Personalized Home Pages

For my presentation September 15, we will take a look at personalized home pages. I will compare some of the major players and talk about some of the reasons for using and advantages gained by using a personalized start page. Popular versions of a personal start page or web portal include igoogle, netvibes, pageflakes, my.live.com and others.

If you are unfamiliar with personalized start pages, please read this page of a cnet article for background. (Sorry about the ad!) http://www.cnet.com.au/start-page-smackdown-netvibes-pageflakes-igoogle-and-live-com_p2-339286371.htm

Also if you already use a personalized start page, feel free to comment on your use. igoogle is the favorite, followed by netvibes. Ranking was a bit difficult to measure granted that google and live.com are visited by people who only use them for gmail and hotmail.

In my preliminary investigation, I learned about how librarians hope to use igoogle as a possible reference tool. If curious feel free to visit here: http://www.textalibrarian.com/mobileref/start-pages-as-library-virtual-reference-tools/

I fixed the gradesheet access problem.

Now you can access your gradesheets!

If you didn't send me the ID and password, please email the information to me, so I can set the password-protected account for you.

Otherwise, let me know if you have a problem to access it.

Gradesheets are uploaded.

I uploaded the gradesheets on the course website and linked it to the "grade" page. Please check whether you can use your id and password to access the gradesheets and let me know if you have a problem.

There are a couple of you who haven't send me the id and password yet, and you won't be able to access your gradesheets at this point. Please send me your preferred id and password and I will set things up for you.

TCP/IP? Here are additional readings for you.

Introduction to TCP/IP
http://www.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM

Internet Protocol Suite - the content is a bit techy, but will help you understand the basic concepts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_Suite

Transmission Control Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

Having problem to connect isis through Fetch Program?

Please check the articles related to Fetch on help.unc.edu.

Here are two suggestions.

Connecting to isis.unc.edu using Fetch in Mac OS 10.
http://help.unc.edu/6152

Why am I unable to use SSH or Fetch to access isis.unc.edu within Mac OS 10?
http://help.unc.edu/6150

SSH in Mac OS X

This article explains how to access Isis through the SSH client native to Mac OS X, for all you Mac users who can't use the Secure Shell Client.

Starter: 9/10

I've decided to do my starter on Evernote, a cloud-based information capture tool. In short, Evernote takes your notes, thoughts, memos, pictures--whatever you want, really--and can sync them across your computer, a web interface, and mobile devices. I've only really started using it this semester, and it's proved so useful. Give it a look, and let me know what you think next Thursday!