iGoogle

I L-O-V-E iGoogle!!!I've included a Movies gadget and can watch trailer after trailer AND be late into a movie session if I so choose!!It's a great way of following your interests from the comfort of home or wherever and you can bring it all together in the one spot.

Google Book Search and Scholar

As suggested, searched for The Missing Manual but felt a little more adventurous so tried looking for Around the World in Eighty Days. Tried an 'All books' search first and got 8 pages including a very welcome surprise - a biography on Audrey Hepburn. Don't ask me how that got there! With a 'Limited Preview and Full View' search got 5 pages and they included weird and wonderful titles. The 'Full View' search produced 17 pages.

Using Google Scholar was quite the learning experience. Stumbled and bumbled my way through all sorts of permutations to look for books and articles by Victoria University. My antennae went into overdrive. The most challenging part of the search was working out how to eliminate any hits that involved Victoria University in Wellington, NZ. Would anyone like to share how they did it????

Google Maps

Just checked for the route from home (in the western 'burbs) to Belgrave and it didn't mention that it is advisable to have an e-tag when travelling through the Burnley tunnel and on Eastlink. Does anyone know if it's possible to get a couple of alternate routes shown?

MySpace and Facebook

Most of the MySpace library pages were colourful and very, very creatively done. I can see why young humans would find them appealing - lots of stuff. I was soooooo excited about trying to find people on Facebook but so far have only tracked down the family. Who can I try next???The beauty of both networks is that they bring people together from every single part of planet Earth.

RSS feeds

Found the Google Reader Tutorial most helpful in setting up an RSS feeder. In my humble opinion (ant's brain)it was much clearer than the kooky introductory video. I've add 3 "out of this world" subscriptions so far. . . 'Astronomy and Space Now', 'Astronomy Today' and Science @ NASA'. I'm so excited - just added 'Digg' to my list of subscriptions! Just took a better look at what you get with 'Digg' and I don't dig it!!!

Library Thing

Looking into the future we might be able to visit neighbouring galaxies. Would you like that?I've started preparing for it and thought I'd like to share these handy tools so that you will have an understanding and be able to converse with your galactic neighbours.

I didn't have a Library Thing account so started by establishing one. After searching Library Thing I found some fun titles under 'intergalactic' and added them to my library. Didn't really like the options for the visual arrangement but for the sake of the exercise chose one anyway. After viewing the titles on my blog, decided that the arrangement wasn't ideal and went back to Library Thing, chose another arrangement and then edited the posting on my blog. Voila!

Image chef

There are even galactic images on 'Image chef'! In case you don't recognise this symbol, it's for the constellation of sexy Scorpio!