Cool Tools for Webmasters October 28, 2007 Internet Librarian 2007 Frank Cervone Northwestern University Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan
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