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DeweyDigger.com is a visual search portal where you can "Explore knowledge via the Dewey Decimal Classification; just clickety-click."  On the splash page you are presented with the main Dewey Numbers and an ever-changing interactive panorama showing images from these listings.  Next you need to click on an image to access a cloud tag of terms in that call number.  From there you can select a tag and then select a search or research tool to locate information.

"'IT Takes A Village', the 2013 State Conference of ICT in Education Victoria, took place on Saturday the 25th of May at Melbourne Grammar School. The sold out conference featured over 100 presentations and workshops and the conference hash-tag #ictev13 was Australia's top trend during the day. "

"WackWall is a free tool for creating custom social networks with easy setup and complete feature set. " It has # Photo, Video sharing; # Blogs, forums, friends; # Comment, tag, rate any kind of content; # Privacy and profile customization; # Groups; # Events, wiki; (coming soon) # Collaboration, file sharing, video-conference tools; (coming soon) # ... and much much more!

Foller.me is a Twitter service that can provide you with the most detailed information about a specific Twitter user in the least amount of time! Here's how it works. You input a Twitter name into the searchbox and hit enter. Foller.me gets access to the profile of that user via the Twitter API, scans all the public info and the latest 200 tweets! In general, you'd read those 200 messages to get to know what that specific user is all about, right? Well you don't have to! Foller.me has done that for you already, and provides you only with the most significant parts of those 200 tweets. It builds up three tag clouds: topics, #hashtags and @mentions, all based on the user's recent activity, AND excluding all stop words! Isn't that great?

"There are many teacher contributed resources which you can search in a number of ways: keyword, popular resources, new resources, cloud tag, or category. Members may wish to share a resource by clicking on the "add a resource button" and filling the details. You may also help others with their selection by commenting on the value of the resource to your teaching and learning. Members must be logged in to access resources."

VITTA eKnowledge resource portal

"Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world's top social networking service."

Ubuntu's Unity GUI isn't my speed. But that doesn't matter for the majority of end-users.

Forget the fancy problem-solving methodologies you learned in school. Here's how IT pros solve problems in the real world.

Certain systems, software, and technologies simply don't work very well. In fact, some are barely usable. See if your biggest annoyances made this list. Let's face it. There are bits and pieces of the IT world that are simply broken, and we rarely want to come out and admit it. Well, some don't. I, on the other hand, am not in the slightest bit afraid to step forward and point the finger of shame at the creators of technology

For the first time in years, PCs grabbed the spotlight at CES 2012. Ultrabooks were everywhere, but was it an innovation win or an innovation failure?

IT pros often complain about the downsides of their jobs. But what if you really AREN'T meant for an IT career?

"No matter what topic you are interested in, Google can only go so far in providing you with the search results that you need. You have to remember that Google is searching through the entire Internet in order to offer you relevant results about your unique topic. The more unique or specialized the topic, the more difficult it is for Google to identify useful sites." This How To from Make Use Of details how to create a custom search engine based around a pre-defined set of websites.

"It's your first week on the job and you're tempted to make a positive splash immediately. But unless you want to alienate yourself, take a step back and just observe."

Some good advice for teachers who may be changing schools or taking up a promotion to a new school.

If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the "dirty little secrets" listed below may surprise you because we don't usually talk about them out loud. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals.

Google doesn't intend the Samsung Series 5 and Acer Chromebooks to be stand-alone computers. Chrome OS is getting a file manager and offline access for applications, but Chromebooks aren't low-cost notebooks. They aren't dumb terminals either. Chromebooks are thin-clients with the ability to function, albeit in a limited way, without a network connection.

"This Friday's Reporters' Roundtable is on a topic that vexes us all: why are end user license agreements and terms of service so long and convoluted? To get ourselves in the mood for this show, we asked CNET fan (and Academy Award winner) Richard Dreyfuss if he'd help us out by doing a dramatic reading of the Apple EULA. He said yes. So, without further ado, we present to you,"

"It's easy to get caught up in the implementation details of a Web site design project and lose sight of the hands-on user perspective. Calvin Sun airs a few user experience grievances that can alienate site visitors - permanently."