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These are 12 must know tips and techniques for using Zotero.

This article goes over tips that can be helpful when doing research online. I think some of these were discussed in class but some of them are new too.

These are just some tips that can help us all with our presentations. Some of them are for a lengthier presentation but overall the are pretty helpful!

This website has some more advanced URL tricks to make your YouTube experience better. Most of these tips are for embedding videos, but there are tips for viewing as well.

Anything that has the words "tips" or "tricks" in it, I like, even when it's not related to what we've been discussing lately. :)

There is information here covering everything from keyboard shortcuts to virus protection. There is even information about physical hardware protection.

That's a great site, James -- definitely some useful info there, and it's very clear. I like that there's a Computer "Word of the Day"! Wish it had an RSS feed or Twitter account. :)

The New York Times website is down today (by some reports it's because Syrian hackers have attacked it), but here's a (probably illegal) copy of a helpful column on "Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User" by the New York Times's technology reviewer, David Pogue. This documents also contains all the comments. All 1149 of them. :) Many of those comments have helpful tips as well. Even though this was published in 2008, it's still helpful.

This article has 7 essential tips for WordPress beginners.

A site with some useful tips for people like me who never really learned how to study or are awful at memorizing things and information.

Generally useful. Thanks, Stephanie.

Some tips for making a PowerPoint Presentation

This is a short article about ways to maximize your use of Project Gutenberg.

The time has come and our loyal reader know already our traditional Advents Calendar. For the people who don't know, every year we had in December each day, until the 24th (Christmas Eve in Germany), a post with specials, tips, tricks, plugins, tutorials and so on. Since it is quite a lot work to accomplish 24 high quality posts, we asked some of the finest WordPress Experts in Germany if they would like to contribute some ideas and great posts to it every day. http://wpengineer.com/2652/every-day-a-post-of-wordpress-tipps-and-tricks-until-christmas/

Just a few tips to consider if/when you feel your audience is losing interest. A lot of these tips are common sense and straight forward. However, although they are simple, at the same time they can be easily overlooked and under utilized. Lastly, most of these would not work with our class presentations. They are geared more towards larger presentations that take up more time.

I found this interesting. It could be useful to anyone who really wants to make their wordpress profile stand out. If you have the patience to learn it all, it would definitely be helpful.

These are pretty basic tips, but the .gif images of the instructions are really incredibly easy to understand.

I know that I'm not the best Powerpoint presenter in the world, and thought this might help in my presentation.

Forbes tips on how to make a great presentation

I thought this would help with the "how to be interesting" section of our presentations, which of course is 10% of the grade! I've always had problems with making presentations that are boring.

Link to Google's hidden Advanced Search ... useful for narrowing your searches.

Really helpful tips on how to learn to use Prezi.