So, now that I’ve gotten used to my Mac and love the tools I’m using I find Digsby.

• One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts.
• Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
• Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace account (other network support coming soon).
• Customize digsby with application skins to give it a personal look and feel.
• Digsby offers complete synchronization between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you chose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place.

Is anyone else using this instead of Adium? Or is anyone using this at all? What do you think?

Karen Coyle has a great post on her site where she calls for help on creating “An easy, online, social library catalog.” Why another cataloging tool? Karen has recently returned from Kosovo where many of the library don’t have catalogs and certainly don’t have the resources to run many of the affordable solutions out there. Here’s Karen’s checklist:

1. A social networking site where the society members are libraries, not individuals.
2. The ability to capture copy cataloging from other libraries or create cataloging on the site itself.
3. Full Unicode support, both for the interface and for the data.
4. The ability to capture and create records using a MARC-compatible format.
5. The ability to export the library catalog records in MARC format.
6. A reports function that could print off the results of searches or even the library’s inventory, so it could be used off-line.
7. The creation of groups of “library friends,” that is other libraries whose data should be included in searches and displays. This will facilitate sharing and also will serve users in areas where resources are scarce and scattered.
8. A search and display interface that looks like a modern library catalog
9. It all has to be easy to use with no training required, and not require any technical support on the part of the library.

Read Karen’s entire post and if you think you can lend a helping hand, let her know.

• Clipperz - online password manager
  Clipperz is a free and anonymous online password manager. Local encryption within the browser guarantees that no one except you can read your data.
• myLOC.gov (Library of Congress)
  Through myLOC.gov, the new personalized Web site of the Library of Congress, patrons can continue their exploration of the world?s largest collection of knowledge, culture and creativity.
• Drop.io fax
  You can now fax documents directly into and directly out of your drop, for free. No more fax machines, or expensive online fax services. Faxing just shouldn?t be that hard - and it should be free. With drop.io it is both easy and free.
• LibClips
  Movies about the library from the Penn Libraries

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