Everyone can be a Super Hero

If you haven’t seen these inspirational quotes and essays about living life simply, they are great. Thanks to Deirdre, I got this one and I really like it. Cheer up!

clipped from www.cheerupnation.com Post-it Note #19 Point is anyone at any moment can decide to become a hero.  Don’t wait to find the magical cape. Leap. The magic is YOU.

Searching the Rellies

ResearchBuzz has a great research tool for genealogists posted on her site. I searched the site for some relatives and came up with some interesting information. You can also save the census pages to your own computer.

clipped from www.researchbuzz.org Footnote Makes 1930 US Census Free Through End of August Footnote.com announced yesterday that its 1930 US Census is going to be available free online through the end of August. The direct URL for the resource is http://go.footnote.com/1930census/. You will have to register to have free access, but all the registration asks for is an e-mail address and a password.

Vanishing Web Info – Now a Reality?

Making things disappear on the web has been on my mind since I was found by someone I didn’t really want to find me. This new program looks promising, but brings up the issue of what you want to eliminate and when. Blog posts? Email? Why not just think before you send?

clipped from www.newswise.com This Article Will Self-destruct: A Tool to Make Online Personal Data Vanish Newswise — Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a job interview. A lost cell phone can expose personal photos or text messages. A legal investigation can subpoena the entire contents of a home or work computer, uncovering incriminating, inconvenient or just embarrassing details from the past. The University of Washington has developed a way to make such information expire. After a set time period, electronic communications such as e-mail, Facebook posts and chat messages would automatically self-destruct, becoming irretrievable from all Web sites, inboxes, outboxes, backup sites and home computers. Not even the sender could retrieve them.

Taking Notes with Sound and Images

John Di Giglio has a great review of EverNotes, an online notetaking software.

clipped from ibraryguy.tumblr.com EverNote may be among best . . . ever! » Welcome EverNote!  A free tool designed to let you easily and quickly “capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and [which] makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere”.  EverNote is accessible via smartphone (I have it on my iPhone), desktop (I have it on my Mac), and also via the web (click the link above).  It supports various devices and multiple platforms.  EverNote can be used to capture information / text, photos, audio, and even video. And did I mention that it is free?!?!?

Whatever Font You Want

This post by Jennifer Farley tells WordPress users how to improve their font options.

clipped from www.sitepoint.com Use Whatever Font You Please On WordPress Earlier in the year, Alex wrote an article about Cufon, a method of text replacement which uses JavaScript to replace HTML text with canvas elements that render the text in vector format. Basically if you’re a designer who is fed up or confused about the inability to put whatever type you darn well please on your web site, Cufon can help. For a more thorough overview on how text replacement works, read Alex’s article.

British Singing

I know that many people have posted he video of Susan Boyle’s performance on Britain’s Got Talent. I watched it again his evening and am so touched, not only by her signing but by how she stood up for herself. She knew people thought she was a joke and didn’t let it get her down. Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Libraries Irrelevant??

There are often stories and media attention about how everything is on the Internet and libraries are irrelevant. Here is another important document found in a library. It may be scanned to the Internet someday, but the original will never be on the Internet. Thanks to the NSW State Library for preserving this document!

clipped from news.yahoo.com Original ‘Schindler’s List’ found in Sydney Workers at the New South Wales State Library found the list, containing the names of 801 Jews saved from the Holocaust by the businessman, as they sifted through boxes of Australian author Thomas Keneally’s manuscript material.

Romance, Blog Style

Forget Match.com. Create a well respected blog, write well and gather 500K followers. This seems to be the recipe for romance in Blogland. Anything is possible, I guess.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.

Finally! Undo that Oops Email

Google has introduced an unsend feature that, apparently, really works (unlike Outlook’s recall feature). The only drawback is that you have to have a Google account, if you consider that a drawback.

clipped from www.popgadget.net Gmail’s Undo Send gifts you five seconds to purge your sins If you haven’t heard of it yet, Gmail has recently introduced the “Undo Send” feature to recall an e-mail that you’ve sent. This latest tweak allows you to reclaim your sent mail if it happens to be within 5 seconds of hitting the “Send” button. And that’s nothing short of an official manna from heaven as far as habitual offenders like me are concerned – my entries to the e-mail hall of shame are one too many as I most often end up clicking the “Send” button on my e-mail instead of the “Save” button.

Organizational System for Visual People

Notebookism has posted another organizational system. This one, however looks like it might be one that us visual learners can use without the pain and suffering of other more word based systems.

clipped from www.notebookism.com The Circle – a simple ToDo System to Get more Things Done Sigurdur Armannsson wrote in to invite us to an article he wrote last week about a simple to do organising system for notebooks. “this is the Circle system. It’s simple and it does not cost you anything and you don’t need to read a book about it. I (and you, when you have adopted the system) gain several things: A really reliable and fast working visual overview of the status of every project. I see instantly if a page has circles that are not fully filled. In a while you will notice that you try to get all the circles filled up so you don’t have to look back on older pages. You will be aware that you are actually getting more done. The circles are the proof….” Learn more.