# Presentation: 394938

## Tech Toys(for the Technically Challenged!)

**Marty Magee**
**National Network/Libraries of Medicine**
**Education and Nebraska Liaison **
**McGoogan Library of Medicine**
**Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center**
**986706 Nebraska Medical Center**
**Omaha NE 68198-6706**
**402-559-7076**
**1-800-338-7657**
**mmagee@unmc.edu**

## What was different 10 years ago? 

- Students Today
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

**“****Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. “ **
- - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
**There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” **
**	****	**-Ken Olsen, founder of Digital  		Equipment Corp. 1977
**640 K ought to be enough for anybody”**
** ****	****	**-Bill Gates

## Laptop:  Toshiba Portege to Sony Vaio 

**PortegeTablet capabilities good, but additional DVD player – lugging it along is a disadvantage**

## Double Your Pleasure – Double Your Fun with....

**Two Screens**
**Windows XP Professional**** **

## LCD Projector

- Portability
- Lumens

## Printer/Copier/Fax

**Multiple functions**
**Two trays**
**Card slots**
**HP Officejet 7410 **

## Phone

- With a camera or without?
- Are you texting?
- With Internet or without?
- Managing Contacts
*Katana by Sanyo from Sprint *

## Text Messaging – E-Mail to Cell Phone

**Verizon: **_**[http://tinyurl.com/yvgzbs ](http://tinyurl.com/yvgzbs)**_**Address the email to the 10 digit cell phone number followed by @vtext.com**
**ATT:**_**[http://tinyurl.com/2ae92s](http://tinyurl.com/2ae92s)**_**Address the email to the 10 digit cell phone number followed by @txt.att.net**
**T-Mobile: **_**[http://tinyurl.com/2tymt6 ](http://tinyurl.com/2tymt6)**_**Address the email to the 10 digit cell phone number followed by @tmomail.net **
**Sprint and Nextel: **_**[http://tinyurl.com/2m3ofn](http://tinyurl.com/2m3ofn)**_**Address the email to the 10 digit cell phone number followed by @messaging.nextel.com**

## PDA’s ---On the Way Out?!!

**PC- based – Word and Excel files**
- Rosters
- Expenses
- Books to read
- Frequent Flyers
- Travel
- Gifts
- Goals
- Resume
- BUT – not my calendar!!     Can you believe it?

-   WiFi – wireless access to Internet
-   Bluetooth – wireless access
-   Windows Media 10 – listen to a book
-   Microsoft Reader – read a book
-   SDRAM storage to match camera
-   Contacts – about 600!!

- Now with **GPS**
- Don’t leave home without it. ....Really!!

## Digital Camera: 

**Canon Power Shot 450 ELPH**
- 3x zoom
- 5.0 megapixels
- Viewfinder AND monitor
- SD RAM
- Small charger
- Can take short videos, too!

## IPOD for MP3’S

**Transfer CD’s to the player**
**Can buy books from **_**[ww.Audible.com](http://www.audible.com/)**_
**Can buy music from**** **_**[www.itunes.com](http://www.itunes.com/)**_

- 4gb
- 4 hours battery life

- 8 GB = 2000songs
- 24 hour battery life

****  **Can add a radio component or a recorder
******* Pay attention to the ear phones!!

## Podcasts (You don’t need an IPOD to listen to a podcast!)

**From MedlinePlus with Director Lindberg**
**From NN/LM MidContinental Region **_**[http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/podcasts/podcasts.html](http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/podcasts/podcasts.html)**_
**For Fun:  **_**[http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php](http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php)**_

## Other nice things to have ...

**Portable printer  - Canon **
**Thumb Drive - USB mini storage**
- 1 gb of storage – multiple presentations
- Offered by many companies (Sony, Sonnet, CigarPro, yadda yadda) 32MB - 1gig

- Pictures are not to scale!!

## Card reader:  www.lexar.com

- Many times can be faster then hooking your camera up to your cpu
- Will not kill your camera batteries as well!

## Camtasia & SnagItwww.techsmith.com

**Camtasia**
- Record desktop demonstrations with narration and video
- Publish to CD-ROM and streaming video
**SnagIt**
- Only $39.95
- One of the best software products    I have

## Marty’s Little Helpers

**$290**

**$120**

**$150**

## VOIP :  Voice Over IP

**VOIP :  Voice Over IP**

**Skype—voice with instant chat/pictures**
**	**_**[www.skype.com](http://www.logitech.com/)**_
**Logitech camera**
**	****www.logitech.com**
**Plantronics headset**
**	****www.plantronics.com**

**Big Brother really is watching you....**

## Google from your phone

**466-453**
**Entered :  corkscrew  omaha**
**Returns:  **
- Corkscrew Wine and Cheese
- 10924 Prairie Brook Rd.
- Omaha NE 68144
- 402-991-2927

## Blogs and RSS Feeds

**Blogger.com for blogs**
- More than 50 million blogs out there....according 	to Technorati
- Easy to create – use for business or pleasure

**Bloglines.com for RSS**

****YouTube – RSS in Plain English**
**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU**

## Blogs I Subscibe to....

**BHIC- ****Bringing Health Information to the Community ****	****	****	****– Siobhan Champ-Blackwell**
**MidContinental Region News**
**Nebraska Library Commission**
**Stephen’s Lighthouse **
- 			-Stephen Abram – from SirsiDynix

- From the NN/LM MidContinental Region - http://nnlm.gov/mcr/services/technology/blogs.html

## Wiki – a shared resource

**Anybody can edit it! i.e. www.wikipedia.com or www.wikihow.com**
**Set up your own at wetpaint.com**

## What I like to read

**Fast Company **
**Smart Computing **
**PC Magazine**
**Pocket PC**

## Other sites to check....

**HowStuffWorks.com**** **Augmented reality – (or what a librarian may really look like)
**CNET.com**
- Product Reviews
- Tutorials
- Classes
**MLA – Web 2.0 Class**

## Things are changing...

**Sony Wii**
**Dance Dance Revolution**
**www.surface.com**

**What’s next for YOU?**