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Need Back to School Books? Check Em Out on Chegg!
There are few certainties in life. However, among the known definites are death, taxes, and the mark-up on text books. Anyone going to school to these days knows just how expensive school books can be. One almost needs to take out a separate loan to just buy texts. Chegg is a hot new site that actually…
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Facebook, Placebook! Social networking giant enters location wars.
In a much anticipated announcement yesterday, social networking powerhouse Facebook fired another shot hear around the world. Make that the online world of “checking in”. With the unveiling of Facebook Places, the company enters the hot and volatile war for geo-location supremecy. Facebook Places is designed to let users include their location in their status…
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Looking for a killer RSS app? Try FeedKiller!
RSS and news aggregators are a dime a dozen these days. From sites that bring all your feeds to one place to RSS readers that you can install on your smartphone. There is a veritable cornucopia of apps from which to choose. Some are complex to set up and many require some sort of membership.…
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Google Wave-ing Good-Bye?
Can it be that one of the most hyped new tools of the year has already met an early and untimely demise? According to Google’s blog, the company has decided to end support for the much-anticipated and, apparently, hardly used Google Wave. What can we say besides, “Google Wave, we hardly knew ye!” It seems…
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Vook adds vonderful new twist to reading!
Ever since the dawn of the Internet, our world has become increasingly and more rapidly interactive. Today, laptops, smartphones, and now e-readers and tablet computers are turning everyday activities into multi-sensory experiences. Books, movies, music . . . it is all online and in the palms of our hands. The new frontier seems to be…
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Historious is bookmarking magic!
Bookmarking. We all do it and it can be quite a burden. For most of us, it is a constant process of selecting, organizing, tagging, reorganizing, retagging . . . well, you get the picture. Bookmarking for most of us has been a great deal of work. Thanks to Historious, it no longer has to…
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Google’s groovy new image search rolls out!
Change is once again afoot in the hallowed online halls of Google. Not everyone can see it just yet, but Google’s popular image search is getting a pretty radical makeover. Here’s what is going on . . . Google’s image search has been around for quite awhile now. Popular, it has remained fairly untouched over…
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My Library app puts your catalogue in your pocket!
Looking for an easy, convenient way to take your personal catalogue on the road with you? Look no further than My Library by Josh Pressnell. This powerful and handy app for the iPhone lets you catalogue your home collection and then carry it in your pocket. We do not often review smartphone apps here on…
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Losing Libraries a Stark Wake-up and Call to Action
It is certainly no secret that America’s libraries have been hit by the economic downtown. They have been hit hard. The media and the internet are constantly buzzing about library cutbacks and closings. It is almost overwhelming to try to keep up with it all. Yet, there is no greater sense of urgency that can…
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