A look at the world outside the library’s doors.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2010
The New York Public Library announced today (via Facebook) the launch of their new website. Complete with a new logo the site is warm and inviting, exhorting visitors to “Discover, Connect, Get Inspired”. The color palette is soothing; shades of green and brown (or is that taupe, I’m not sure) remind me of warmer months [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2010
Now that the holiday season is winding down, reports are starting to surface indicating that online shopping increased during 2009, by as much as 5%. Interestingly enough, the pre-Christmas snowstorm in the northeast may have contributed to this increase. News story from Maximum PC
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2009
Sorry I haven’t posted lately, but I was thrown from a horse, shattered my tibia, and have been recuperating since Nov. 22, 2009. I have read about 30 books, watched endless streams of DVD’s, learned to knit, played the dulcimer, and taught my dog new tricks. I turned the TV on for one day and [...]
Posted in Technology, Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2009
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Face it, you’ve been obsessed with the red planet ever since you watched those early sci-fi movies on Saturday mornings. Did you ever dream of being an astronaut? Here’s an opportunity for you to view images of Mars never seen before.
NASA needs your help. They have launched a project called “Be a Martian.” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2009
The video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was launched for multiple platforms last week and broke sales records not only within the video game industry but over other entertainment sales platforms, including those for movies, music CDs and bestselling books. Public libraries have begun to experiment with circulating video games, some with great [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2009
Today’s the day we have been waiting for. Windows 7 is now officially in release! Check out this report from our pals at Maximum PC about how it’s going out there. Here at Amazing we had hoped to get in on the beta, but no dice. Dave is considering upgrading his Vista laptop to 7. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2009
Foursquare goes a step beyond text messaging and Twitter. Instead of texting friends to find out what they’re doing, or following them on Twitter, you can check in with Foursquare and see where your friends are and join them. It skips the step of calling and asking someone if they want to join you for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2009
Have you ever wondered how to create a random mix of your favorite music on your portable digital audio player that you could continue to update so it would always be fresh? Here’s an easy way to do just that!
What you’ll need:
A Windows PC
A Windows portable digital audio player
Windows Media Player Version 11
Digital [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2009
It was a year ago today that Google launched its “10 to the 100″ campaign. Google invited people to submit an idea that would change the world by helping as many people as possible. They have pledged $10 million to bring the winning ideas to life.
Google is asking people to vote on the 16 themes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2009
instantShift brings us this article on “The Konami Code” and ways it can be implemented in your site with a little JavaScript. Scroll down the article for some examples of how the code has been used on some of the most popular sites on the Internet.