The Pro Bowl is this upcoming weekend but following that we have the Super Bowl on February 5th. The New York Giants and the New England Patriots square off in Super Bowl XLVI. With two big teams of the Northeast playing in the Midwest, there might not be as much appeal as if your hometown team was playing but at least there are always the commercials right? Capitalizing on … [Read more...]
Calibre, the necessary software for e-books
I only recently got my first eReader (Amazon's Kindle) after watching the market for quite a while. One thing that made me hesitant to choose one model was incompatibilities with book formats across devices and other restrictions and features that seemed to trade off. Of course, we could just stick to reading paperback or hardcover books (for all of their technical features) … [Read more...]
Sharp Moon’s Callisto service monitors a library’s access to e-resources
When Netflix raised its rates last year, it had a lot of unhappy customers on its hands. I think a big part of the dissatisfaction was that people already felt like they weren't quite getting their money's worth when they had DVDs just sitting around for a while without being watched. There are plenty of other subscription services out there that are in the same boat. If you … [Read more...]
Jumping In At Drupal 7
I was tasked with migrating a website from internal hosting to paid hosting. When that "migration" actually meant a redesign, I surveyed the CMS landscape. The current site was running on Joomla! 1.5. This website was the first site I had administered running on the Joomla platform. To be completely honest, I hate Joomla!. There are limitations and things done backwards that … [Read more...]
How effective are the SOPA protests? One Twitter account tells us
If you have been following tech news lately or have two brain cells between your ears that allow you to read, you know that today is the SOPA Strike day where a number of websites are redirecting from their content to make a point to Congress that the SOPA and PIPA bills will damage the structure of the Internet. With mostly tech-centric sites and companies participating, it is … [Read more...]