cool tools for library
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Cool Tools for WebmastersOctober 28, 2007
Internet Librarian 2007
Frank CervoneNorthwestern University
Darlene FichterUniversity of Saskatchewan
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
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
http://www.diffdaff.com/
DiffDaff
http://www.tucows.com/preview/504173
LogView
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
http://flash.dvd-photo-slideshow.com
Photo slideshow
http://www.flashgallerygenerator.com/main.aspx
Flashgallery Generator
Search and Indexing
Photo by reclusivemonkey via Flickr (CC)
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/
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