NovelList Plus the new easy button

So this week we are exploring novellist I've had a little bit of training on this before. So I went in searched "Harry Potter" under series, shazam up comes all the books of the series, but this was too easy Harry Potter was provided so I decided to do my own search for books in the "Alex Cross" series and viola up pops 16 titles. Next I used the Author read alikes option, typed in James Patterson (if you haven't read previous posts you should, anyways my favorite author) and got a good long list of other authors such as V.C. Andrews, Tami Hoag, Sandra Brown, Stuart Woods, the list goes on and on. So if I ever read all of James Patterson's books (highly unlikely since he whips um out so fast) I would have a fall back author. I know what your thinkin this is just too much good for one web site how can one web site have the right to put so many useful tools, but wait there's more. I also visited the recommended reads tab and found links to books based on adventure, horror, suspense, fantasy, mystery, way too many to list. This is a really useful tool to have when a patron knows what kind of books they like but don't know of any authors that they would like to read. So that was the 12th task wow this has been fun and that best buy gift card is going to make it all the better.

The Book Report Network

Hows it goin. I'm back again for another round of webolution. This time my opponent is the formidable Book Report Network. This site brings a lot to the table; book reviews, author info, books to movies, suggested books for book clubs, the list goes on and on. This site is really a catalog of many different sites that offer book based services. I visited all the listed sites briefly to find pretty much the same sort of set up for each, aiding in easy navigation from one page to another. I really liked the BookReporter site, as it offered all the information I could possibly want in the way of books.
Next I took to the Biography Resource Center to search for some info on James Patterson (one of my favorite authors). Using this utility I was able to find some very good info about James Patterson. Such as the fact that his writing career was only his secondary job he was also an advertising executive. I've known people who are writers and having the time to write and do another job is astounding. Patterson was born in 1947 in Newburgh, New York and was one of many of us who was turned off to reading by the school. Although later he went to college for English he never really saw himself becoming a writer. Until he landed a job as a junior copywriter and began writing on the side. Overall this task proved to be a very fun one as I love to read and can get quite a bit out of these sites.

Laptop consumer

How do yall back again I am to test out the liberry database MasterFile Premier. Not a bad database at all I actually used something like this a lot in school. Anyways since I'm gettin a laptop figured I would use the consumer reports to check and see if my purchase was a good one. As it turns out consumer reports is a big time hater on alienware systems cause I couldn't find any search results for this laptop. Come on consumer reports give me the hook up, down low on what chu tink bout my sweet rig. Although I couldn't find any alienware I was able to find the more cliche brands HP, Toshiba all those so at least I was able to find the laptops that my laptop could easily beat down in the school yard (According to David this might be able to be taken literally).
Any hows peace out to all my homies. Yall come back now ya hear?

Check it out. This is the laptop that I just ordered from Dell for school. It is an Alienware M17x self proclaimed "Most powerful laptop in the Universe". It has an anodized aluminum outer shell, making this sucker tip the scales at 12 lbs. You would be hard pressed to find one exposed screw head on this baby. It has facial recognition log in via the 2.0 webcam. It has multiple led light zones (4 in the keyboard alone, so I can have four different colors on the keyboard for a rainbow effect). Specs on my system are.....
Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 2.8 GHz (6MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz 2 x 2048MB
1GB Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M - SLI enabled
640GB (320GB x 2) 7,200 RPM (xMB Cache) - RAID 0
17in Display
Slot loading DVD & CD burner and reader


anodize

"Staples Easy Button" for Web Site building

Wow who knew that creating a website could be so easy. I went on to both Google Sites and Weebly, and checked out what both had to offer. The YouTube instruction video on Google sites was really nice it explained everything I needed to know to ensure that my website would be Safe, Secure, and fun. The weebly web page was even better although no video it was really nicely set up with step by step instuctions. So I decided to sign up for weebly, I however did not have any ideas to set up a good website at the time (as I did not want to set up a site that would not fully utilize my artistic side...................... HA HA even had myself convinced I have an artistic side there whew!!) Anyways maybe once I am inspired a little more I will be able to set up a good website that will be usefull to not only me but others as well. I will definetly refer back to these sites to get ideas when that happens.



That Was Easy

CC Remixed

So with this task I went to the Creative Commons webpage and was immediately confused. I didn't really understand what this site was about. I think that it only searches for licensed material but it seems kind of a pain. I'd rather just search google and if Jiminy Cricket happens to be sitting on my shoulder I will use the advanced search and look for only licensed materials. According to my fellow employees for every negative comment you need five positive comments so this is for you Creative Commons
1. Your use of the color green is staggering
2. You come up with tons of music choices for "All that Remains" although no "All that Remains" music but I figure your going outside the box, tryin to pry my musical shell open. Thank You
3. You offer your website in a few different languages
4. You give me the option to donate money to you
5. You have an FAQ major kudos here.

Book Catologing

For task #7 I went and visited all the links to the Reader Resources pages. With these I think the best ones are Library Thing, Goodreads, and Shelfari. These to begin with are really well set up each page is really appealing and professional looking. With the other websites I noticed that they had some of the same options but the way that the pages were set up (color schemes and fonts) really kind of pushed me away. I liked how Library Thing lets you set up a catolog then connects you to other people based on similarities in your readings. This would be really beneficial if you had nothing to read and were looking for a good new book, you could request information from someone else with the same book likes as yours and get some ideas on ones that they have read. Goodreads was also very nice because it sets books up into catagories so you can see which books are currently really popular in your favorite genre. Lastly I like the way that Shelfari offered the quick tour on the home page, so you can tell what options you have without having to sign up and see what all a membership comes with.