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IL2009: When Students Go Mobile

When Students go Mobile: The Effects of Smartphones on Information Literacy and Academic Library Services Kristen Yarmey-Tylutki Students with smartphones think of them as leisure devices, not academic devices -- only 11% in a recent survey. But this is likely...

Posted by Ken Varnum on October 27, 2009 7:53 PM

RSS to iPhone / iPod touch

DoYouFeed, a site that takes an RSS feed and formats it for pretty viewing on an iPhone or iPod touch. Once you give it an RSS feed to process, it returns an iPhone- iPod touch-friendly web page with the headlines...

Posted by Ken Varnum on November 20, 2008 10:25 AM

Google Chrome and RSS

I've just started playing with Google Chrome, Google's new browser. Its strengths are impressive, but I was disappointed to see no support, as yet, for reading RSS feeds. They display as text, with all tags stripped out, and no semblance...

Posted by Ken Varnum on September 4, 2008 9:31 AM

Geotagging Photos When You Take Them

I wrote about geotagging photographs way back in the fall of 2006. This means attaching longitude and latitude data to a photograph so it can be mapped. Most shutterbugs who geotag their photos do so after the fact, using various...

Posted by Ken Varnum on May 22, 2008 3:09 PM

Snazzy Icons for iPhone/iPod Touch Web Clips

Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch allow users to save "web clips" -- favorite web pages -- directly to the device's home screen -- so one tap of the finger on the icon takes you directly to that site. By default,...

Posted by Ken Varnum on May 15, 2008 2:18 PM