#91: Fun with Photos --You Oughta Be in Pictures

ORIGINAL

USING-- BIG HUGE LABS

FotoFlexer, BeFunky and BigHugeLabs-- I like all of them and can see myself utilizing them more. Each one has similar features and others have more variety. You can create ordinary pictures to pretty amazing images. I enjoyed creating them and trying all the different effects. I especially enjoyed having the images with ability to create motivational images. I can certainly use this for the next Wellness Challenge for my team!

#90: Sharing Photos --You Oughta Be in Pictures

BEFORE

AFTER --CARTOONIZED
All the pointers are important to me. I will use picasa, flicker and photobucket more. I enjoyed creating many cool images on befunky. It is easy, simple, free and fun to use. I will be utilizing this more often.

#89: Basic Photo Editing --You Oughta Be In Pictures

UTILIZING FOTOFLEXER MOVED IMAGES, ADDED BUTTERLY STICKER OR ANIMATION, WASH IT OUT ETC..... fun creating it.
BEFORE ORIGINAL ORDINARY PHOTO

I like all of them and will use them.

The Web According to Google #86: Calendar and Documents

I've been using google calendar for sometime. We have a family plan on the iphone. We log all our activities, appointments, kids exams, etc. It is an wesome and powerful tool. It keeps my kids on their toes on all their exams and activities and parents are aware of it. It cuts down on any surprises. When you are a busy, working parent this is a handy tool. I know how my day will be and can plan accordingly. Its a powerful tool to have to stay ahead of the pack. This would be helpful at work as well.

Created an agenda to share with the family. I think this is an awesome tool when working on same document with others. I may not use it for private and personal information to a group. This maybe helpful when creating schedules that change too often. I may have to use this for our daily schedule on Excel.

The Web According to Google #88: Wave, Buzz, and Mobile

I like the demo and the whole idea of Wave & Buzz for collaborationm content. I created one for my family members. I have a very international family and this application would have been great when planning my parent's 50th anniversary where all the 7 children could post the ideas for planning the occassion.

As for Apps:
I like and have Latitude allows you to share your location with friends and view their locations on a map. Latitude is available both on your phone and your computer. This is what you need to do before you can start sharing your location and seeing your friends' locations. This is very useful to me when my husband goes long distance biking. I can still monitor on the PC where he is. Also with the kids, when my son was not answering his phone, he had place it on vibrate mode, my husband was able to track where he is at the movie theather with his friends.

I am already using these on my iphone--Google Maps, Calendar,Gmail etc. I think I may need the translate app for an upcoming trip outside the country. This may prove useful.

The Web According to Google #87: Google Reader

I like Google Reader and will subscribe to many of the RSS feeds of interest including the library. I can RSS my favorite news sites and blogs for new content.
I can share with friends and co-workers. I can see me using this more often.

The Web According to Google #85: Resistance is Futile

I use google maps, images, video, blogger, gmail etc. Most of the time I have successful results with my search. It seems to work for me. I am disappointed that they took the government site filter off. As a librarian, that feature was useful to me.
With yahoo and other competing applications, I have had some technical difficulties with access at times. I just prefer the google engine and other products.

I guess I would try chrome from home. Our computer is set to open with diffent tabs all running at one time--cnn, nyt,facebook,gmail, wsj etc. I'd like to see if chrome will make it faster to open the browsers intially. I have google earth at home pc. I like very much...Ok just a bit worried at times with privacy.

I took a webminar on Google books and hidden resources. Yes, the google books would be useful as an alternative to patrons. Patrons seems impressed with accessibility and free use. I would definitely recommend it.