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…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #658: Android Auto refresh, but a surcharge for Apple Carplay
Category archive for: Apple
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…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #622: Is the Apple app store a monopoly?
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…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #580: Big companies now fighting over the ebook market
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…