23 Things, Week 8

^Okay so I picked that video for one reason. I was watching funny commercials with a friend the other night and she sent me this one. Best deodorant commercial ever.

As far as podcasts go, there are only two that I follow. One would be 4 Player Podcast which is four guys who play video games on live stream. That's probably my favorite, but it wouldn't be appropriate to link here.

The other one I listen to from time to time is harperteens. Usually they have authors on to talk about their new books coming out. You can find that one here. I found that one when I was looking up Michele Jaffe.

Zoho, Zoho, it's off to work we go

Before doing the set of things for this week I had never heard of Zoho. I think it's a GREAT idea. With so many versions of Microsoft Word, and the other programs like Microsoft Works and OpenOffice it can be a real pain if someone doesn't own their own printer. A lot of people use flash drives to transport their files to public computers to print out their documents, and depending on the program they used the document can't be printed.

That can be a real hassle, so I definitely see the perks if more people would use Zoho.

Number 1. HELLO, it's free.

Number 2. None of this "file won't open" crap. Only thing you would have to worry about is if the site would have some down time. Big deal, you might have to plan ahead.

Number 3. Your documents are all saved right there in your account. If your computer crashes THEY WILL STILL BE THERE. VICTORY!

Number 4. Again. It's FREE.

Moving on to the catalog search -- I use the catalog every time I'm at work. What I like about it is that it's very user-friendly. I always liked that I could reserve things from home, and often I log in to check to see what items I still have.

Wikiddy doo da

I'm just going to say this right away. I LOVE using wikis. I'm on Wikipedia daily (along with google, but that's a different story) and of course, there's the Wiki we use for work. Having all that information in one place is great.

I'm also a frequent user of the "wikia" pages. I mainly use them for looking up facts that happened in a video game I played awhile ago. Two of my favorites are the Ace Attorney, and the Fire Emblem wikias. Probably my favorite thing to do is look up character profiles to get more details on the characters in the game.

I might eventually make my own wiki but I don't need one at the moment. If I would ever get involved in a project with a group of people it would be my first thought to make a Wiki for us to keep each other up to date.

So yeah, wikis are awesome.

Delicious and Technorati

So I spent some time exploring both websites. I made a Delicious account and bookmarked a few things. I can definitely see myself using this again in the future. I was messing around and found a few websites I plan on exploring more thoroughly.

I think Delicious is a great idea. I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten a website I wanted to visit again, or marked something in my favorites and when I went to use it I couldn't find it.

I also spent some time on Technorati. I think I'd use that more if I knew exactly what I was looking for. I did find some interesting blogs with some of the searches I did. I spent a lot of time looking up art blogs. I found a couple I might start to follow.

I've been using tags for awhile but now I feel like I know more about them, and that I can use them better to my advantage. I notice more and more websites incorporating tags into their formats. I think it's a great way to keep organized. Which I don't know about you guys, but I can use all the help I can get!