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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Weebly’s not so wobbly

October 3rd, 2007

I had lunch with Janie Hermann today and she told me about Weebly. Weebly claims to be the easiest way to create an publish a website – and I have to say it’s one of the easiest out there – if you don’t know any better ;) What do I mean? Well, I know my HTML and my CSS, so I like to have control, but for those who have no (or minimal) web skills – this tool is for them!!

Weebly lets you drag and drop widgets/page pieces onto the screen, change the layout, change the template and publish you page – bing-bang-boom – you’re done!

On possible use for Weebly (that Janie mentioned – gotta give her the credit) is if you just need a website for a little while – for something small like a family reunion or a presentation – why not create a quick Weebly page (and it is quick) and use that?

The best part is that Weebly will host your site ad-free for free! Also, if you already have a domain name – or have your own domain name – Weebly will host it for free (you just buy the domain).

Sounds like a pretty handy tool and something to keep and eye on.

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Collaborative Dictionary

October 3rd, 2007

I have to catalog a lot of foreign language materials at work – and I speak 1 language (typical American). So I use a tool called Babylon (not a freebie) to help me translate bits of text as I search through OCLC for the right copy.

Well, now the makers of Babylon are trying something new – they have a wiki-dictionary – a wiktionary, a wikitionary … hmmm – anyway they have a new site LingoZ where anyone can add entries to the dictionary. Sounds like a neat idea and helpful for those stranger terms and jargon that we can’t find definitions to elsewhere.

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Introducing Zoho DB

October 3rd, 2007

Mark at TechCrunch has brought my attention to a new office tool from Zoho – Zoho DB. It’s a database application that “accepts queries in any SQL format (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix and ANSI SQL dialects).”

Sounds pretty handy – especially if you don’t have access to something like MS Access and you just need to work on one database – or something simple. I haven’t played with this tool yet, in fact I haven’t played with Zoho in a while because I liked the way Google presented their office tools better, but maybe I should give them another shot now that they have a new tool to play with.

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It had to be done

October 1st, 2007

Well, I thought I could catch up on all of my blog reading after two months of school, moving, learning a new job, and general tiredness – but it wasn’t possible.

LIS Posts

So – I it had to be done – I had to click the “Mark all read” link!

No more LIS Posts

Tonight I start fresh – sorry if I missed reporting on something extra important.