Library Thing! I was really impressed at just how easy this site was to use. Within minutes of getting to the site I was happily searching out some of my favourite books, although I did have trouble finding one or two of them, but I'll try searching for them with ISBN later.
I also love how easy it is to check out reviews for the books. This is just such a great site that is so easy and fun to use...I can see me spending a lot of time just playing around with this site, and recommending it to others as well!
Showing posts with label week 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week 7. Show all posts
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Week 7 Discover 2
Ok I played with Techonrati earlier (back around week two or somthing) and I wasn't really impressed with the site, yes it allows you to search for blogs, but is it really user friendly? Not really. And after playing with it again this week I'm still not a huge fan of it. But having said that it does get around to making links to a lot of blogs. I was really surprised, ok so I was really tired at the time and wanted something mindless to search for, I did a search for my user name to see if it had picked up this blog yet but found that it had found my other blog over on Live Journal. Very cool I must admit :0D Ok and I will admit that it was easier to use now that I am more familiar with it....but for those who are new to Technorati...maybe not.
Library Thing is WONDERFUL. I love it :o) It's a one stop pit stop for all those who love to read! And the fact that you can sort your own library and books you've read is just so much FUN! Also good if you know what your looking for so that you can see what other people have thought about it (no more getting stuck buying really crappy books) and you can leave your own reviews....what better way of sharing books are there (ok for you purists out there the face to face way is probably preferable, but for those of you like me who tend to read at 2am and do computer stuff at odd hours it just rocks!) But more on my adventures with Library Thing in my next post...when I have more than 30 seconds to spare :o)
Library Thing is WONDERFUL. I love it :o) It's a one stop pit stop for all those who love to read! And the fact that you can sort your own library and books you've read is just so much FUN! Also good if you know what your looking for so that you can see what other people have thought about it (no more getting stuck buying really crappy books) and you can leave your own reviews....what better way of sharing books are there (ok for you purists out there the face to face way is probably preferable, but for those of you like me who tend to read at 2am and do computer stuff at odd hours it just rocks!) But more on my adventures with Library Thing in my next post...when I have more than 30 seconds to spare :o)
Friday, March 28, 2008
Difficulties
Dictionary of Problem Words & Expressions
Originally uploaded by podictionary - the podcast for word lovers
OK so once I figured it out it was simple as....but there was a moment there when I thought it just wasn't going to work!
Week 7 Discover
Tags, those annoying little things that your supposed to put in after you finish writing up your latest post. Well I'm sure I'm not the only one who regularly forgets to add them when I'm doing my posts! So I'm forever going back over my posts, both here and on livejournal (on my blog and on the community blogs that I'm a member of) and adding those pesky little words at the end....Having said that and looking at this weeks subject I know know just how useful those pesky little words are! I had never really put much thought into them before, sure I knew that they were there and that they made searching for that one post (ok so most blogs I look at are fanfic based so I'm really looking for something to read).
I'd heard of del.icio.us before, but had never even been tempted to look at it or even use it, before today that is. I'd stopped using favourites (mainly because my computer really really didn't like favourites and tended to freakout and freeze on me) ages ago and now use bookmarks, simply because they worked and could be transported from computer to computer (yahoo is really great that way), but I tend to revert back to typing the url in because I now have so many that it takes ages to sort through them to find the ones I want (unless I've just done a clean up of my bookmarks and put them in their own little folders), but now I think I'll be using del.icio.us more often....it looks like it could be a lot of fun. I've also thought about starting an account for our library website (much more stream lined and easier to search for the right link that the list of links that I currently use on the site)
And look at that...I remembered to put the tags in before I post this time. But that may be because I put them in in the middle of typing this post :o)
I'd heard of del.icio.us before, but had never even been tempted to look at it or even use it, before today that is. I'd stopped using favourites (mainly because my computer really really didn't like favourites and tended to freakout and freeze on me) ages ago and now use bookmarks, simply because they worked and could be transported from computer to computer (yahoo is really great that way), but I tend to revert back to typing the url in because I now have so many that it takes ages to sort through them to find the ones I want (unless I've just done a clean up of my bookmarks and put them in their own little folders), but now I think I'll be using del.icio.us more often....it looks like it could be a lot of fun. I've also thought about starting an account for our library website (much more stream lined and easier to search for the right link that the list of links that I currently use on the site)
And look at that...I remembered to put the tags in before I post this time. But that may be because I put them in in the middle of typing this post :o)
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