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iHCPL #81: Get out your Crystal Ball

2010-03-10T13:20:00.000-08:00

1. I think the "on demand" technology for new movies will be the big hit of the near future. What fun to see a movie before it is released to the general public( if you have the money to pay for it) Get the whole group together and watch the new movie. This would really go over well for a group like Trekkies or Harry Potter fans. I do not follow new technology, so alot of this information was new to me.

2. I am not an early adopter of new gadgets. I must be forced into the next new technology. At home we still watch videos,(yes we have a working videos machine) and we still enjoy watching our collection of videos. I remember Sunday afternoons, taking a hour or two, going through the Sunday newspaper, enjoying the cartoons, the Parade, looking at all the wedding and engagement announcements, catching up on the world news.(please do not take note of the order of my favorite parts of the paper)Now I never have time to do this. I might get online and check the front page of the Sunday paper but I never find the time like I did 2, 5 or 10 years ago.

iHCPL #80: Movies

2010-02-18T13:09:00.000-08:00

1.I watched(10 minutes)of the movie "The Cowboy and the Lady" 1938. Starring Gary Cooper, a 1 hour and 31 minutes movie. I was on the website IMDB. If I was at home, I would watch a movie on the TV set. If I was traveling, on a airplane or car, yes I would watch a movie on a computer.

2.I could not get into Apple Trailers, I had to load something onto the computer.I got into IMDB and watched 3 trailers: "Leaves of Grass", "Toy Story 3" and "Valentine's Day". Very easy to do, and yes I will use this site to keep current of the films I am interested in.

3.No I would not use any of the fee-based services to watch a movie at home. I would get a DVD from the library. I am to cheap to use fee-based movies.

iHCPL #79: Television

2010-02-16T13:19:00.000-08:00

1.Hulu: Found CSI Season 7,8,9 and 10 full episodes. Lots of excerpts from the shows.
Castle, season 2
King of the HIll, full episodes are not
available but you can watch excerpts.
Also, in Hulu I found in Advanced Search, you can search for only show videos from Hulu or only show videos with closed captions or display family-friendly videos.
I was surprised to find primetime, daytime, late night, sports, movies, specials and TV Classics shows available on Hulu to enjoy.

2.No, I have not watched a TV show on my cell phone. No, I am not interested in doing this. The screen would be to small for me to enjoy the program. When I watch TV I like to relax, not looking at a 2" square spot in my hand.

3.No, I do not watch any streaming programs or user channels. No, I have not posted any videos to a site at all.

iHCPL #78: Video

2010-01-25T17:30:00.000-08:00

1. Truveo--News, found a video on Haiti Stolen Tents
Music,found a video by Selema Gomez called Naturally
found the New York Times current paper
Blinkx--News, found a video on Haiti Stolen Tents
Music, found a video by Selema Gomez called Naturally, but I had a
very hard time finding it.
found articles from the New York Times Paper but not the whole paper.
On this site (Blinkx) I do not like the first page. To much movement going
on, fun to look at for a second or two but after that my eyes started to
hurt.
Of the two sites, I like Truveo the best. To me this site is easier to move around in. User-Friendly design!

2.I watched lots of the HCPL videos. Lots of fun events and programs have been going on here at HCPL. I really liked the video named "How Not to Reserve a Computer or Laptop at the Library." I bet the kids had a ball acting in it! Freeman has 3 or 4 videos with instructions on how to do things around the library which would be very helpful to the customers. We need to do this at Barbara Bush. (Yes, I know the Video committee is working on this) The videos on book reviews were good too. I really liked the ones titled "Check it Out" Again this is something we could do. Also, doing some videos on the childrens Programs could be done.
All for now, Cindy

iHCPL #77: Images

2010-01-20T13:02:00.000-08:00

1. I would say 13 clicks to a good color Santa. Page 2 has a Bear Santa, page 5 has a waving Santa(not a bad Santa), page 6 has a Santa in a sleigh, page 10 has a Santa reading his list, and page 13 has a Santa with a bell(the best Santa in the group)

2.SXC.hu
Setting up an account in this site would be good. Pictures are very clear.I liked how it was very easy getting a larger picture of the image. Under Image Categories: I looked at Abstract/Texture,Abstract/Shapes and Colors,Architecture/Styles/Ancient, Food/Fruits and Vegetables and Nature/water. I did a search on dogs and pinecones. You can submit your own photos on this site too.

Bigfoto.com
Got a window saying Network Access Message: Website cannnot be found

Freedigitalphotos.net
Creat a free account and download high resolution images for free.
I looked at categories: People, Celebration, Backgrounds and Illustrations, and Abstract background. I also read the terms, about, and contact information. So far I liked SXC.hu the best.

3.
Girl with Books
@jupiterimages

Boy with Books@jupiterimages

iHCPL #76: Sound Effects

2010-01-12T14:45:00.000-08:00

sparrow

vireo

whippoorwill

sparrow

cows

chickens

Dave helped me with the first three and Margaret helped me with the 4th one and I did the last two.

2.

oceans sounds

guitar

first guitar on page

applause

first applause

iHCPL #75: Google and Beyond

2010-01-04T13:41:00.000-08:00

1. I did 3 searches --1st search Bing, Google (1st and 2nd of the three tries)

2nd search Google, Bing

3rd search Google, Bing

I use Google 3 out of 4 searches.

No this will not affect how I do searches in the futre.

2. Google with 6.88 was #1

Facebook with 6.62 was #2

Yahoo Mail! with 3.75 was #3

Yahoo with 3.44 was #4

Bing with .96 was #10

Yes, I use Google first, second Bing, and third Ask.

3. Google. I found lots of new features I hope to use, they are

-Time and date for cities around the world

-Information on recent earthquakes

-Public Data: trends for population and unemployment rates of US States and counties

-People profiles

-Synonym search

-Currency Conversion

-Fill in the Blank Patent number

-Area Codes

-SafeSearch Filtering

And so much more.

#60 Food, Fun and Frugality

2009-05-23T07:34:00.000-07:00

1. I watched 6 of Clara's little food videos:
Pasta with Peas
Egg drop Soup
Poorman's Meal
Poorman's Feast
Sicilian Fig Cookies Part I
Sicilian Fig Cookies Part II
My Mother has an old recipe called Poormans Steak. I make it a couple times a year. You take hamburger, onion, etc.....pour mushroom soup over the hamburger and bake it . We like this meal, it is cheap, and it makes enough so we can have a second meal from it.

2. Making household cleaners, like shampoo and floor cleaners.
Go and checkout library books instead of buying books. ( I love this one)
If you are a senior citizen, always ask about special discount rates.
Wash your clothing in cold water, line dry if you can.
Tires, keep them properly inflated.

3. Forming a buying co-op with friends.
We do this now with some friends. Go to Sam's,
get toilet paper, paper towels, etc., divide all the stuff up, share the cost.
Use bus lines. Again, when I am going downtown, I will use the bus.
Turn off lights. Keep all lights off during the day and at night light only the rooms being used.
Buy used at consignment stores or online at Craiglist, etc..
When we go see a movie, we do it during the week, in the morning. It is cheaper at this time.

Facebook #55

2009-04-28T13:18:00.000-07:00

1. I have a Facebook Account.

2. I have searched and have found old friends from HS and College. And cousins, a niece and nephew.

3. I have poked, superpoked, send flowers, passed a drink and more. I was surprised to see all the different applications you could use and send.

4. 10 Privacy settings every Facebook user should know is a must read. I learned alot from that reading. Facebook should have this information on the first page of its site.

A person could be on Facebook all day. I would get very bored. I still like to see and hear my family and friends. Plus Facebook is so slow. I go into Facebook one or two times a day. Stay logged into it for 10-20 minutes. I do not really have a favorite application. What I discovered was how many applications there are, over 10 pages. Who has time to do it all?? Who would want to do it all? All for now.

Money & Fincance #59

2009-04-27T16:27:00.000-07:00

1. I read the article and took the credit score quiz. I got an 80% on the quiz. Not bad, not good. I missed the Fair Isaac and Co., the company who develped the score system and one more.( I can not remember the second one I missed) The 2 parts most interesting to me was the Credit Score Breakdown and Improving Your Score.
How they use all the information in the credit history, how they break it down to percents was very interesting. 10% on new credit and 15% on the length of time you've had credit are new to me. And I did not know that keeping old credit accounts open, even if you are not using them, was good for Improving your Score.

2. Do we have a budget? Well, yes we do, a very loose budget. We do not write everything down that we purchase. But we know we can not go out everyday to the mall and go crazy. We know what bills to pay when and how much goes into the saving accounts. I had a budget when I was in college. Not a extra penny to my name. It was very hard. Seeing some kids go out shopping and you know you can't do any extra shopping that week. Not any fun.

3. I have never looked at the TCDRS site. Soooo everything on the site was new to me. I would be able to look at my personal account, find forms and publications on retiring. And in the Resources link, I could send days looking at all the different links to help me out with retirement. I did not setup an account for now. Maybe in a couple of year from now.

Money & Finance #58

2009-04-25T09:17:00.000-07:00

1. My bank does offer free online banking but we are not signed up for it. I am hoping in the near future we will do this. Some of the online services are, financial calculators, secure banking forms and links to other areas of interest. A person can view checking and savings accounts, tranfers, pay bills and see alerts on your accounts. Security is very important. Prior to being logged in, I might be required to anwser 1 of 3 security questions I have previously chosen. I may use a virtual security device to enter my password after submitting my login ID as normal.

2. I looked at Wesbae and Foonance. Wesbae would be the one I would use. I watched and listen to the 3 minute video. The Wesbas Group looked like a interesting way to learn what the general opinion is on different subjects. At this time, I do not see us using this.

3. We already do a few of the things listed to reduce cost like purchase store brands, we use generic drugs and we have a multipolicy discount for insurane on our home and auto. I would like to get some of the florescent bulbs for our home, but I have heard that they need to be recycled after they burn out. I would have to find a place to do this. We have always check Consumer Report for big ticket items. I have never gone onto the internet to check for prices. I will have to do this next time we are buying something.

Spring Cleaning #30

2008-03-29T07:51:00.001-07:00

I have saved items to the S drive before, so I have done step 1 in the exercise. I looked at the P drive and found somethings that were no longer in use. The Form Folder had old and second, third copies of forms that I have deleted. But I did not feel I could just delete them without asking Annette first. We decided together that we could delete them, whick I have done. A person could get into trouble deleting items on a branch drive. Some of the oldest forms I deleted were from 8/2003.

My personal folder on the z drive is organized.(I think) I can find posters and flyers I have made in the past pretty fast. I do look at my folders two or three times a year to determine if there is anything I can delete or relocate. All for now.

Spring Cleaning--Email #29

2008-03-25T13:45:00.000-07:00

Spring Cleaning--Email. My email is up to date most days. Out of 167 emails(on March15), I now have 130 or less. I also deleted one or two folders I was not using. At this time I have a gmail and yahoo accounts. I don't think I need a third email account. All for now.

Spring Cleaning # 28

2008-03-10T13:40:00.000-07:00

GTD-Getting Things Done. I like the idea of making GTDs easy to store, track and retrieve the information you need to complete the tasks. The Ticker File would be very helpful. I hope to use this system.

I looked at the Google Calendar. Had to wait a minute or two to get in. My paper calendar is always right on my desk, waiting for me. I also looked at Remember the Milk site. Lists, reminders, share work with co-worker, and plan your time can all be done on this site. Get organize and have fun while you do it. ( It is still work) Again my paper calendar is on my desk. Yes, I know not everything can be done with my paper calendar. But for me, my paper calendar does what I need it to do. I also checkout the Ta-Da List. All these sites are great. A person can make list, setup reminders, organize meeting, but if you do not take the time to look at the site at least once a day( or more) none of this planning will help. All for now.

Week 10 post 23

2007-11-19T14:36:00.000-08:00

10 weeks have gone by fast! And I have learned alot of new, interesting and fun things. From Internet Safety to blobbing, making a meeze, learning about Del.cio.us, Zoho, and YouTube. And much more. All of this has been new to me. Can I do it again. Well, maybe, after I review my notes. But I now know all this is out there in computer space ( and much, much more) What was the best. Having my own blog, and bloglines. Making a meeze was great fun. I hope to get back on Zoho and learn more about it. Learning about mashups, Library Thing and Elf was good too.

What was hard about iHCPL was finding the time to work on it. ( and I thought this would not be a problem but it was) One lesson a week would have been more my speed. But when I had to work on 3 lessons a week, it was a problem. I had a hard time finding 2 to 3 hours extra at work a week to get the lessons done. Overall it was a good program. Learned alot of interesting things. All for now!!

Week 9 post 22

2007-11-14T14:10:00.000-08:00

Downloadable Media
I looked at Librivox and WOWIO. Librivox deals with audiobooks that are in Public Domain. Volunteers read the books. Lots of classics in Librivox. And you can get an RSS link. I Watched the Help with WOWIO tour. I did not know sites like Librivox and WOWIO were out there on the web.

HCPL's digital media site is full of so many new, interesting, and fun items. I watched the Digital Media Guide Tour. I found many things I was interested in. "The Good Cookie:.....", "Quick Family Meals in No Time" and "Your Planet or Mine" are some of the items I liked. You do have to install and upgrade some files. I guess this is the same for all downloadable media sites. All for now.

Week 9 post 21

2007-11-13T13:32:00.000-08:00

Podcast. One more way to communicate with a group of people. You can put your information out there in computer space and anyone can listen or watch it. I do not understand who has time to listen to all of this INFORMATION!?! I know you can pick around and listen to just what might interest you. But just finding information on one subject takes time. I RSS to Kankalee Public Library Podcast. I listen to some of the information they were passing on. But I got bored. Again you have to be careful with the information, is it correct or not, who is really the source, and is the information timely.

Just like YouTube, a company can put out information about the company or new services and let people discover it on Podcast. All for now.

Week 9 post 20

2007-11-12T13:36:00.000-08:00

YouTube is very entertaining. You can watch little videos all day long. You can find videos on anything!! I can see HCPL doing a little video to show the public something about a new service. I saw videos on cats, dogs, christmas, and my most favorite is the singing mom. She is singing about all the words or phrases she tells her kids all day long. It is a great little video. All for now.

Week 8 post 19

2007-10-30T14:41:00.000-07:00

Well, I guess the doc. from Zoho was not formated right. But I was in Zoho and I now have an account. Looks great(until now). All for now.

hello.....Zoho Writer

2007-10-30T14:40:00.001-07:00

Week 8 Post 19

Hello,

I have just signed into Zoho Writer. I have an account.

This is great. I am in Zoho writer right now. I will have to play with this. All for now

Week 8 post 18

2007-10-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

I like to look at all the pictures on Dogster and Catster. The animals are all so cute! The tour on Facebook was interesting. I also looked at Myspace, Myopera, Infield Parking, Ning, and Linkedin. All fun sites, full of interesting people and things to do. Knowing of all these sites is good but I am not interested in them for me. I still like to see a face or hear a voice when I am visiting with people . I know I am old fashion. I also know that if you are going to be networking these days, for fun or business, all these sites have good information. All for now.

Week 7 post 17

2007-10-24T12:14:00.000-07:00

Technology is great. We can now do so many more things because of it. But it all changes so fast. I will learn something new. Come back to it in a week or two. It has changed. I have to learn it all over again. I do enjoy change most of the time, but does it have to change so fast?Adopting new ways of working can be fun most of the time. And I do think the more we(libraries) keep current with technology, the stronger the library system will be.
All for now!

Week 7 post 16

2007-10-23T12:02:00.000-07:00

I now have a login for ihcpl wiki. And I have added my blog to the favorite blogs page.

The most interesting facts about a wiki account is that it can be changed or updated by anyone out there in the internet world. This is a good and bad feature. If the wiki is for a group project, updating, communicating and discussing the project is easy for each person in the group. If the wiki is about one subject, with facts on the subject, the question is, who is the person writing the wiki and are all the facts true or not. This could be a big problem in the long run for people who might not know this. But if a group of people on a committee, working together, a wiki would be a great way to communicate with each member within the group. All for now!

Week 6 post 15

2007-10-18T11:53:00.000-07:00

I have read A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto, Librarianship, and the article on Library 2.0 with great references. This is all new to me. I have not heard of library 2.0 before this. Some new ideas for me and some old ones.

With Library 2.0 library services are constantly updated and reevaluated to best serve library users. This is from Library 2.0. This is an old idea to me. All the Library systems I have worked for in the past (and now) have always worked very hard to be current with technology, resources, etc. Money has always been a problem. And I think money will always be a problem. New technology and resources can be a great expense. And the question is how up-to-date can we(HCPL) go.

The key principles of Library 2.0 are not just about access to books and information. It is about innovation, about people, and about community building, enabled through the participation that social computing brings. This is also from Libraray 2.0. Social Computing is a new term for me. At this time I do not understand this term . I will have to read more about.

What I do understand about Library2.0 is that libraries should be in constant motion. Always looking for the newest resources out in the world. And open to new ways of doing things and servicing the public.

Week 6 post 14

2007-10-17T13:14:00.000-07:00

Got into Technorati. Sooo Much information!! I did a search by Blog Post on learning 2.0 and I got 127 hits. With Blog Directory, I got 311 hits on the same search. The hits with Blog Directory was more on the business of learning 2.0. While with Blog Post, chatting about learning 2.0 was more on the fun side. I also looked at adding a link to my bookmark toolbar for Technorati. I decided not to do it. And I am afraid of a little code you can configure for automatic pinging. I will not be doing ping. I also looked at the most popular Blogs. Again so much information. I could be looking at blogs all day. All for now!

Week 6 post 13 second posting

2007-10-15T15:59:00.000-07:00

Well, I got into Del.icio.us tutorial. The tutorial is alittle weak, you can not see what the speaker is talking about. But this is a great resource. I have found the comments and tags. Great way to share information. All for now!

Week 6 Post 13

2007-10-15T13:58:00.000-07:00

I have got into the Del.icio.us tutorial and it will play for 32 seconds and then start all over again. I have done this 6 times in the last 15 minutes. I have also looked at the website Del.icio.us, Several habits and us.ef.ul. I do not have an account but in the past I have looked at and used the HCPL Account for somethings. Tonight I will look at the tutorial again and see if I can watch it. All for now!

Week 5 post 12

2007-10-10T10:19:00.000-07:00

I have registered for Library Elf today. From what I can see, the muliple card checking feature would be great for families with lots of library cards. This feature would be very helpful for a busy family on the go. For me, (one person) what HCPL does is just fine. All for now!

Week 5 Post 11

2007-10-09T12:01:00.000-07:00

Here is my link to Libray Thing. I have a list of 5 books. Very helpful site. I am thinking I can use this site with my list of displays and the items that are on display. All for now!
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Booking25&shelf=list

notechgirl

2007-10-08T14:12:00.001-07:00

Week 5 post 10

2007-10-08T13:39:00.000-07:00

Picture of my meez is above. Had fun doing this. Could have done this for hours and hours. I think Meez and Yahoo, Avatars are the same thing. Also Customize Comic Strips is fun. All for now!

Week 4 post 9

2007-10-03T09:10:00.000-07:00

I have checked out all the site ihcpl listed for bloglines. Very interesting!! I could read about any subject under the sun if I wanted too. I liked the feeds for weather, travel, news and libraries. This sounds very boring but this is what I find interesting. I loved the title of one feed, Peek @ Rare Books. I enjoyed this feed. All for now!

Week 4 Post 8

2007-10-02T12:10:00.000-07:00

Well, I now have a blog and bloglines. I am learning alot but I do not have time to enjoy all this. I have to rush to get the lessons done. Oh well, I do like knowing what is out there in tech land. I have 15 feeds now. Garden's Gift, NYT Book Review, Bloglines/News, BBC News, About Literature: Contemporary and Home & Gardners TV are just some of the ones I have subscribed too. All for now.

Week 3 post 7

2007-09-26T12:33:00.000-07:00

First picture (green horses) I used Pixer. And for the second picture I use Picnik.

Doll Display IHCPL

2007-09-26T12:32:00.001-07:00

Doll Display IHCPL
Originally uploaded by pille.cindy

Lomo-ish format second picture for this post.

Week 3 post 7

2007-09-26T12:06:00.000-07:00

Green Horses!! Oh boy !

Week 3 post 6

2007-09-25T12:33:00.000-07:00

Had fun looking at the mashups, tools, etc. I liked Spell with Flickr. But I really like Colr Pickr(Colorpicker). The colors are just wonderful. May I use a picture from Colr Pickr in a flyer or poster that I might make? I could look at this site all day. What a delight to see all the color and movement in the pictures. All for now.

Week 3 post 5

2007-09-25T12:09:00.000-07:00

I had to do this lesson twice. The first set of pictures do not link to Flickr. The second set of pictures do. I did not understand that this was part of the lesson( to link with Frickr). So anyway, I got it the second time around. Learning alot doing ihcpl. All for now.

Doll Display IHCPL

2007-09-25T12:05:00.001-07:00

Doll Display IHCPL
Originally uploaded by pille.cindy

Doll display at the library in September

Doll Display IHCPL

2007-09-25T12:04:00.001-07:00

Doll Display IHCPL
Originally uploaded by pille.cindy

Doll dsplay at the library for September.

Week 3-lesson5

2007-09-24T13:45:00.001-07:00

Doll Display at Barbara Bush Branch Library IHCPL

Internet Safety

2007-09-20T14:02:00.000-07:00

We all must be careful with what we post online. We have to remember, what we put online, the whole world can see. Anyone can read, and use the info. I have friends who pay all their bills online. I will not do this yet. I do feel that sometime in the future, bill paying will only be done online. In the meantime I am very careful sharing personal info with anyone on the internet. I do enjoy the internet! So much information is out there to find. All for now.

Learning about iHCPL

2007-09-18T11:36:00.000-07:00

Getting all the homework done for iHCPL will not be very hard.
I enjoy learning new things. Finding the time to get the homework done will be the hardest thing about this project. I am off the Reference Desk in the afternoon for 2 hours, so I will take an hour to work on iHCPL at this time. I can not believe I have a blog! All for now.

Good Morning to you!!

2007-09-17T11:32:00.000-07:00

Good Morning to all. This is my first posting on my Blog.