Library Web Chic

I took one of the iPod Touch that the UH Libraries bought with me to Internet Librarian and over the course of the conference learned a bunch of neat tricks and installed some cool free Apps. This included:

• How to take a screen shot on your iPod Touch
• Stanza
• InstaPaper
• Wordpress blogging App
• Stanza

Also for those of you reading my conference blog posts, nearly of these were done on the iPod Touch so there are some unique typos some of which I’ve caught some of which I have not. If you see an error, comment (like Jon Gorman did) and I’ll fix it. It pretty hard to proof on the iPod Touch and I just did a quick proofing on the laptop in my room at night, so mistakes happen. I felt like it was more important to get the content up speedily.

Some not free Apps I’m lusting after Air Touch which turns your iPod Touch into a remote mouse for a computer, and iBeam which allows you to send your contact information to another person (I’m always forgetting business cards so I like the idea of this App).

I’m in the process of making a demo video of what I learned for the staff at the UH Libraries. Cause a picture/demo is worth much more than me writing about it to them. Once I’ve got it done I’ll link to it from here.

All and all, I’m pretty please with using an iPod Touch at conference. Biggest issue, bad wireless, but this has me recontemplating the iPhone for myself. My cell contract expires in 2009 so I need to do some further research, especially since the Android phones should be coming out soon.