Category Archives: Tech Tools

Jim Rettig's Travel Schedule for 2008/2009

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Andy

My director, Jim Rettig, is currently the President-elect of the American Library Association. I had the idea of creating a mashup of his travel itinerary for the year to help the library community visualize where he’ll be appearing over the … Continue reading →

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TechTips Blog

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Andy

So a few weeks ago, I began distributing tech tips every Friday afternoon to our library staff via our internal mailing list. My goal in doing this is to share some of the more helpful web services and tools that … Continue reading →

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Need Online Storage for Library Users? Try drop.io!

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Andy

A new online storage service, http://drop.io, launched recently and allows users to store up to 100mb of files.  Yeah, it’s stingy storage, but great for office docs, a few images, an occasional audio file, etc.   The benefits: no registration so … Continue reading →

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Google Apps Premier Edition

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Andy

In their ever growing battle with Microsoft, Google has opened its suite of online office and communication applications in an effort to further penetrate the enterprise market, and coincidentally arrive just after the release of the latest incarnation of MS … Continue reading →

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ProcessTamer

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Andy

In our modern, multi-tasking world we often try to do as much as possible with all of our resources. Our computers are no exception! I often find myself running numerous programs and continually hopping between each in order to perform … Continue reading →

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