This week, Apple holds its annual Worldwide Developers Conference: the big gala held every June when Apple developers get together to learn and network, and…
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OPLIN 4Cast #658: Android Auto refresh, but a surcharge for Apple Carplay
Posted in 4cast, Apple, cars, and Voice-activated assistants
I’m probably getting a reputation among library digital content vendors as the guy who keeps complaining how difficult their apps are to use in the…
Since the first Macintosh came out and revolutionized how we interact with our computers, there has been this truism: if you want the Apple software…
Like many households (but not Laura’s), mine got a surveillance device smart speaker over the holidays. I like using it to play my audiobooks, which…
4cast #78: Digitization, OpenSocial, ILS, Websites
Posted in Add new tag, Apple, digitization, Diigo, Evergreen, Federal Register, Google, Obama, social network websites, Videosurf, and web design
This week’s 4cast: 1. Don’t Digitize That Obituary Just Yet Anthony Grafton writes in The New Yorker that massive digitization projects (such as Google Book…
OPLIN 4cast #73
Posted in Add new tag, Apple, Internet, Let Simon Decide, Scribd, usability, and web design
This week’s 4cast: 1. Let’s Meet Somewhere Else Karen Coombs (Library Web Chic) ponders whether the time, effort, and resources devoted to the aesthetics and…
OPLIN 4cast #55
Posted in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Apple, Boxee, BPL, cellphones, Free, grants, and wireless
This week’s 4cast: 1. The Landline is Dead; Long Live the Cellphone More and more people, especially the younger set, are ditching their telephone landlines…
OPLIN 4cast Podcast #18: Open Source Software
Posted in 4pod, Apple, Evergreen, Federal Register, and Obama
Yesterday, the State Library of Ohio hosted a meeting for anyone interested in the future of Integrated Library Systems in Ohio libraries. Originally the meeting…
OPLIN 4cast #45
Posted in about:books, Apple, DRM, Library 2.0, mashups, and social network websites
This week’s 4cast: 1. Get On Out There & Socialize Five Weeks to a Social Library describes itself as “the first free, grassroots, completely online…