Friday, February 4, 2011

What Do You Look At? What Do You Use?

I'm referring to the web, of course. I wonder what sites you consult on a regular basis, and perhaps what applications you use to assist in this process. A long list would be tedious and no doubt counter-productive, but - who knows? - you and I might find or learn something to our advantage!

Here are a few of my favourite things:

Two Applications

  • Readability

https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets/

If you often read longish articles on the web, or even shorter ones come to that, you will find Readability a real boon. It rids the web page of all advertisements and distractions. Extremely easy to use. I'm surprised the press puts up with it!


  • Apture Highlights
Once you have installed this little application, you can highlight (select) any word or phrase on any web page including blogs and gain instant access to a wealth of information in a non-obtrusive manner. Unfortunately, Apture only works in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Does anyone still use Internet Explorer?!

Three websites


Each entry is posted on the web 70 years to the day after the original date. 

Never set foot inside an art museum again, except in pursuit of brownie points!


Pick the newspapers and magazines which interest you and off you go.