Library sharings

Emtacl10 Google map

Joost Hegle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:18:00 GMT

A Google map especially made for the emtacl10 conference. Here you could find placemarks for bars, restaurants, sightseeing destinations, the conference hotel etc. For those of you attending the conference be kind to leave comments if you like to add other placemarks to the map or have general questions about destinations in Trondheim.

Emtacl10 earlybird registration

Joost Hegle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:03:00 GMT

26 – 28 April 2010 • Trondheim • Norway

Earlybird registration (before 15 February 2010): EUR 360

Androidzoom

Joost Hegle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:59:00 GMT

Androidzoom
Browse the Android Market and search from the comfort of your computer

Bar Control app for Android

Joost Hegle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:54:00 GMT

One of the most useful android apps recently being downloaded.

PlayonLinux

Joost Hegle — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:00:00 GMT

PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®'s Windows®.
Few games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings an accessible and efficient solution to this problem, cost-free and rescpetful of the free softwares.
What are PlayOnLinux's features?

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the interesting points to know:

* You don't have to own a Windows® license to use PlayOnLinux.
* PlayOnLinux is based on Wine, and so profits from all its possibilities yet it keeps the user away from its complexity while exploiting some of its advanced functions.
* PlayOnLinux is a free software.
* PlayOnLinux uses Bash and Python
[all text directly copied and pasted from http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ . No permission asked but I guess it's Ok given the fact that it attracts more people to their site]

some anthropology lectures and iTunes U

Joost Hegle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:15:00 GMT

Berkeley university of California anthropology courses.

A series of University of Oxford anthropology lectures organised by Linacre College.

Guns Germs and Steel by National Geographic

Joost Hegle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:47:00 GMT

Based on the book by Jared Diamond "Guns Germs and Steel" by National Geographic.
"Jared Diamond’s journey of discovery began on the island of Papua New Guinea. There, in 1974, a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”

Browsing iTunes U without intalling iTunes

Joost Hegle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:55:00 GMT

For those of use using another operating system than Windows, or not having iTunes, it's a real pain in the a**, not being able to follow courses that more and more universities prefer to publish on iTunes U. The solution is emulation,by emulating the iTunes client we fool the system.
Better explained on the TechnoBabel site.

The solution

Emulating the iTunes client: the script can be tested at

http://www2.unil.ch/itunesu/index.groovy?handle=[itunesU url]

It only needs the url which would open in iTunes and converts it to a displayable webpage.

For example for mit.edu: http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browsev2/mit.edu

http://www2.unil.ch/itunesu/index.groovy?handle=http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browsev2/mit.edu

Let's try it on a couple of NTNU podcasts:

http://www2.unil.ch/itunesu/index.groovy?handle=http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ntnu.no

Strange it don't seem to work on NTNU iTunes U podcasts but on all other major international universities using iTunes U. Should I be surprised?

Well give it a try on MIT and Standford and you will see that it works.

local iTunes U urls:
MIT
http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/mit.edu
Standford
http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browsev2/itunes.stanford.edu

iTunes U bookmarklet, just fill in your local iTunes U url and you get access to iTunes U content.

Running apps from SD card on android

Joost Hegle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:12:00 GMT

Let's hope Google soon realize that they have to offer the possibility to run and save applications from your SD card. For those of use loving applications the internal memory storage is far too limited. Running big programs will be impossible on the android unless you open the possibility to save and run applications from your SD card.
I have read/followed threads from numerous forums and the only solution to the problem at the present stage is to root your phone, but I don't want to do that.
If rooting my phone it will definitely be a high security risk.

Barcode scanning

Joost Hegle — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:27:00 GMT

ReadWriteWeb is in a new series called "Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things" focusing on how the biggest trends tracked last year, Mobile Web and Internet of Things are converging, the first focus is on barcode scanning.

Libraries, eBooks, and the Mobile Web: A Long Way to Go

Joost Hegle — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:52:00 GMT

"According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren't interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested in opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalog".
[source:ReadWriteWeb]

Jolicloud for netbooks

Joost Hegle — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:41:00 GMT

Jolicloud is a new operating system for netbooks.I installed it on my ASUS EEE PC 900 yesterday. You could either download jolicloud-usb-creator-installer or use the good "old" unetbootin to create a bootable usb memory stick. I used unetbootin and the whole OS was up and running in just 15 minutes. The speed is the fastest I have experienced so far with my EEE PC 900, and I also like the one-click install from the jolicloud application directory. The look is also great. For those of you wanting the iso to install to do the above mentioned install here it is.

It's no excuse not to install this OS. It's simply great. (I am not paid to say this).

Compatible devices

PandaHome Home replacement app for Android.

Joost Hegle — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:27:00 GMT

PandaHome is by far the best home replacement app for Android. Having several options to tweak settings, either by going to the Theme settings options from the menu button, or by long pressing on the screen and choose Home Assistant, or by installing the widget PandaHome Toogle.
You could change font size and color, background color, wallpapers, Multi-screen, Themes, Drawer settings, Dockbar settings, picking automatic randomized themes, etc.

Google Googles application for Android.

Joost Hegle — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:21:00 GMT

Google just released the Google Googles application for Android, it's available through the android market. Sadly it's only available to customers that have firmware 1.6 (Donut) or 2.0.

"Google Goggles is a visual search app. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview".

Google Real-Time Search Is Now Live

Joost Hegle — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:17:00 GMT

Google Swirl Image search

Joost Hegle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:31:00 GMT

Google Swirl: A new Google image search service, yet only a demo. Check it out!

Androidian

Joost Hegle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:33:00 GMT

Androidian: Welcome to Androidian – Android services and blog.
A site devoted to android and fully optimized for android.

Fb Friend Finder

Joost Hegle — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:57:00 GMT

Find friends from your other social networks on Facebook and send them friend requests instantly from Fb Friend Finder

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Joost Hegle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT

I just upgraded my 9.04 version of Ubuntu at work. The new version 9.10 is running smooth. At home it took really long time to upgrade, but a work the whole process went real quick.

Facebook Redesigns Mobile Touch Site

Joost Hegle — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:27:00 GMT

ReadWriteWeb yesterday had a story about the fact that Facebook hasn't beeen fully optimized for all touchscreen phones. Direct your touchscreen mobile to the following url:
http://touch.facebook.com/

SkreemR-The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine!

Joost Hegle — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:37:00 GMT

The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine!

Just give it a try!

Having mentioned SkreemR I would also have to mention Grooveshark

My favourite music related apps on Android

Joost Hegle — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:06:00 GMT

The amount of music apps for Android phones are increasing but a lot of them is not very good,
here is a list of those good ones that I love:

Music players:

Meridian
Rock on
MixZingLite

Streaming:

Deezer
Dizzler
Flycast
imeem mobile
iMusic
StreamFurious
TuneWiki

Music recognition:

Shazam

Video:

YouTube
vTap
TuneWiki
YouTube

Pc to mobile-wifi remote
Gmote

Sharing own Videos:
Qik

How to: Add Keyboard Navigation to Facebook

Joost Hegle — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:07:00 GMT

ReadWriteWeb just recently published a story about how to use Firefox to customize keyboard navigation to Facebook with a few clicks by adding a plugin.

Emtacl10: Emerging technologies in academic libraries

Joost Hegle — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:59:00 GMT

Deadline for submission of abstracts extended / emtacl10: Emerging technologies in academic libraries. http://tinyurl.com/yf95kuo #emtacl10 #emtacl

Yubby.com- Find video from over 30 popular video sites

Joost Hegle — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Yubby.com : Find video from over 30 popular video sites and add videos to your own play channels by drag and drop. It really couldn't get easier than this. Watch demo here.