About four years have passed since Google announced that the company had decided to release a new image format called WebP. Back then, Google estimated…
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OPLIN 4cast #394: Open Wireless
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This weekend at the “Hackers on Planet Earth” conference, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) plans to demonstrate new open source firmware for wireless routers. While…
OPLIN 4cast #393: E-rate reform
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Our apologies if you have already heard about this, but this news is important enough to bear repeating. This Friday (July 11), the Federal Communications…
OPLIN 4cast #392: Designing for mobile
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How many times have we told you guys that mobile computing is important? (Looks like about one out of every ten 4casts.) So, if you…
Like just about everyone else, librarians know and love Flickr, Pinterest, and perhaps Instagram. Most of us have heard of Imgur, Snapchat, and Vine, and…
OPLIN 4cast #390: In the year 2018
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Companies and organizations that make predictions about the future often seem to focus on a five-year span. So in 2013, those organizations were developing their…
OPLIN 4cast #388: Numeric domain names
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You’re probably not in the market for a new domain name for your library, and almost certainly haven’t considered a domain name that’s the same…
OPLIN 4cast #387: Social WiFi
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Ever heard of social WiFi? Well, we know that using any password to authenticate users of a WiFi network, even a simple one posted on…
On May 13, the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) in Luxembourg ruled that an individual can demand that Google remove certain search…