communication (NFC). This turns the phone into a so-called "digital wallet," that can be waved over a sensor to make a credit-card payment. Google's Nexus S phone already has NFC built in. I think the new iPhone should be quite attractive: it will be light, yet much firmer than Samsung Galaxy phones which are backed in plastic. The camera rivals point and shoot cameras and will be a major marketing point for this device.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Week 1, thing#2: Thoughts on Life Long Learning
Watched webcast about 7 1/2 habits of highly successful learners. It's easy for me to learn things through various means including leisure reading and playing but difficult to reach a goal within certain time frame.
Week 1, thing#1: Getting started
It took me about 30 minutes to go back and force from MCPL instruction to Maryland 2.0 postings to get the right information.
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