Cyberpunk Librarian

Let’s step back from the tech for a bit from something fun and different! Join Dan for a look at the cyberpunk technology and tones of the Disney animated film Big Hero 6! Links Hatsune Miku – Information about the virtual idol singer, or idoru, from Wikipedia. Music Lei#4 by Gilo Robotomie by Tortue Super Sonic Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

Raspberry Pis have taken the maker and geek world by storm! Little, inexpensive computers that can do so many great things? Yeah that has a lot of possibilities within the library! Join Dan and discover a project he’s working on that involves a Raspberry Pi. Notes Outline for what I’ve done for a digital shelf talker unit powered by Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi Model B – uses a MicroSD and has four USB ports Using a kit I found on Amazon. Links in the shownotes The great thing about this kit isn’t just the case and plugs but also the WiFi plug. That’s what you really need for a project like this. Screenly OSE Managed through web browser Displays slides, MP4s, and websites as a digital signage solution Easier to use and set up than Xibo. I love it! OSE is the FOSS edition, there is a paid solution with more spiffs – check it out Using the custom image found on Screenly OSEs website, I flashed that to the SD card using Win32DiskImager – an open source app that is excellent for this The Screenly OSE custom image is just Raspbian with Screenly OSE pre-installed. Save yourself some time, just use it. Flash that to the SD card, pop the card in your Raspberry Pi, hook everything up, and plug it in! Plug into a live ethernet jack that allows access to the Internet. You’ll need that to get things going. It’ll start up and go right into a demo display with a video. Let that play through and then hit CTRL ALT F1 to get to a login prompt. The login is the default for Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, the user is pi and the password is raspberry – all lower case. So the tricky part isn’t getting Screenly OSE to work it’s getting the Pi to automatically connect to WiFi. Over ethernet it’s great! Wifi needs a little tweaking To do this, we need to install a better network manager. It’s spelled wicd, but to keep it straight in my head I call it “wicked” which will make more sense in a few moments. Getting wicd installed is pretty easy. I’ll have this info listed in the show notes, so don’t feel like you have to write things down furiously. Type sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install wicd-curses. So I call the network manager wicked and the whole thing is wicked curses, see? sudo wicd-curses You’ll get a pretty simple interface to set up your wifi connection, link to more information in the show notes but I bet you’ll figure it out pretty quickly Set up your wifi access (choose it, password if needed, etc) and make sure you set it up to connect automatically! After that, hit F10 to save the setup and then SHIFT C to connect. If you did it all correctly, the wifi connects up! BRILLIANT! Oh except for the fact that it won’t do this automatically upon boot, not yet Okay so the trick is that we need to get the wicd service to start automatically. To do that, we need to edit the /etc/profile file to start the service on login. When Screenly OSE starts, it logs in. Whenever someone logs in, /etc/profile is invoked So let’s cd /etc and, just to be safe, make a copy with sudo cp profile profile.bak, then sudo nano profile To start the service, add sudo service wicd start to the end of that profile CTRL X and save Moment of truth time. Disconnect your ethernet cable and reboot the Pi When Screenly OSE comes up, it may or may not show you the IP for the Pi. Sometimes it doesn’t get the wifi connection in time to display it. To verify your wifi connection, do the CTRL ALT F1 and login again. type ifconfig and you should see an IP under WLAN0. There you go! Pop that into a web browser on your network and you can manage Screenly OSE! You can set up a persistent IP if you want. Me, I prefer to just set it up as a DHCP reservation at the router. Links My preferred Raspberry Pi kit – comes with everything you need except a keyboard, mouse, and monitor! Screenly OSE – Digital signage made simple and powered by Pi. Win32DiskImage – A FOSS solution for writing disk images to SD cards. WiFi on a Raspberry Pi: A Simple Guide – Great resource that helped me along. Easy Wireless Configuration for a Raspberry Pi – Another excellent resource that answered a bunch of questions. Music Ice Cold by Jason Shaw Adeu by Peter Sharp Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

Sometimes you need to write stuff down. Maybe it’s a quick note. Or maybe it’s a book! Dan takes a fresh look at a familiar tool, Evernote. Notes What Did I Do? Keeping Track of Accomplishments Without Going Crazy, by Tyler Dzuba. Published on Letters to a Young Librarian. There are a few different versions of Evernote. The free version rocks, but there’s a premium and business version too. This handy chart will help you compare features. I’ll be speaking at TechPhx! If you’re in the Tempe, AZ area then come check out the conference and listen to me (and others) speak! Use promo code ATTENDMYSESSION to get 50% off the cost of admission! Music Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita We Are the Future by Nearfield Caught in the Beat by Broke for Free Air Born by Newton Balloon Typing sound effect courtesy of FreeSound.

Conferences have given styles, design, and form; and that makes it easy to figure them out. Join the Cyberpunk Librarian and find out how to get the most out of a professional conference, or almost any conference for that matter. Links Live Blog – WordPress plugin for easy live blogging, right there on the post page! Brought to you by WordPress and Automattic! Polly-Alida Farrington – Librarian, trainer, author, and all around awesome. Music Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Electro Funk by Stanko-Beronja Jigo-Jitoku by DJ Jax Desire by PASCALB

As Dan recovers from the move we present Story Time, where downtempo meets writing. Discover why it’s important that Kindles have no covers and why one big monitor is better than multiple, smaller monitors. Links Kindles Don’t Have Covers or the Return of the Penny Dreadful It Only Takes One Music Narita Spaceport Lounge by Kevin Bryce Cohen Method by Tab & Anitek Tesseract by Daniel Messer Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

A podcast about video making? Why not? Join the Cyberpunk Librarian for a look out how to make training videos for your staff and public! Discover the tools and design that’ll make a memorable video, not something that desperately needs an MST3K treatment! Links Software Camstudio – Free screencasting software for Windows. RecordMyDesktop – Free and open source screencasting for Linux Some information about Kazam and its latest updates. Kazam is another screen casting solution for Linux Kazam on LaunchPad – Check out your repo too. Chances are, it’s in there. An Ask Ubuntu discussion on Linux screencasting. Some good ideas here, chummers. Cheese – Sort of the de facto Linux webcam software for Linux. Windows Movie Maker – Free video editing and capture for Windows. Avidemux – Cross platform, open source video editing. OpenShot – Open source video editing for Linux. Corel VideoStudio Pro – Fantastic video editing for those on a budget. Camtasia Studio – Professional level screencasting software for Windows and OS X. Final Cut Pro X – Professional grade video editing for OS X. Adobe Premiere – Professional grade video editing for Windows and OS X. Sony Vegas – High end video editing for Windows. Lots of YouTube content creators use this. CyberLink Power Director – I’ve never used this but, wow, it’s getting some pretty high ratings. Worth checking out! For Windows. Audacity – Free and open source audio editing. Hardware Logitech C510 – This is the webcam I use. Simple, easy, does the job well. Shoots in 720p HD. Logitech C615 – This is the 1080p HD version of the above webcam. As I write this, it’s on sale and is actually cheaper than the one above. And it’s the better camera! Go fig. Videos The Other Side of the Browser: Multimedia Devices – An explanatory, vlog like video I did for the staff about Roku, Apple TV, and so on. What’s New in Polaris v4.1R2 – Part of a series of videos I did about our ILS upgrade. You Suck at Photoshop – Darkly hilarious tutorials about learning Photoshop techniques. Tara Arts Movie – Fun and funny tutorials on After Effects, Premiere, and video making in general. Xia Taptara – Digital painting tutorials with an amazing artist. Music Fairy Tale by Starman65 Daydreaming by Starman65 Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

It’s a podcast about podcasts as Dan talks about the things he does to design, prepare for, and record the show! Find out just how simple, or complex, it can be to make a podcast and pick up some ideas from the Cyberpunk Librarian and others! Links Check out these shows for ideas! Anything on the Radiotopia network Hello, Internet with Brady Haran and CGP Grey The Ihnatko Alamanac with Andy Ihnatko and Dan Benjamin What the Tech with Andrew Zarian and Paul Thurrott The Knightwise.com Podcast with Knightwise This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte and others Dave’s Lounge with Dave, one of the chillest people on the Internet Bad Voltage with four of the biggest geeks on the Net. Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Jeremy Garcia, and Bryan Lunduke Welcome to Night Vale is one of the greatest story based podcasts to ever grace the online world On the Media with Brooke Gladstone and others. You should also dig on Brooke’s fantastic book The Influencing Machine The Linux Action Show with Chris Fisher and Matt Hardy The Incomparable with Jason Snell and others Some hardware and software and stuff! WordPress – My free and open source content management system of choice. Or my preferred FOSS CMS. Seriously Simply Podcasting – A fantastic plugin for WordPress that helps with podcast distribution on your website. FFMPG Plugin for Audacity – Import video files into Audacity to strip off the audio. Video DownloadHelper Firefox – Download streaming videos easily. Audacity – The best audio editor money can’t buy. USB Mic – I use a Rock Band mic. Sure it’s cheesy, but it’s fairly decent. Blue Yeti – A primo USB mic. I’ll be upgrading to this fairly soon. Pop filter – The cheapest thing you can get to improve your audio. Make your own pop filter! – Don’t worry, it’s really easy to do. Swivel Arm Boom Mounts – They come in lots of varieties and prices. Mine was something like $30 as I recall. It doesn’t even have a brand on it. Other cool things! Ze Frank – The Show (07-28-06) Stripping audio from video using QuickTime On the air with John Riggs Dani’s Diner with Dani Cutler Credits Music Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Jay Jay by Kevin MacLeod Dialect by Deltason Other good stuff Hear and Now clip Extreme Interference Sound Effect Radio tuning Radio static Ren & Stimpy – Space Madness clip

Let’s take a break from long form, tech heavy shows with a shorter show and lighter commentary! An unabashed generalist, Dan takes you through how he maintains and learns a little about everything and why it’s important to specialize in generalization. Links Laura – Vincent Price Legacy Laura on the Internet Movie Database Isaac Asimov on Bill Moyer’s World of Ideas View from a Height by Isaac Asimov Vsauce on Ignorance and the Speed of Dark Music Solar Rush by Redmann As always, the title track is Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

Ever want a big, digital sign in your library but didn’t want to have to pay big money to get it? Well if you have a couple old computers and a monitor, the Cyberpunk Librarian has the answer to your digital signage needs! Notes Getting up and running with Xibo What you will need A computer running Linux that will act as your server Another computer running Windows A monitor or flat panel HDTV for your digital displays The Server For my server, I ran Kubuntu and installed a LAMP stack. (LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.) For Ubtuntu based flavours, you can easily install LAMP via: sudo apt-get install tasksel sudo tasksel install lamp-server As it installs, it will ask for a password for MySQL. Give it one and write it down. Put that password someplace safe. You won’t need it all that often, but when you need it, you need it. Download the Xibo server Xibo client for Windows or Linux Installing and running Note: To make things easier to move around, rename, copy, and store; I opened up a superuser Dolphin window. You can easily do this from the terminal (called Konsole on KDE) by typing: sudo dolphin I installed the Xibo server on a Kubuntu server running 14.04 LTS. After installing the LAMP stack I extracted Xibo and then copied it to the directory Ubuntu uses for web service with Apache: /var/www/html Rename the directory with an easier name like, you know, xibo. For the rest of these notes, I’ll assume you called your xibo directory by that name. You’ll need to give ownership and access of the xibo directory to the web user, or the Apache user. On Ubuntu flavours this user is called www-data. So: sudo chown www-data.www-data -R xibo That gives the web server the permissions it needs to access and run the system. Since this is an internal web service, I didn’t make any changes to the Apache configs. Pop into /var and create a directory called xibo there too. This will hold your images and stuff for the screens and, for security reasons, it should be outside of the web directory. Give the web user owner ship with the same command as before: sudo chown www-data.www-data -R xibo PHP Dependencies Chances are, some of these checkmarks will be red X’s if you run the install right away. When you initially try to install Xibo you’ll get a screen like this and, chances are, you don’t have all the necessary PHP dependencies. May as well get them now You’ll need the GD extension so: sudo apt-get install php5-gd Then go get the mcrypt extension. It’ll need some massaging to work. sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt Once you get it installed, you’ll need to do a little bit of editing to make everything play nicely together. There’s an excellent explanation over on AskUbuntu on how to fix it up. Don’t worry, it’s pretty easy. Edit php.ini to allow larger uploads. Since I was using KDE, I was using kate, the standard text editor for the system. So… sudo kate /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini Change post_max_size and upload_max to 128 MB Increase max_execution_time to 120 seconds Yes! That should do it! Open up the browser on your server and go to localhost/xibo and follow the directions to install. You’ll create an admin password for the user xibo_admin and you’ll need to create a server key to add clients into the server. Setting up the client If your clients are running Windows, then set up is incredibly easy – install the client and set it up. You can set up things like times to refresh, the directory to cache images, and so on. Useful goodies and information Xibo Server (CMS) Installation Docs Xibo Windows Client Installation Docs Xibo User’s Manual

Join Daniel Messer as he goes cypherpunk and talks about keeping yourself secure and private online and in the digital world. Notes and Links Use a VPN. Private Internet Access ProXPN TorGuard Secure Browsing Use incognito or privacy mode Use Firefox over Chrome TOR Browser AdBlock Plus Privacy Badger Mobile ChatSecure – Secure chat with Google and XMPP (Android and iOS) TextSecure – Secure SMS and MMS (Android only) RedPhone – Secure calling (Android only) Cryptocat – Secure group chat (iOS only) Wickr – Secure chat with optional time bomb to delete after given time (Android and iOS) Connec+ +or – Secure browsing for Android Red Onion – TOR for iOS As an aside, Facetime and iMessage on iOS are end-to-end encrypted. Secure Email Hush Mail Bitmessage GPG Leave No Trace TAILS – The Amnesiac Incognito Live System Used by Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden. Runs on a flash drive (I wear mine around my neck) Completely anonymous, as it goes around the computer’s hard drive. Uses TOR Encrypts your userspace Or use a live distro of Linux without any persistent storage. You can set up a live USB of Ubuntu or many other distros of Linux. For instance, I also carry Kubuntu around my neck as a live stick. Unetbootin – works everywhere and it’s easy to use: Create a live USB stick with Ubuntu Use Good Passwords This is one of the most important things of all. If you’re using weak passwords, then you’re not securing anything at all. It’s the equivalent of leaving a key under your doormat. Lastpass – The browser plug in is the best, and it works everywhere since it’s just a browser plug in. 1Password KeePass – Stand alone, works everywhere Strong Password Generator Four Methods to Create a Secure Password You’ll Actually Remember (LifeHacker) Things You Should Be Aware Of If you’re using software to enhance or protect your privacy, chances are you’re going to be put on a watch list. NSA’s XKEYSCORE dissected: All Tor users marked as ‘extremists’ (Silicon Angle) XKeyscore exposed: How NSA tracks all German Tor users as ‘extremists’ (RT) If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance (Boing Boing) NSA targets Linux Journal as ‘extremist forum’: Report (ZDNet) Use Tor or ‘EXTREMIST’ Tails Linux? Congrats, you’re on an NSA list (The Register) Use or Look at Online Privacy Tools? NSA Labels You an ‘Extremist’ (Daily Beast) How the NSA Targets Tor Users (Vice) NSA targets the privacy-conscious (DasErste) No Facebook, no iPhone, no problem: how I declared my digital independence (Dan Gilmore @ The Guardian) Information on Carnivore, an electronic communications and packet sniffer once used by the FBI and the IAO. Information on Magic Lantern, a keylogger used by the FBI. Music This week’s music is brought to you by Tardiss and the Free Music Archive! Slow Stich Silver Fences As always, the title track is Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita.

Something a little different, a little laid back for your summertime. Sit back, relax, and enjoy a couple of stories/essays from Dan. Find out how cyberpunk is no longer futuristic, and discover the true power of sharing. Links Knightwise.com – The podcast with hacks, tips, and tweaks for cross-platform geeks. Welcome to the Future, Welcome to Now – The first part of the storytime. Online Immortality – The second part of the storytime. So as I mentioned in the podcast, these two essays will be part of my next book. If you have the interest, here are the other two I’ve written: All My Rattling On: Essays, Musings, and Rants on Libraries, Technology and Science Hyperlinked History: A Multifaceted Journey Through Time Music Kevin Bryce – On a Spinning Disc, Dragonflies Kevin Bryce – Slightly Randomized Trajectory Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

On this episode of Cyberpunk Librarian we delve into what Dan uses, and by that we mean, what he really uses when it comes to the iPad and iOS. Links eReading Kindle GoodReader Zinio OverDrive News Flipboard Alien Blue Listening Spotify SomaFM RadioBOX Social Twitter Google+ Gave up on Facebook Watch Netflix YouTube (While you’re at it, check out the VlogBrothers!) And finally… PlainText 2 Evernote Microsoft Remote Desktop Music Bacterial Love by Rolemusic Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita

On this episode of Cyberpunk Librarian, Dan goes into the benefits and mental cleansing that comes from working outside of your environment, both technologically and physically! Links The Secret Life of the Office – Part of a fantastic series of documentaries by Tim Hunkin. The third series is basically the sequel to the first two series titled The Secret Life of Machines. Tim is one of my heroes who is not only a documentarian, but also an engineer and cartoonist. These series feature art and animation based off his original comics which informed and inspired The Secret Life series. Microsoft Remote Desktop for OS X – Seriously, I couldn’t do my job without it. Pixelmator – A Photoshop replacement for OS X. I love everything about this application. I screwed up the price, however as it’s US$30, not $15 as I said on the podcast. Sorry about that! Buy it through the App Store. TextWrangler – Because sometimes I just need to edit a little code, you know? Get it via their website or the App Store. Either way, it’s FREE! Remmina – VNC, RDP, and so much more for Linux. I’ve used it on Unity, Gnome, and KDE with no issues at all! Great software and a total win for open source! Angelique Pettyjohn – Best known for her appearance on the Star Trek: TOS episode “The Game Masters of Triskelion,” Angelique was also an adult film star, movie star, dancer, fashion designer, model, and burlesque performer. Yes, I named my MacBook Air after her. I never claimed to be normal. Music Gilo – Evenings Recital Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

Join Daniel Messer, the Cyberpunk Librarian, for another episode of Cyberpunk Librarian! On this episode we talk about sub-reddits and recommend a bunch of them for your library, technology, educational, and informational needs! Links MetaReddit – Discover new subreddits and find one to suit your interests! Library • http://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/LibraryScience/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/bookporn/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/books/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/CoolCovers/ Tech • http://www.reddit.com/r/windows/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/osx/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/ios • http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/linux • http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu • http://www.reddit.com/r/kde Science • http://www.reddit.com/r/space/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/ History • http://www.reddit.com/r/history/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ Interesting • http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned • http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/ Cyberpunk • http://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryCyberpunk/ Meta • http://www.reddit.com/r/newreddits/ • http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/ Music saQi – Explode Into the Clouds Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

Join Daniel Messer, the Cyberpunk Librarian, as he discusses the ways, the means, and the reasons for taking back control of your data. Do you really need a cloud based solution? Maybe not! And even if you do, make sure you get the right thing for your needs. Links OwnCloud – It’s like Dropbox for your own server Setting up OwnCloud on GoDaddy – I’ve done it, and it’s not hard; especially if you know how to make MySQL databases work with websites. BitTorrent Sync – Using torrents to sync your data with yourself and your friends. SyncThing – Like BitTorrent Sync, but open source. Vienna – Standalone RSS reader for OS X NetNewsWire – Another standalone RSS reader for OS X Liferea – Standalone RSS reader for Linux Akregator – Standalone RSS reader for KDE (Also Linux, but specifically for KDE.) RSSOwl – Cross platform, Java based RSS reader. Brief – A RSS reader add-on for Firefox. Also a cross platform solution that integrates right into your browser. AlternativeTo – There are other solutions to your software needs. Check them out, shop around, and get the best thing for you! Music Ample Mammal – Future Versus Calculator Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

What makes my everyday list of things that I use? From my phone to my computer there are certain apps and hardware that I use every single day to get things done and make projects happen! Links My operating system of choice: Firefox Evernote (My commonplace book) LibreOffice GIMP Spotify Pocket Casts VLC Audacity Dropbox and Google Drive aText text expander Timely Any.do XiiaLive Pro Music Kevin Bryce – A Flashback for Mr. Computer Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

This time around Daniel Messer, the Cyberpunk Librarian, talks about some of his favourite podcasts! Links 99% Invisible Bad Voltage Hello Internet Knightwise.com MacBreak Weekly Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project Ihnatko Almanac The Linux Action Show and Linux Unplugged Welcome to Night Vale Windows Weekly Music The Polish Ambassador – Journey to the Center of Jah Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

Join Dan, the Cyberpunk Librarian, for an episode on what happens and what to do when things go down. No, not computers. What do you do when there’s going to be a fight and you’re going to be one of the participants? It’s a problem some librarians face, and there are ways to deal with things when the smile and the empathy doesn’t defuse the situation. Links Black Belt Librarian Don’t Talk to the Police (Without a Lawyer) Music The Polish Ambassador – My Time Machine Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

This week, the Cyberpunk Librarian takes a look at running a state-wide digital book initiative using FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and Dropbox. The costs are low and the reward is high on this episode of Cyberpunk Librarian. Links WordPress – Blogging, CMS, extra wonderful, totally easy. Contact Form 7 – A contact form plugin for WordPress, yet so much more. Dropbox – Save everything to the cloud. Send To Dropbox – Send everything to the cloud! LibreOffice – Because Microsoft Office is way too expensive for what it is. Writer2ePub – Create ePubs with ease using this plug in for LibreOffice. Calibre – Like iTunes for eBooks, but works far better than iTunes. Music Ample Mammal – Spacecrunkadelix Part 2 Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

Welcome to the sixth episode of Cyberpunk Librarian! Join Dan as he talks about using AutoHotkey for scripting your way out of boring, repetitive tasks! Make your life easier by investing a couple of hours in writing code and saving days of work down the road. Links AutoHotkey AutoHotkey Documentation – Well written and you can figure things out on the fly! SciTE4AutoHotkey – An editor for AutoHotkey. Though you can write AHK scripts in Notepad, this editor does code highlighting and collapsing. Great for developers who like that sort of thing. Cyberpunk Librarian on Github Music Ant the Symbol – The Quiet Ones Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

Do you know how to use your tools? I mean, really? You should learn how to use everything you use and learn how to use it all well. You’ll make your life, and your job, easier and hey, you might become a mentor. Join Dan for Episode 5 and find out how! Music Deltason – Ground Loop Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

Confused by STEM? What does STEM even mean? Is it different from STEAM? Oh man, librarians love their acronyms, don’t they? Check out this episode where we talk about STEM and introduce some great videos to get you started! Links The Brady Haran Videos – Just, seriously just watch all of them! Vsauce | Vsauce2 | Vsauce3 Vi Hart SmarterEveryDay CGP Grey MinutePhysics Music Dmitriy Krotevich – Dope Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu

Fire up your public and staff computers with elementary OS! It’s pretty, easy to use, and people won’t think they’re getting some cheap-o operating system. Thanks for checking out out the show! Share it with your friends and help the show grow! Links elementary OS – Get it, you’ll love it! The Linux Action Show covers elementary OS Infinitely Galactic looks at elementary OS Music Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu Psychadelik Pedestrian – Memories

The Cyberpunk Librarian returns to talk about a bookmark aggregator that can be yours and yours alone. It’s simple to use, easy to install, so why not share with Shaarli? Thanks for tuning in, downloading, and listening to Episode 2 of the show! Tell your geeky friends and your not-so-geeky enemies about it and help the show grow! Links Shaarli – Open source, easy to use bookmark sharing. Total. Awesomesauce. Link Dump – My own Shaarli site, so you can see what this looks like in action! This is the total default set up, but most everything can be customized. Music Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu Koalips – Miranda

Welcome to the relaunch of the Cyberpunk Librarian podcast! I’m back on the airwaves, or at the very least a wireless router or two, with a new podcast that’s pretty similar to the old podcast. As much as I love video and making videos, I find I just don’t have the time right now to roll them out as I’d like to. Meanwhile, I can make a podcast in an hour or so, and that’s start to finish. (Plus a little time to create an outline and stuff, but that can be done over the course of a week.) On this, the first episode of the relaunch, we’re going to talk about writing a book and paying nothing for software! Links Kubuntu Linux – Probably the easiest way to get Linux and KDE. Kate – The text editor for KDE. Comes standard with most installations of KDE. LibreOffice – The free, open source office suite. Writer2ePub – Create ePubs from your documents in LibreOffice Writer. Calibre – eBook management, eBook conversion, and so much more. XFCE – A lightweight desktop for Linux. You can easily get it with Xubuntu. LXDE – Another lightweight desktop for Linux. You can easily get it with Lubuntu. I mentioned the Knight Wise podcast. Check it out! Music Ryo Miyashita – Bellydance at Ebisu Carroll – Billionaire My books All my Rattling On: Essays, Musings, and Rants about Libraries, Technology, and Science Hyperlinked History: A Multifaceted Journey Through Time

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