Cool Tools for WebmastersOctober 28, 2007

Internet Librarian 2007

Frank CervoneNorthwestern University

Darlene FichterUniversity of Saskatchewan

Communicating Ideas

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Sketchcast.com

http://sketchcast.com/view/9q1zvgj

JingProject.com

• Little app that’s always ready to capture and share images or screen

• Use when showing works better than telling– How do I change a setting?– How do I renew my books?

– How do I “Mark and Email” a list of articles?

From TechSmith who make Camtasia and Morare

Checking Due Dates

http://screencast.com/t/pDcWyoTczks

Just in Time Demos

picnik

Just For Fun!

http://www.kerpoof.com

http://www.kerpoof.com/create?view=7l1941k134h19

Slideshare.net

Other PowerPoint Sharing Tools

• Scribd – supports searching text

• SplashCast – combine PPT, mp3, images

• Zoho Show – edit online, jump to a slide• SlideAware – best stats, limit access

thumbalizr.com

• Capture screen or page image• Default sizes: 150, 320, 640, 800,

1024 or 1280 or custom

Screen

Page

Visual PageRank

www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank

IBM Unstructured Information Modeler

• Analyze unstructured data sets• Automatically classify and create categories• Works for 1,000 to 10,000 records

IBM Unstructured Information Modeler

• Examples– Feedback and comment forms from a beta

site– Tech support requests– Virtual reference transaction logs– All blog comments– All book reviews in the catalogue

• More info available in “Mining the Talk” by Scott Spangler, Jeffrey Kreulen

Customizing # of Classes

Drill Down, Create Reports

Utilities

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http://www.diffdaff.com/

DiffDaff

http://www.tucows.com/preview/504173

LogView

Development

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SOAP Sonar

• Testing and analyzing Web Services – Web Services Functional Testing – Complex SOAP WSDL Support

– Identity Management

http://www.crosschecknet.com/

http://www.home.no/evolved/

Evolved

http://www.perl-express.com/

Perl Express

Fun with images

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http://flash.dvd-photo-slideshow.com

Photo slideshow

http://www.flashgallerygenerator.com/main.aspx

Flashgallery Generator

Search and Indexing

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Google SiteMap Builder

http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/http://www.sitemapbuilder.net

Open source federated searching

• Library Find (Oregon State)– http://libraryfind.org/

• dbWiz (Simon Fraser University)– http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/dbwiz/

• Masterkey (Index Data)– http://www.indexdata.dk/masterkey/

IBM Omnifind Yahoo Edition

• Supports up to 500,000 documents

• Go from installer to searching in minutes

• Easy to use graphical tools to configure look-and-feel

• Configurable synonyms and featured links increase relevancy

Google Coop CSE

www.google.com/coop/cse

http://openly.oclc.org/openurlref/

OpenURL Referrer Toolbar

Flog Blog

http://apps.facebook.com/flogblog/

Freedom

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Pack Your Own Browser

• Portable Firefox – bundled with portable apps to take bookmarks, extensions, passwords

But wait…there’s more!

• Asterisk Logger v1.02 - Reveal passwords behind asterisks (***)

• Undelete – Recovers Deleted Files, Unerases Lost Data

• Unstoppable Copier – Recover all bytes from scratched CDs

• Simple File Shredder – Securely delete files so they can't be restored

• KeePass – Store all your passwords in one database, locked with one master key