#26 YourMinis

I found the YourMinis site really difficult to understand. After realising I needed to go to the Start Page I tried to explore this, with all the tab stuff. I really didn't get it, although I do understand what a widget is. For me, it will require a lot more time to work out.....
OK, I had another quick look. Not sure how the templates work but I clicked on Add Tab to get a blank page. Then I dragged some of the icons from the left side, like Amazon, Box.net and Flickr. I can see that this would have potential for the library website. People could access things that they would normally look at (like their Gmail or YouTube)from our website. This would make our website more appealing and useful/convenient. Even just adding an Amazon widget (which is more library-related) would add some spark.

#25 LetterPop

Here is my small creation from LetterPop

It does require a bit of time fiddling around, but then again so does Publisher.

#24 Zamzar

Zamzar looked like an amazing tool when I was first shown it. For the exercise I tried to convert an internet pdf document from my work pc to a doc format, purely so that I could read the document on my home computer, which doesn't have Adobe Acrobat. I tried a few different documents but the result was an error message each time. I then realised that Zamzar has a limit of 100MB - but not sure if my documents were more or not. Not likely. Or was it becasue they were internet documents? I shall try again. Alternatively, if I wanted to convert a doc format document created on my home pc into pdf format I could also do that.
Library staff and users could really benefit from Zamzar because it's not necessary to have a particular program installed on a pc to have access to a document - Zamzar is all programs.