We try to mix it up when we choose subjects for the 4cast, but here we are talking again about a topic we featured just…
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OPLIN 4Cast #305: Paying for it
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Businesses are usually started up to satisfy a demand, providing something people want but can’t get easily, and so they’re willing to pay a commercial…
OPLIN 4Cast #304: Wireless advances
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While wired Internet broadband capacity and usage keeps relentlessly increasing, the truly interesting action is happening in wireless Internet. Technology companies are not devoting a…
How many times a day do you hear or read the term “cloud computing”? (Did we just hear you shout, “Too many!”?) The term is…
OPLIN 4Cast #302: OpenDyslexic
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We’d venture a guess that not many librarians give a great deal of thought to fonts, even though a typeface is such an integral part…
OPLIN 4Cast #301: Tackling the big jobs
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In this day and age of user-generated Internet content — Web 2.0, if you want to call it that — there are astounding amounts of…
You have to admit, the people who try to take over your computer or steal your private information for their own shady purposes are undoubtedly…
OPLIN 4Cast #299: Copyright alerts
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Administrators at many of the libraries served by OPLIN have received emails from OPLIN Support passing along complaints about copyright infringement, often tracing back to…
OPLIN 4Cast #298: Multi-screening
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If you have two or more monitors hooked up to your computer, you are not multi-screening. No, multi-screening is a relatively new term that refers…
If you listen much to NPR (doesn’t every librarian?), you may have heard some shows that were supported by donations from a company offering to…