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Friday, April 6th, 2007

Social Libraries: The Books

Two of these aren’t published yet and at the moment my book budget is zero so I can only dream. But here’s the list.
Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service
Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk - not yet published, Information Today, Inc. (May 21, 2007)
Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change
Walt Crawford
Library 2.0 [...]

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Friday, March 30th, 2007

More on Social Libraries

Today appears to be Social Libraries Friday here at Library Monk. It may signal the beginning of a trend, you’ll just have to wait until next Friday to find out.
First we have 23 Things from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, which is described as:
23 Things (or small exercises) that you [...]

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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Looking for an OS X Window sizing utility

I use Sizer on the Windows side of things quite a bit. It’s freeware that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size. It can also tell you how large a window is.
Anybody know of a utility like this for the Mac?

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Monday, October 30th, 2006

Greatest Bill Gates quotes

36 Greatest Bill Gates quotes, just for Apple fanboys
No idea if Bill actually said all these or not but I like;
“I have 100 billion dollars… You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that’s if I don’t make another dime. Tell you what-I’ll buy [...]

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Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Designing for Windows on a Mac

This Macworld article led me to a nice utility called Virtue Desktops. Makes switching between Win XP and OS X really simple.

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