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Cool tools for webmasters October 29, 2007

Fichter / Cervone - IL 2007 1

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Cool Tools for WebmastersOctober 29, 2007

Internet Librarian 2007

Frank CervoneNorthwestern University

Darlene FichterUniversity of Saskatchewan

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Communicating Ideas

Photo: Grant Neufeld via Flickr (CC)



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Sketchcast.com

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

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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



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Checking Due Dates

http://screencast.com/t/pDcWyoTczks

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Just in Time Demos



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Slideshare.net

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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



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thumbalizr.com

• Capture screen or page image

• Default sizes: 150, 320, 640, 800,

1024 or 1280 or custom

Screen

Page

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Visual PageRank

www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank



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IBM Unstructured Information Modeler

• Analyze unstructured data sets

• Automatically classify and create categories

• Works for 1,000 to 10,000 records

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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



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Customizing # of Classes

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Drill Down, Create Reports



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Utilities

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16http://www.diffdaff.com/

DiffDaff



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18http://www.tucows.com/preview/504173

LogView



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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/



21http://www.home.no/evolved/

Evolved

22http://www.perl-express.com/

Perl Express



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Fun with images

Photo by joyyagid via Flickr (CC)

24http://flash.dvd-photo-slideshow.com

Photo slideshow



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27http://www.flashgallerygenerator.com/main.aspx

Flashgallery Generator

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Search and Indexing

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Google SiteMap Builder

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

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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/



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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

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Google Coop CSE

www.google.com/coop/cse

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40http://openly.oclc.org/openurlref/

OpenURL Referrer Toolbar



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Flog Blog

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

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Freedom

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Pack Your Own Browser

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

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But wait…there’s more!

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

• Undelete – Recovers Deleted Files, UnerasesLost 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

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