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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Jennifer Bergen at PC Mag.com creates a list of 10 Awesome Alternatives to Instagram. If you like applying filters and effects to your mobile photos, you’ll want to check out these apps. Here are the first five recommendations:
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
The start of 2012 has been great for library technology stories. Here are 16 of them that you won’t want to miss. Please list any other recent library tech stories in the comments!!
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
The folks at the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog have rounded up 50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits. This excellent list of free or low-cost applications is a must-see for non-profit orgs who want to track mentions of their organizations on social networking sites, create charity review sites, collect donations, and much more.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
ALA Midwinter has kicked of the 2012 library conference season and soon we’ll be looking forward to Computers in Libraries, PLA, and ALA Annual among others. Here are 8 phone apps which will come in handy at these all of these events:
Check in not only at the event itself, but into indiviual sessions, receptions, luncheons, local restaurants, museums, and other venues. See who else is there, leave tips for other conference attendees, and network via this mobile social app. (Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phones, & more).
This app lets you connect with business professionals in your proximity. It uses geo-location and smart tagging to help you find and be found. (Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, & Windows Phones).
beamME finds interesting people nearby based on your profile. You can then easily chat, share your actual location or contact information and meet – all from within the app. You can even connect it to Facebook and Twitter to see which contacts are at the event. (Available for iPhone only).
Access social information about the conference you’re attending such as scheduled events, who’s attending the conference, what people are saying about the sessions and the locale, view photos that friends are posting, and chat with other conference attendees. (Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phones, & more).
Share all sorts of contact and social network information by bumping two phones together with the app. Just choose what you want to share/send and then hold the phones together. you can then message them through the app as well. (Available for iPhone and Android).
Stream live video from the event to your Ustream account from your phone. You can notify your Twitter and Facebook social networks as you start your broadcast so that they can join you. You can make your broadcast social by integrating a live Twitter or Facebook feed. (Available for iPhone and Android).
Shhmooze lets you check into conferences or meetup events and find out who’s interesting based on your profile and theirs. Connect with other attendees by virtually waving to break the ice.
(Available for iPhone and Android).
This handy app uses your iPhone’s GPS and network triangulation capabilities to instantly locate free Wi-Fi Internet hotspots wherever you are in the world online or offline. (Available for iPhone and Android).
Please list the apps you find most helpful at library conferences in the comments!!
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
The Library Of Congress announced yesterday that it has released a free iPad app that it developed at the initiative of House Leadership and under the guidance of the Committee on House Administration. Through this app, The Congressional Record is delivered as fully searchable pdf documents which can be read and saved on the iPad and also shared via email.
With this app you can:
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Bob Tedeschi writes for the New York Times’ Personal Tech section on The Year’s Top 10 Apps for Android Phones. Paper Camera which provides filters to turn your photos into cartoons and 8tracks’ socially curated Internet radio are particularly tempting.
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
2011 was quite a year here at iLibrarian! As usual, it’s been a great experience. I’ve been taking a look back at what was particularly popular in terms of posts this past year and I’ve rounded up the top 30 which were the most well-received. I’d love to hear suggestions for future content you’d like to see here at iLibrarian, and I also welcome guest posts! So please go ahead and leave some suggestions in the comments section.