Thursday, September 11, 2008

Medieval Festival, Prague

This looks interesting.  It seems as if it is somewhat like Microsoft Word but everything is available from the toolbars, so may be easier to use for formatting and editing a document.  I am going to attempt to transfer some pictures from my computer.  Watch this space!  .

 


Zoho, Goodo!

This is very similar to Microsoft Word but as some computers don't have that installed, this is a good option. I liked the fact that everything to do with formatting , editing and decorating etc can be found on the toolbars. I somehow managed to make a collage in Picasa and then export it to Zoho. Took me a while and had to put it on the desktop first. Hope I can now delete it from there without losing it completely. I did notice that as I wrote, my picture seemed to shrink and I haven't got all of it in. Also I tried to add a smiley emotion to my introduction after I had inserted the picture and the picture disappeared. Thank goodness for the 'undo' button.

Here is the link below.

http://writer.zoho.com/index.do

When I checked back on this link all I got was the link to the Zoho page. After a round of telephone calls I finally discovered that I could publish what I had done to my blog. I did this and it still didn't appear in my blog. After much too-do I finally found it in the drafts and then published it. However it has gone on as a completely separate blog instead of being attached to this one.

This looks interesting. It seems as if it is somewhat like Microsoft Word but everything is available from the toolbars, so may be easier to use for formatting and editing a document. I am going to attempt to transfer some pictures from my computer. Watch this space! .

Friday, September 5, 2008

Home Library List

This was most enjoyable to look at and if I had more time I would have liked to have looked at the reviews that people have posted on some of the books in my list. Maybe one day I will go back and catalogue all the books in my bookcase. They are a very rum lot and as the books are on the shelves two deep, I am sure I have forgotten half of what I have. I have looked at this site peviously and mentioned it to people in my book club, who were also very impressed.
The link to my list is: Link is http://www.librarything.com/catalog/tperkins17

Roll yer own

I didn't find I had too much trouble with this exercise. I just forgot that I had to create a post in my blog with the link to the searchroll and then send the link of my blogpost. I just sent the link of my searchroll. The advantage of having a search roll in Rollyo is like having a list in 'favourites' except that the list can then be accessed from any computer plus it can be organised according to topic. ie all the health websites or all the travel wesites.

Link to searchroll: http://rollyo.com/search.html?q=greece&sid=454522

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Image Generators

The first time I tried this I thought I had managed very well. I found an image and copied and pasted it to my blog. Unfortunately when I checked the end result I found I had the title and a whole lot of code, but no picture. Probably just as well as it was meant to be a Black Forest Cake and that would have made me feel peckish everytime I opened my blog.

Then I got some help and with two of us working through it managed to get the pictue across to my blog in the form of a jigsaw.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/viewpostcard.php?id=82116-6f439

I used Letter James to get the picture and FD Toys to make a jigsaw.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Perspectives

I had omitted this exercise as I really do not like reading anything too long on line and wanted to print off the various articles to read at a later date. Then I forgot about it and now having read them I think I must have forgotten about it deliberately. Dare I say what a load of pretentious claptrap! I honestly couldn't even understand the English written on some of them and English is my first language. The outcome of the articles as far as I could make out was that the Web and everything connected with it, such as YouTube and Blogsites should be easily accessible and if patrons won't come to the Library than the Library should go to them via the Net. Also I felt the articles were slanted towards university libraries as opposed to public libraries.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Sandbox wiki

I managed to add my blog to the Favourites Blogs page with no trouble. I went into work to look at the discovery resources as I knew it would be far quicker than using dial-up at home. However it is now a week later that I am writing this blog and to be honest I have forgotten everything I looked at. Hopefully Iwill be going onto broadband in a couple of weeks and then I can go back to this exercise and maybe add some more to this blog.