Saving Time

Here are a few shortcuts I’ve learned:

mhm = means ‘yes’
l8r = means ‘later’
tnx = means ‘thanks’
lol = means ‘laugh out loud’
btw = means ‘ by the way
ttyl = means ‘talk to you later’
sys = means ’see you soon’
lmk = means ‘let me know’
ryb = means ‘read your book’ or ‘read your Bible’
b/f = means ‘boyfriend’
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I learned about GoogleLab’s ‘Living Stories’ collaboration project with the New York Times and the Washington Post via ResearchBuzz.  I see great potential in this application.  Is this the new RSS Reader?  The new Wikipedia?   To understand ‘Living Stories’ watch the brief video on the page.
Currently, the following TIMELY stories are included:

Health Care Reform

Afghanistan War

Global [...]

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I spent quite a bit of the day trying to figure out if our school’s security and communication Motorola two-way radios were UHF or VHS.   For some reason the district needed to know but no one had a clue how to find out.  Here is the answer!  Of course, I did a Google search [...]

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InsideHigherEd.com posted an interesting article about ‘the university library of the future’.  The article simply entitled, ‘Libraries of the Future’, begins:
‘The university library of the future will be sparsely staffed, highly decentralized, and have a physical plant consisting of little more than special collections and study areas.’
Read on…http://www.insidehighered.com

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TheStar.com had a great article on the role of libraries today AND the future of libraries.  The article, ‘A tale of two countries’ libraries’, looked at public libraries in Canada and the U.S.A. to see what is working.  Here is an excerpt:
‘In a 2006 poll, 78 per cent of Americans said if their local library [...]

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ResearchBuzz.org shares how to go about ‘turning Google into a near real-time search engine’.  Near real-time are the key words here!  Want to know what was indexed mere ’seconds ago’ about ‘libraries’ find out:
http://www.google.com/search?q=libraries&tbs=qdr:n
Other options such as a ‘day’, an ‘hour’, or a ‘minute’ can be found in the post on Research Buzz.  Check it [...]

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Not surprisingly, KimKomando.com introduced me to another great resource!  Tabbloid.com EASILY lets you create a ‘pdf’ magazine from your favorite RSS feeds and have it delivered whenever and how often you want it.  Check it out!  www.tabbloid.com

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The September 28th issue of Time magazine had an interesting article entitled, ‘Where Wikipedia Ends’ that although Wikipedia hit the ‘3 million article mark’ in August 2009 its ‘growth line flattened’ in early 2007.  The article looks at some of the possible reasons such as ‘has all knowledge been summarized’, has the site become too [...]

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Don’t do as I did! I just spent a half hour googling to find the best solution for copying the music to a new computer when your old one dies! However, you do want to be careful what you download. The solution? ‘Pod to PC’! Works like a charm! Push [...]

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I was introduced to this and just had to share it with you!   ‘Fences’ is an awesome FREE program for organizing your computer’s desktop icons.  This program works automatically but you can customize it.
To make it work:

Hide your desktop icons simply by double clicking on desktop.

Make them reappear simply by double clicking on desktop.

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