Google Translate – Awesome resource

Well, I think Mightysearch was more then I could chew, the very nature of the beast would mean  me dedicating more time then I humanly have. I introduce Google Translate a fantastic resource like Babelfish, but with more functionality.  If you commonly translate between two languages then you can even add a button on your [...]

Mightysearch.org.uk

I want to introduce a project that I am working on called Mightysearch.  The idea is simple, it has already been done before, but as far as I know not in a forum environment.  Using a free hosting service that uses phpBB forums (imho the most adaptable and easy to use) I have created a [...]

Probing the hidden web with Complete Planet

What an invaluable tool.  Bright Planet featured in an article on SearchEngineWatch about the Hidden Web/Deep Web/ Invisible Web, and years ago introduced me to one of my favourite search engines. Complete Planet searches web pages and sites that are stored away in databases or ‘hidden’ from the realms of Google and more traditional search [...]

The Index Card Revival

http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/10/10/24-things-you-can-do-with-an-index-card/ I vaguely remember index cards, at school we had little card wallets that we called library cards but still the catalogues were on an OPAC.  Admittedly we, as an institution, still had a few things on index cards dotted around but what are we going to do with with all these old cards that [...]

25 Fantastic Web Tutorials, everything you need to know about the web in tutorial form!

http://mashable.com/2007/10/11/25-tutorials-web-minded/  I have already recommended a few people to these websites.  Mashable a great resource and a really good example of the Web 2.0 working for the benefit of the user!  Although these websites seem to focus on web related topics, they collectively make a fantastic resource!

Web 2.0: Thirteen great 2.0 resources for librarians

This originally appeared to me in a dream, not really, I think someone tagged it on http://del.icio.us and I stashed it away in my favourites folder only to be rediscovered earlier today when I was having a hunt for something else totally different. http://infodoodads.com/?p=165 I have really discovered WorldCat, which is an amazing resource, and don’t [...]

Librarians Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org/)

I am going to start with most probably the most hyped resource that Librarians have available to them on the internet, I say hyped because 9/10 librarians who have a blog will have this as a link somewhere on their website.  Maybe a generalisation? Yes it is totally, but like so many websites that generate [...]