I think I've done everything now, if getting started on Jing and Camtasia counts.

Just chatted with my daughter in Florida via Google Chat. I didn't know she used it but she showed up and was conveniently online. Handy.

I have really enjoyed Aur Things. Some of the Things are more likely to be useful than others, but they are a good introduction to social software, and some interact with each other. I was on Facebook before they started, but am finding it a good way to stay in touch with all sorts of people I haven't seen in a while. There are a lot of fun things out there.

I have downloaded the Camtasia Studio trial on my home computer, and have viewed some of the videos. I am working on a screencast, but it will take a little while for it to be ready for prime time. Camtasia looks very powerful but takes some learning, although they try very hard to help.

I like Free Rice, and the idea. Jackson Pollock is fun. Guess the Google is too stressful to be fun.

Skillport has an amazing assortment of classes, including some on Excel 2007, which interests me. Coverage is sometimes spotty for a particular subject, but there are assorted whole books as well as courses on a great many subjects.

I set up chat in Gmail, but didn't find anyone to chat with on an Sunday. I have, however, chatted on Ask Auraria.

This time I went into SpringerLink, although I have looked at Netbooks many times. I found an interesting looking book called Climate Change: Environment and History of the Near East. SpringerLink is quite impressive in their presentation and convenient breakdown of book parts and ability to search across books.

I added Amazon and Cnet to my Internet Explorer plugins

The search plugins are handy looking. I added the Search Skyline plugin and it worked fine.
The person in the example was using Zotero. The Health Sciences library at least used to have an explanation of how to use Zotero on their website.

I've been using Firefox off and on for a while, but haven't had time to explore lots of add-ons. I added the Delicious bookmarks add-on. I think I'll use mainly Firefox a while; I'm aware that many people prefer it to Internet Explorer and as I have time, I'd like to explore more add-ons..

iGoogle is a lot like the Google Desktop that came with my laptop; you can use the same gadgets. I like it as a quick summary of a lot of things you might want to know about currently, and it gives easy access to things you want occasionally, like movie schedules. Although it can be a timesaver as far as assembling much information in one place, it could detract from productivity if your iGoogle is full of games and distractions.

I don't necessarily like having iGoogle show up on all computers I use, because I may use them differently and what is appropriate for one is not for another.

It is an issue with many of AurThings that they may be interesting, informative and entertaining, and we should be familiar with them. And for some of us we may have lots of work related applications. But they can sometimes be too many easy ways to play instead of doing what is needed.