http://ase.org/section/_audience/consumers
Information here on energy efficiency tax credits, tips on lowering energy costs, home energy, a home energy check-up and audit, and more.
7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave November 1, 2009
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7055.pdf
Educause offers another entry in its 7 Things You Should Know… series here on a Google’s new form of electronic communication.
United States Postal Service Web Site October 25, 2009
This is the new U. S. Postal Service mobile web site.
Doodle : Easy Scheduling October 18, 2009
An free online tool that requires no registration to help you in scheduling meetings, appointments, etc.
WorldTimeServer.com October 18, 2009
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
“Are you about to make an International long distance phone call? Are you planning a trip to a foreign destination? Are you preparing for a web cast or online meeting? Are you looking for a free clock for your own web site or blog? Just want to know what time it is? The Internet can bring locations around the world together, but with each place having different times, World Time Server is here to help!”–From the Web site.
7 Things You Should Know About : Collaborative Annotation October 11, 2009
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutColla/182641
Educause offers in this addition to it “7 Things You Should Know About” series information on collaborative annotation tools that enhance the concept of social bookmarking. Educause lists Diigo, MyStickies, Reframe it, and Google Sidewiki as examples of collaborative annotation tools
History of U. S. Flight September 10, 2009
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/hof/index.htm
“The national “Centennial of Flight: Born of Dreams – Inspired by Freedom” celebration commemorates this achievement and 100 years of aviation history. Our Centennial Partners are planning everything from cross-country tours to air shows and exhibitions, seminars and television specials. Use our Web site to access the most up-to-date information on celebration activity as well as the most comprehensive collection of outstanding educational essays, multimedia and links regarding the history of flight.”–From the website.
Home Energy Saver September 10, 2009
Developed by the Environmental Energies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this web site is designed to help customers save energy in their homes and to find the resources that will provide them with the savings.
Online Conversion Tools For Adobe PDF Documents September 3, 2009
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
PDF files can be converted to text or html on this site.
How Big Is The Internet? August 8, 2009
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25857420-5018992,00.html
The new service news.com.au offers this article on the size of the Internet. The number of Internet users for major countries is incuded as well as some facts such as Google has already indexed over a trillion discrete web addresses.
Bing : Searching For Health Information July 10, 2009
http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/07/07/searching-for-health-information.aspx
This is a guide to searching for health information using the Bing search engine, which includes information on what Bing calls the “trusted resources” Bing gives searchers access to.
Media College May 22, 2009
Media College “is a free educational and resource website for all forms of electronic media. Topics include video & television production, audio work, photography, graphics, web design and more. [They] have hundreds of exclusive tutorials with supporting illustrations, videos, sound bytes and interactive features. You’ll also find reference material, utilities and other useful goodies, as well as a helpful forum.”
The tutorials look pretty good, and the site even archives operating manuals for different types of equipment.
Wolfram|Alpha May 22, 2009
Wolfram|Alpha has been getting a lot of buzz lately, but if you haven’t come across it yet, it is a “computational knowledge engine.” What does that mean? Well, I could try to explain it to you, but Phil Bradley has done a much better job than I could: Phil Bradley’s post on Wolfram|Alpha.
Most important thing to note: This is NOT a search engine. But, really, please read the post above before trying it out. It will save you a number of frustrations.
Oh, and for the time being, you might want to confirm information you find here in a second source. I did a search for “Memphis” and noticed that the current time was incorrect.
50 Useful Twitter Tools for Researchers May 13, 2009
http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/04/27/50-useful-twitter-tools-for-writers-and-researchers/
This is an annotated list of 50 Twitter-oriented applications arranged by function. I am by no means a Twitter expert (I might just re-read the Newbie’s Guide to Twitter right now…), but a few of these look like they could come in handy in our work.
Free Foreign Language Lessons April 14, 2009
www.openculture.com/2006/10/foreign_languag.html
This is a fairly comprehensive list of sources for free language lessons, generally in the form of podcasts. Most are beginner-level, but some of the more popular languages have much more in-depth lessons. And, of course, there’s always the “Nightly News in Latin.”
