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Patricia Anderson (whose slides I always find worth a look) put up a new presentation yesterday:

Above: Embedded slides. If you’re reading this in an aggregator, you may need to visit the site to view the slides

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An email conversation with a medical librarian recently reminded me that I’ve been meaning to make a list of the free online tools for working with PDFs that I’ve bookmarked.
Converting to/from other formats and PDF

https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp

Converts files of the following formats (up to 2 MB) to PDF:
MS Word (DOC | RTF)
MS PowerPoint (PPT)
MS Publisher (PUB)
MS Excel […]

The screencast below (made with Screencast-O-Matic) shows how to make a screencast…with Screencast-O-Matic.
Viewing the embedded screencast below (and recording new ones) requires Java.

Why should libraryfolk care about screencasting? Let Paul Pival help answer that question.

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[EDIT] I’m out of invites- but do check out Freebase when you get a chance! [/EDIT]
So I’m in on the alpha of Freebase.com and have a couple of invitations to give away.

It would be interesting for any Web enthusiast to check out, but would be especially exciting if you’re a developer who likes to play […]

Built by diabetics for diabetics, SugarStats provides a simple, completely web-based and clean interface to track, monitor and access your glucose levels and diabetic statistics to spot dangerous trends and better manage your diabetic lifestyle.
You input and access your info via a web browser so no matter where you are you have easy access.
…
With SugarStats […]

I’ll bet BibMe will be a big hit on college campuses in the fall.
Welcome to BibMe! The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It’s the quickest way to build a works cited page. And it’s free.

Search for a book, article, website, or film from our database, or enter the information yourself.
Add it to your bibliography.
Download […]

(If you’re reading this post in an aggregator, you’ll need to visit the blog to see this work.)
To see a demonstration of what Bubble Guru does, click here.
(Has audio- adjust the volume on your speakers to be appropriate to your environment)
Try it yourself: http://www.bubbleguru.com/

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Resources from Judy Burnham, used to teach her class for the 2007 Medical Association of Alabama Meeting:

Web Page
PowerPoint
Cyber Cafe

These are definitely worth flipping through if you have even a casual interest in the application of Web technologies to medicine. I like to consider myself well-informed on the topic, but a handful of the resources […]

My friend Saul (not his real name) is a pretty capable computer user on both Windows and Macs, but not a fan of television or pop culture.
Saul recently decided to try out Mozy, an online backup service that I’ve used and liked. He noticed something weird in the EULA, though, and decided […]

Not new, but new to me.
Check out this great big list of online Office applications.
It isnt a complete list of what is available, but is still pretty impressive.

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I’m not the first to blog about these and I certainly won’t be the last, but I wanted to say a few brief “me too’s”:
I’m going to order Social Software in Libraries…

…and not just because Meredith mentions LibWorm in Chapter Three, either! I’m going to order it because Meredith’s writings on […]

Web 2.0 in Libraries: Theory and Practice
SLA Click University Live
From 1/10/2007

Web 2.0 in Libraries: The Tools of Web 2.0
SLA Click University Live
From 1/24/2007

Other presentations Meredith has uploaded to SlideShare

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List
Here are the web-based spreadsheet applications I’m aware of:
ajaxXLS
EditGrid
Xcellery
Google Docs & Spreadsheets
iRows
Numbler
NumSum
Simple Spreadsheet
ThinkFree Calc
Zoho Sheet
Comparison
This spreadsheet comparing EditGrid, Google Spreadsheets, iRows, Numbler, NumSum and Zoho Sheet has been created in each of the following applications, giving you yet another way to compare them:
EditGrid
Google Spreadsheet
iRows
Numbler
NumSum
Zoho Sheet
WikiCalc, iWoorx, and a video of interest to Web 2.0 enthusiasts
And […]

If you are comfortable with web-based feed mashing/filtering applications like BlogSieve, FEEDblendr, FEEDcombine, FeedRinse, Feedshake, or FeedSifter, you can jump right into Pipes and start using it. You won’t be building mega mashups right away, but you can benefit from using it as the best RSS filter/combiner yet seen.

Feed Translation
A couple months ago, Oliver […]

The rumor is that Google is soon to release a presentation tool (a sort of online version of MS PowerPoint or Keynote or OpenOffice Impress) a part of Google Docs and Spreadsheets. So now Google offers email, calendars, word processing, spreadsheets and (soon) presentation software.
Other online presentation applications (or online office suites with presentation […]

As mentioned previously, Guus van den Brekel has been traveling in Norway (Oslo and Trondheim) to give talks and run workshops about library web technology.
I try to follow most of what Guus does online because I can’t really get enough of tech-savvy medical librarians. So when I saw he’d posted another presentation on SlideShare […]

Just noticed these this evening:
Karen Schneider: Library 2.0 Cookbook

Dave Pattern: Introduction to Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

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Update, 1/17/2006:
Added RSS Scrollbox Widget and RSS Ticker Widget.
Thank you, DigiZen!
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I could’ve sworn that I’d seen a site that shows the same feed presented in a number of different RSS-to-Web-Page tools, but I can’t find it…so I made one with the feed from this blog.
Click here to see it.
I have my own opinions […]

Update, 1/4/2007: Someone submitted this to Digg. Neat!
Update, 1/5/2007: Based on comments from folks at Phixr and at Fauxto, I have made revisions to the comparison chart. Revisions are highlighted.
http://digg.com/software/Online_Photoshop_Clones_Comparison_Chart
I just recently stumbled across fauxto.com and was pleasantly surprised by how intuitive the interface was, and how well it imitated Photoshop and Paintshop […]

I’ve mentioned MDCalc before.
Now it features SI units and can be downloaded and run on a Pocket PC (a Palm version is in the works).
Details here.

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