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Great Clicks From Library Geeks!

  • CSI Blog
    This site gives interesting info about crime scene investigation from The National Museum of Crime and Punishment.  The museum updates the blog every few days with a new topic pertaining to crime, forensics, mysteries and more. 
  • Cnet
    This site is a collection of technology related news and product reviews. It’s useful to find out about upcoming technologies but also to read reviews of different items before you choose which one to purchase. The site has a team of professionals that review products but also have public review
  • Hulu
    Hulu allows you to watch TV on your computer. Shows are streamed to you through a high speed connection. The shows usually appear on the site the day after they are first aired. The site usually contains the last few episodes for the current season of a show and sometimes has an archive of popular older episodes.
  • Dice
    Dice is a job search engine specifically for technology related positions. It’s useful as another tool to help patrons with job search related questions. The site also contains a forum where users can help each other with job searches.
  • Twitter
    Twitter is similar to blogging but posts must be short. You can follow someone on twitter and when they post something it will appear in your browser. You can also find someone on twitter and read their past posts. Twitter also has the ability to comment back to the poster to have a conversation similar to IMing.
  • Feed My Inbox
    Feed My inbox is a web site that turns RSS feeds into email. This avoids the step of finding an RSS aggregator that you like and using that to keep track of RSS feeds. After you sign up any update to the RSS feed will be sent directly to your inbox.
  • Tag Galaxy
    Tag Galaxy is a visual way to search through flickr tags. To start pick a tag and then that tag becomes the sun. Other related tags are planets. When you click on a planet it merges with the sun to create a new search based on the combination of the two tags.
  • Online Conversions
    Online conversions provides a site to easily convert from one unit of measure to another. The site has different categories of measure to choose from including cooking and temperature.
  • Dial a Human
    Dial a Human provides a quick list to find the numbers to enter on your phone to skip the automated voice recognition software for a large number of companies.
  • Kayak
    Kayak is an aggregator for travel sites. Ask it for a flight or hotel and it will find different options for you that you can sort by price to find the lowest cost.
  • Pandora
    Pandora is a music streaming service. You start by entering a band or song you like and then it streams similar songs to you based on musical qualities. You can then tell the program you like or dislike certain songs so the stream is closer to what you want.