del.icio.us/url

Del.icio.us is without a doubt my favorite place to put my bookmarks, but it’s also a pretty slick search engine, since its entire database consists of sites that other people (real living breathing non-robot people!) have found useful enough to save for later. But did you know that you can also use del.icio.us to find [...]

WhatTheFont Forum – typography geeks rejoice!

Back in my “document creation specialist” days, when my job was to design digital menus and business cards that exactly matched paper prototypes, I could identify hundreds of fonts by sight. I could have told you the fonts used in any movie’s credits, any billboard, any packaging, anything. Sadly, font knowledge is one of those [...]

FireShot – screenshot editor for Firefox

Screen shots are a huge part of my workflow, especially for library instruction handouts. Mac OS has always featured an elegant keyboard shortcut + diagonal drag method for grabbing screen shots, while the Windows routine has been the print screen button + paste + cropping every single shot. Clearly cropping is a big time waster. [...]

artViper’s Text Tag Cloud Generator

Here’s a super easy way to generate your own tag clouds from any block of text. Check it out: http://www.artviper.net/texttagcloud/ Free: Yes

Google reader – blogs, news, even photos all in one place

I was a late adopter to RSS but I’m now a true believer in putting it all in one place. Feed readers abound, but I’m using Google Reader since I was already a big fan of Gmail and Google Calendar. My favorite use of Google Reader is to add feeds to the latest Flickr pictures [...]