Tyler starts walking, finally

Podcasts

Yep, got itunes on my desktop and way to go! Added podcasts for WSJ Journal Report, Tech updates, and I even found out there are Rick Steves audio tours for Italy & France and the best thing is it is free! I wish I know that earlier.

Browser tools & Picasa

This is another reason to love firefox--the possibility to add a variety of extensions.

Cooliris works really well for me, it is like botox for pictures. Speaking of Botox, I simply have to mention Picasa, the picture-editing software. There is a newly added function called touchup on its latest version, Picasa 3, which is way more user friendly than photoshop, and get the job done in a few clicks--wrinkles, gone, blemishes, gone, scars, gone!

http://picasa.google.com/

Facebook

I do have a facebook account, so once you can locate Ryerson Library, you are likely to catch all of us :P

Googleopoly

Some interesting articles uploaded to my Google Docs:

Google ebooks project: Googleopoly

Google Street View has been quite a debate over the privacy issues. Here's an interesting article about this- All-seeing Google Street View prompts privacy fears
and another one just for fun: Top 15 Google Street View Sightings

LibraryThing

It is great! I love it. I always think that library patrons should be able to retrieve/save what they have previously borrowed. The Zeitgeist is helpful in my case as well, considering the cultural/literary immersion is one of those things one immigrant may find his/herself constantly trying through his/her whole life.

delicious and social bookmarking

I've signed up with del.icio.us a couple years ago and chickened out for some reason that I can't remember (I am guessing now it is probably because I need to download this plugin). Now I find myself once again registering myself to yet another account (what's the best way to manage all the accounts/psw one have? it is definitely getting out of control). I overcame the fear and downloaded the plugin, and find it incredibly useful, helpful, and user-friendly.

I certainly find it liberating since I don't have to go to a particular machine to access my bookmark, and since it is also a social discovery system, I can see what others are posting and what tags they are using and the most popular ones are definitely worth checking out. Among the examples given, PennTags is the most impressive and since it has been up and running for more than three years, I wonder if it is still being heavily used, and if it is starting to replace Blackboard or WebCT, or if the Penn version of CFAPs?

talking about flexibility

Tyler wondering why he can't get his blue ball on track