Tuesday, April 27, 2010

RSS

I created a Blogline account so as to better understand the process, and it is fairly straight forward, pretty much the same as adding an account to follow through Blogger.

For some reason it did not accept the http://www.cbc.ca/calgary website, stating:

No feeds were found. Please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed

But when I clicked on the RSS feed on the CBC website I was successful in adding it into the favorites/feeds section of my computer - which I didn't even know existed!

I have been following blog feeds though our own Blogger accounts, so I suppose that Bloglines would be convenient for those who do not maintain their own blog.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Google

I consider myself fairly familiar with most of google's tools but one I have never tried is Google translate.

I entered in a phrase in french :

ouin dire que le monde ce calise ben des familles....c'est la on voie il faudrait quesment l'heurre faire une pipe pour pouvoir gagné....Un jeunne c'est ben plus inportemp qu'un histoire de famille.


and selected it to be translated to english :

wah tell the world that bin Calise family .... it's the way it should be a heurre quesment the pipe to be won .... A jeunne bin is more than inportemp Family History .

sooo...not so clear really! Therefore I probably would NOT recommend Google translate for phrase translating, but maybe for single word only.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Coincidence?

One of todays top news articles on on http://ca.yahoo.com/

checkout the title!

6 Career-Killing Facebook Mistakes

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/article/forbes/1517/6-career-killing-facebook-mistakes

hmmmmm.

Facebook

First came Friendster, and then Myspace and until the next best thing - facebook it is!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11584547&id=880230631#!/crystal.audia?ref=profile

Facebook is both useful AND timewaster!

It is pretty much the only way I am able to stay in contact with friends and family, and if you want to see any pictures of my children, you have to have a facebook account or else you're pretty much outta luck!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

WikiWizard?!

I feel like such a smartypants!
I just added information about Kijiji.ca on Wikipedia!
Definitely way easier than I was anticipating, although it did take me some time to find an article that I could add to, and I never came across any potential editing.

I'll probably view Wikipedia with a much more scrutinizing eye now that I'm a contributor! Ha!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijiji