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Decompress.

November 9, 2015 – 9:54 am

Good Monday, everybody! As the semester begins to wind down into the home stretch, you all may find yourselves feeling overwhelmed by work, projects, or just the general looming dread of the SADs as the temperature starts to drop.

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Team Awesome’s Awesome Blogs to Follow List

October 24, 2012 – 11:37 am

Like all other web enthusiasts the members of Team Awesome love following blogs, bookmarking them like some people collect comic books. In honor of the ending of Blogtober, here is a casually curated list of our favorites as library school students and future professionals in the LIS field*. Just click on the name and it will take you to read more »

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What’s the deal with Facebook Timeline?

December 20, 2011 – 2:01 pm

For those few who aren’t aware, Facebook recently introduced a whole new way of looking at people’s profiles, aptly called “timeline.” Now, people complaining about changes Facebook makes is nothing new, but it seems to me that the reactions for this change have been even more negative than normal. Let me start by talking a read more »

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Some words on Google+, Gmail forwarding, other miscellany

August 9, 2011 – 2:43 pm

Over the past few weeks, Google has rolled out some new services and updated some existing ones. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at Google+ and the new Google layout tweaks, as well as the option of UIUC Gmail forwarding. Gmail forwarding While incoming undergrads are set up with Illinois Gmail accounts, students in read more »

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Is Social Bookmarking Site Delicious Shutting Down?

December 21, 2010 – 10:44 am

According to the Delicious Blog, the social bookmarking service is not shutting down but looking for a new home “outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.”  There has been a lot of chatter about what users should do with their delicious bookmarks as well as read more »

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End of Semester Resources

December 8, 2010 – 5:26 pm

Things can be stressful at the end of the semester as all the things a student has to do starts piling up!  Taking advantage of the resources available to you will go a long way toward making your life easier.  Here are a few things that you can add to your collection, if you don’t read more »

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Firefox Add-Ons

April 14, 2009 – 12:41 pm

Do you use Firefox? We’d like to devote this entry to sharing our favorite add-ons. Everyone has different web browsing needs and preferences, and Firefox is great because it lets us customize our browsers to support these via add-ons, themes, and so forth. Please comment to share your favorites and they will be added to read more »

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Word of the Week

April 13, 2009 – 1:16 pm

Fail Whale: On the Twitter site, the Fail Whale is an image of a whale held up by birds and nets. This image shows that Twitter has been overloaded or failed. Definition from webopedia.

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Blog Blog Blog

October 11, 2007 – 4:48 pm

originally posted by #mattbeth

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