HARDWARE, SOFTWARE & TECHNICALITIES -- Internet -- Web publishing & Web readers (A-M)

2rss  RSS feeds, directory, software, scripts, articles, syndication; XML, RDF, news             28 February 2004  

4 Reasons To Avoid Using Dates In URLs                                                                             21 January 2008

350pages - createweb pages easily & quickly                                                                           1 June 2008
select template & customize headings, buttons, style, colour, fonts, dividers, text, images & background; drag & drop objects; file uploader will compress photos; enhance with inbuilt photo editor; photo gallery; e-commerce features;

Accessibility                                                                                                                        23 August 2006
Positive steps to assessing, monitoring & comparing accessibility of public websites: introducing the European Internet Accessibility Observatory(Freepint No. 212, 24 August 2006); See also Usability; Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0;

Accurate Monitor 1.2                                                                                                              3 May 2003
find position of sites in search engines; generates statistics, monitors plugins, Win 95+

ActiveX (WebReference)                                                                                                        9 January 2004

Adobe Acrobat & PDF at PDFzone.com                                                                                26 September 2001
online authority for Acrobat, PDF & document management professionals: PDF-Basics service by PDFzone.com; Foxit Reader 2.3 for Windows is faster than Acrobat Reader with more options for viewing, printing, & annotating PDFs; use it to fill out PDF forms; How to embed a PDF document in your website;

Adobe Acrobat(PDF) publication platforms                                                                       7 December 2009
YUDU Plus upgrade allows you to add multimedia to your free publications, but if you're looking for more advanced, specialist features for your digital publications, YUDU Pro includes own branding, in-depth statistics & reporting, DRM protection, subscription integration, email marketing tools & additional digital catalog features; Upload Word, Powerpoint & PDF files converted automatically into page-turning digital editions, ebooks, ezines & e catalogues hosted by YUDU free; Add YouTube videos/multimedia with Plus;

Adobe Contribute 4.0                                                                                                             29 March 2007
update websites without affecting underlying design; edit blog content, send for editing or publish to the blog; full integration with Microsoft Word, Excel & Powerpoint..easily add images, video or sound files; edit images

Adobe/Macromedia Breeze 5 web conferencing, online collaboration                                   5 May 2005
live presentations, distance training; multi-point video conferencing, fullscreen video; text chat, polling, file sharing, convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash, co-browsing, application sharing, voice over IP, integrated recording, event & user tracking/reporting; 15 day trial

Adobe Open Screen Project                                                                                                   2 May 2008
consistent runtime environment for rich media across myriad devices; Flash on web, mobile, desktop, TV, & other consumer electronic devices; Adobe releasing file format specifications for Flash(.swf & .flv/f4v) & removing licensing restrictions; expanded to include AIR; Adobe will remove licensing fees associated with Flash & AIR now free on all devices; Adobe will publish specs for Adobe Flash Cast protocol & Action Message Format protocol, device porting layer APIs for Flash player making it an open format like PDF in mid-90s; Since release in 1993 PDF has become an open standard for documents & recently took a major step toward becoming the ISO 32000 Standard;

Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step                                                                                    2 February 2002
HTML tables; accessible, standards-compliant sites require separation of markup & content; tutorial to create WebReference table like layouts(for small window sizes & large fonts), avoiding bugs & problems in other implementations; generation 5+ browsers, Win/Mac

Aggregators(Newsreaders)                                                                                                  7 September 2003
NewsGator & AmphetaDesk feed from BBC, Sci-Fi Today, Slashdot & bloggers; regular updates; Info Aggregator RSS-to-IMAP service; feeds by email; MyFeedster RSS aggregator doesnt need download; Topix.Net pre-built pages aggregate to 150000+ topical pages (coy names, industry names) crawling newspaper websites, radio & TV stations; Urchin RSS Aggregator & filter queries Urchin database; other output formats defined & generated using XSL transformations or HTML::Template; Newzie; my.netscape.commy.userland.com, xmltree.com, moreover.com; See RSS News Readers(below) & News Aggregators on the Internet(Marcus Zillman); FeedDemon; Feedmarker aggregator/tagging system users read RSS Feeds & tag them according to their own classification systems,  del.icio.us & Flickr also have open tagging systems; What's an RSS aggregator?; Surfwax News Accumulator; Geoff Daily reviews & compares software &  browser-based RSS aggregators ThinFeeder, NewsGator, Sage(Firefox), Bloglines & FeedDemon (Aggregating the Aggregators, EContent, April 2005, pp. 37-41); open-source BlogBridge client-based RSS reader & aggregator works on PCs, Macs & Linux boxes; Feed on Feeds server-based RSS news aggregator tracks what you've read on any computer; need full access rights to Web server running recent version of PHP & MySQL; fully open-source(GPL), integrates RSS auto-discovery, OPML export/import functions & full  integration of MagPie RSS providing gzip support;  BlogBridge open-source cross-platform RSS reader-aggregator; see RSS feed aggregators & RSS news readers(below); Attensa for Outlook; Firefox as an RSS reader(See Bloglines Firefox Center); Krawler[x] personal desktop media aggregator; Topix.net (News Search Engine & News Aggregator);  (3 Apr 2006) The State of Online Feed Readers feed reader for syndicated content monitors sites & sources, providing near realtime updates; there are web-based, desktop, Outlook based feed readers; only web-based feed readers reviewed -News Alloy, Gritwire, Attensa & FeedLounge; Podcast - NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo & Feedlounge; AgileRss can display any RSS, ATOM, & XML newsfeed from sources that support RSS protocol; runs on any java enabled operating system. Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium II system with 128 MB of RAM/100 MB free disk space. Sun Microsystems Java VM version 5.0+; SharpReader 0.9.7.0 detects & shows connected items threaded together, can group subscribed feeds into custom categories - Windows 98+; Grazr Javascript- based RSS feed reader to embed in your site; See also Video aggregators; FeedRaider collect text, video, audio & photos in free RSS feeds from video sharing sites(YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Revver) photos, podcasts & comic strips; TinyRSS reader works inside IE; Yahoo! Pipes interactive feed aggregator & manipulator; Use Yahoo Pipes to grab TV show feeds; Top 5 online RSS readers(Pandia, Feb 07); Which RSS Reader Is Right for You?(Dec 08) Bloglines new design, Google Reader will analyze what you read, My Yahoo or through Yahoo Mail for lite use, Netvibes easy to personalize; Access Facebook updates from a feed reader; Did someone finally pull the plug on Bloglines?; 30 April 2010: Bots, Blogs & aggregators(Macus Zillman); 17 Sept 2010: What’s the law around aggregating news online?Harvard Law report on risks & best practices; Aggregators blekko slashtag; Google Reader; Feedly converts Google Reader into a newspaper with browser plugins for Chrome, Firefox, & Safari; 9 content curation tools that better organise the webLiferea 1.7 Linux feed reader compatible with all computers running Linux;             

Ajax Matters                                                                                                                            1 February 2006
Advanced Javascripting & XML, Asynchronous JavaScripting & XML; Ajax: New Approach to Web Applications; RSS Readers for Ajax; Ajax Cookbook40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS: tooltips scripts for intuitive,well-designed visual clues;

Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability                                                                                 4 January 2003

Alternate The Display Of Multiple Images On A Web Page                                                      11 May 2004
3 commercial solutions, 1 manual PHP approach to display alternate images randomly(or by more specific rules)

Annotum open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring & publishing platform  5 January 2012
based on WordPress, built on Carringon Theme framework provides complete, open-access scholarly journal production system including peer-review, workflow, advanced editing & formatting features such as structured figures, equations, PubMed & CrossRef reference import, structured XML input & output compatible with National Library of Medicine's Journal Article DTD;

Announcing your website                                                                                                         27 January 2003

APIFinder lists available Application Programming Interfaces                                                      15 September 2006
APIs(ways for programmers to use resources/data of an online resource) listed by category including language & operating system; browse by function(wireless, e-commerce, search, etc); brief list of API articles; description for each API includes costs, functions, languages/ OS, interface to the data(SOAP, REST, XML-RPC); .APIFinder FAQ;

Archiving tools  See HTTrack Web Site Copier(below) & 2 other local archivers;                 7 June 2006

Atom Syndication Format 0.3 (PRE-DRAFT)                                                                          24 September 2004
XML-based file format -  lists known as feeds are synchronised between publishers & consumers; Atomenabled; Background: AtomRSS or Atom?;

Attensa for Outlook (RSS reader)                                                                                           29 December 2005
feeds updated; IE/Firefox toolbar plugin; network podcast feeds with iTunes or Windows Media Player; import OPML, del.icio.us integrated tagging; publish blogs; synchronizes desktop, web & mobile RSS reader clients by Attensa; free, public beta for Outlook 1.5

Audioblog                                                                                                                             14 June 2004
record audio news, interviews, articles or commentaries & post them on any weblog site; US$4.95/month; integrates Flash plugin (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.); 1 GB+ of bandwidth for visitor playback(approx. 5000 1 minute playbacks)

Audio Transcription For Podcasts                                                                                          14 January 2006
JC Human(US$20 for up to1 hour) vs. CastingWords.com (42 cents/minute); electronic payments via PayPal

Automated Content Access Protocol(ACAP) standard for publishers 
Seeking to contribute to the development of methods to manage copyright on the scale of the Internet without human intervention & without recourse to lawyers;

Barewiki                                                                                                                               15 July 2006
quick, easy collaborative website builder utilizes standard wiki features like revision history & full protected access; Ms Word style editor; free; 

Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers by Jeffrey Beall  2012 Edition                    9 January 2012
open-access publishers that unprofessionally exploit author-pays model of open-access publishing(Gold OA) typically spam professional email lists, soliciting article submissions for additional income; vanity presses with a low article acceptance threshold, false-front or non- existent peer review process, add little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digital preservation, & operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable business models;

Best Blog Technologies Compared                                                                                        6 June 2004
blogging technologies compared in tabular format; Movable Type, pMachine Pro, WordPress, b2evolution, TextPattern, Pivot; Excel spreadsheet  for download.

Bitpedia digital media encyclopedia                                                                                        31 October 2006
community-built collection of the best available identifying, descriptive, editorial metadata about all kinds of digital files from volunteer contributors, customers, public sources; improve the metadata's reliability & usefulness over time, publish in a variety of formats; 

Blogbar free search engine bar                                                                                               31 August 2006
visitors search within your blog/website & search the web with the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Technorati, Ask, Bloglines; free

Blogbox free, open-source rich Internet applications for your personal website, wiki or blog    25 November 2004
PhotoBlox image viewing Internet application; SoundBlox MP3 audio playing; WeatherBlox weather forecast application; ClockBlox; LinkBlox provides a compact list of your favorite URL links; Blogossary

Blog Comparison Chart compares features, licenses & costs of blogging software                  14 June 2004
see also Blog Functionality Scorecard; Comprehensive Blog Comparison Review; Mary Hodder (Nasperization.org) research post compares how major weblog/rss engines work(in a chart -PDF); Using the Right Blogging Tool?(Online Journalism Review, 14 July 2005); analysis of major blogging software, terminology guide, Blog software comparison chart; Blogscope analysis & visualization tool for blogosphere tracks; 30.8m+ blogs with 541.71m posts;

Blogdigger                                                                                                                          24 May 2005
uses state of the art syndication technologies such as RSS & Atom, to index blog content & make it searchable in RSS or Atom; services include Blog Search, Media, Groups, Link Search.

Blog Editors                                                                                                                      2 November 2005
Qumana - free, compatible with most blog platforms, enables addition of text, pictures & links, built-in spell checker &  thesaurus, allows editing of multiple blogs, WYSIWYG, offline & multi-window editing, supports Technorati tags. AdGenta built-in advertising system lets bloggers choose ads for their blogs & RSS feeds, format,  positioning & when they will be displayed;

BlogFlux                                                                                                                             18 August 2005
blog directory service includes a Google Page Rank checker for adding to any web site, an automatic pinging service; 1400 listed; checked weekly

Blogger                                                                                                                              25 July 2001
free weblog publishing tools & services; free weblog creation tool & companion publishing site, Blogspot; How to post pictures; Blogger for Word toolbar publishes Word documents directly to blog (Win & Word 2000+); Disabling the Blogger Navbar

Bloggers' Code of Ethics                                                                                                    1 January 2005
adapted from code of ethics of Society of Professional Journalists. From CyberJournalist.net blog of American Press Institute's  nonprofit think tank, The Media Center; See also EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

Blogger Screen Shots, see blogger, type, play, publish, relax                                                21 October 2001
easy tool to use; concentrate on writing & publishing your content to the Web instead of formatting HTML

Blogging platforms Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr  See Social Media Platforms              26 December 2010

Bloglines    defunct Dec 2010                                                                                             19 December 2003
free online service; subscribe to any RSS feed/Web site/blog & "search query"; access RSS feeds without needing to have an RSS newsreader; feed management; get YouTube Flash-based content to appear within Bloglines; Bloglines Beta Re-design(28 Aug 07); 22 Apr 2010: Did someone finally pull the plug on B?; B site will be maintained until at least December 1, after which it will transition to MerchantCircle;  

Blog Navigator 1.2                                                                                                             18 June 2005
uses RSS feeds, read blogs offline; locate weblogs & peruse headlines; add news sites & blogs; paste the XML feed located on news sites; Windows 98+;  See also Thematic Mapping of a Blog : Navigate a Blog using dynamic thematic mapping

Blog Platforms Head to Head: Six Apart & Automattic Compared                                      11 July 2007
See also Social Media Platforms; Micro-blogging platforms; Open Social: Google's New Social Networking Platform; Microsoft releases Open Source blogging platform; Tumblr uses PubSubHubbub format to announce updates; realtime hub powered by Superfeedr sends out realtime alerts to any service that supports PubSubHubbub;

Blogs & Blogging Tips, Tools, & Resources                                                                       25 October 2006
blog search engines & directories, ratings & reviews, hosted blogging services, offline/desktop blog editors, blog roll tools, feed creation tools; Information Design: Beginners Blog Design; How To Blog: A Beginner's Blog Publishing Guide;

Blog Software (see also Social Media Platforms)
free or inexpensive(<$50) used on either a 3rd-party host or your own server: Radio Userland, Greymatter, Moveable Type; WordPress open source blogging application; TheWeblogProject movie about Blogs, what they are used for, & why; See also EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers; SuprGlu pastes all your content together; WordPress 2.1 autosave drafts, streamlined visual editor interface, instructional material including installation & design, Mac OS X+; Wordpress semantic personal publishing platform - aesthetics, web standards, usability - free open source with plugin architecture; support forum; Apture tool for bloggers & online publishers adds interactive multimedia links & embeds(review & overview); State of the Blogosphere 2009(Technorati); 

Blogs, wikis, podcasting, social networks & file sharing: how the web is transforming itself      November 2006
Part I 3 November 2006; Part II - Introduction to Blogs; Part III - Introduction to Wikis, Master Newmedia, 6 Nov 06; Part IV - Introduction To Wikipedia & WikiNews; 6 December 2006, Part V: Podcasting & File Sharing; January 2006, Part VI: Introduction to Social Networks & Social Services; Next part: The Transformation of the Web - Overview & Conclusions; Blogs & blogging, Dec 09; 

Bobby  identify & repair barriers to access by individuals with disabilities                              4 January 2003
test web pages using guidelines established by World Wide Web Consortium's(W3C) Web Access Initiative(WAI) as well as Section 508 guidelines from Architectural & Transportation Barriers Compliance Board(Access Board) of US Govt.

Bravenet(Web tools for webmasters)                                                                                  7 June 2003

Browsera simultaneously tests your site in different browsers                                                    1 December 2009
all-in-one tool testing web sites for errors, complications & layout issues; not just a multiple screen shot tool, provides an in-depth assessment of problematic areas in need of attention;

Browser-Based Spell Checkers                                                                                       9 September 2004
ieSpell free Internet Explorer extension spell checks text input boxes; button in IE toolbar, menu item under Tools; store & use personal word list across applications; works on IE based browsers such as SlimBrowser, CrazyBrowser, MSN, MyIE; no spyware/adware; free personal use, Commercial licenses from US$15; SpellBound(Firefox) enables spell checking in web forms(html text & input elements; message board post, blog) Firefox 0.9+; works with Windows, Linux, & MacOS X. SpellBound is available in 43 languages; Free;

Buttonator                                                                                                                         7 July 2006
Click & drag button templates to preview window; Click on the text to edit; automatically resize for your text; change font, size & width, colour; download gif;

Calais (Thomson Reuters )                                                                                                 5 January 2009
toolkit of capabilities to incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application; free for commercial & non-commercial use; creates rich semantic metadata for your content; Tools; Gallery;

Cascading Style Sheets, HTML(Webmaster Tips Newsletter) design & maintenance tips      10 August 2001
see also CSS( below); Style Sheet Reference Guide; 10 Best Resources for CSS; CSS Help Pile; Stylesheets guide(WebMonkey);  Style Sheets(BlackStump); CSS links; CSS play: experimenting with cascading style sheets; Web Design, HTML, & CSS Tools & TipsTerrific tables with CSS; CSS Float Property incorporates table-like columns in HTML layout without using tables; Start using CSS3: Extensive round-up of CSS3 techniques, tools & resources; Cascading Style Sheets Recommendations Level 1 & Level 2;    

ChangeDetect                                                                                                                       2 April 2004
Free service for monitoring web page content changes monitors a maximum of 5 pages a week; receive web page with colour coded changes; checked twice-daily ; notifications via email, pager, ICQ or text messaging; ChangeDetect Personal costs US$1.95/m to monitor 10 pages; Watchthatpage & Wisdomchange monitor unlimited pages free of charge; more sophisticated options include Copernic Tracker & Website Watcher; summary of a selection of page monitors

Chicago Manual of Style Online US$30/yr                                                                            6 October 2006

Choosing & Changing Your Web Host(Freepint No.152) guide to Web hosting                  22 January 2004
search engine for Web hosts; see also ISP guide; articles, search engines, rankings, & discussion forums on sites devoted to Web hosting & Web development The Site Wizard & Web_Hosting_Topics-Selection_Criteria; a three-part article & Web Host Industry Review

Clusty Cloud Creator dynamic tag clouds webmasters or bloggers use to visualize topic/query   6 October 2006
generated using search results for the topic you enter, no need for tags or months of content on a subject; click on tag cloud to go to Clusty’s search results; up-to-date because the clusters generated in realtime;

Clusty.com launches free site search for Nonprofits, Schools & Universities                           25 March 2006

CNETBuilder.com                                                                                                                27 July 2003

Collaborative websites                                                                                                       29 December 2007    
Using open source software to design, develop, deploy a collaborative Web site(IBM developerWorks); Textflow: collaborative editing made easy;

Collecta: widget brings Real-Time content to websites                                                            31 January 2010

Conduit free service for creating community toolbars                                                  5 March 2007
provides standard icon buttons; customizable; prepackaged features; changes instantly seen by users without downloading new versions; works on IE & Firefox; standard reporting such as number of downloads, active users; include RSS & video feeds; toolbars gallery;

Configurable Home Pages: Netvibes vs. My Yahoo                                                              16 July 2006

Content Management Systems                                                                                           1 January 2009
List of content management systems; Joomla! free open source: powered Web sites different from those manually updated, static, HTML files; dynamic Web application using MySQL database to store content & information about sites & using PHP programming language for interactive functionality & dynamic Web pages; Complete beginners guide to Joomla;

Content Management Systems Versus The Custom Development Route                               14 June 2004
Drupal, DotNetNuke, MovableType (requires licensing), Wiki, PHP-Nuke or SnipSnap, Rainbow Portal - web applications based around blog concepts (e.g. E2 day logs) to install & configure with skins; functionalities include News, Forums, Comments, Skins, Polls, Content Management System & User Admin;

Content Syndication                                                                                                         14 May 2005
Etamp.net tracks & collates what's new on web sites & blogs; supports most content syndication formats including XMS, Atom, RSS, RDF

Copy text from web without formatting                                                                                  26 February 2006

Copyscape, currently in beta                                                                                                  10 July 2004
Search Engine detects sites using your content via Google API; Results include title, description, & URL; cached copy shows copied parts in color; works with web addresses, not sections of text; links for copyright & plagiarism issues; German, French, & Spanish; 

Creative Commons                                                                                                                  1 April 2003
Commons licence websites & weblogs share work while keeping copyright. Others copy & distribute your work on condition; attribution licence lets others copy, distribute, display, & perform copyrighted & derivative works if they give credit; 3 licences: 1 Commons Deed simple, plain-language summary of license with relevant icons;  2 Legal Code fine print needed for license to stand up in court; 3 Digital Code machine-readable translation of license helps search engines & other applications identify your work by its terms of use; 

CSShark Answers Frequently Asked Questions: The CSS Know-How Site                            30 March 2002
Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) separate presentation from structural markup of website; controlling appearance; FAQ, tips & tricks for Netscape 4; tutorial for positioning with CSS(CSS-P, Web design without tables); See also Web Style Sheets Homepage; Advanced CSS Layouts: Step by Step CSS2 ReferenceCSS Zen garden: the beauty of CSS design; Holy CSS Zeldman list of resources; CSS Techniques Roundup; 10 steps for CSS PositioningCSS browser support; Learn CSS & web standards; CSS Techniques Roundup; Listamatic CSS list design; Horizontal Suckerfish & CSS Menu Resources; 2   Techniques for CSS Transparency; CSS cheat sheet; Clean CSS formatter & optimiser; Tableless Forms using CSS; Terrific tables with CSS; CSS Float Property incorporates table-like columns in HTML layout without using tables; 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS: handy tooltips scripts for intuitive & well-designed visual clues; Free CSS Menus & Techniques; CSS Faqs-CSS Articles; Rendur: dynamically preview HTML & CSS;

CSS Zen Garden: Comprehensive Design List                                                                         16 May 2007

DataFerrett data mining & extraction tool                                                                                 4 January 2008
select a databasket of variables & recode those variables as you need, develop & customize tables; chart or graph for visual presentation in html page; locate & retrieve data you need across Internet; receive data in ASCII, SAS, SPSS, Excel/Access file; query, analysis & visualization of data in one package; lets data providers share data easier, & manage their online data;  

Demonstration EPrints Archive for self-archiving or creating an institutional OA archive            14 May 2005 

DHTML scripts  
DHTML scripts, Javascripts & VBscript                                                     15 March 2004 

Digital Content Management(DCM)                                                                                       16 May 2009
Open Source Tools for Content Management Zope, Typo3, Midgard Project, OpenCMS, Apache Lenya, PHP Nuke, Drupal, Mambo, Claroline, Moodle, Fedora, DSpace, Greenstone, Cofax, Open Journal System,  EPrints, eGroupware, phpCollab, Wiki, WordPress; (13 May 2009)Fedora Commons & DSpace Foundation are merging to form DuraSpace;

Dipity create interactive timeline with photos, video clips, text                                                     23 October 2010                                        
for journalists, government organizations, teachers, & museums; basic version free; compatible with all operating systems

Draac.com's Character Stripper Strip unwanted characters in emails & codes                           4 September 2004

Drupal 5.0(open source content management platform)                                                            3 February 2007
place content online with a minimum of technical knowhow; different modules extend functionality; forums; Windows 98+ or Mac OS X+; Gov 2.0 guide to Drupal open source platform & content management system(CMS) for building dynamic web sites;

eBook readers                                                                                                                       18 September 2004
Microsoft Reader free download; e-books with file extension .lit at www.mslit.com, some free; MobiPocket download free for titles at www.mobipocket.com; Ebook usage trends & statistics - Springer Report 2008; E book readers; Read Google eBooks on Iriver Story HD Reader featuring dictionary & translate; 4 Nov 2011: Free tools convert documents into Ebooks;

EditGrid  edit, store & access spreadsheets from any browser                                                 11 May 2006
import from & export common formats - MS Excel, CSV, Gnumeric & OpenOffice's Calc; supports Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox (Safari coming soon); free; see also free Numbler web-based spreadsheet editor.. 

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers(newly revised)                                                                         16 June 2005

Electronic Text Center - Online Helpsheets                                                                              18 February 2002
Online helpsheets in HTML, SGML, XML, other languages, Scanning & other areas

EndNote X(Win 2000 & XP; free 30 day trial)                                                                       4 July 2006
integrates into word processors to insert citations directly & create bibliographies & figure lists; entries automatically & consistently formatted as you dictate;

eNewsletter Manager Free Edition 2.3.17                                                                                23 November 2006
send personalized HTML messages, hi & goodby emails to subscribers in languages including Spanish, Italian, & French; Windows 98, Me, 2000, & XP;

Enlarging images                                                                                                                  25 January 2007
Rasterbator rasterized(taking an image, blowing it up, pixelating, & printing onto numerous pieces of paper) images from any picture; posters up to 20 meters in size sent as PDF; needs Macromedia Flash Player 7 & Adobe Reader(or other pdf viewer); free

EServer TC Library  produce, manage, archive, distribute technical information                           9 March 2005
technical communicators, editors & publishers, researchers, illustrators, animators/multimedia developers, instructional designers/educators, web designers; free Content Management, Editing, Publications, Software, Usability, Web Design & Writing.

Essential web design resources                                                                                                   18 October 2002

etVlog  for posting video to a blog                                                                                              13 October 2005
add video content to website, blog, IM, email, or eBay auction page; registered users upload the video via a secure URL; add captions, transcripts; Windows Media 8+ at 100 kbps+, with audio at least 70Kbps; basic version is free;

Feed43                                                                                                                                     18 January 2007
converts freeform HTML or XHTML to RSS feed by extracting specific recurring snippets of text/HTML, or utilizing custom search patterns; Create a new feed on Feed43, which points to web page; define search patterns & output templates for this feed in feed parameters; Get link to your feed; Subscribe to this feed using your favourite feed reader/aggregator; Optionally, protect your feed; See RSS production from HTML('Scraping'); 

FeedAdvisor                                                                                                                            3 February 2006
identify content that will interest you based on aggregated subscription patterns of FeedBlitz subscribers; up to 3 results/new subscriptions;

FeedBlitz                                                                                                                                  9 January 2006
email your blog new content automatically to anyone; Readers sign-up, either on FeedBlitz subscription button, or at FeedBlitz if your site is not an active FeedBlitz supporter(something you can't do with Bloglet); supports audio & video blogs, email announcements to subscribers, import of Bloglet subscribers; supports AdSense, Feedburner(Google, June 2007), UTF-8 encoding & international characters; free, no ads;

FeedDirect -- A Headline Gatherer for Your Site                                                                      3 July 2004

FeedFiles: the feed codex                                                                                                          30 January 2006
guidance to webfeed applications, services, scripts, reading lists & feed related or derived resources

Feed filters AideRSS works with Google Reader to rank & filter feeds                                    3 September 2008

FeedFire input URL of page to create RSS feeds from virtually ANY web page; no charge         27 October 2004

FeedJumbler                                                                                                                             27 July 2005
Lazytom's application to merge RSS or Atom-based feeds into a single RSS or Atom feed or HTML & Javascript

FeedMap geocode your blog & generate a badge-sized map                                                      30 September 2005
gFeedMap puts FeedMap'd blogs onto Google Maps; browse for location by [US] city or state;

Feedmarker                                                                                                                              28 March 2005
free RSS/ATOM aggregator & bookmarks manager; combined aggregator/tagging system; users tag feeds according to their own classification systems

Feed Readers see RSS News Readers

Feedroll: Format an RSS Feed & Put It On Your Site                                                                22 February 2004

Feed-Shark                                                                                                                               16 March 2005
submit RSS feed to Daypop, Feedster, Technorati, Blogdigger, Bloogz, NewsMob, Fastbuzz, EasyRSS, PubSub, WeBlogAlot, RubHub, Fuzzy Software, Blogs R Us, DevASP, Bulkfeeds, Search4RSS, Genecast, VisualBuilder, BlogMatcher, CompleteRSS, Ngoid.

FeedShot Multi-Feed Submitter submits RSS feed to 20 RSS search engines                            30 September 2005 

FeedSweep  streams content from one web site to another                                                        7 February 2005
display sports & business news on your site; updates & news from other sites; FeedDigest mixes RSS feeds & gives you code to put on your site; OK in Firefox, erratic in Opera; Feedshake mixes RSS feeds with two levels of expertise - regular & advanced

Feedtier turns any site into a live web feed                                                                                 27 October 2005
performing content analysis & syndicating the results via RSS; automated (manual version expected soon); free

Feedzilla                                                                                                                                    11 July 2006
one-stop-shop for bloggers & webmasters tracks, collects, categorizes & delivers online content

The Filter entertainment optimised                                                                                             23 May 2010
recommendations & relevance systems to help content owners, publishers & aggregators worldwide maximise content & services; video, music, applications & games;

Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth(TM)                                                        11 July 2001
spidering software checks for broken links. Link verification on "normal" links, images, frames, plugins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts & java applets; continously updated list of URLs you can sort by different criteria; reports generated at any time

Findory Personalised news & blogs; "visualize" a blogs neighborhood                                       26 February 2005

Five Purposes of Metadata(Library + information update Jul/Aug 2004)                                                      

Five Steps To Create Streaming Video                                                                                     6 June 2004
Digital video clips published online & "stream" instead of requiring end user to fully download before viewing; encoded video clips hosted "stream" their contents progressively to end user(even people on dialup connections); links to useful resources

Floodgap public gopher proxy translates gopher pages into HTML                                         15 April 2004
see gopher repository at Quux.org

Free Web Hosting Sites                                                                                                         3 July 2006
Geocities-15Mb, free Yahoo! 360º Blog, PageBuilder & PageWizard tools; Tripod site building & file management tools, 20Mb of disk space, blog builder, photo album builder; Angelfire blog, photo album, & planet builders, site building & file management tools, 20Mb disk space; Freewebs; Google Sites; 350pages create web pages by template & customize headings, buttons, style, colour, fonts, dividers, text, images & background; drag & drop objects; file uploader will compress photos; enhance with inbuilt photo editor; photo gallery;  e-commerce features; Google Sites - Share information with a few people, a whole organization, or everyone (tutorial);

Frequently used tools (IWebTools)                                                                                           10 June 2006

Gateway to Educational Materials                                                                                               17 October 2003
consortium of education information providers & users; metadata tools & standards; metadata for digital libraries.

GeoVRML(Web3D Consortium)                                                                                              11 April 2004
Working Group to develop tools & recommended practice for using Virtual Reality Modeling Language(VRML) to represent geo-referenced data(maps & 3D terrain models) for viewing with VRML plugin; mailing list; Specifications, source code, examples, tools & the accompanying Run-Time for GeoVRML 1.1 are available online to download; Goals & Issues, News & Milestones, FAQ

Google Data APIs Overview                                                                                                    25 April 2006
GData simple standard protocol for reading & writing web data combining  XML-based syndication formats(Atom & RSS) with a feed-publishing system based on Atom publishing protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries;

Google Desktop Search 
free download                                                                                    13 April 2005
search fulltext PDF documents & metadata for music, image & video files; support Firefox & Netscape browsers, Thunderbird & Netscape email clients & new Chinese & Korean language interfaces; access fulltext web page history & AOL instant messages; recover deleted or misplaced info; cached snapshots of each webpage & document

Google Knol                                                                                                                            17 December 2007
selected people try knol(a unit of knowledge) tool; authoritive articles on particular subjects; Write better knols with object embedding & PicApp

Google Reader tracks updates on feedless web sites                                                                26 January 2010
Google Play to explore Google Reader items more visually; GR adds support for video & audio Tags(only IE doesnt now); 
Primer: getting started with RSS; Feedly converts Google Reader into a newspaper with browser plugins for Chrome, Firefox, & Safari; 21 Oct 2011: Google Reader integrating with Google+; 31 Oct 2011: Many of Reader's social features will soon be available via Google+ retiring things like friending, following & shared link blogs inside of Reader;  

Google sites free, easy way to create & share webpages                                                            17 July 2009
Single-click page creation, Customizable look & feel, Dozens of pre-built templates, Settings for accessing & sharing information, free; Blog;

Google Webmaster Central channel                                                                                         6 August 2006
includes Site Status Wizard(indexed by Google?), Submit Content to Google Base & Book Search, Google Webmaster Blog, Google Webmaster Group, & Google Webmaster Help Center, [Google Sitemaps now called] Google Webmaster Tools (Statistics, diagnostics, management of Google's crawling & indexing;

Google Web Toolkit(GWT) (builds AJAX apps in JAVA)                                                       6 October 2008
compiles Java applications down to JavaScript code for execution in browser

Gopher Floodgap public gopher proxy translates gopher pages into HTML                            15 April 2004
gopher repository at Quux.org

Graphics editors  See also Image editors                                                                             23 January 2010
STOIK Imagic 5.0.4 free graphics editor previews & organizes images, indexes video files into collapsible folders for manipulation; video editor can mix media files & transform sounds; Windows 2000, XP or Vista;

Grazr Javascript-based RSS feed reader to embed in your site                                                  22 August 2006

Greasemonkey the Web
                                                                                                          20 July 2006
Firefox extension adds bits of DHTML(user scripts) to web page to change its behavior

Group & Multi-user Blog Platforms compared                                                                          18 May 2005

Guidelines for Web Accessibility                                                                                            12 December 2008
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0;

How To Make A Website: The Complete Guide                                                                         8 April 2011
Part I: Understanding & writing HTML; Part II: Styling & CSS; Part III: Site from start to finish; Part IV: Choosing a host & launching your site; Part V: Additional Resources;

How To Publish Your Existing Web Site Content To RSS                                                         4 January 2005

How To Select Images For Web Publication                                                                             8 November 2007

HTML & XML Tutorials                                                                                                         23 July 2002
Tutorials, tips, & information to help you learn & master HTML & DHTML from About.com; HTML Code Tutorial; Rendur: dynamically preview HTML & CSS;         

htmlArea: A directory of browser-based WYSIWYG editors                                                   27 February 2006

HTML Cheatsheet                                                                                                                   26 December 2002

HTML editors PageBreeze free with visual(WYSIWIG) & HTML tag/source models;             1 July 2007
TinyMCE - Javascript WYSIWYG Editor(Moxiecode Systems AB) platform independent, web based Open Source under LGPL licence; can convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances; integrates with Content Management Systems;

HTML to RSS Converter (HTML scraping) & RSS Feed Generator (RSS Wizard)          20 February 2006
See How To Create A RSS Feed From Any Web Page

HTML/XML guide from About.com                                                                                       29 April 2002

HTTrack Web Site Copier                                                                                                      7 June 2006
free; archivists build caches based on websites downloaded by HTTRACK; save an entire site with just 2 or 3 clicks; back up blogs & wikis hosted on 3rd party servers; download WWW sites to local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, & other files from server; arranges original site's relative link-structure; update existing mirrored sites; resume interrupted downloads; See also 2 other local archivers;

iConvert converts icons for multiple platforms                                                                                   26 January 2009
supports file types: .icns, .ico, .png, .svg, .tif, .jpg, .bmp, .tga, .cur & outputs to .hqx, .icns, .ico, .png; output files flagged by which operating system they go to;

Image editors                                                                                                                      28 December 2006
Fauxto free Photoshop-like interface based on layers; still in beta, no undo option; Online Image Editor upload, resize or crop digital images
free; Pxn8 to upload images, zoom, resize, crop, rotate & adjust colors & image tones free; red eye removal, whiten teeth; fully customized via CSS; upload to Flickr; hosted version is free, license for installation on private/corporate web server, US$749; Online Image Editing Tools - The Best (Jan '07);

Inclue free RSS reader for Outlook                                                                                        27 April 2006
Get blogs, news, highlights, podcasts; Job listings, travel deals, stock quotes, blog postings, new highlights; Windows 2000/X;

INetFormFiller Freeware 2.8.08                                                                                            1 July 2005
automatically fill out forms & create individualized settings for webpages; manage passwords & export or import user profiles; Windows 2000+

Infominder                                                                                                                            28 March 2002
free for monitoring up to 20 pages; monitor individual URLs or a collection of bookmarks; email when a page changes; text changed can be included in the email.

InfoRSS                                                                                                                               8 May 2006
lightweight, non-intrusive, RSS, ATOM, NNTP & HTML headlines reader for Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape & Thunderbird; extension installs small icon in status bar, headlines are displayed besides icon in status bar or in separate bar(top or bottom of screen); drag & drop new URL of feed onto extension icon to add new feed or click on extension icon to select specific feed to read; feeds can be grouped; 

Interface & Navigation Design                                                                                          30 August 2007
Design Strategy: Using research & experience keywords to avoid customers design ambitions

Internet Industry Codes of Practice(Internet Industry Association (Australia))                           12 August 2005

Internet related Catalogs                                                                                                        24 August 2004

Internet Watch Foundation hotline for reporting illegal content                                                 9 March 2005

Internetworking social-networking technology                                                                         1 April 2004
work, college, church, neighborhood, friends & their friends; 2nd- or 3rd-degree connections can lead to that elusive potential client or employer. Companies mentioned: Tribe.net+ Visible Path+ Spoke Software + Broadb& Mechanics+ LinkedIn+ Ryze

Intranets                                                                                                                                 2 April 2009
The Lean Intranet: from Intranet Zero to Intranet 2.0 & beyond; Part One: Intranet Zero; Pt 2: Intranet 1.0; Pt 3: Intranet 2.0 and Intranet 3.0;

iPodder 2.0 Select & download streaming audio programs; Windows 2000, XP, Mac OS 10.3+   22 April 2005

iUplog Personal Publisher                                                                                                      30 December 2004
integrates user-defined categories, RSS(automatic RSS feeds for category, event & photo album), trackback, rich text formatting, photo albums, basic traffic statistics(a-la-Typepad), blogroll(self-managed list of links); posting from mobile phones(email to personalized address); support for RSS enclosures allows independent publishers to  podcast(publish MP3 audio clips, interviews or personal audio stories).

Java Generics FAQs                                                                                                               26 June 2006
See also Free Javascript Resource HTML Tutorials. HTML Scripts.CSS Scripts, Server Side Includes

JetAudio Basic 7.0.3.3016                                                                                                     23 June 2007
compact application  to create Internet broadcasts can play all major file formats; nice cross-fade & bridge transitions between songs as well; Windows 98+;

Juice cross-platform podcast receiver                                                                                     27 October 2006
implemented in Python, supports RSS protocols, scans for enclosures, bitTorrent enclosures downloaded in background; select & download shows & music to play on iPod, portable digital media player or computer; Windows & Mac;

Kebberfegg: Keyword Based RSS Feed Generator                                                           6 October 2005
generate keyword-based RSS feeds from multiple sources with a single search; enter query, specify categories of feeds, & get feeds based on that query in HTML(with links to RSS feeds & My Yahoo subscription link) or an OPML file you can import into another RSS feed reader; select categories of feeds you want to generate(news, blogs, press releases) & plug RSS results into aggregator; create up to 64 feeds in 11 categories;

Kibin editing & proofreading                                                                                                    15 October 2011
peer-editing review service; submit papers for review assistance from someone in Kibin community; sign up to try service free or purchase points to have someone edit document; FAQ; compatible with all operating systems;

Kindle(Amazon) ebook reader                                                                                                    18 October 2011
Footnotes for the Kindle; Klip.me browser add-on to reformat articles on internet & email to your Kindle; Kindle blog;

Krawler[x] personal desktop media aggregator  free social collaboration network tool            16 February 2006
to create, share & search multimedia content, building vertical community; contextual P2P document search from: Office documents presentations help files; tutorials; project data; instant messenger, forums & full file transfer capabilities; Windows & .NET Framework 1.1

Lifestreaming applications See Personal data aggregation & publishing tools
online record of person's daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person's online content such as blog posts, social network updates, & online photos;

ListGarden 1.0                                                                                                                          30 June 2004
free Perl-based software program for generating RSS feeds runs locally or remotely on different platforms, including Windows Web servers that have installed Perl.

LiveJournal                                                                                                                                7 December 2004
simple-to-use, customizable personal publishing(blogging) tool built on open source software

LivingInternet.com                                                                                                                   29 March 2002
Internet's history, design, usage; ranked by Google as world's top site in Internet Courses category; only site with published reference length work integrated with net, 2000+ intra-site links; 2000+ external links;

MAILtoRSS                                                                                                                             28 February 2004
FREE service for authoring RSS channels by email accepts text & rich content email; email content to a secure MailbyRSS account. Alternative:Awasu(free RSS news reader) has plugin that takes email from POP or IMAP account & generates feed for it.

Major Players on the Internet                                                                                                      8 December 2002

Make Your Own Search Engine: Step by Step Eurekster Swicki Tutorial                                      9 November 2005.
Eurekster Swickis are search engines tailored to you & your community;

Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access                                                                        14 September 2003

Mashup Feed                                                                                                                            29 January 2006
drawn from Mashup & API databases at ProgrammableWeb; list of recent mashups - date added, Mouseover description & list of APIs used; list of  most popular mashups - date updated, Mouseover description, list of APIs used, number of visits, & average user rating; list of APIs ranked by number of mashups - link to API's page at ProgrammableWeb.com; list of most popular tags & times used - tag clouds for APIs & for mashups; stats & an RSS feed; See also  ProgrammableWeb Web 2.0 Mashup Center

Mashups(web application hybrids)                                                                                            1 August 2006
website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience; technologies or services conflated e.g. Retrivr conflates Flickr's image database & an experimental information architecture algorithm to search images by data not metadata; by sketching images; WikiBios users create online biographies of one another blending blogs with social networks; OpenKapow download free RoboMaker visual scripting tool for point-&-click mashup interface & non-commercial REST, RSS,ATOM or HTML services; ProgrammableWeb; Google Mashup Editor rapid development framework for mashing feeds into Google services using common technologies such as XML, JavaScript, CSS & HTML; See Yahoo! Pipes; Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List; Mashups: What Are They?  Part 1- Mashup Genres & Technologies; Part 2 - Technical & Social Challenges; Mashups: the new breed of Web App; an intro by Duane Merrill; Yahoo! Pipes limited to data structured in certain formats whilst Openkapow desktop application allows manipulation of data from websites without RSS feeds & APIs;  

MasterNew Media (Robbin Good)  See Professional Online Publishing: New media trends, communication skills, online marketing

MediaFire                                                                                                                                2 November 2006
upload multiple unlimited size files to share via copy & paste codes, by email, AIM, or Yahoo Messenger; free registration; unlimited bandwidth; .

MediaMiner                                                                                                                             27 October 2005
data miner tool for news, press  releases, stocks & blogs; save results as HTML, pdf or XML(Atom or RSS); search for specific media & present it on the web as XML or HTML; useful for generating reports & sharing data; free trial;

Memento(real time comparison of live & archived sites)                                                            11 January 2011
technical framework aimed at better integrating current & past Web adds a time dimension to HTTP protocol &, inspired by content negotiation, introduces notion of datetime negotation;

Memorandum                                                                                                                         20 December 2001
Copyright Implications of Reproducing Published Materials on Law School Course Web Sites

Metabrowser authoring tool(aka Tag Tool) V. 1.8101                                                           13 April 2005
view & edit metadata on websites; supports 12 standard metadata schemas including DC, Australian Government Locator Services(AGLS), NZGLS & Australian Justice Sector schema; 30 day free trial; $162.82; discounts for multiple installations

Metadata: seven tips for writing better keywords                                                                    6 March 2006

Micro-blogging platforms & activity stream sites                                                           8 September 2007
10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared(Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Jaiku, MySay, MoodMill, Frazr, IRateMyDay, Emotionr, Yammer); 

mon.itor.us                                                                                                                            27 April 2006
free 24×7 website & server monitoring; server performance & availability tests, uptime reports, alert notifications; personalized page; all major browsers.

Movable Type 3.1 create weblogs using templates & create static or dynamic page generation  18 September 2004
schedule posts to appear at any given time; Windows 95+; 6 June 2007Movable Type 4.0 Becomes Social Media Platform with an open source component(see also Wordpress); WordPress v Moveable Type

MyFeedster  Web-based RSS aggregator; free registration                                                        29 December 2003
requires user name, email, & password; add & delete feeds, import or export OPML files; option of viewing feeds updated recently or not. (If Feedster doesn't index a particular feed, that feed won't have a timestamp); posts of one Web log at a time, with search option;

MySpace free online community Making MySpace Almost Usable in 4 Steps                             1 July 2006