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Cyberpunk Librarian

Summary: Join Daniel Messer, the Cyberpunk Librarian, as he talks about ideas, trends, and cool stuff for technologically minded librarians who are high tech and low budget!

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 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 27 – Pretty Pictures, Better Design | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:41

Join Dan for an episode full of tips, tricks, tools, and techniques for creating better graphic design! After all, you don’t want a dumb looking sign...

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 27 – Pretty Pictures, Better Design | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:41

Join Dan for an episode full of tips, tricks, tools, and techniques for creating better graphic design! After all, you don’t want a dumb looking sign in your library! Put some thought into your design and it’ll show in the end result! Links Books worth checking out Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans – Amazon | WorldCat Graphic Design: The New Basics – Amazon | WorldCat Websites worth clicking Have a look at some beautiful examples of De Stijl. Behance Graphic Design Portfolios are great places for some ideas and inspiration! Smashing Magazine goes in-depth about design tips and tools. Hack Design will teach you about graphic and web design via email! The Design Blog is another fantastic place for ideas. Identifont will help you discover great fonts and replacements for fonts you don’t have. Library Signage gives you the good, the bad, and the OMG of library sign design. Software worth your while Office 365 Personal and/or Home editions will get you the latest versions of Microsoft Office direct from the source. Always updated and always available via the cloud. Scribus – The graphic design studio for the rest of us. Also available in a Portable Apps edition. LibreOffice – The FOSS solution for your office suite. Also available in a Portable Apps edition. Pixelmator – The best, most affordable image editor for OS X. Highly recommended. GIMP – Cross platform, free and open source image editing. Also available in a Portable Apps edition. PaintShop Pro – A sadly underused bit of kit that is just as useful as Photoshop for 90% of the population at a tiny fraction of the price! Music and Audio Woman in Blue by Cafe Del Chillia Ivana Kupala Night by Crosswords Gravitational Slingshot by Daniel Messer. Download for free on SoundCloud or buy yourself a copy of The View From Amalthea which includes this song and a few others. Printer sound courtesy of FreeSound.org.

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 26 – Busy Hands | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:33

Projects at work and projects at home! Join Daniel Messer, the Cyberpunk Librarian, for a look at some of the things he’s working on for money...

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 26 – Busy Hands | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:33

Projects at work and projects at home! Join Daniel Messer, the Cyberpunk Librarian, for a look at some of the things he’s working on for money and for fun. Raspberry Pis, LAMPs, Minecraft, and more. After all, busy hands are happy hands! Links KnightWise.com community on Google+ Raspberry Pi Kiosk Screen Tutorial Cherokee Web Server – an easy to set up and use webserver managed through the browser PhraseExpress – an excellent text expansion app for Windows AutoHotkey – powerful scripting made easier Slide Code Generator for Polaris – my AutoHotkey script to generate slide codes for the Polaris PowerPAC Install LAMP stack on Ubuntu based systems Installing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu based systems – Because I don’t speak SQL very well Coppermine – a fantastic, FOSS image gallery app for the web WordPress – my CMS of choice Anchor CMS – beautiful, simple blogging and content management Setting up a Minecraft server on Linux Notes To disable screen blanking and screen savers on Raspbian for Raspberry Pi, you need to edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Look for a section in the file labeled [SeatDefaults]. You’ll find several lines underneath it commented out with the # symbol. Remove the # symbol from the line xserver-command and change it to read xserver-command=X -s 0 dpms Save the file and reboot. Music and Audio Hypodemia by NeXuS Destiny by Atomic Cat Rocket by Kevin MacLeod Bellydance at Ebisu by Ryo Miyashita Sound effects courtesy of FreeSound.org

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 25 – The Cyberpunk Behind Big Hero 6 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:15

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...

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 25 – The Cyberpunk Behind Big Hero 6 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:15

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

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 24 – Delicious 3.14159 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:06

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...

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 24 – Delicious 3.14159 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:06

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.

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 23 – Evernote Everything | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:15

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,...

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 23 – Evernote Everything | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:15

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.

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 22 – Conferencing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:31

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...

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 22 – Conferencing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:31

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

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 21 – Story Time | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:53

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

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 21 – Story Time | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:53

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...

 Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 20 – Video Killed the Staff Training Star | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:46

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.

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