However, even I will sometimes admit that things can get just a little too quiet. Granted, if you’ve got kids or family trapped in the house with you right now, that might not be one of your problems. For myself, I find music to be far too distracting to use as ambient sound on a regular basis. That’s where services like the ones below come into play.
Category: tools
No Photoshop? Try free LunaPic instead
I work with a good number of smaller libraries that don’t have professional graphic artists on staff and also rarely…
Cliphy: Add fun to words
I spend a fair amount of time testing out new online tools, usually of the free variety. Some don’t work…
Free online tools you didn’t know you needed
I had the privilege of speaking to a packed house at the Computers in Libraries 2018 conference last month. Here’s…
Make your own animated GIFs from video captures–easy
Animated GIFs are everywhere, especially in social media. Even my Android phone has many built into its SMS app. They’ve…
Is your library’s website costing your patrons money?
For several years, I was a lucky customer of Verizon with a grandfathered, unlimited data plan. Last year, in an…
5 tools to ease your font headaches
Fonts are complicated. I won’t pretend that I’m anything like an expert, because I can barely differentiate between a typeface and…
Absolutely honest tool tells you if you need a better headline
There’s a heck of a lot of information out there about how important it is to have a good headline…
Get the web details you need–FAST
Today’s post discusses my latest “Headache Avoidance” tool. If you work on designing and/or developing websites, you are almost certainly accustomed…
Make your web colors better
Colors can be fun, but they can also be complicated. There’s a lot of psychology involved with choosing colors as…
How hard *is* it to delete your account?
How many accounts do you have spread across the Internet? I couldn’t even begin to guess how many accounts I…
My teddy bear web design tools
Some people have a teddy bear. Some people have a security blanket. I have some little browser extensions that make…
Get help understanding your website’s data
Many libraries devote significant resources to their website. It’s important to know how it’s being used (and not being used). …
Tool Tuesday: ReciteThis
So…you probably already know that social media has become increasingly visual. Images and photos typically get more engagement than plain…
Too quiet for you?
I’ve mentioned before how I primarily work from home nowadays, where it’s very quiet. So, I’m often looking for ways…
Tool Tuesday: Flare by Filament
Getting people to share stuff, especially via social media channels, is always a challenge. I’ve tried various WordPress plugins and…
Tool Tuesday: Tagboard
Last fall, I was tasked with trying to pull in all of the social media stuff tagged with a state…
Tool Tuesday: TL;DR
Perhaps you’re like me, and you have the attention span of a gnat. Or, maybe you’re just like most people,…
Tool Tuesday: NameChk
If someone were to ask me “Which tool do you wish you had known about at the beginning of the…
Going “Cold Turkey”
I admit it. Sometimes, the siren call of Facebook or Twitter gets to me, and I head over to social…
Need a timeline?
Have you ever needed to create a timeline? Or had a student ask you how to create one? Just like…
Can’t work in a coffee shop? This might help
It’s true: I have a yen for weird little apps and web services that are truly niche in purpose and…
Voicemail for your website
Now, they may be out there, but I have yet to run across a library that accepts voice messages via …
All the news that’s fit to email
I love just about anything that will organize my crazy life for me, and I especially love those services that…
Sunrise: a handy little tool
While there’s lots of ground-breaking technology happening right now, sometimes it’s the little things that catch my attention. I sign…
Getting web images down to size
Generally speaking, most library staff I work with understand that, when you take an image off a digital camera, it’s…
Social search & grokking Greplin
Many times, only half-jokingly, I have told people that I have the memory of a sieve. That is to say,…