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Compfight: The Perfect Flickr Image Search Tool
via Read|WriteWeb News by Corvida on May 24, 2008
Searching around for an image for a blog post is one of the most frustrating procedures of blogging. It could take hours to find that perfect image. These are hours, minutes, and seconds that most of us would rather not waste. Normally, one might head to Google Image Search, but there can be legal issues to using it. Instead, why not try out Flickr image search tool Compfight.Compfight...
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Sony Reader news: ePub, kinda reflowable PDF and the boldface issue
via TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by David Rothman on May 25, 2008
The ePub-capable Adobe Digital Editions was demoed with the Sony PRS-505 at the IDPF conference this month. You”ll be able to use the just-released Digital Editions 1.5 update to send ePub files to the Sony Reader with the forthcoming firmware in place on the tablet. But many other questions are still racing through my mind.Reflowable, kindaWhat’s this about reflowable PDF in Digital...
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Publisher Extension Makes Wikis Editable in OpenOffice [Featured Download]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 21, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux (OpenOffice): The Sun Wiki Publisher, a free extension for the OpenOffice.org office suite, lets you edit and contribute to any MediaWiki-based page on the web, assuming it accepts anonymous editing or you have credentials. The real benefit lies in being able to use OpenOffice's styling tools—bolding, lists, tables, and the like—instead of having to remember the...
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Updated ranking of world repositories
via Open Access News by noreply@blogger.com (Peter Suber) on May 25, 2008
Webometrics has updated its ranking of world repositories. From the site:Our schedule is to publish an updated version of the Ranking Web of World Repositories two times per year (January and July) as we already do with the other Rankings produced by our Cybermetrics Lab. In the meantime we want to offer a second and last beta version that collects some of the comments and advices we have...
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Five Extensions You Won't Need with Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 19, 2008
Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's feature set, it's clear the new browser iteration will render some extensions obsolete. Firefox 3 will include functionality out-of-the-box that you could only get with add-ons before. Let's take a look at five extensions you might not need when you switch to Firefox 3. NoSquint: Never have to enlarge the text on that web page with the...
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Send A Google Reader Item To Twitter
via RB | Week by (author unknown) on April 17, 2008
Corvida via SheGeeks shared by 9 people Did you know that there’s a Greasemonkey script that allows you to share a Google Reader item on Twitter? Selective SharingFor those who may be debating on adding their Link Blog feed to your Twitter accounts, this could be a great solution. If you’re overwhelmed with feeds and share a lot of items daily, you may be a little hesitant to...
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Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 02, 2008
You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to its fullest potential? There are hundreds of scripts available for installation from userscripts.org, so it can be difficult to know which ones are must-haves. We've rounded up our favorite scripts for fans of social media and...
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Starr: Ted Kennedy, the Red Sox and Cancer
via Newsweek Top News by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
There was great sorrow and triumph in Boston this week. Cancer remains terrifying, but there's increasing hope.
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Academic Publishing Wiki
via del.icio.us|subscriptions|kariek by lms4w on May 21, 2008
! This project is meant to give people with original ideas a means of obtaining peer review and constructive criticism, and also to publish these ideas in wiki format for the free use and benefit of others. Works can first be placed in wiki format as an i bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by lms4w topublishingwikisscholarly_communication -...
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Can e-Publishing Overcome Copyright Concerns?
via Pogue's Posts by David Pogue on May 21, 2008
David Pogue takes a stand on the issue of copyright protection and electronic publishing.
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