Thursday, November 22, 2007

#12 Rollyo

This is a useful means of narrowing a search to your favourite web sites and doing one search across all of them simultaneously. You get many good results, quickly.

Here is my Search Roll http://www.rollyo.com/stuartdh

Monday, November 19, 2007

#11 LibraryThing

LT was quick, easy and fun to use. It would be useful for cataloguing, producing booklists and being the focus of book discussion groups. The ability to add your own tags and ratings etc. is also appealing.

I chose a range of fairly rare non-fiction books, mainly true escape stories and rescues, but LT found many records, some with jacket photos. It only failed to find one, which is an Australian crime story.

Here is My Library http://www.librarything.com/catalog/stuartdh07

Monday, November 12, 2007

#10 Image Generators

ImageChef.com - Custom comment codes for MySpace, Hi5, Friendster and more
Would you follow this car? I wanted to have a longer message, "Sorry, my satellite navigation got lost," but the program put it in capitals and compressed it so much that it was unreadable. All messages are converted to capitals.

Here is where you can create your own car sticker
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/make.jsp?tid=Car+Sticker
The Generator Blog has a huge range of other images for you to customise.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

#9 Finding Feeds

Bloglines Search has a useful "preview" feature and Feedster allows you to put feeds on your blog. Topix.net is very fast and provides a comprehensive list of news results. Google Blog Search offers e-mail alerts and blog search feeds, while Technorati is quick and comprehensive.

ANZ Reference Centre allows you to quickly and easily add feeds to particular magazines. I also noticed that the Mozilla and Yahoo web sites already offer useful lists of RSS feeds.