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Bag of Tricks

Technology

Geeking on Spreadsheets – Bag of Tricks

I admit it, I am a spreadsheet junky. It’s true. And the things I like…

Kieran Hixon, October 8, 2019
Technology

Have you been pwned? – Bag of Tricks

Pwned. Yup, it is a word, not a typo. It is a word from an…

Kieran Hixon, August 19, 2019
Technology

Ransomware – Bag of Tricks

The other day a friend of mine who is the director of a small rural…

Kieran Hixon, August 2, 2019
Technology

Games For Change – Bag of Tricks

I have always been a video game player, way back since Pong, Asteroids, and Pacman…

Kieran Hixon, July 16, 2019
Technology

Fighting Summer Slide – Bag of Tricks

Ah, summer… it is a busy time for libraries! Between the Summer Reading Program and…

Kieran Hixon, July 2, 2019
Technology

Soup, well, TechSoup in the Bag of Tricks

Budgeting, finding the right solution, finding the person with the expertise to help, having the…

Kieran Hixon, June 18, 2019
Technology

What was there? – Bag of tricks

I am amazed by the speed at which technology develops. I really am. New developments…

Kieran Hixon, June 4, 2019
Technology

Making a habit of Habitica – Bag of Tricks

Habitica is an online task management application that, as its name implies, helps you build…

Kieran Hixon, April 23, 2019
Kits, Technology

Stuff Online and in a Box! – CSL Kits – Bag of Tricks

Generally my Bag of Tricks series concentrates on online tools you can use in some…

Kieran Hixon, April 9, 2019
Technology

Big Huge Labs & Valentine’s Day – Bag of Tricks

Valentine’s Day, LOVE, or as the quote in the movie Princess Bride goes, “tweasure your…

Kieran Hixon, February 13, 2019
Technology

Data Visualization – Bag of Tricks

Ah January, the season of snow and reports! Often January is a month of getting…

Kieran Hixon, January 29, 2019
Technology

Photo Editing – Bag of Tricks

I do a bit of photo editing for websites and I have used a program…

Kieran Hixon, January 15, 2019
Technology

IFTTT – Bag of Tricks

Have you heard the phrase, “the internet of things”? The Internet of Things is the…

Kieran Hixon, January 1, 2019
Technology

Storybird – Bag of Tricks

The other day, my 12 year old niece sent me a pdf of a story…

Kieran Hixon, December 18, 2018
Technology

Broadband – Bag of Tricks

The internet is quite the thing. Since I have been alive, the internet has not…

Kieran Hixon, December 4, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Money, Money, Money.

Basic financial literacy can be a great topic for a library program or class. But…

Kieran Hixon, November 20, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – NewsGuard

Looking for unbiased and legitimate news sources on the internet can be a vexing task…

Kieran Hixon, November 13, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Windows 10 Troubleshooting

Ah, the Windows operating system — I love it, I hate it, and when they…

Kieran Hixon, November 6, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Toward Gigabit Libraries

Have you ever noticed that everything on the internet runs slower after 3 pm when…

Kieran Hixon, October 29, 2018
Technology

Bag of Tricks – Metaverse

“Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects that…

Kieran Hixon, July 25, 2018
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