Chances are, your website has a lot of eye-catching images. In fact, if your site is typical of most websites, images probably account for about…
OPLIN 4cast #404: Better pictures
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Chances are, your website has a lot of eye-catching images. In fact, if your site is typical of most websites, images probably account for about…
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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…
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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…
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Much of the tech news last week was about Facebook’s huge deal to buy the WhatsApp messaging service. (One economist pointed out that the $19…
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After Christmas every year, public libraries commonly have a lot of patrons bring their new gadgets to the library to ask for help in connecting…
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A couple of weeks ago, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) released the BARD mobile app for iOS devices, with…
We’ve recently seen a couple of intriguing stories about research projects involving unexpected uses of hands. One project uses vortices of air to enable people…
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Back in June, Apple announced that it was going to start avoiding skeuomorphism. Skeuomorphism is not some contagious disease; it’s a design principle that, when…
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Google has a lot of power to control which websites receive web traffic and which don’t, simply by altering the way they present search results.…
The Pew Research Center released another report last week, called “Teens and Technology 2013,” in their series discussing youth and privacy. Many libraries (correctly) look to…