TASTESPOTTING.COM

I have selected Japanese Hiyayakko (chilled Fresh Tofu) because it is easy to make, delicious (at least looked like) and nutritious. Tofu is well recognised as a healthy food. Its recipe is as follows:

For 4 servings:
-1 pound silken (soft) tofu, drained-3 or 4 green onions-1/4 cup dried bonito flakes-4 tsps soy sauce

This is a great site for housewife who has to feed her family with delicous food. You can save money on buying cook books as this site provides a great variety of recipes for western, Chinese, Japanese, Indian and middle east dishes. All the pictures make your mouth watery. Yes, web2 training needs not be so dry. A site like this refreshes and enlightens your mind.

I do love it!

FEEDMYINBOX

Feedmyinbox is a handy small application that feeds updates of any web to your mailbox. That is, you will receive mail notice once there is new updates of the web that you subscribe. I tried to use the "bookmarklet" but it did not work in my computer. I had to resort to the more clumsy way of opening up the website of Feedmyinbox and pasted on it the URL of the web in which I was interested. I have subscribed to Auckland library, Manukau library top five and New Zealand herald - weather.

It is any easy way to connect to customers if they subscribe to our library blog. Once the top five of the month is updated, customers will automatically receive notice of the updates and they are free to read them any time.

The site that you subscibe must have a feed, otherwise you cannot use this application. I tried to subscribe to NZ metservice but I did not succeed. It appeared that website does not have any feed :(

PicApp

A book drop off stand at the entrance to Brooklyn Public library in New York, USA

I have chosen this picture because the books return box looks very old fashioned. This picture was taken on Dec 20, 2004. Will it be the same today?

I got the above picture from PicApp. It really has thousands of photos. However, I don't quite like it because most of the photos are irrelvant to the search. I typed in "library" and expected to have hundreds of pictures on library buildings from all over the world. However, most of the photos showed up were just irrelvant to my search. I typed in "Matariki" and only 12 photos turned out. I don't really like this site as the search always came out with irrelvant photos. Besides, most of the photos are too much "American".

Of course this site could be a source of photos that we may use for making displays in the library. However, if you ask me, my first choice would be "flickr" or "Picasa" which are much more relevant to the search purpose and the quality of photos are better.

Box.net

It is nice to come back to my territory with the starting of Web 2.0 part 2. I have played around the Box net for a few hours. I uploaded a folder containing all the funny stuff that my friends sent to me on the net. Size of my folder is 12.2mb and it took almost half an hour to upload.

This cloud application is very useful as we can store all our files there and have access to them from anywhere. We can invite collaborator who are authorised to edit any of our files. Besides, we can create our own web documents that he can then be accessed from any computer. If customer using our learn net wants to store his documents or any files just created but does not have his storage device, we can recommend him to open an account at Box. net and store his files there. He can then download them back to his storage device later on.