Thursday, July 19, 2007

12. Roll your own search tool

So this "thing" was a bit odd to try to figure out, at first I thought that I was creating something to search a particular subject matter. So when I created a Rollyo titled "Lee A Iaccoca" I couldn't understand why I could search for "dogs" and nothing about the Ford Motor Comp. was coming up.

I figured it out after I spent five minutes in puzzlement and created, "My Library Search Thingy" :-P ( http://rollyo.com/tiger987lily/my_library_search_thingy/ )

I'm not sure if I see any potential in this, it just made me frustrated, so we didn't get off to the best start. I love Google and I know many people say that it doesn't give you as reliably sources as some other sites, but I counter that with the fact that you just have to know what your looking for. I love its clean, no no-sense set up and Rollyo looks cluttered and does not give as much info on that search page as Google.

But that's just my humble opinion. I'll give it another chance, but I am loyal to Google. :-)

Saturday, July 14, 2007

#11 Take a look at Library Thing and catalog some of your favorite books

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/tiger987lily

This is a pretty cool website, but I'm not exactly impressed. I have a list I keep track of the books I've read and the authors on my computer and this just seems to be a glorified version of that. Granted, the way you can search for a the book and have all the Amazon listings pop up is cool. And it makes it easier for people to see your favorite books, but its not worth me transferring all my lists over to it.

Fun experience!

#10 Play around with an online image generator

Ok, so I created a Yahoo! Avatar... but I can't figure out how to get the picture in here because I can't right-click and save it, nor can I seem to find the place to download it. :(

I tried the others but really didn't like them and found that Yahoo! created the most real-life looking image, rather than something that looked completely computer generated/something you would see in a comic strip! :-P

Anyways, here's the link that I used to create it if anyone else should fancy a go;
http://uk.avatars.yahoo.com/

Edit 7-17-07
I think I figured it out..
Yahoo! Avatars U.K. & Ireland