Confused.com

The template options on this thing are insane.   I'm suffering from severe Optional Paralysis!!  
It's like going to a restaurant with an extensive menu, and it takes forever to decide!  Then when the waiter brings your food, you've no clue what you ordered in the first place!  Arrggghh, WILL NOT change the layout again!

iTunes

I've been using iTunes for years, so nothing new there really.
It seems only right that universities should have their own hub, makes location of relevant files or topics easier.

Podcasts

I reguarly use podcasts to catch up on items of interest I've missed on the radio.  RTE are actually very quick at uploading shows, if you missed something in the morning it appears on the internet in no length.  I used to download the Ricy Gervais/Karl Pilkington podcasts some years ago, when they were still funny.  Phantom fm have a great regular one at the moment with the increasingly unhinged Jim Corr, always good for a giggle.

Have a listen Jim Corr Phantom podcast

YouTube

Here's a silly Youtube clip, I love this one because I have a weird sense of humour.

                            

I've used Youtube loads, but the clip below was actually one of the first useful things I found on it, as opposed to music videos, and silly stuff like the clip above.

Last year when I was learning to crochet, I used to look up youtube all the time to figure out new stitches.It was infinitely more helpful than any amount of drawings and diagrams in books.

The positives of Youtube are that it's really easy to navigate and search.  It's great if you are learning anything new, be it photo enhancing software like photoshop, or even something as trivial as how to apply hair extensions.  It is great for looking up archive footage and during the election there were some great spoof videos of the main candidates to be found on the site.
It is also useful for uploading family videos for relatives abroad, and it has really good privacy settings, whereby only people you 'invite' to see your film can view it.
On the negative side, there is an inordinate amount of junk on the site, but you don't have to look at it.
Obviously for our own website, we could add little 'how to do' video clips of how to renew books, make reservations etc,  This is currently underway.

I did it!!

Whoop whoop!
My debut blog.........Can't believe it!
I'd like to thank my parents, colleagues....only kidding!
Actually it wasn't that bad getting up and running, thank God for my freebie notebook to log my passwords in! :) Over and out!