3D-FTP Home  v4.0 uses MultiWire™ multi-threaded transfer engine                                        2 September 2001
increases download speeds up to 10x; multiple concurrent connections; Speeds displayed by visual bar & histograms; nonstop file transfers & resumed interrupted transfers; Drag-&-drop & scheduling; free or without ads & nag screen for $29.90; Google SketchUp 7.1 3D modeling program uses basic shapes to create objects, including buildings & other structures, add textures to simulate wood, concrete, & grass; see models in Google Earth; Windows XP or Vista & Macs running OS X 10.4+; European Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage(EPOCH) Multimedia section includes 3D downloadable models of various cities & pictures created with ARC 3D WebService tool(see below);

5 Color Palette Generators                                                                                                       3 August 2008

5 small & essential apps to armor your PC                                                                                  4 June 2010
TrueCrypt  free download gives on-the-fly disk encryption for current versions of Windows, Mac OS X & Linux systems; Password Safe open-source password manager flexible, secure, easy to use; 7-Zip open-source program offers features found in commercial programs such as WinZip, including compatible AES encryption, supports less-common compression standards such as TAR & RAR, integrates with Windows Explorer, can compress & email files; SUPERAntiSpyware portable scanner anti-malware scanners, free for personal use(Professional IT users pay a license fee);

10 free tools to make Infographics                                                                                                15 October 2010
Hohli online chart maker; Stat Planet browser-based interactive data visualization & mapping; Creately diagrams & flow charts; ManyEyes; Google Public Data; Wordle word visualisations; Tableau free Windows-only software for creating colourful visualisations; GapMinder free Adobe Air(cross-platform by nature) application to ensure you have current data on major world issues. Data updated yearly & released with new versions of application; Inkscape free vector graphic software available for many platforms;

10 Top ways to access blocked stuff on the Web                                                                        23 September 2010

64 bit software  The long wait for 64-bit PC software continues                                                 28 January 2010

145 new quick cheat sheets for some of most widely used tools on web                                       13 December 2009

Absolute Shield Internet Eraser Lite 2.32                                                                                  2 November 2002
protect privacy, clean up records left by Internet browsing & computer activities integrated with IE(version 4.0+), erase browser cache, history, cookie, typed URLs, recent documents, temporary folder, files removed from hard drive; all Windows operating systems.

Abstracting service See Automated summaries or abstracts

ACD/ChemSketch 5.0 Freeware                                                                                               25 February 2002
Advanced Chemistry Development(ACD) free all-purpose chemical drawing & graphics software to click & draw molecules, ions, stereobonds, text, polygons, arrows, automatic calculation of Molecular Weight & formula, estimates of density, refractive index, molar volume; See also eMolecules Suppliers & Information for 7m+ chemicals by subscription &  SMILES(Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) chemical language for molecules & reactions using ASCII characters representing atom & bond symbols;

Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.4(Windows 2000+)                                                                                23 June 2007
spyware removal programs with free version; 2 skins/6 tabs; initiate file scans & peruse results; supports a number of browsers; extensive web-history cleanup; 16 Feb 2010: Now scans Outlook email, removes rootkits; 11 Dec 2010: Ad-Aware Free Internet Security 9.0
addition of Dedicated Detection software to look inside files, analyze their code, & look for related malware, compatible with computers running Windows 2000+;

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 faster than Acrobat Reahasder &  options for viewing, printing, & annotating PDFs; use to fill out PDF forms; Graphics2PDF free PDF file creator loads as many images as you want(BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF), drag&drop, Save as PDF; setup 4.2 MB, Windows only; Foxit Reader 3.0 alternative to Adobe Reader can draw graphics, highlight text, type text, make notes on PDF documents,& save or print;Windows Me+; 25 Dec 2011: ReadCube free web reader app lets you highlight & add notes to PDF documents, find articles through a search feature that accesses Google Scholar, PubMed, or any library of documents that you import;

Adobe Acrobat web office suite  (compared with Google Apps)                                                  16 June 2009

Adobe eSignatures electronically sign contracts, agreements, forms                                                 28 November 2010

Adobe Flash Player 10 for Windows, Mac, & Linux plugin                                                 17 October 2008
improvements: native support for 3D, text rendering engine, & integration with Adobe's Pixel Bender technology; Flash 10 released - Finally, Flash videos in Firefox work again!: Flash/Firefox bug for users running Firefox 3 on Windows XP or Vista; Jan 2010: Death to Flash: 3 great HTML 5 demos: audio/video tags & O3D API(3D rendering) provide powerful tools for rendering graphics & applications in browser; Reporters' Roundtable podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash; Adobe releases Flash to HTML5 conversion tool: Wallaby converts content created with Adobe's Flash Professional to HTML5, latest revision of Web markup language, supported in most Web browsers & on Apple's iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch, where Flash is banned; 

Adobe Integrated Runtime(AIR) platform                                                                                    27 February 2008
combines web qualities with a desktop presence making it easy to build attractive Internet connected applications outside the browser; Best things about Adobe's AIR platform; Adobe AIR makes its way to Linux; AIR 2.0: Multitouch, audio recording, less memory;

Ad-stripping services                                                                                                                27 April 2009
TidyRead Firefox addon creates an overlay as users browse through content, blocking out noise & leaving content intact; Readability separates text, images, video, bookmarking & social sharing functions from ads, doubtful/irrelevent links;

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.com,  my.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 news feed from sources that support RSS protocol; runs on any java enabled operating system. Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium II 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 IEr; 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 analyzes 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(Marcus 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; 28 May 2011: eqentia personal news portal using Twitter, Google Reader, 70 channels created by eqentia, & news searches; add annotations & republish; 9 content curation tools that better organise the web; 3 Oct 2011: 5 best news aggregators: Feedly free, for iOS & Android, major browsers, including Chrome, Firefox & Safari; Google News/Reader GR -add as many feeds as you like, organise them & read everything, selected topics or feeds, or just everything you missed since your last update, GN -aggregates blogs, newspapers, news organisations & online magazines around the web & delivers trending & interesting content; Fark edited social networking news, 50 handpicked links/day to each tab on main page; Pulse free download for iOS(iPhone & iPad) & Android, colorful panning story bars with content from favorite sources, Apple’s 50 App Hall of Fame, Time’s top 50 iPhone apps of 2011; News 360 for mobile platforms including iOS(iPhone &d iPad,) Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry Playbook; DataSift realtime subscription social media data filtering platform aggregates, filters, records, & anaylzes realtime data from social sources using Curated Stream Definition Language(CSDL);     

AIR See Adobe Integrated Runtime(AIR) platform

ajaxSketch free web-based drawing tool diagramming, creating flow charts, freehand drawing; resize, rotate, change background or pen colors, alter opacity in your Firefox browser; 

Alert services (See also Page monitors) Google Alert; Pubsub (for weblogs & info. streams)     30 April 2004
Current Awareness Discovery Tools on the Internet(V9No5, May 2011, Awareness Watch Newsletter)

Allthingsweb2.com directory for social Web                                                                               2 April 2007

Alternate The Display Of Multiple Images On A Web Page                                                        11 May 2004

Ampache 3.2                                                                                                                            10 July 2004
MP3 manager; edit, play MP3s via HTTP; playlists, artist & album view, album art, random play, song play tracking, forums,updates; all operating systems

AmphetaDesk                                                                                                                           10 February 2003
free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator; Finding More Channels  

Analyze Your Internet Privacy Privacy analysis of your internet connection                                  19 September 2001

and.doxdesk.com  finds unsolicited commercial software present on PC(ActiveX controls)      7 February 2004
reviews parasitic software programs; download program attempts to detect & uninstall parasitic software such as Spybot's 'Search & Destroy' & Lavasoft's 'Ad-Aware'; SpywareBlaster by JavaCool, instead of detecting or removing targets, inoculates your computer never to execute certain software; stops you downloading some types of parasite, stops others from working; only targets ActiveX controls; not a complete solution.

Annotate Documents Online                                                                                                      27 April 2009
FREE hosted service provides one account for uploading up to 30 pages per month. PDF, MS Word (.doc & .docx), Excel, Powerpoint & web pages documents can be shared with any number of annotators; Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 or Safari;

Annotea project                                                                                                                         25 July 2001
LEAD(Live Early Adoption & Demonstration) project enhancing W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations; comments, notes, explanations, external remarks attached to part of a document; user can download annotations attached to it from annotation servers & see what his peer group thinks; ThirdVoice had a similar product which did not need the participation of the actual sites; Annotea uses open source standards & tools;

Anonymizer Private Surfing                                                                                                         27 April 2005
defends users from Internet privacy & security threats, online tracking using cookies,malicious code, identity theft & spammers; alternative access to websites when your direct access is down; see also Anonymous browsing quick-start page;

Anonymous Surfing: benefits & issues of making yourself invisible online?                                   29 December 2005
See also Torpark Firefox plugin for anonymous surfing       

Apache Hadoop open source framework running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware  8 January 2012
Apache Software Foundation's Hadoop implements parallel processing technique named Map/Reduce, where application is divided into many small fragments of work, each of which may be executed on any node in the cluster; Hadoop framework provides a distributed file system that stores data on compute nodes, providing very high aggregate bandwidth across the cluster; MapR(based on MapReduce) distribution provides full data protection, no single points of failure, improved performance, & dramatic ease of use advantages;

APIFinder Application Programming Interface                                                                             17 September 2006
for computer programmers to use resources/data of an online resource; APIs are easier than screen scraping, give online resources a way to control access, provide specific sets of data/functions/resources; categories include language & operating system; browse by function (wireless, e-commerce, search); information on whether API is free, functions, languages/OS, interface to data(SOAP, REST, XML-RPC); links to download API & email  contributor; APIFinder FAQ; basic API articles & glossary; See also Apps(Applications) search; 

Application Programming Interfaces(API)                                                                                    5 March 2008
APIs & Developer Platforms: A Discussion on the Pros & Cons; Apigee is analytics for APIs; See Single Site Browsers/Site Specific Browsers(SSB); API Status: monitoring site for API services; Apps versus browsers for content: some content is better when consumed through a browser. Reasons include: Content as images, Link issues,; A page at a time;

Apps(Applications) search                                                                                                        18 April 2011
Quixey automated functional search engine returns results, ranked by relevance, with all web, Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android, Firefox, IE & Chrome apps that match your query; See also APIFinder; 

ARC 3D Webservice: a family of web tools for remote 3D reconstruction                                    11 December 2010
group of tools to upload a sequence of digital images to ARC 3D servers where a 3D reconstruction is performed of the scene & reported back to user. ARC 3D provides a tool for producing & visualising 3D scene using data computed on the servers;

Artificial Intelligence resources on the Internet(March 2011 Zillman Column) &  AI Hub             26 February 2011

askSam 5 freeform database                                                                                                    5 March 2004
imports a range of file formats incl. scanned OCR; enter data manually; keyword, phrase, Boolean, wildcards, fuzzy logic, date, proximity, case sensitive searches; free trial; US$149.95 for standard version, US$395 Professional; ResearchBuzz subscribers Save US$50

Athens Access Management System                                                                                          7 July 2003
single sign on web-based services; de facto standard for secure access management to web-based services for UK education & health sectors; (1/4/2006) next generation of access control technology based on Shibboleth; .

Atlas of Cyberspaces maps & graphic representations of geographies of Internet/WWW          25 July 2001

ATM Technology: Foundation for Broadband Networks   Asynchronous Transfer Mode           20 July 2002
one key technology in broadband telecommunications transmits data, video & voice at ultra high speeds; ATM Forum; Beginner's Guide, specifications, white papers, case studies, user handbook; ATM's compatibility with Gigabit Ethernet, DSL, other wireless mediums;

auDA Australian domain name system                                                                                      12 August 2005
geographic names in com.au & net.au domains now available as domain names

Audacious: Our Media                                                                                                            26 March 2005
free storage & free bandwidth for videos, audio files, photos, text or software; indefinitely; No catch

Audio editing                                                                                                                        25 April 2008
Audacity free, cross-platform, open-source audio editor supports mp3, wav, popular audio formats; Wavosaur single executable file, easy to run from a USB flash drive; impressive array of audio-editing features; you may need to download free Lame Encoder dll file to allow program to export to mp3 format; Free Audio Dub 1.4.1.2 modify a speech, parse out a long audio track, delete unwanted parts from audio files without re-encoding; supports audio formats, including mp3's & wav files; Windows; Free Audio Editor(Windows) handles common audio formats(from MP3 & WMA to WAV & OGG) & features: Batch processing, recording, CD ripping/burning, & text-to-speech; See free, cross-platform, open-source Audacity for tasks such as removing vocals; Aviary image(& vector) editor,  color editor, screen capture tool & audio editor;

Augmented reality services                                                                                                        23 February 2011
Argon: augmented reality web browser available free now on iPhone;

AustralianISPdirectory.com                                                                                                      13 June 2009

Authentification systems                                                                                                       20 April 2008
Ning ID authentication system lets you choose an email address & password once & use it to join or sign into any social network that uses Ning; add basic details & photo to your account. These are pre-populated whenever you join a new social network using Ning authentication; keep track of friends & messages across social networks; See also Athens Access Management System above;

Automated summaries or abstracts See Topicalizer &  Topicmarks                                       14 May 2011

Automatic logging tools                                                                                                         12 December 2011   
a browser log that doesn’t expire as add-on to your browser to log browsing to your account in the cloud EgoArchive & Hooey Webprint;

Average Lifespan of a Webpage, The Signal: digital preservation, by Mike Ashenfelder,       8 November 2011         

Avvenu mobile device                                                                                                                 27 April 2006
free, secure access to document or image (any size or file type) on remote Windows-based computers; supports any browser-equipped mobile phone or PDA.

A-Z Free Video Converter 6.81                                                                                                26 April 2008
convert file formats such as WMV, MPEG, & DIVX to MOV formats; Windows 95+

Babel Fish                                                                                                                                 28 April 2006
Now withYahoo branding & 2 translation options: language pair choices: Simplified Chinese into Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese into Simplified Chinese; Systran technology; AltaVista interface to Babel Fish offers a world keyboard;

Bandwidth caps  Worried about data caps?...check your usage(ars technica)                           10 May 2011

Basic Web Site Design                                                                                                               31 July 2008

Batch remove metadata from JPG files                                                                                        24 December 2011
AutoJpegTrunk(compatible with all recent 32-bit & 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows) free program for Windows operating system removes metadata from jpeg images & is a frontend for popular ExifTool by Phil Harvey;

Bayesian Spam Filters statistical analysis to identify email messages as spam; SpamBayes, POPFile, SpamTUNNEL & Python  Anti-Spam Proxy

Beyond BitTorrent: Swarming-based content delivery                                                                  23 December 2004
Swarmstreaming provides fast downloads of web content & multimedia without special server software or plugins/files while saving & optimizing bandwidth

Bibliographic software                                                                                                          26 August 2010
Mendeley organizes research free-of-charge online & store documents in PDF format; extract metadata, fulltext & cited references from papers in PDF format; table of major differences between Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero & EndNote

BitTorrent FAQ & Guide peer-to-peer protocol for transferring files                                             20 January 2005
connects users & central server(tracker) manages connections without knowledge of contents of files so many users can be supported with limited tracker bandwidth; users upload while downloading to utilize bandwidth efficiently; works better for more connections unlike other file transfer protocols; TowerSeek.org BitTorrent search engine; See Cooperative Distribution(below); LegalTorrents BitTorrent media files-music, films, books creator-approved, freely distributable files available under Creative Commons license; See also Bit Torrents 101, Slyck's Guide to BitTorrent & Isohunt BitTorrent search engine; Top 35 Torrent Sites of 2007; BitLet prioritizes start bits of track then subsequent ones & gives preference to rare bits to optimise speed; Java applet works in any Java supporting browser; YouTorrent metasearches top torrent engines, including Mininova, Pirate Bay, isoHunt, SumoTorrent, myBittorrent, Monova, Vuze, BitTorrent, LegitTorrents, SeedPeer, & BTjunkie; BitTorrent’s future: DHT, PEX & Magnet links explained;

Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File(for IE)                                                               10 September 2005

Blogger's Code of Conduct(Draft)                                                                                              12 April 2007
Includes comments & links to related sites & posts. From Tim O'Reilly, a book publisher & conference promoter involved in the Web 2.0 movement;

Blogging platforms See Web publishing platforms & WordPress; Zemanta;

Blue Screen of Death on Windows 7 ("stop error")                                                                      17 March 2011

Bluetooth: FAQ & Knowledge Base                                                                                           29 October 2004
wireless connection system for personal computers & related handheld devices; Searchable

Blu-ray Disc (BD or BRD,  also known as BR or Blu-ray)                                                            19 June 2010
optical disc storage medium designed to supersede standard DVD format for storing high-definition video, PlayStation 3 video games, & other data, with up to 25 GB per single-layered, & 50 GB per dual-layered disc; Blu-ray source for everything related to BRD;

BOSS(Build your Own Search Service)                                                                                       13 July 2008
open platform programmatic access to Yahoo! Search index via an API; re-rank & blend results; flexibile presentation using any user interface paradigm; BOSS Mashup Framework Python library & UI templates; Web, news & image search; Unlimited queries

Bot & Intelligent Agent research resources on Internet (Zillman column, Feb 2011)                     28 January 2011

Brainstorming See Threddie simple, post-&-comment system for quick brainstorms                      15 August 2010

Broadband choice Australia                                                                                                          3 July 2003

BrowseAloud(download) making websites talk (SPELD(SA) non-profit organisation)                    25 April 2009
supports children & adults with specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia implemented BrowseAloud, leading text to speech technology from Texthelp Systems designed to improve access to information & services on websites for people who find it difficult to read online content; suitable for PC & Mac; BrowseAloud icon appears in system tray in bottom right corner of screen; cursor over text & relevant sentence is read aloud & highlighted; listen to selected sections of text or entire page from  cursor point; customise settings by right click on icon, choose Open BrowseAloud settings from menu; change speed of voice & colours used in text highlighting, save text as MP3, have links identified & read aloud, customise pronunciations; Online user guide, FAQ & video tour,

Calais 4.0 web service & open API(Thomson Reuters)                                                                  17 January 2009
toolkit enables publishers to incorporate semantic functionality, enabling them to categorize content as people, places, companies, facts, events, etc; connect to Linked Data web standard in Semantic Web community;

Canaware NetNotes 5.0                                                                                                               17 January 2009
save webpages into knowledge base for easy access, capture select portions of webpages, such as specific paragraphs & images; Windows 95+;  See also Screen capture utilities;

CAPTCHA(Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers & Humans Apart)                 5 October 2007
designed at Carnegie Mellon to block automated programs known as bots; A CAPTCHA image - letters or numbers heavily distorted, hard or impossible for a bot to read; See Spam weapon helps preserve books(reCAPTCHAs);

Carrot²                                                                                                                                        21 September 2006
open source architecture for search results from YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Search API, OpenSearch, Lucene index, clustering results & visualising clusters. Currently there are 5 clustering algorithms for different kinds of document clustering tasks;

CCleaner                                                                                                                                    25 April 2008
removes temp files, cookies, browsing history, recent-document lists, log files in the Recycle Bin, other digital detritus; uninstall applications & scan for orphaned & unused Registry entries; 1 May 2010: CCleaner 2.31.1153 works with browsers, including Chrome & Opera, to remove traces of online activities,contains a full featured registry cleaner; Windows 98+; Wipe 2011, Privacy & tracking focused CCleaner alternative;

Change detection services                                                                                                            25 December 2010
Change Detection free service to track an unlimited number of pages  daily, weekly or monthly for sizeable changes, when content has been added or removed, or for specific keywords; ChangeDetect free trial version to track maximum of 5 pages for 2 weeks with email, ICG or text message, CD Personal costs US$1.95/m tracks 10 web pages, CD Plus US$14.95/m for 100 web pages with keyword & phrase notification triggers, CD Professional US$39.95/m/ for 500 web pages with content checked twice-daily; Femtoo allows up to 10 trackers & maximum of 5000 characters tracked  free of charge, plans allow more trackers, select content to be tracked & how treated(text or numerical), Alerts by email, SMS & personal Tracker RSS Feed,  checks every 30 minutes; FollowThatPage free service 100 daily page checks check(hourly),track additions, deletions, Google page rank, keywords, sections of a page, Alerts by email, Pro account 1000 daily checks, 20 hourly checks, 5 10-minute checks & 100 weekly checks; Infominder free trial tracks up to 10 pages free for 30 days & associate categories & descriptions with a “minder”, advanced options specify how often, in days, most frequent check allowed free is daily, specify minimum number of changes for notification, keywords or phrases in changes, Professional & Preium versions, website last updated 2007; Page2RSS RSS notification for URL tracked, add feed URL to your feed reader for pages without RSS feeds; Watch That Page free service tracks unlimited number of pages, grouped into folders & tracked daily or weekly, keyword matching option filters changes relevant to you, channels to divide pages into groups based on importance or content type for different properties: keyword matching & daily reports or checked less frequently & report all changes. Email alerts can include text changed or just list URLs of pages changed, professional or heavy users pay a fee; Websnitcher free services checks pages every 3 hours and gives detailed list of changed textreas, email notifications daily & RSS feeds from collected data, intelligent filter ignores changes in date & irrelevant text areas; Desktop programs: Copernic Tracker US$49.95; Internet Owl US$29.95, 30 day free trial; Update Patrol US$69.95standard license & US$129.95 pro version,  free trial; Update Scannner for Firefox free add-on for Firefox, select how often each page is to be scanned (5 minutes to weekly), ignore numbers?, insignificant changes ignored? (specify number of characters from less than 10 to less than 1000 characters), click pop-up alert to display Update Scanner sidebar & pages updated; Website Watcher full version 30 day free trial, tracks unlimited pages, choose to ignore HTML tags, images/banners, numbers & dates, enter user names & passwords for password protected pages, checks dayly, weekly, on specified day or days of week, specify checking frequency in hours or minutes, track entire sites(not in Basic Edition), RSS & Atom feeds, 29.95 Euros(Basic), 49.95(Personal), 99 Euros(single user Business licence), 1990 Euros(site license) & 9990 Euros(enterprise licence);

Chartle interactive charts online                                                                                                      31 May 2009
images & interactive charts you create with chartle.net are yours to use in any way you choose;

Cheat Sheet Round-Up                                                                                                              30 October 2006
ActionScript, Ajax, Apache, ASCII, ASP, CSS, CVS, LaTeX, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby: 3 Dec 2011: PDF Cheatsheets(free MakeUseOf downloads): iPhone, Gmail, Twitter, Photoshop CS5, iTunes(Windows & Mac), Windows, Windows CMD, Mac OSX, Linux, GIMP, Chat smileys, Facebook, VLC Player, Google Reader, Mozilla Thunderbird, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox(Windows & Mac), Google search;

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

CiteBite                                                                                                                                       22 April 2007
create links to exact passage on web page you reference; bookmarklet(tiny Javascript application that runs from your browser bookmarks) & Firefox extension;

Citizen Tools (Christoph Berendes)                                                                                      26 June 2010
information technologies & tools that help citizens, employees, & others to be skillful, effective, & powerful participants in organizations of all sizes; author has broad experience in systems development, user-friendly design, email & web-based customer support, online collaboration & decision-making, community & church activism, social research, & civic volunteering;

Civil Netizen personal file transfer program(free)                                                                           10 August 2006
files & folders compressed into parcel archive(.parc) & pickup slip sent to recipients prompts Civil Netizen to download files directly from your computer; 

Clickjacking FAQ                                                                                                                         14 December 2008
hackers & scammers hide malicious stuff under cover of content on a legitimate site;

ClikBall: A slick new way to share links(Userscripts.org)                                                              18 February 2009

ClipClip storage facility                                                                                                                29 December 2005
personalized wikis to store clips, images, links text; post information for others to browse,accumulate online research, create lists,use as a homepage; Free rego;

Clipping services                                                                                                                            13 December 2010
Amplify(Firefox/Chrome web-based) clipping service combines blogging, micro blogging, web clipping, & link sharing autoposted to Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, Tumblr, Google Buzz, Wordpress;

Cloud computing See Intel & the Cloud                                                                                        16 May 2008
massively scalable computing made available to end users over Internet Protocol or other access method derived from the fact that most technology architecture diagrams depict the Internet or IP availability by using a drawing of a cloud; Cloud computing is more than a computer in the cloud; Bespin: could your favorite HTML editor live in the Cloud?; Mashery: API  key to a thriving Cloud; Grid, distributed & cloud computing resources( Zillman Awareness watch, V.7N.4, April 2009); Cloud comparison – Amazon, Google, Microsoft;
Cloud computing office suite, Google Docs; Cloud isn't safe?!(or did Black Hat just scare us?); WordPress blogs Real-Time with RSSCloud; Web development: Cloud Computing(Dr Dobbs journal,  3 Oct 09); Forget Google & Amazon, DoD shows what a real cloud platform can do(RACE(Rapid Access Computing Environment)); 7 Things about cloud computing; Bank login-stealing Botnet found hiding in Amazon Cloud; Greplin: lets you find your stuff in the cloud: service indexes & makes searchable online social networking accounts(personal cloud) The free version indexes content from accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs & Calendar, Dropbox, & LinkedIn, paid versions add other sources & more index space; system uses Facebook Connect system & for other services, the open protocol OAuth; Data Portability from one cloud service to another(TechLines); CloudSave saves files from Google Docs, Amazon Cloud Drive, Facebook, Picasa, & other programs & applications; Current version works with all operating systems running  Google Chrome; Grid, distributed & cloud computing resources primer, V9N7 July 2011 Awareness Watch Newsletter;     

Cluetrain Manifesto                                                                                                                      11 December 2003
guiding reference for emerging market of conversations & less buttoned-up exchanges

ClustrMaps                                                                                                                                    30 July 2011
create a  counter on website to list where visitors are located (IP address) & showing an interactive world map of their respective locations free for those users who receive fewer than 2500 visitors daily; compatible with all operating systems

Cobrowsing/Cosurfing
See Jybe below & CrossLoop; InCircle's free web based communication platform allows traffic from users on popular social networks, blogs, personal sites directly to your site; register service & embed code into your site; Screencasting gets easier with new screen capture & desktop recording tool: Jing Project capture images, record video, share online; See also Web conferencing; Unyte Application Sharing extra desktop sharing app for Skype similar to Webex or GoToMeeting; Yugma Skype plugin contextual, just-in-time collaboration for Skype users to screen-share, annotate, cobrowse; 10 concurrent users; free; ScreenStream free small downloadable software lets others see your screen on their computers; Glance shows PC or Mac screen live without distracting windows, menus or buttons, Guests connect instantly with a browser, Up to 100 guests on PC, Mac or Linux -no extra charge; web demos, sales presentations, webinars; Clavardon enter a URL & invite friends to chat & share movements on any site: scroll, highlight text & input any other URL; Free for 100 sessions/month; Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies & Web Services - Sharewood Guide Sep01 08; Best screen sharing tools - comparison table; Cobrowsing tools & technology mini-guide; CrossLoop 2.71 joint 12-digit access code to share desktops; for Mac OS X 10.4+ & Windows 2000+; 17 Dec 2011: Quick Screen Share allows visitors to remotely control mouse & keyboard & share information, doesn't require registration or installation This version compatible with all operating systems, including Linux;

Conferencing Software                                                                                                                  21 November 2002
Linktivity's WebDemo; WebInteractive; Microsoft NetMeeting; Yahoo Instant Messenger; Camfrog Video Chat 5.2 videoconferencing with online support, live webcam chat rooms for Windows 2000+; TeamViewer 4.0.5615 for desktop sharing & file transfer, create presentations for Windows 95+;  12 Feb 2011: TokBox video chat includes up to 20 participants in a call, import contacts from Gtalk & Facebook, text chat with other people during the call, share YouTube videos & files; Windows 2000+;

Conquer Chat 4.3                                                                                                                       30 August 2003
instal a chat server online; ease & usability; customize appearance & set up profiles; compatible with systems running Windows 95+

Contextual Web                                                                                                                         22 December 2008
Guide to the Contextual Web;

Conversational Monitoring System(CMS)                                                                                       1 July 2009
Vanilla open-source, standards-compliant, fully extensible discussion forum CMS: conversations &no smileys, bandwidth-hogging signatures, mailbox, forum categories; uses  AJAX for fast, simplecommunication; Interview with founder;

Convert HTML to PDF                                                                                                                 25 April 2008
Web interface for converting Web pages or HTML code to PDF; enter a URL or the HTML code to begin the conversion, which generally takes only seconds; bookmarklet ets you convert Web pages on the fly without visiting the utility site;

Convert iTunes to MP3 Format                                                                                                    29 June 2007
Convert iTunes Videos to MPEG; Convert Vinyl Records to CD; Convert VHS to DVD; Convert WMA to MP3

Online Converters                                                                                                                         14 April 2007
online tools which convert formats, files & code snippets for free; generate pdf-documents out of images, images out of texts or RSS-feeds out of web-sites;  convert audio- & video-files, results received via e-mail;

Cookie Viewer  See also Eliminate Flash-spawned 'zombie' cookies                                              19 April 2007
works with Internet Explorer & Firefox cookies, presents all cookie's data in a comprehensive but easy-to-understand way; when created, by whom, when it expires; delete cookies you don't want;

Cooliris browser plugin (formerly PicLens)                                                                                  16 August 2008
displays video & photos as a movable wall, zoom in & out, watch videos full screen or view slideshow format; use VentureBeat tool to add Cooliris technology without programming; see Getty Images for content; Cooliris comes to Linux; Cooliris picture viewer going socio-local with Liveshare;

Coollist free mailing list                                                                                                                  4 March 2005

Cooperative Distribution: How to distribute large media files via BitTorrent                                     18 May 2005

CopyTaste online repository for snippets of text, pictures, & video
share anonymously or otherwise; edit basic text or use rich text editor to insert pictures & video, leave message open for comment or secure with password. Every note saved in CopyTaste gets a unique URL; OpenID profile sharing & retrieval;

Copy text from web without formatting                                                                                           26 February 2006

CosmoPOD  online desktop with access from any computer                                                          23 June 2006
download small application; office suite to work with Word & Excel documents seamlessly; free ad-supported version has free email, 1GB online storage, office suite, instant messenger; for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, PlayStation 2 & iPAQ; .

CostAware 1.1                                                                                                                            25 January 2003
users track size of their domestic & international downloads(some ISPs charge for them); compatible with  Windows 2000 or XP platforms

Cosurfing/Cobrowsing See Cobrowsing/Cosurfing(above)

CrossLoop(Windows)                                                                                                                  16 November 2006
free one-to-one screen application for sharing a desktop; works smoothly when computers are on the same LAN by sending an invitation code

Crowdmap open-source mapping tool                                                                                          17 August 2010
creates interactive maps for visualising location-based data on a map & timeline, crowdsources information via a web form, mobile phone or Twitter, & also uses news sources to document & verify incidents; Crowdmap puts any data on an interactive map;

Crowdsourcing(Cambrian House)  Crowdsourcing(Wikipedia)                                             27 December 2011
harnesses power of a community using advanced social media technology & knowledge of crowd behaviour, to collect, evolve & rank ideas & contributions to reveal strongest performers; Cambrian House began as a crowdsourcing community to discover new businesses & technology ideas attracting 50000+ members & 7000+ ideas from the crowd, developed Chaordix technology to harness a crowd for breakthrough ideas;

CyClops                                                                                                                                       14 February 2003
free browser-integrated image conversion & resizing utility; 6 formats; gif, png, jpg; 265 KB download

Darknets built for secure, anonymous web surfing & online communication                                       19 June 2009
Veiled a new type of darknet created within a web browser using just PHP & JavaScript works with any HTML-5 browser; Pieces of files are spread among members of Veiled darknet, not through peer-to-peer technology but using a series of repeaters;

Dart object-oriented programmimg language(formerly called Dash)  Google alternative to Java            11 October 2011
class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications; for clients & servers, small scripts & large projects; code can be executed on a native virtual machine or on top of a JavaScript engine by using a compiler that translates Dart code to JavaScript; a simple online IDE called Dartboard lets you edit a small program using your browser, but Dartboard will evolve into a full-fledged online IDE(Integrated Development Environment);

Data Conversion Online                                                                                                                 11 June 2004
free file converters creating Palm Pilot document from text, XML documents, metric conversions; Excel to CSV; ASCII to EBCDIC; Unix to Dos; Dos to Unix; Mac to Unix; PDF to text; audio converters; delimited text converters.

Data extractors See Web Data Extractors for academic, entrepreneurial, special interest & personal research   28 January 2011

Data handling                                                                                                                            20 October 2010
The Age of Exabytes: Tools & Approaches For Managing Big Data; 11 Jan 2012: TreePad personal information manager, pioneer in tree structured data management since 1995, organises complex information into a hierarchy of nodes;  free Lite version; the Enterprise version adds useful features such as formatting, images, live links to files & websites, & file attachments to nodes, access databases of up to 384 Gigabytes(or 12 Gigabytes, depending on version), open up to 8 databases simultaneously inside one program instance(& start multiple instances if you wish to do so);

Data portability (open data across the Web)  RWW Live: Data Portability                                  23 September 2008

Data Visualisation See also Visualisation tools                                                                         4 January 2011
Gapminder unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view: non-profit venture to promote sustainable global development & achievement of UN Millennium Development Goals by increased use & understanding of statistics using Trendanalyzer software visualizations; Keeping our tools’ statistical content up-to-date & making time series freely available in Gapminder World & Gapminder Countries, producing videos, Flash presentations & PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics in colorful graphics; Trendanalyzer was sold to Google in 2007 but Gapminder has a license in order to make data freely available to the public, Google have continued the technology & launched Motion Chart  free of charge. A Motion Chart takes your Analytics graphs for a multi-dimensional analysis of metrics report. Plotting your data into 4 dimensions to spot opportunities or anomalies faster & easier; Begin using Motion Chart as follows: Click Visualize icon from any report with a table displaying segmented data, e.g In the Keyword Report - Once the Motion Chart loads, you'll see an array of bubbles, each representing a different keyword from the report.Select 4 dimensions to plot your data: X-axis, Y-axis, Color, Size. Click on each control to see a menu of metrics. Point your mouse over any bubble to see numeric value for each. Press Play at bottom of chart to see how your keywords perform over time. If you click on a bubble and check the Trails box underneath the Size control, you can map out the bubble's movement over time; Freebase entity graph of people, places & things, built by a community with all types of publicly available open data to create entities connected & manipulated into a graph format; access to 13m entities; compatible with all operating systems including those running Linux; Wiki, Blog & Discussion List; Google Public Data Explorer visualizes your data: new data format, Dataset Publishing Language(DSPL), openly available as an interface; GPDE Dataset Directory;  3 June 2011: GeoCommons community site run by GeoIQ private company sells software & support to enterprise customers. Data & maps posted under Creative Commons license; new version of platform includes HTML5 display, visualization engine capable of displaying hundreds of thousands of data points, web based editing, time-release views of mapped data; currently has 50000 open source geo data sets;  

Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar                                                                           5 December 2002
free software launches Google, Yahoo; people lookups, free translation,calculator,currency converter; tested with IE 5.5, & 6.0, on Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP.

Deep Packet Inspection(DPI)(aka complete packet inspection & Information eXtraction - IX) 7 July 2009
computer network packet filtering examining data part(& possibly header) of a packet passing an inspection point, searching for protocol non-compliance, viruses, spam, intrusions or predefined criteria to decide if packet needs to be routed to a different destination, or for collecting statistical information; enables advanced security functions as well as internet data mining, eavesdropping, & censorship; shallow packet inspection(Stateful Packet Inspection) just checks header portion;

Desktop sharing(Screensharing) See Cobrowsing

Digital Rights Management(DRM)                                                                                                31 January 2011

Diigo social information network(Digest of Internet Information, Groups & Other stuff)                24 August 2006
browser add-on for highlights & sticky notes, public comments by readers, repository of quality content, filtered & annotated by the community; highlight word to search for inbound links to URL in 4 search engines(Technorati & Google); search highlighted terms in 4 social bookmarking systems free; TechCrunch review; See also JotSpot; 1 Dec 2010: Diigolet is not as feature-rich as the Diigo toolbar, but it can be set-up by simple drag-and-drop - no download or installation needed, and it works for all major browsers. Much more powerful than bookmarklets offered by other social bookmarking sites, Diigolet super bookmarklet allows you to highlight & add sticky-notes in addition to bookmarking;

Directory of Open Source & Free Software( JISC)                                                                    13 November 2010

Discover Who Hosts a Web Site                                                                                                13 March 2008
Key the domain name in.  Once you have the Web host, the next step to discovering who owns the site may require sending the host a subpoena, assuming the information isn't apparent in the domain name registration record; Discover Who Owns a Web Site;

Discovery Interfaces: The Next Generation                                                                                    16 September 2010
AquaBrowser (Medialab Solutions); Bibliocommons (open source from Canada); Blacklight (open source from the University of Virginia); EBSCOhost Integrated Search (EBSCO); Encore (Innovative Interfaces); Endeca (Endeca Technologies); Enterprise 2 (SirsiDynix);
eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project (open source based at University of Rochester); Fac-Back-OPAC; Primo, currently in beta at the BL (Ex Libris); Prism (Talis); Scriblio (open source); Summon (Serials Solutions); Visualizer (VTLS); VuFind (open source from Villanova University); WorldCat Local (OCLC); modern web interfaces offering enhancements over traditional OPAC such as: Relevancy ranking of results; Facets to guide users from broad results to specific items of interest; Improved visual presentation including book jacket covers & descriptions/contents page; “did you mean” style suggestions; User-supplied ratings; User-supplied reviews; User-supplied tags; Reaching beyond local catalogue – Amazon (purchasing options), Google Book Search (digital copies), Del.icio.us (personal bookmarking);

...Distributed...computing resources( Zillman Awareness watch, V.7N.4, April 2009)

DNS (Domain Name System )                                                                                            4 December 2009
Google wants to speed up the Web: launches its own DNS service;

DNS lookup services: Ajaxwhois.com                                                                                      27 June 2007  
OpenDNS free, alternative domain name service that speeds up Internet access by connecting you to high-performance DNS servers faster & more reliable than DNS service provided by most ISPs;   

Docstoc: documents for small business & professionals                                                                    1 May 2011
repository of free & for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, & educational documents; sell, store, bulk upload, email, monitor private documents; Adobe Acrobat(PDF), Word Files(DOC & DOCX), Spreadsheet (XLS & XLSX), Presentations(PPT & PPTX) , text files (TXT & RTF); users can access Docstoc Certified Premium Documents & Packages in the Docstore; subscription service access to Premium documents for a small monthly fee;                                              

Document digitisation & storage services (Archives)                                                            25 July 2008
Pixily accepts paper documents by mail in a Netflix style envelope, scans & uploads to Amazon S3 for searching in 3 to 5 days; subscription plans from $5 to $60/month, for first 50 to 200 pages mailed in & with 1000 to 12000 pages of storage; available in PDF format; Earth Class Mail intercepts mail & lets you sort it online; Scribd's Paper to iPaper service is free but slow in scanning your documents & serves ads next to them online;

Document sharing sites                                                                                                                  7 April 2009
Twidox documents(mainly PDF) are optimized for internet & for maximum exposure; upload, share & manage your documents; Scribd; Docstoc; Slideshare; 

Domain name essentials                                                                                                               11 November 2002

Domain Name Ownership Research Tools(Online, May/June 2003)    
free WHOIS look-up utilities, Trademark Explorer(Questel•Orbit), SAEGIS, Trademark.com & Domain Names Database (Dialog); 4 Dec 2009 Google wants to speed up the Web: launches its own DNS service; Know when your DNS Servers are failing; 

DomainTools                                                                                                                               9 February 2007
fee-based reports: Reverse IP Reports creates list of .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, & .info domains that resolve to IP address: Name Server Reports to list  .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, & .info domains on any name server in a text file; NameServer Spy, Domain History Lookup, & Mark Alert; wildcard search of all current/ deleted/ expired whois domains; domain suggestions engine;

Download Accelerator Plus 8                                                                                                    25 March 2006
multi-connections for optimal downloads, resume broken downloads & preview files as they download; .trace cleaner for discreet operations & file-shredder; Windows 98+; See also Free Download Manager 2.1 functions with a wide range of browsers, Windows 95+; See also Orbit Downloader 2.7.4(Aug 08) accelerated downloading of multiple files simpler including those from social media sites; Windows 2000, XP, 2003,& Vista; Download Accelerator Plus 9.40.5 splits files into smaller pieces, automatically seeks mirror sites to increase download speeds; create a blacklist of sites not to accept downloads from, preview some media files during download process; Windows 2000+;

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

drawing tool, free web-based See also ajaxSketch & Gliffy                                                        3 December 2009
FlockDraw: collaborative drawing made easy; Cacoo used to create diagrams, including site maps, wire frames, & network charts; allows real-time collaboration, compatible with all operating systems;

Dropbox: File synching & sharing made easy                                                                                 28 October 2010
works with all versions of Windows;  free Dropbox Basic lets you store up to 2GB of data in the cloud. Dropbox Pro50 provides 50GB of storage for US$10/month or $99/year, /Pro100 is $20/month or $199/year; on all of your computers & mobile devices ready for file sharing, backing up data & to remotely control your computer; Using The Magic Pocket: A Dropbox Manual(free MakeUseOf download);

Dropload                                                                                                                                  9 February 2004
free drop & pick-up exchange for files; send email with instructions on how to download file; online for 48 hours; Max file size 50 MB

Dynamic Bookmarking with Iterasi                                                                                              6 February 2008
browser-based tool saves link to page location, captures content as it appears at that moment & saves in accessible HTML format; best for dynamic web pages that change over time; pages created using dynamic technologies like CSS, AJAX, & other database-driven content may lose valuable information; addressess 'linkrot' too(pages that disappear);

Ebook readers Calibre open source program converts to/from e-book formats                            20 November 2010
Kindle Fire tablet review;

EditGrid                                                                                                                                     11 May 2006
edit, store, access spreadsheets from any browser; import & export common formats - MS Excel, CSV, Gnumeric & OpenOffice's Calc;  supports Microsoft IE, Mozilla FireFox (Safari coming soon). Free to use;

Effectively testing your website in multiple browsers                                                                  25 October 2007
see also Any Browser emulator for Windows, UNIX, Mac, OS

Encryption packages                                                                                                            22 April 2007
PGP Desktop Professional 9.6 retail product has excellent corporate integration tools; TrueCrypt free standalone open-source tool;

Error codes for World Wide Web                                                                                           29 April 2005
ErrorKey search engine for Error Codes; Systems currently available:Oracle, Sybase, Apple, Cisco 6400, Unix Solaris, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP DB, Borland C, Python, HTTP, Symbian, Mozilla, Windows NT

EServer Technical Communication Library                                                                                12 September 2009
free, open-access, human-edited directory of online resources for people who produce, manage, archive, & distribute technical information; technical communicators(eg technical writers), editors & publishers, researchers, illustrators, animators/multimedia developers, instructional designers/educators, web designers, instructional designers, user experience designers; nonprofit & free of charge, collects no personally identifiable information about its users; Contents not re-used for commercial ventures without prior written permission;

Evernote 3.5.1.1410 record an image or URL; take nots                                                          13 February 2010
everything a user does with the program is automatically synchronized to their Evernote account; killer featureis optical character recognition (OCR) allowing users to search for text within stored images;Windows XP & Vista or Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6

Extractor: free & commercial text-summarizing program                                                           27 March 2002
toolbar button gives list of keywords & links to deeper analysis; bulleted list of essay's major propositions & radio buttons instruct software on which keywords are central; recommends similar articles(Alta Vista search on Extractor's keyword list), translate to/from 5 languages(Alta Vista BabelFish), read text aloud(Bell Labs' text-to-speech software streaming to Windows Media Player)

Facebook social utility/platform                                                                                                6 August 2007
FaceReviews application reviews & news blogsite; F to Offer Data Storage?; Clever Hippo search engine for Facebook applications; IgnoreAll.com Javascript bookmarklet selects ignore option on all except friend requests, group invites & event notifications; O'Reilly report on F: 1% of applications see 74% of total use; top 20% have 98%; Lexicon trend mapping tool similar to Google Trends creates trend graph for different words & (2-word) phrases on Facebook Walls; How to make F useful again; How to befriend Mom, Dad, & the Boss on F...safely; F introduces Private Groups for Families; Creative Commons F App licenses your F content; (24 June 2009)status messages, photos & videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to user's approved friends; Photo Tagger: facial recognition for auto-tagging F photos; RockMelt: Netscape's Andreessen backing stealth F browser; Access F updates from a feed reader; Bing is the search provider on F; Facebook: Mining & visualizing F public profiles; Visualizations of Peter Warden’s F data; F profiles for countries, states & cities; Tighten your Facebook privacy settings; Facebook privacy settings; How to contact F(SocialMediaGuide); How to delete your social networking accounts; Download F history with  Data Downloader account setting; Facebook adds facial recognition for easier tagging;  9 Aug 2011: Privacy smackdown: Facebook versus Google+; 

Favicons  96000 icons show on address bar in Opera, Mozilla, IE;                                        18 September 2004
specify keyword & favicon colors; Opera - redirect in search results misfires - works in Mozilla; specify primary & secondary colors of favicon & how to receive(list of icons with details including title & URL);  select random favicons, top favicons, submit site

Favoor                                                                                                                                  19 October 2006
create a start page to access from any computer, collect internet addresses, add notes, manage your links, display RSS feeds, create notices, store data;  

Internet Fax Services(US) Note link to Fax software article(from About.com also)                  11 May 2002
Fax Machine receives faxes & can email them as a PDF attachment; free 30 day trial; Free Internet fax services; Fax over VOIP; What is a fax server?; FaxZero: sends no-cost, ad-supported faxes;

FeedHub creates an individualized RSS feed to filter relevant posts from feed sources; review  25 September 2007

File conversions                                                                                                                      23 September 2010
Online-Convert.com converts media files online from one format to another instantly & free; audio, video, image, document, eBook into many different formats online, without installing any software; user uploads file to store on server for conversion file format; size limit of 100 Megabyte for free conversion,&link for downloading converted file is valid for 24 hours or up to 10 downloads; access download links on mobile phone using QR codes; Transferring zeroes & ones - getting around file format issues: ;

Filecourier  alternative to sending large attachments via email                                                      15 June 2003.
often blocked by ISP or suspected of containing malicious material; download link redirects to your desktop PC even behind a firewall without compromising security; freetrial; pay-as-you-go costs 2 cents per Mb of download; requires Microsoft's .NET framework 1.0.

File Extension Source  List of file formats(Wikipedia)                                                             17 December 2003
See also Dot What!? resource for Windows, Mac & Linux operating systems

File hosting See Storage space on the web

File Recovery Guide  file recovery, breakdowns, head crashes, data back ups, formatting     28 February 2004
See also (July 2008) Glary Utilities 2.6 system tools & utilities to remove unwanted files, clean up invalid & broken shortcuts, scan, remove, & back up faulty registry entries forWindows 98+; Recovering deleted files on Windows 7;

File sharing & sending services                                                                                       6 December 2007
See Civil Netizen & Eatlime; 6 Services to Send & Share Large Files; YouSendIt free lite account for up to 100Mb upload. File saved for 7 days; WhaleMail any size file, register & email url to recipient,kept for 14 days; MediaMax 25 Gb free storage for mp3, video, share & password protect; Transferbigfiles no registration, free - select files from your computer(to 1 Gb per file), enter email address, kept 5 days for non-registrants 10 days for DropZone registrants; Zoho Viewer upload & share free - document, presentation, spread- sheet formats. See Zoho for other great web applications; Omnidrive full featured storage, file handling & management; work directly on file saved there without download/upload - 1 Gb space free account , 3 Pro packages at various prices for additional capacity;
DropSend free desktop tool to send or backup entire folders from your desktop; drag or drop files of up to 1Gb; jpeg, pdf, MP3 etc or store online; File sharing(send files 1Gb+); True P2P file sharing via Twitter: FileTwt; Share your files using BitTorrent; 21 Jan 2012: How to make use of Usenet for file sharing; 

File System Search                                                                                                                    9 October 2010
Wumpus information retrieval system indexing dynamic text collections in multi-user environments; multi-user support enabled or disabled; indexing servicekeeps tracks of all changes in file system & updates index accordingly; GNU General Public License(GPL);

File transfers See Civil Netizen(above)  File transfer software                                           26 June 2009
How To Send Files Larger Than 1GB - Sharewood Guide; FilesOverMiles browser to browser file transfers (PTP); (9 July 2009) Sending Large Files 30+ free services to send files from 100MB to 2GB at no cost; Send large files by email; xFiles: on demand P2P file exchange: transfers bulky files between browsers; Transfer files over Wi-Fi with Dropbox; Cyberduck open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files, Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows with features familiar to Mac users: drag-&-drop file transfer, integration with other applications (review, Nov 2011); WinSCP: free SFTP & FTP client for Windows ; 

Find Best News Reader for You                                                                                          16 July 2006

Firewall Resource Guide See also What you need to know about firewalls; Get the best firewall, then scan your PC  free   12 July 2005
ZoneAlarm 8.0.065 firewall software designed to protect computers from hackers features 4 interlocking security services: application control, Internet lock, firewall & easy-to-use wizard device for less-experienced users; Windows XP+; 29 May 2010: ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 9.2 keep computers free from phishing devices, program spoofing from malicious programs; application takes5 minutes to setup & has extensive interactive help; compatible with computers running Windows XP, Vista, & 7;

FireWire vs High-Speed USB                                                                                               24 June 2005
Compare & contrast FireWire(IEEE 1394; iLink by Sony) & high-speed USB(universal serial bus) data transfer for connecting peripheral devices; history, pros & cons, system requirements; What is Firewire?; transfer videosfrom my camcorder to computer; does your pc support Firewire; how to add Firewire capability;

Flash See Adobe Flash

Flash drives                                                                                                                            11 December 2009
Secure flash drives keep you safe on the road; Hardened flash drive is one tough nut to crack; Create your own secure, bootable flash drive;  

FLV Converter 1.2.1(free)                                                                                                    15 December 2007
transfer Flash files to formats appropriate for portable devices & other items; French & English; Windows 2000, XP, 2003, & Vista.

FOCA(Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives)                                                   13 September 2009
download all documents on Web site & metadata; who created document, email address, internal IP(Internet Protocol) addresses; sometimes identifies OS & application versions & if computer or user has up-to-date patches; word processing & desktop software embed user information in documents;

Form Assembly                                                                                                                   31 August 2006
create forms including multi-page forms & forms with conditional questions; hosts the form & gives you a personal web address; wont safely process credit card ; free & paid plans; See also Wufoo free & pay versions (review);

FOSS: Free & open source software, also F/OSS, FOSS, or FLOSS (free/libre/open source software)  22 April 2011
Changing the archetype of information dissemination using Open Source digital library technology by Shibu K M (in International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science)  discusses  Free & Open Source Software(FOSS) movement & how developing nations can take advantage of its offerings;

FoxLingo                                                                                                                              9 July 2006
Firefox extension converts any Web site into the following languages:Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanishla, Swedish, Thai, Turkish & Welsh

Free alternatives to Photoshop with all bells, whistles, filters, & layers                                  21 July 2009

Free & Open Source Software(FOSS)  See FOSS (above)

Freebase entity graph of people, places & things, built by a community with open data         8 January 2011
use all types of publicly available data to create entities connected & manipulated into a graph format; access to 13m entities; compatible with all operating systems including those running Linux; Wiki, Blog & Discussion List;

Free Download Manager                                                                                                    29 April 2006
retrieve files & websites up to 600% faster; integrates with Opera, Mozilla, & other browsers; view progress of downloads & traffic usage; Windows 95+

FreeDrive - Free Internet Hard Drive                                                                                   25 July 2001
US$4.95/month for 6.5Mb; Drop off point for files too large to email; CD Burning & Delivery

Free/Libre/Open Source Software(FLOSS)                                                                          11 November 2004

Free-OCR.com  free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool                                    17 March 2010
change scanned documents into normal text. The service is free however there is a limitation to the amount of OCR you can perform per hour; See also FreeOCR V3.0 free download for Windows systems only

Free Online Drop & Pick-Up Exchange For Sending Files                                                     16 February 2004
Recipients are sent an email with instructions to download; Files are removed after 48 hours; Max file size is 50 MbB; FREE (please make a donation)

FreeNetworks.org                                                                                                               18 February 2007
volunteer cooperative association dedicated to education, collaboration, & advocacy for FreeNetworks - computer networks that allow free local transit (information flow) following our peering agreement guidelines; most members specialize in wireless networking using Ethernet, fiber optics, or other networking technology; \members include community advocates, system administrators, RF engineers, writers, lawyers, programmers, business owners;

Free OCR converts scanned documents to text                                                                        7 July 2009
free online Optical Character Recognition, no registration necessary; upload PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF or BMP formats up to 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels; limit of 10 image uploads per hour; English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch;

Free online network utilities                                                                                                     23 October 2003
Investigate domains & IP addresses; Validate email addresses; Ping, TraceRoute, BrowserMirror, AnalyzePath

FreeWebspace.net largest searchable guide to free webspace providers.                                 17 March 2002

Gabbly web-based floating chat window                                                                                 6 April 2006
embed the Gabbly chat window in any web page by generating a code & pasting it in the HTML or by typing "http://gabbly.com/" before the web page's URL;  free on personal & commercial web pages; supports all major browsers; 

Gather.com social network                                                                                                     22 July 2006
interactive conversation; find & share user-created contente; create brand identity & group personality; Gather Points(TM) or cash for top contributors; free;

GIMP(GNU Image Manipulation Program) Resource List                                                       18 September 2007
open source raster graphics editor free for many platforms; tutorials, user group;

Glance: One-Click Screen Sharing                                                                                           3 June 2003
share with colleagues or customers; no menus, controls; communicate a 4 digit number & your Glance URL to contact; 25Kb download works best on high speed connection; Linux & Mac,Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla & Opera supported; simultaneous users;  8-bit or 256 color limits display of photographs & high color content; phone line needed; US$19.95/month; US$39.95  for multiple, simultaneous users; free 1-day trial

Gliffy                                                                                                                                      21 August 2006
Draw & share diagrams, flowcharts, wireframes on the web, publish,collaborate; See Ms Visio; SaaS Gliffy unveils first online diagramming API;

Global Communications Network 2.9.1                                                                                   8 April 2005
video & voice chat & administer chat rooms within a secure format compatible with Windows 95+

Glossary of Internet Terms                                                                                                      12 July 2004

Gobby collaborative editor                                                                                                     23 June 2006
edit text documents on network; simultaneous users parts highlighted in different colours; IRC-like chat; Windows, Mac OS X, Linux & Unix-like platforms;  

gOFFICE online office suite                                                                                                    11 May 2006
free word processor, desktop publishing tool &   spreadsheet creator. Microsoft Word import & export soon  with an application to create presentations; 

Google, 1 March 2012- : One policy, one Google experience                                                         26 January 2012
March 1, 2012 is when the new Privacy Policy & Google Terms of Service will come into effect. If you choose to keep using Google once the change occurs, you will be doing so under the new Privacy Policy & Terms of Service; FAQ;

Google+ in limited free trial; Google+ for social networking; search engine land review  Guide;     30 June 2011
9 Aug 2011: Privacy smackdown: Facebook versus Google+; 9 October 2011: G+ is extending across all G services - search, ads, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube because social-activity data & social signals help improve search & targetted advertising; Google Plus
Circles for sharing the right things with the right people; Hangouts for unplanned meet-up; Sparks looks for videos & articlesfor you; Mobile Instant upload; Mobile Huddle - group chat; an overview;  Complete Google Plus cheat sheet; 18 Oct 2011: Topsy Labs launches Beta realtime search engine for public Google+ posts; Thoughts on Google+ & why it works; 21 Oct 2011: Google Reader integrating with Google+;   

Google Analytics for Beginners See also Website analytics                                                          25 Novenmber 2007
analyzing traffic on your website; See where your traffic comes from; Google Analytics Benchmarks & the Future of Portable Data; See also Piwik open source alternative to Google Analytics using PHP & MySQL; How-to use the Google Analytics interface; 22 January 2012:  7 alternatives to GA;

Google Books Ngram Viewer visualization tool available at Google Labs                                    18 December 2010
Since 2004, Google has digitized 15m+ books worldwide; datasets containing phrases of up to 5 words with counts of how often they occurred in each year are based on a subset of that corpus - 500b words from 5.2m books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, & Spanish; research project led by Harvard University’s Jean-Baptiste Michel & Erez Lieberman Aiden published 16/12/2010 in Science, coauthored by several Googlers & provides examples of how quantitative methods can provide insights into topics as diverse as the spread of innovations, effects of youth & profession on fame, trends in censorship; Ngram Viewer lets you graph & compare phrases from these datasets over time, showing how usage has waxed & waned over time;

Google Buzz built into Gmail & available on mobile phones                                                        27 February 2010
new way to start conversations about things you find interesting like photos, videos, web pages; connect other sites you use like Twitter, Picasa Web Albums & Google Reader; post privately or publicly; 18 Oct 2011: G will discontinue GB & Code Search for Google+;

Google Calendar                                                                                                                    21 April 2006
integrated with Gmail; works with calendar applications; multiple calendars for work, leisure; View by day, week or month; automatic reminders; built-in search; Top 10 Google settings you should know; 

Google Chart Tools: Google brings the power of the Pie Chart                                                    13 February 2010
image charts work off a simple URL structure, defining all necessary characteristics through URL parameters; interactive charts use a Javascript library showing extra data on mouseovers & simple animation; 30 chart styles from interactive maps to pie charts, line charts to Venn diagrams; Interactive charts trigger events, providing tool-tips & animations; this tool can read live data from data sources such as Oracle PL/SQL or Google spreadsheets;

Google Docs                                                                                                                            13 September 2008
built-in version of Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & thesaurus; look up any term in Encyclopedia Britannica; no support for footnotes & endnotes available on Zoho & Thinkfree Online; Guide to Google Docs; insert drawing feature added; 6 features to make collaboration more productive; (22 May 2009) Microsoft Office plugin OffiSync integrates Google Docs & Office (review); Google Docs now support MS Office 2007 file formats(.docx & .xlsx file formats; imports MS Word 2007 & MS Excel 2007 files); Publish Google Docs to your website; Users can now share folders; Google Docs now exportable; Jan 2010: now a storage service as well as collaboration platform. Enterprise customers may store large files of all types(& up to 250Mb) free or for a small cost, documents can be backed up using third-party applications, 1 GB free storage, Enterprise customers add additional storage for US$3.50/ GB/year; Web clipboard for Google Docs; Compare Office Web Apps to Google Docs; Optical character recognition(OCR) in GD, size limits & some layouts work better than others; 29 June 2010: New search operators in Documents List; quotation marks for phrase, - for exclude, OR; Type of doc: [ type:{document, spreadsheet, presentation}], Items edited before (or after) a certain day: [before:YYYY-MM-DD, after:YYYY-MM-DD], Items owned by Ted: [ owner:ted@rocketsnlasers.com], Items with “rocket” in title: [ title:rocket ]; [subject:rocket ], no NEAR operator; GD adds automatic translation, tweaks drawing tools; GD adds Wave-style collaborative text highlighting; Testing accuracy of Google Docs OCR;  20 July 2011: Viewing ZIP & RAR files using Google Docs; 23 July 2011: increased size of files that can be uploaded & stored to 10GB from 1GB; 8 September 2011: Offline Google Docs works only with Chrome & an app from Chrome Web Store;                                                                          

Google Document Viewer                                                                                                         1 October 2009
allows you to generaMany of Reader's social features will soon be available via Google+, so in a week's time we'll be retiring things like friending, following and shared link blogs inside of Reader.te links to view PDFs, Powerpoints, & TIFF documents from your browser; Automatically open PDFs, PowerPoint presentations(PDF/PPT/TIF viewer); 23 Feb 2011: now integrated with Gmail file supports formats Microsoft Excel (.XLS & .XLSX); Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX); Apple Pages (.PAGES); Adobe Illustrator (.AI); Adobe Photoshop (.PSD); Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF); Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG); PostScript (.EPS, .PS); TrueType (.TTF);XML Paper Specification (.XPS) ;

Google Fiber for Communities (limited, US only, coverage)                                                         27 February 2010
ultra high-speed broadband networks in  trial locations across US; 100+ times faster than usual US connections; 1 gigabit/second, fiber-to-the-home connections available at a competitive price to at least 50,000 & potentially up to 500,000 people;

Google Fusion Tables                                                                                                                 16 December 2009
grab data from spreadsheets, text documents, PDFs & other sources to create compelling, comprehensive visualizations from a merged data set; active, dynamic datasets are programmatically updated; API allows queries & downloads; real-time collaboration features as with Google Docs: collaborators invited via email, multiple people can view & comment on data, discussions show user comments & changes to datasets over time; GFT after 1 year;

Google Gears plug-in extends browser as a platform for web applications                                   5 December 2008
(30 Nov 09) Google dumps Gears for HTML5;

Google Knol, Wave, Friend Connect, Search Timeline, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal,
Bookmark Lists & Google Gears will all be discontinued in the coming months                           24 November 2011

Google Labs playground for testing out prototypes & innovations closes                                      21 July 2011

Google OpenSocial                                                                                                                    23 November 2007
common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites, standard JavaScript & HTML, developers can create apps that access social network friends & update feeds using Google Gadget Editor & simple key/value API with no server; Google's Kevin Marks Introduces "The Social Cloud";

Google Plus;  an overview;  Complete Google Plus cheat sheet    See Google+               11 July 2011
Circles for sharing the right things with the right people; Hangouts for unplanned meet-up; Sparks looks for videos & articlesfor you; Mobile Instant upload; Mobile Huddle - group chat; 18 Oct 2011: Topsy Labs launches Beta realtime search engine for public Google+ posts;

Google Reader  Primer: getting started with RSS                                                                       4 June 2010
GR lets you monitor page changes without RSS; Track Changes feature closes 30 Sept 2010; Feedly converts GR into a newspaper with browser plugins for Chrome, Firefox, & Safari; 21 Oct 2011: GR integrating with Google+; 31 Oct 2011: Many Reader social features will soon be available via Google+ retiring things like friending, following & shared link blogs inside of GR;

Google Shared Spaces: users customize online work spaces to share & collaborate on                    21 December 2010

Google sites free, easy way to create & share webpages                                                            17 July 2009

Google SketchUp 6                                                                                                                   2 February 2007
3D modeling in Google Earth; Photo Match -trace a photo to create 3D model or match existing model with background photo; add fog, create sketched effects, watermarks, 3D text; seamless integration with Google Earth, 3D Warehouse - share & reuse models;

Google Spreadsheets                                                                                                                 14 June 200
Real Time Collaboration with Google Docs & Spreadsheets; See also Web Office suites(below); Google Chart Tools can read live data from data sources such as Oracle PL/SQL or Google spreadsheets; Script Gallery for GS (create your own); 25 Sept 2010:Import updates spreadsheets can be added onto, specific sheets replaced or appended, set Docs to delimit incoming data based on tabs, commas or other common marks, get a live preview of your spreadsheet[Google Docs Blog via Google Operating System]; 18 May 2011: Google Docs Spreadsheets now support Pivot Tables;    

Google translate  How To Help Improve Google Translate Results                                             29 April 2008
(March 2009) now reads PDF files & Microsoft Office documents but has difficulty with large documents, e.g. a 198-page PDF had only the first 9 pages translated; others report of a 200-page PDF translated completely; includes Polish which Babelfish does not;

Google Transliterate                                                                                                                    5 April 2010
type a Roman character & Google transliterates it to the equivalent character in 19 languages; doesn't offer the translation feature of Google Translated Search but allows search for mentions of a name or brand in a language you cannot easily type;

Google Voice(US)  Google Voice Blog                                                                                 2 July 2010
sign up to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls & texting within US & Canada; call routing, voicemail transcription, SMS to multiple recipients; Play voicemails within Gmail; With Number Porting existing users can use their mobile numbers as their Google Voice numbers & use all features like ringing multiple phones at once, without having to change your number. To get started with Number Porting, log in to your Google Voice account, visit the Settings page and click on Change/Port; ;

Google Wave (preview)  login 21 May 2010 discontinued 4 Aug 2010                                      30 September 2009
new communication & collaboration platform based on hosted documents(waves) supporting concurrent modifications & low-latency updates; real-time chat room; platform for editing documents collaboratively; Wiki, to replace email & IM within an organization; many services in one package; works best in Chrome, OK in Safari & Firefox; robots & widgets; Complete guide; Google Wave Federation (White paper on GWF architecture); GW Guide; SAP to launch GW competitor in private beta with code name 12Sprints; 15 Dec 09 Wave goes down drain?; 20 real world uses for GW; Google Wave vs The Rest(Collaboration tools), feature by feature; Google Wave searches; Say hello to Google Wave(what email would look like if invented today); GW overview; A wave is a live, shared space on the web where people can discuss & work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, & more; 7 Dec 2010: Google’s Wave communication platform forsaken in August due to lackluster user interest has been repackaged beneath the Apache banner as Wave in a box, a scaled back version offering customers the ability to construct their own Wave servers in an effort to jumpstart the products development. Discussions continue in reference to adding APIs, as well as a Web 2.0 client but the code base remains at Google with the stated goal being integration to the Apache infrastructure in the future & speculation as to vendor naming Novell & firms related to US Navy; Google Shared Spaces helps you use G Wave’s gadgets for collaboration, Create virtual work spaces; ProcessWave brings advantages of collaborative diagram editing from Google Wave to Google+; 24 November 2011: Google Knol, Wave, Friend Connect, Search Timeline, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, Bookmark Lists & Google Gears will all be discontinued in the coming months;                       

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

gotAPI.com Quick API Search                                                                                                   6 October 2006
API [Application Programming Interface]lookup service for PHP & MySQL, Java, HTML & CSS; AJAX search frontend for technical documentation;

GrabIt Described for Noobs (open source tool for accessing content & assembling split files)    5 January 2010

Graph Makers                                                                                                                         14 August 2008
Widgenie graph maker(review) currently limited to uploading Excel or CSV files but will later support graphs from data sources including Google Spreadsheets; 6 types of widgets: Tabular, Animated Line Chart, Animated Bar Chart, Animated Pie Chart, Animated Area Chart & Text Cloud Widget are easy to configure embedded using Javascript; See also Data visualisation & Visualisation tools; Gapminder non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development & achievement of UN Millennium Development Goals by increased use & understanding of statistics & other information about social, economic & environmental development at local, national & global levels;

Graphics2PDF free PDF file creator                                                                                         2 October 2008
loads as many images as you want (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF),drag&drop, Save as PDF, to create one or more PDF documents that will contain your images. The setup weights just 4.2 MB, and works on Windows machines only.

Graphics File Formats Page                                                                                                     5 May 2005

Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict Start using Greasemonkey                       4 May 2008
Firefox add-on lets you change appearance & functionality of most web pages; insert Javascript into display of web pages in your browser. Nothing changes for anyone else, but images, links or text can be added or hidden automatically when you visit a web page that a script has been written for. Developers write scripts to customize or improve the way different websites are experienced; Userscripts.org repository to download & install Greasemonkey scripts;

Grid...computing resources( Zillman Awareness watch, V.7N.4, April 2009)

Groove v3.0 beta                                                                                                                   30 March 2004
virtual office software for teams on a network; access tools,communicate, chat, talk, attend meetings or presentations; customize; 10 basic tools: a) File Sharing b) Project Management c) Discussion Threaded area d) Whiteboard e) Pictures area f) Text chat g) Forms & database h) Meetings Manager i)Document Review l) Group Calendar; co-surfing, live presentations & voice conference facilities; Standard version US$49; Professional version, US$99

Grou.ps social groupware provider integrating tools                                                                25 April 2008
modules: chat, blog aggregation, wikis, talks (forum + mailing list), photo albums, links (bookmarks & news), calendaring, maps, subgroups, people (profiles); Each tool integrates with 3rd party services as well(avoid duplicating information in different places) - sync photo album with flickr; your links module can include del.icio.us bookmarks; your updates can come in via Twitter; customise modules, templates, mobile access & stats package;

GroupSpace 0.2.0(beta version.)                                                                                            4 September 2004
discuss pressing issues, share documents, take polls, engage in decision-makings; support functioning of smaller, informal organizations in civil society

Guidebook: Guide To All Interface GUIs                                                                                2 April 2004
preserves & showcases Graphical User Interfaces used on personal computers; Windows 386 interface elements, System 6 for Mac or major system version;

Guide to Web 2.0 Resources & Tools                                                                                     9 June 2006

Guide to who measures what in online space (AdAge mediaworks)                                          24 October 2011 
ComScore & Nielsen remain  primary trusted planning sources for advertisers & agencies placing ad dollars but Nielsen Quantcast, Hitwise, Compete, Google's Doubleclick have emerged as ich sources of online data;

HackerProof: your guide to PC security                                                                                    25 February 2011

Handle System                                                                                                                      2 March 2003
comprehensive system for assigning, managing, & resolving persistent identifiers (handles) for digital objects,etc; can be used as Uniform Resource Names (URNs)

Handy Password 1.2.0                                                                                                         24 September 2004
storage of encrypted passwords locally on users' home computer; built into Internet Explorer as toolbar; Windows 98+

Hard drive maintenance tips                                                                                                    3 March 2011
SpeedFan temperature monitoring software monitors temperature sensors built into hard drives & other components to warn you of overheating; Avoid damaging vibrations: dont put your computer near dishwashers, photocopiers, stereo speakers & don't move it while the hard drive is spinning; Keep data on hard drive optimally organized by running disc defragmentation software regularly; Bad disk sectors to which data cannot be written crop up eventually on every drive. The read/write head tries several times to use a bad sector before giving up, putting extra stress on the head mechanism and slowing disk operations. Every few months you should scan your hard drive for bad sectors; the Windows scan will block out bad sectors so no futile attempt will be made to use them. To run the scan, click Start / Click Computer / Right-click the drive icon / Click Properties / Select Tools tab / Press "Check now" button; Clean hard drive of old data & applications no longer needed, temporary files created by software installation packages,  anything rarely used that never changes, such as image, audio, & video files. These files can be stored on a flash drive or DVD until they are needed;

Historious individually indexes bookmarked pages                                                                 14 August 2010
search title & content of indexed pages; free, located in the cloud, overview actually improves with quantity; works across browsers by bookmarklet; (free) registration; Google Chrome extension works like bookmarklet; no categories, names, lists; searches page content;

Host Index web hosting directory                                                                                           27 March 2006

Host Your Own Web Services                                                                                                18 January 2009

How To Send Large Files Without Email: Best Services Online                                              16 February 2005

HTML5 mostly about embedded video                                                                                     18 June 2010
is going to make a difference to the browsing experience; pecification adds functionality, interaction,  multimedia to web pages; mostly about embedded video; 10 websites to see what HTML5 is all about;

HTML(Hypertext Markup Language)                                                                                 6 October 2008
Is the Web still the Web?(Beyond HTML e.g. Adobe Makes Flash Searchable); The static HTML document (including plain HTML, CSS, & JavaScript) is largely a thing of the past;  device-neutral AJAX applications assume GUI browser, keyboard & mouse; Google Web Toolkit(GWT) (builds AJAX apps in JAVA) compiles Java applications down to JavaScript code for execution in the browser; Flash or Microsoft Silverlight plug-ins applications don't resemble HTML. They are binary blobs, little different from executable programs built for a desktop OS. You cannot view the underlying code in its raw form. Though Google &  Yahoo may be able to extract text data from those binaries, deep linking to specific items is impossible; 5 exciting things to look forward to in HTML 5; Death to Flash: 3 great HTML 5 demos: audio/video tags & O3D API (3D rendering) provide developers powerful tools for rendering graphics & applications in the browser; Reporters' Roundtable podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash;   

HTML editors                                                                                                                        14 February 2009
Bespin: could your favorite HTML editor live in the Cloud?; Rendur: dynamically preview HTML & CSS; CoffeeCup HTML editor; Ephox EditLive!(top end software solutions for web content authoring); 5July2010: 5 best WYSIWYG HTML editors: Kompozer (Windows/ Mac/Linux, Free), iWeb (Mac, $US99 for iLife bundle), Adobe Dreamweaver (Windows/Mac, $US300), Microsoft Expression Web (Windows, $US125), Flux (Mac, $US75);

HTML to PDF Converter                                                                                                         1 May 2009 

Hubs, switches & routers                                                                                                            18 December 2009

IM: Internet messaging See Instant messaging                                                                                                 

Image editors                                                                                                                         8 June 2006
Phixr free web-based upload images to Flickr, Fotopic, Livejournal, Photobucket, Fotolog.com, Buzznet & Dropshots; nexImage free browser-based image editor integrates current image processing tools directly in web application without plugins, ActiveX or Java VM; word processing tools & integrated file manager allows image files from pre-defined server drive to be opened for processing(access via FTP too) connection; upload image files from URL or hard drive; ImageSquash - upload, resize, change format free; SnipShot - for up to 10 MB, or 5000x5000 pixels, export to Flickr; save as gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif; import pdf(first page only) & eps files; crop, rotate, resize, basic image adjustments free; Online Picture Editing: Free Web-Based Image Editing Tools; Best web-based image & photo editors(Sharewood Guide, Oct'08); Bulk Image Resizer shareware converts JPEG, JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TIFF, PNG with no image size limitations: light & quick photo processing; Aviary online image(& vector) editor, color editor, screen capture tool & audio editor; 5 best online image editors: Sumo Paint, Adobe Photoshop Express, Pixlr, Picnik, Phoenix Aviary(Feb 2010, now free); Google buys online image editing tool - Picnik; MyPaint fullscreen image editor with an unlimited canvas; Aviary free online image-editing, upload images, create effects, screen captures, access 4 applications in your browser; Splashup online photo & image editor can add multiple layers of depth, manipulate color tones, & work with 24 different tools; no need to download anything extra to use the program; files can be saved in a variety of file formats; compatible with all operating systems; What do Hue, Saturation & Luminosity mean in your image editor?;    

ImageEye 7.3 image viewer - rotate, mirror, zoom, adjust contrasts; Windows 95+                  12 January 2007

ImageShack free image hosting                                                                                                 5 May 2005
jpg, bmp, tif, gif, PNG & swf(Flash) format images to 1Mb, unlimited free space, no bandwidth limit on downloads, ImageShack Transloader uploads images from websites; Imageshack-Everywhere facility embedded into Internet Explorer browser sidebar; FAQ;

Information architecture    IA stories  World IA Day                                                           5 February 2012

Instant messaging(IM)                                                                                                            13 June 2007
Meebo in-browser IM program, like AIM Express, which supports multiple services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, & Jabber; Centericq: Text mode multi-protocol (ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu & Jabber protocols) instant messenger connects you to major IM services through simple interface; Windows, Mac & Linux; Wippien full featured client supports major chat protocols, including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, Jabber, & ICQ & has VPN (Virtual Private Network) baked right to manipulate buddies' network shares, printers, desktop; free download; Pidgin open-source client(formerly "Gaim") - communicate with users of AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, other messaging networks; Twitter public instant messenger(IM) network, instant social networking/microblogging - continuous partial presence; XMPP/Jabber protocol for immediate communication & presence awareness of IM clients; Pidgin 2.4.2 open-source messaging application allows users to access multiple IM networks from one window; supports Google Talk, MySpaceIM, Jabber, & Gadu-Gadu; for Windows98, Me, NT, 2000, & XP; BigString multi-protocol IM application single login to IM accounts from different services(AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo & MSN) & integrate contact lists;  free with no registration; register to save usernames & passwords; Zoho Chat 2.0 integrates major instant messaging networks within the company's applications to allow for real-time collaboration with colleagues; IM networks like Yahoo!, Google Chat, MSN/Windows Live, AIM, ICQ, & any network that supports Jabber can be launched from within Zoho online applications except Creator, Share, Invoice, Database & Reports; Multiclient IM tools (Adium for the Mac; Digsby; EBuddy; Meebo; Pidgin; Trillian);

Internet2(US networking consortium)                                                                                          8 September 2005
research & higher ed communities; LC use high performance Abilene Network for National Digital Newspaper Program(historically significant US state & territory newspapers 1836 – 1922) & National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program

Internet-enabled environments                                                                                            4 May 2009
Pachube: building a platform for Internet-enabled Environments - connect, tag & share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings & environments worldwide using Extended Environments Markup Language(EEML) & an EEML Processing library;

Internet FAQ Archives                                                                                                              17 September 2005

Internet guide(UK)                                                                                                                    8 December 2002
html, email, tcp/ip, search engines, security, viruses, browsers,newsgroups,chat programs, file sharing, FTP, Telnet; users forum; common error messages

Internet-how-to's                                                                                                                     27 November 2005

Internet measurement tools                                                                                                    31 December 2011
M-Lab: Measurement Lab open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools to enhance Internet transparency: tools;

Internet messaging(IM)                                                                                                        25 October 2007
Cross network IM service Meebo accesses major IM services; New Meebo IM Add-On For Firefox; SMS language; Translate text messages from Lingo to plain English, or from plain English to lingo; Popular Acronym list; Multi-service IM: Adium (Mac), or Miranda (Windows) handle AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger & GMail accounts simumtaneously; Get RSS Alerts with IM Feeds; IM Collaborator queue, answer, transfer multiple messages from multiple operators; currently supports AOL/AIM protocols; 

Internet of Things where everyday objects become Internet connected via sensors                       10 July 2009
Tweeting House: Twitter + Internet of Things; IBM & The Internet of Things; MQTT(Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) platform-agnostic system can connect networked objects to wider world; messaging protocol for sensor & actuator solutions; Web squared: when Web 2.0 meets Internet of Things; Pachube(pronounced "PATCH-bay") stores & shares real-time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings & environments such as power automation of lighting & alarm systems in your home, Internet of Things; Pachube open source platform enabling developers to connect sensor data to the Web Parts 1: Real-Time Notifications, 2: analysis & 3: business models; Arrayent: low cost turnkey for smartphones & browsers, middleware for companies to connect products to Internet; Everyware: Interview with Adam Greenfield, Part 1; Internet of Things explained: IBM's Smarter Planet team's 5 minute video; Google & Fujitsu amongst 53 member coys of  IPSO Alliance promoting IP for smart object communications; 5 Feb 2011: ThingMagic (acquired by Trimble, a provider of positioning & tracking solutions using technologies like GPS, laser & optical) makes a range of RFID(radio frequency identification) products & 100 uses ThingMagic blog covers industries including healthcare, banking, cycling, prisons, swimming pools; YouTube video, July 2011; 27 Oct 2011: iPhone 4S: Bluetooth 4.0 aka Bluetooth Smart communicates with Bluetooth Smart mark sensor devices such as heart-rate monitors, blood-glucose meters, smart watches, window & door security sensors, car key fobs, & blood-pressure cuffs;

Internet optimizer Speed up your Internet with Auslogics Internet Optimizer or TCP Optimizer 31 December 2011

Internet telephony                                                                                                                8 June 2006
connecting phones via web - transfer credit to Talkety account - 30 free minutes; no installation, system requirements; free registration; see also Skype & Jajah; Peerio; PhoneGnome; IP Telephony Marries The Web: Voice 2.0 - Manifesto For The Future(Dec 2006) ;  Sitòfono enables calls directly on fixed phone, free toll number or automatic responder; yearly fee for unlimited calls worldwide; 399Euro+ VAT toll free number, 499 Euro/fixed line; Jaxtr links to your email signature & friends call without downloading software, incurring international phone charges or registering; control who, when, where & how you can be reached; unlimited voice messages & 100 minutes/month of incoming phone calls; GizmoCall mobile phone or landline world wide free 5 minutes/day; Flash enabled plugin(1 Mb) required; register for 10 minutes/day; dial GoogleTalk, Gizmo Project, Windows Live Messenger, SIP device user, Nokia's N800 tablet & N80 wi-fi mobile phones; Call Out rates are cheaper than traditional phone companies; Review; Skype Beta adds group video chat; 30 Aug 2010: Gmail Phone voice & video chat plug-in uses your computer’s microphone, loudspeaker & video camera to communicate & now extends beyond those having a Gmail account, US users Gmail call anywhere in the world, calls to US & Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year, calls to other countries billed at low rates (see comparison table) with calls to UK, France, Germany, China, Japan as little as $0.02 per minute; 6 Jan 2011:  Vonage VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) service  used by 2.4m customers worldwide (review); 11 May 2011: Using VOIP services for cheaper business telephony;

iPodder 2.0                                                                                                                              22 April 2005
select & download streaming audio programs; compatible with Windows 2000 or XP & Mac OS 10.3+ 

iPhone Apps for Researchers (Freepint Fumsi)                                                                         26 August 2010

IrfanView multi-tool for viewing & editing images on Windows systems(free download)             12 May 2005
Small, fast; most types of media - images, photos, music, video;  photo editor for red-eye removal, color & gamma tweaks, image resizing, format conversions, batch operations-renaming files, applying an image change across a set of files; (10 Nov 2007) IrfanView 4.1
adds a basic drawing palette. This version is compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, & Vista; 18 May 2010: IV improves screenshot, updates plug-ins;

iWebTool Online Internet webtools                                                                                         20 June 2006
webmaster services; Frequently used tools; Forums; Directory; Glossary;