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Week 2 has covered RSS and personalised homepages. I covered this last year so see http://karenaitken.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/week-3-rss/ for my previous comments.
I really liked using Google Reader for my RSS feeds. I use it nearly every day. As the feeds are via my Google account, I can access them anywhere so I have set up both work feeds and leisure feeds. I can also set it to check webpages that don’t provide RSS feeds automatically.
Personalised homepages were also briefly covered last year see http://karenaitken.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/week-6-online-applications-and-tools/ and my opinion on them hasn’t changed. I never used the personalised page that I set up over the last year. At work, I have 3 tabs set as my homepage and I prefer this to a personalised homepage. Also, I can quickly access frequently used websites via shortcut icons on my toolbar.
Week 6 offered a variety of online applications and tools. From the options presented, I chose:
Personalised Homepages – I chose igoogle. I added some picture feeds, Google calendar, currency converter, facebook add-on and a whole lot more. I don’t see myself having much use for this at this moment in time.
Web browsers – I choose to download Firefox. I then had to download some add ons. I choose “Clipmarks (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1407).” This allows you to save part of a webpage for future reference. I found that the facebook add on for igoogle worked perfectly in Firefox (not all the tabs worked with Internet Explorer). I think I will be exploring Firefox for some time – there are a lot of add ons around. I’ve downloaded Firefox at home and once I have got used to it I will swap over to using it at work.
Google documents. This looks really good. You upload documents eg word or excel and can collaborate on them. I can see this being useful for my work, often I share spreadsheets with subs management staff but as we have access to different sections of the shared drive there are sometimes permission issues and they can’t save their work without making it a copy. With Google docs I can upload the spreadsheet there and everyone can work on the document without hassle. It also means I don’t have to email myself documents if I have to occasionally work from home as I don’t have VPN access set up.
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