HARDWARE, SOFTWARE & TECHNICALITIES -- Internet -- Web services & accessories (J-R)

Jabber: communicating in real time                                                                                              14 April 2005
open, XML-based protocol enables online entities to exchange instant messages, presence, & other structured information in real time;

JAJAH web activated telephony                                                                                               22 June 2006
global VoIP telephony between normal land line & mobile phones - without software download, installation process & headsets; Firefox extension available;

java.sun.com:XML  cross platform environment                                                                     21 December 2002
Sun Microsystems tutorials to learn & program XML; programming exercises; links to resources; Introduction to Programming with Java - Free Book for Beginners; What is Java & do I need it?; Is Javascript the  same as Java?JavaRa: updates & removes old & redundant Java Versions; Java brews up a large pot of malware; 15 Sept 2011: Dash, Google's alternative to JavaScript;

Jing screenshots & screencast grabber for Windows 98+                                                          1 December 2007
free software for Windows and Maqc OS X to add visuals to your presentations; Jing Pro(US$14.95/yr) v Free;

JISC & Information Environment                                                                                             14 May 2005
developing tools & mechanisms for online Information Environment(IE) so online services work together(interoperability) securely to benefit user community; create, adapt & share content & incorporate it into other services such as Virtual Learning Environments(VLEs)

JPEG & PNG stripper removes metadata from images                                                               13 February 2009

JSTOR Launches XML Gateway                                                                                              1 September 2005
facilitates metasearching/federated searching/cross-database searching; JSTOR sandbox: Enhanced PDFs available for JSTOR subscribers have search/ find capability to locate words or phrases; enable copy & paste; work with screen readers such as JAWS for Windows; smaller file sizes are quicker & easier to download; JSTOR/ARTstor Search Prototype;

Jybe                                                                                                                                         30 April 2005
free spyware-free plug-in to IE & Firefox enables you to surf the web with your peers in real-time; FAQ; Forums; CrossLoop

Kaboodle collects, organizes, shares information & receives feedback on that information         13 January 2005

KillSpinners Firefox addon: stop pages from loading forever                                                      18 November 2011

Krugle source code search engine for software developers                                                          13 February 2006
Aragon acquires code search engine Krugle;

LangId free web service to identify language of text you need to analyze                                     23 October 2009

Layers overlaying information(video, images, text) on any web page                                            24 December 2009

LC's Portal specifications                                                                                                         2 October 2003
Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group(LCPAIG) is creating a List of Portal Application Functionalities for the Library of Congress(July 2003).

Learn to TCPIP.com  network operations                                                                               22 November 2003
36-minute audio presentation with slides about Internet protocols(IPs), Network Access Points, connectivity of Internet; slide presentation on Domain Naming System; lectures on specific protocols, Ethernet & network communication, Subnetting & IP addressing;

Legal Issues for Bloggers                                                                                                        7 December 2007

LetsPowwow                                                                                                                         16 February 2006
free Java-based cross-platform screen-sharing software for text chat & co-browsing;  up to 10 users; works on Windows PCs (like GoToMeeting),Linux & Macs; 2 to 30 simultaneously view &/or edit document or file in any format; records & archives meeting sessions; Free for up to 10 users. Pro-versions $50+

Library of Online Technology Articles                                                                                            15 October 2011
created via TechCast forecasting system developed by Professor William E. Halal & associates at George Washington U and George Mason U to forecast which technologies were expanding& to identify these technologies by reviewing academic literature & other publications; list of all articles arranged chronologically includes links to TechCast radio programs such as Virtual Assistant Arrives, Mystery & Power of Light, Can a Green Economy Save the Earth?; Visitors create profile to save articles of note & offer feedback;

Lifestreaming applications See Personal data aggregation & publishing tools
"an online record of a person's daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person's online content such as blog posts, social network updates, & online photos"; Lifestreaming evolves with Storytlr; Bebo(AOL social network) lifestreaming feature allows users to pull updates from Twitter, Flickr, & Delicious, Facebook & Myspace; 'Lifestory' displays updates in a scrollable & zoomable timeline;

LifestreamBackup: Keeping a copy of your posts, tweets, photos, & more                              17 January 2009

Limewire version 2.1.1  search for & share computer files                                                      27 January 2002
log on to Gnutella peer-to-peer network; list of MP3's, digital home movies, documents, other software; chat with LimeWire users; tools for handling downloads from slow servers & bad connections; written in Java to run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun;

Link200 v.3.2.0.2                                                                                                                 26 February 2006
check bookmarks in Firefox, IE, & Netscape & remove those no longer valid; Windows 98+; Donationware

Link checkers  Se also Code editors                                                                                 9 June 2009
DeepTrawl identifies misspellings, broken links, & missing images, pages that load slowly or spammy/offensive comments; Searches can be timed & automated; Licenses  from US$49 to $299; Win/Mac; find broken links free with Xenu's Link Sleuth - review; IsItOld, check if a link is still share-worthy on Twitter;

Link Prefetching FAQ(Mozilla)                                                                                             4 April 2005
Google Enables FireFox Prefetching; can be disabled; Google Releases New Link Reporting Tools for Google Webmaster Central - link: command sample of links to avoid manipulation of rankings; still doesn't show pages contained in Google's supplemental index

Link resolver technology & OpenURL standard                                                                    17 July 2006
OpenURL lets librarians manage all e-holdings in link resolver. With direct linking, local administrator must configure each content provider's links separately; Webmaster Tools: Helping website owners fix broken links

Link savers See 6 great tools to save links for later                                                               3 June 2008
See also Bookmarking tools & Dynamic bookmarking

Linktionary.com: Networking Defined & Hyperlinked                                                            21 December 2003
online dictionary of Internet technologies, networking hardware & protocols, general Web terminology; keyword search or browse alphabetical indexes or topic listings; Encyclopedia of Networking can be freely downloaded

Liveaps: Online Web-Building Software                                                                                 8 February 2008
build web pages on the fly without knowing HTML code; not  template-based; drag-&-drop elements; Free Version offers one page, domain name &
Liveaps toolbar; Pro Version: unlimited pages & 2 GB storage, domain name for site & pages can be set to public or private; copy existing sites & make live;

LoadScout(freeware, Windows only) opens remote archives                                                    18 January 2009
given web or FTP address displays content; browser directories; previews MP3 & AVI files  by starting playback from
remote file;

Load times: practical advice on how to speed up your site(Pingdom Report)                           20 November 2008  

LOCKSS(Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) technology                                                            28 February 2006
open source software for libraries to collect, store, preserve & provide acess to authorized content; CLOCKS(Controlled LOCKSS) initiative, 2006 allowed publishers & librarians to access content in backup nodes & monitor access to broader LOCKSS community; See also CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, SOCKSS, FROCKSS?;

Logmein                                                                                                                                 29 November 2007
LogMeIn Free provides access to a remote PC's screen, desktop, programs, & network resources; RemoteAnywhere security & performance for remote administration workstation US$99 & server/network US$199/yr

MailBigFile free service sending files 1gb- in size to any email address without email programs  9 February 2006
ISP gateways & file size limitations; no software download; files sent are available to the recipient for up to 7 days, or a  maximum of 3 downloads; secure with 128-bit encyption, scanning of for viruses; 

Mail This Page 2.0                                                                                                                 15 December 2002
utility program to email Web pages or HTML files directly from IE; Mail This Page icon within IE toolbar; FAQ section; MS Windows;

Make your own search engine with Yahoo Search Builder                                                      18 September 2006
web search & news search customisable but no site searches; See also Rollyo & EurexterMojeek Personal Search topical or personal search index - 1000 domains in the free version, more for subscribers, add a header & footer to result pages; 

Malware Removal Free Tool From Microsoft                                                                          16 March 2005
See also Malware Help.Org guides for Cleaning & Preventing Malware(Spyware, Adware, Trojans etc.) - symptoms, how to cure & prevent recurrence; Operation Cleanup: complete malware removal guide free MakeUseOf download;

Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access                                                                      14 September 2003

Mashups(web application hybrids)                                                                                           1 August 2006
technologies or services conflated e.g. Retrivr conflates Flickr's image database & an experimental information architecture algorithm for users to search images by  data, not by metadata; by sketching images; WikiBios users create online biographies blending blogs with social networks; See OpenKapow - download free RoboMaker visual scripting tool for point-&-click mashup interface & non-commercial REST, RSS,ATOM or HTML services; ProgrammableWeb; Google Mashup Editor rapid development framework for mashing feeds into Google services using common technologies such as XML, JavaScript, CSS & HTML; Yahoo! Pipes; Mashups: What Are They?  Part 1- Mashup Genres &Technologies; Part 2 - Technical &Social Challenges; Mash Maker: non-techie tool from Intel (free registration); Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8 & the fracturing of Web pages; Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices takes part of a web page to display as a pop-up widget from bookmark bar; Mashery: API  key to a thriving Cloud; Mashups to improve library service; ccMixter samples & remixes that are released under Creative Commons licenses & dig.ccMixter(beta) music discovery: theme music for a podcast, background music for a YouTube video, etc;  

Media monitors                                                                                                                        29 December 2011
CyberAlert Inc worldwide media monitoring service has extended deadline to January 9 for not-for-profit organizations to apply for 2012 PR grants for 1 year of free online news &/or social media monitoring service to a minimum 15 non-profit & philanthropic organizations for 2012. Any type of organization in US or worldwide that provides charitable services is eligible for grant to retail value of US$3000-$4500;

Mendeley: bibliographic software                                                                                            26 August 2010
organize 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

Metadata Extraction Tool                                                                                                       29 March 2008
JPEG & PNG stripper removes metadata from images;

Microblogging - Twitter; Tumblr, Jaiku, Identi.ca  (all searched by Twingly)                          29 December 2009

Microformats: what, how, & why - markup(code) for easier sharing & reuse                              8 November 2009

Microsoft .NET See .NET below

Microsoft Office compatibility pack for Word, Excel, & PowerPoint 2007 file formats            26 September 2010
Open, edit, & save documents, workbooks, & presentations in the Open XML file formats introduced to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, & PowerPoint with Office 2007 & continuing with Office 2010; open Microsoft Office Word 2007 .docx or .docm files with Microsoft Office Word 2003, Word 2002, or Word 2000; You cannot open Office Word 2007 template files that were saved in .dotx or .dotm format; Document element differences in previous versions;

Microsoft Powerpoint See Powerpoint(Microsoft)

Microsoft's TechNet repository of high-level geek talk & tips for enterprise-class IT personnel     18 November 2010
review; Mine ever-cascading layers of links, sublinks, & sub-sub-sublinks without subscribing; TechNet Magazine Tips; TechNet Blogs; TechNet portal to Microsoft's Sysinternals Live site catalogue of tools, tech information, & utilities to diagnose & troubleshoot Windows OS & application issues; launch Sysinternal tools by entering a tool's Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt.eg: http://live.sysinternals.com/{tool name} or \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\{tool name}; Sysinternals Live tool directory;

Microsoft Word tips                                                                                                                23 February 2011
use Shift-F3 to cycle between all caps, all lowercase & all initial caps;

Mind mapping tools                                                                                                             3 January 2008
Mindomo - create & share mind-maps with any PC & browser; free version to store 7 maps & invite as many people as you want to see & edit them. You can also check out other versions; Mind Mapping: best tools to draw your own MindMaps(Sharewood Guide); XMind(Open Source) social brainstorming & Mind mapping - use a fishbone in a spreadsheet, put photos and media files in a mind map, re-use Freemind/MindManager files, drag & drop reorganizing, marking, map-shot & adding attachments; double click creation & editing, write inline notes & record audio notes in meeting minutes; Mindmeister collaborative tool;

Mindsystems ThemeReader                                                                                                   23 February 2007
Convert text-based files into a MindManager Mind for quickly understanding complex documents or 'unlocking' information buried in Word files; 20 formats supported, including Word integration, PDF, HTML Web pages & Word Perfect;

Mouse enhancements                                                                                                          25 October 2008         
AltMove Manager 2.1.4 to minimize & restore windows, grab screenshots, magnify a window; Actions menu; Windows NT+                              

Mozilla Ubiquity                                                                                                                     30 August 2008
command-based interface for locating information on the Web & creating compilations of information from various sources(See Mashups above); extract items from Web pages to insert elsewhere like an e-mail message or a blog post(Google Maps data only at present);

Music player/platforms                                                                                                        5 January 2008
Songbird desktop music player integrated with MP3 blogs for single click downloads; syncronises with iPod; open source, Open Web project built on Mozilla platform; platform for Web media mash-ups; iTunes; Windows Media Player &Windows Media Center; 28 Aug 2010: Rockbox Open Source replacement firmware for MP3 players from Archos, iRiver, Apple (iPod) & iAudio;

Music sharing legally online                                                                                                     30 November 2007
access favorite tracks from 10 buddies with Ezmo & Adobe Flex technology

Naked DSL
broadband connection via phone line without paying line rental for the associated voice service; What to check when considering Naked DSL;  

Natural Language Processing with Python                                                                               28 February 2011
freebook available in pdf gives a useful introduction to NLP based on Python programming language together with an open source, freely downloadable, library called the Natural Language Toolkit(NLTK) with extensive software, data, & documentation;

.NET                                                                                                                                    7 December 2009
Microsoft .NET software framework for installation on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems with a library of coded solutions to common programming problems & a virtual machine to manage execution of programs written specifically for framework

NetMeter                                                                                                                             28 August 2006
free program to monitor your upload & download traffic, total your usage by day, week & month. If  using a capped service you can set up a volume alert triggered when traffic over your connection approaches 'danger zone'; only works on single PCs;

Network Probe 0.5                                                                                                             23 August 2003
free network monitor & protocol analyzer; identify & isolate traffic problems & congestion; filter out selected protocols & hosts, sort out network traffic by number of bytes sent or received; Windows NT+

NewOCR.com free online Optical Character Recognition                                                   24 December 2009
no registration, unlimited uploads, layout analysis(multicolumn text recognition), support for 29 languages; JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, multipage TIFF, multipage PDF to 20 Mb; Download as text file or Word document;

Newsgroup alt.internet.research Informal discussion of new protocols/technologies                2 November 2005

Newsreaders                                                                                                                       12 September 2006
Xnews & Agent, NewsLeecher & NewsBin Pro; GrabIt: described for Noobs open source newsreader for accessing content & assembling split files - getting files from Usenet is more difficult than from P2P programs. Large files must be split over multiple posts due to technical limitations; supports multiple servers, concurrent server connections, & SSL encryption; tweak advanced settings such as article cache size & error handling in the preferences window; free, paid subscription service allows you to search articles without downloading bandwidth-consuming headers. The program functions fully without this subscription;

Newsreaders for Mobile devices                                                                                            4 February 2012
Pulse News application designed for iPhone, Android, & other mobile devices uses colorful panning story bars populated with content from sources (such as CNN, BBC, ...) selected by user; sign up for a free account; FAQ;

New standard gives web a voice - ZDNet: Enterprise                                                            1 August 2001
brainchild of AT&T, IBM, Lucent Technologies & Motorola, VoiceXML aims to control a Web browser with a telephone.

New WWW FAQs                                                                                                                 26 October 2003

Non commercial databases(a list)  & 25+ Alternative & Open Source Database Engines                16 February 2010
OpenQM - multivalue database available as a fully supported commercial product & open source under General Public Licence; commercial version available on Windows, Linux (Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu), FreeBSD, Mac OS X & Windows Mobile; Redis - advanced key-value store similar to memcached but dataset isnt volatile & values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, & ordered sets; All data types can be manipulated with atomic operations to push/pop elements, add/remove elements, perform server side union, intersection, difference between sets; supports different sorting abilities; written in ANSI C, works in most POSIX systems like Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris; free software released under BSD license; compiles & works under WIN32 if compiled with Cygwin but no official support for Windows; Riak - decentralized key-value store, flexible map/reduce engine, HTTP/JSON query interface; Scalien - a startup developing open-source, cutting-edge distributed systems;

Notlong's wrapup of short link generators                                                                                 31 July 2003
short link generators - default links, expiration, statistics & custom links; API availability, languages being checked; see also TinyURL

Nsyght real time consolidation of social networking services                                                          5 April 2010
collects, organizes, filters & searches information from Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Vimeo, Stumbleupon, Flickr, Last.fm, & Delicious; retweet or share on other social services; updates posted in real time, view videos & images inline, email notified replies to you, keep track of discussions among  friends & see replies in threaded form;

Nua Internet surveys by category                                                                                               3 December 2002
freely accessible information collated; weekly editorial articles; Russian, German, Greek, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, Spanish trnaslations;

Numbler web-based spreadsheet editor                                                                                     10 August 2006
free online collaboration with multiple users; view changes in real time & discuss changes; full size sheets & 256 x 65536 cells. Free

OCR See NewOCR.com  & FreeOCR V3.0 above

oEmbed: An Open Format for Embedding Media                                                                      11 May 2008
allows web sites to quickly & easily embed media when a user posts a link directly to that resource; open format standardizes process of embedding photos, videos, links, or other media & circumvents media provider's API (or need for screen scraping if not offered); works by turning a link to, say, a photo or video into XML or JSON that tells the user how to embed that media; a format for allowing embedded representation of a URL on third party sites; simple API allows website to display embedded content when a user posts a link to that resource without having to parse the resource directly;

Online Collaboration Tools See Screensharing technology & Post-processing tools (below) & Collaboration Tools & Resources
del.icio.us & furl - show your bookmarks, Gibeo select people you want to see them; Skrbl whiteboard; create room & give URL to collaborators to write, read & edit, copy notes & images from anywhere & paste them; privacy feature; Register to archive session; Gliffy draw & share diagrams on the Web; Online Collaboration Technologies - New Tools & Web Services - Sharewood Picnic Feb03 08: Instant  messaging, share audio, video & photos, create a chatroom, file sharing service; TextFlow collaborative document editor & back-end file storage Adobe AIR application differs from competitors such as EtherPad & Google Docs in that you can invite people to edit online in their own view of the document & push changes back to the master document (this isn't live collaboration), Collaborators work on a web-based version of TextFlow that just supports editing the current document; Best online collaboration tools map 2009 - 200+ free or low-cost collaboration tools from chat to video-conferencing & from collaborative writing to workgrouping & file sharing; Online collaboration tools guide, Apr 09; Factual making data accountable: platform for sharing & mashing open data on any subject, an open data repository with collaborative tools, data accountability sorcing & improvement;

Online Collaboration Tools: Cost-Effective Solutions For Online Teachers                                  26 April 2007
Collaborative writing tools, Screensharing Tools & Technology, Whiteboarding Tools & Technology, Web Presentation Tools & Technologies, Instant Messaging Tools & Technology, Online Video Publishing & Sharing For Learning & Collaboration; Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies & Web Services - Sharewood Picnic(Mar24 08); Apr07 08; Apr21 08; Information/Document Sharing;

Online-ConVert  Audio, Video, Images.... free (review)                                                           8 August 2010
supports conversions including obscure formats often overlooked by other web-based converters; supports both file upload & URLs; each conversion generates QR code to can scan with your mobile phone & download the file; 

Online Guide to Best Web Conferencing & Live Presentation Tools                                           9 February 2004
comparing & reviewing 23+ tools for online collaboration & webconferencing; free try-out of four full reviews plus Overview of other technology reviewed

OnlineOCR converts scanned documents to editable text  free                                                  14    October 2009
Recognize text & characters from PDF, TIFF, JPG & other image files as well as a ZIP scanned documents, photographs & digital camera captured images; allows users to select 28 languages to recognize multilingual documents; Convert OCR results directly to formats including Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Rtf, Html & Txt; Converted documents look exactly like the original - tables, columns, bullets & graphics; free account can upload documents 20MB in size(1 Mb for visitors) & 5+pages;

Online Picture Editing: Free Web-Based Image Editing Tools See also Image editing               23 February 2007

Online Virtual Worlds: A Mini-Guide                                                                                        12 April 2007
nowadays equipped with social networking facilities & online collaboration tools (integrating blogs, personal homepages & sometimes VoIP), which transformed them into highly valuable tools for e-learning & distance collaboration;

Ontology editors                                                                                                                        8 June 2009
free, open source ontology editor Protégé & knowledge-base framework can develop an ontology using graphic representations rather than elaborate markups; the editor comes with additional tools to visualize the ontology or test it for consistency; Web-based tools such as Semantic MediaWiki along with the extension Halo enable one to place documents on the Web which have been marked up using a specified ontology;

ooVoo 1.7.1.35 video conferencing & chat tool                                                                          9 August 2008
allows users to record video discussions & conversations; enhanced-resolution video chat feature now supports social networking sites; Windows 2000, XP, & Vista

OpenCalais(OC) free service from Thomson Reuters                                                                  6 November 2009
uses semantic technology & natural language processing to analyze text & add metadata by drawing out entities from documents, blog posts, news stories; in some cases this data can help identify relationships between people, businesses, etc

OpenDEN (Marcus P Zillman) Free Open Source software;                                                         8 July 2006

OpenDNS tricks to surf safely                                                                                                      9 July 2009

OpenID decentralised single sign-on(SSO) system                                                                       26 September 2007
40m France Telcom Customers; SpreadOpenID.org learn & choose an OpenID provider; Provider comparison -established URI's are AOL/AIM: openid.aol.com/screenname; Bloglines: d.bloglines.com/username; LiveDoor: profile.livedoor.com/username; Orange France: id.orange.fr; SmugMug: username.smugmug.com; Technorati: technorati.com/people/technorati/username; WordPress.com: username.wordpress.com; Ziki: my.ziki.com/username; (7 Feb 08)Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign & Yahoo! become corporate board members; OpenID 2.0 spec recently finalized; OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting  & Using Your OpenID; MyOpenID for Your Domain - The Easiest Way to Use Your URL as an OpenID; Set up OpenID on your domain;

Open Internet: Google & Verizon Announce Joint Proposal- Press Review Plus 1, 2,                   12 August 2010

Open Source Portals(Enterprise Portals)                                                                             31 August 2006
Jboss Portal(open source application server acquired by Red Hat(Linux) middleware(not application ware) architecture for dynamic content delivery on intranet & website; PortletSwap online gathering place for Jboss Portal developers to publish & share portlets, themes & layouts; Liferay open source portal lacks integration with important information-worker tools such as MS Office & Lotus Notes in version 4 later in 2006; Plone based on widely tested Zope application platform for customized applications ranging from corporate brochure websites to ecommerce portals. Specialises in community-oriented sites using Plone's collaborative workspace, interaction facilities & knowledge base. Other open source portals include eXo, Magnolia, ApacheJetSpeed; See also FOSS: Free & open source software, also F/OSS, FOSS, or FLOSS (free/libre/open source software); 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;

OpenTalkLive 3.17 free                                                                                                           20 January 2007
allows users to talk with up to 100 people; OK for videoconferencing; Windows 98+

OPML specification   OPML 2.0 draft specification (Outline Processor Markup Language)      24 November 2006
XML-based format for exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems & environments; sharing outlines  which can consist of RSS feeds, links, audio & video files, & text; OPML Compendium;

Optical Character Recognition  See NewOCR.com above & Evernote 3.5.1.1410

OWL web ontology Language                                                                                           8 June 2009
used to mark up semantic role of a section of text in a standard form that indicates to the machine what part the linguistic information plays in the knowledge representation of the firm; supports logical properties such as conjunction, inference & negation; markups ascribe additional properties or functionality beyond the text itself.

P2P file sharing tools                                                                                                              16 February 2005
Grouper, TrustyFiles or Groove, iCollaborate, QNext See also How To Send Large Files Without Email: Best Services Online; Blubster makes music files(mp3, OGG) available to users via decentralized-online Hot List of friends, built-in browser & media player - music- only service to download files using UDP transport protocol on MP2P(MANOLITO P2P) protocol speeds file transfers by selecting fastest source, allows users to specify bitrate & file sizes, enables downloads from multiple machines simultaneously; some universities have fears of spyware, inability to uninstall, resulting network instability; FAROO distributed P2P real time search: distributed Index, distributed Crawler, distributed Ranking, P2P scales with Internet growth, no hardware or operational cost; FilesOverMiles browser to browser file sharing(PTP);

PACmeter - Popularity, Authority, Credibility Online: How To Measure Them?                            11 August 2004

Page Information Viewer(Fagan Finder)                                                                                       4 January 2003
information about web page, similar pages, translations, backlinks, cached copies

Page monitors, etc.                                                                                                                    2 April 2004
Watchthatpage & Wisdomchange let you monitor unlimited pages free; more sophisticated options include Copernic Tracker & Website Watcher client side application for Windows; see summary of a selection of page monitors, ChangeDetect above & Trackle; Xpulse free website monitoring; desktop program Website Watcher; See also Alert services; PubSub finds, monitors blogs & web feeds free; monitor newsgroups & US financial filings; Link Ranks page tells which domains discussed in blog & web feeds; TrackEngine; Google Reader page- monitoring feature monitors pages with or without RSS feeds; Monitoring Web Page Changes; Page2RSS, Google Reader & ChangeDetection.com; 25 Dec 2011: Monitor just about any webpage for changes with Diphur;

PagePainter: web page color scheme editor test  color combinations on Web pages or prototypes  3 July 2004

PageRank viewer(iWebTool)                                                                                                         20 June 2006
adds PR-bars to web page links, marks external links EX, & nofollow links with a red X; See also Ranking Search Results

PalmSource PDA New Expert Guides                                                                                            30 July 2004
55 guides for eBooks, Geocaching, Languages, Scouting, Anesthesiology, Pilot, Weblogging; an overview, recommended software packages (with screen shots), e-books; software recommendations for professionals vs. layfolks

Password managers                                                                                                                       28 August 2010
LockMagic 6.0 allows users to access & share encrypted files using email addresses; Windows XP+;

PdfMeNot: a nicer way of linking to PDF files                                                                                 14 February 2008
creates a Flash display of any PDF document! No need to download the document & launch another application to view - convert PDFs by upload, URL, bookmarklet or a script entered into a website's page if you're the publisher; PDF Rider manipulates PDF documents;

PDFmyURL generates PDFs from any web address                                                                         19 January 2010

PDFpen(Mac) application helps you fill out & sign PDFs without printing                                        8 December 2010
No more print, sign, scan, then email; free demo but all PDFs saved with trial are waterstamped; $US60 versionallows removal of waterstamp; scribble your signature with mouse or drag in a scanned signature image;

Peekko                                                                                                                                            7 Septembetr 2006
chat with others viewing same site in Firefox; connects to chat server when Firefox loads; queries server for channel based on website you are viewing; join that channel & chat; free download;

PeerGuardian firewall application                                                                                                    10 January 2005
P2P users protect computers from unauthorized searches by private agencies & corporations; blocking & logging TCP/IP connections to/from known IP ranges of known P2P foes such as RIAA, MPAA, MediaForce, MediaDefender, BaySTP, Ranger, OverPeer, NetPD; on-line block-list database updated daily;  compatible with all TCP/IP based file sharing applications, such as Kazaa, iMesh, LimeWire, eMule, Grokster, DC++, Shareaza;  no advertising, registration, & no information collected from or about product users; free

Peer to Peer Networks                                                                                                                   16 March 2005
Kazaa & Gnutella downloading & swapping MP3 music files; BitTorrent & eDonkey for video; wired & wireless devices forthcoming; Grokster free & pro versions; Streamcast advanced icecast & shoutcast mp3 streamer supports requests, ID3 tags, mountpoints, & re- encoding; add requests via console; manage playlists over telnet; administration console designed for interfacing front-ends; See also P2P file sharing tools(above); Peer to peer resources(Zillman, VirtualPrivateLibrary, Jan'09; Jan 2011); True P2P file sharing via Twitter: FileTwt

PeopleBrowsr: a visual dashboard for online identities                                                                         5 December 2008
update networks, follow friends, organize favorites, search for content across networks that include Twitter, flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Digg, Seesmic, identi.ca, Photobucket, upcoming, & FriendFeed;

People on Page 1.1  (POP)                                                                                                               11 May 2003
small application - see who is surfing the same Web pages; customize; add photos, profile; list Web sites frequented by other POP users; Win  98+

Persistent Identification of Electronic Documents & Future of Footnotes[Law Library Journal]             21 November 2005
Persistent Uniform Resource Locators See PURL(below); Persistent Identifiers: Considering Options;

Personal information managers  See also Data handling                                                               12 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);

Photo Sharing: New Digital Photo Tools                                                                                              1 February 2007
See also Picasa 2.7 application to organize photos, share through email & web, add different effects; glossary of terms & lates updates & fixes; Windows 2000+;

Photoshop Express (Adobe) online photo editor                                                                                  29 March 2008
Adobe’s free desktop software business with
2 gigabytes of storage needs Flash Player 9; review & gallery of screen shots; See also Free alternatives to Photoshop with all bells, whistles, filters, & layers;

Photosynth Technology Preview                                                                                                        9 December 2006
analyzes collection of photos of place or object for similarities, puts them in a 3D space showing inter-relationships;

Picasa 3.0  11 Jul 2011: To be renamed Google Pictures;                                                                26 November 2008
photo management application  includes editing tools, red-eye corrector, Share button which uploads photos online & emails them; Windows XP or Vista; Picasa Album Downloader: snags entire albums in a few clicks;

Picture perfect: set up your own photoblog (MakeUseOf.com manual)                                                21 May 2011                                                                                      

PimpFish browser toolbar to save pics, movies, etc.from webpages                                                    6 April 2006
Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media & embedded videos; download manager features thumbnail viewer, statistics, gallery shortcuts & SLAPfiles integration; password management for protected websites & bulletin boards; Free download; Win/IE & Firefox beta version; .

Pingdom Tools                                                                                                                                  20 November 2008
Ping & Traceroute distributed network tools available directly from browser give outside view of network response time & network topology helping track down possible errors; Full page test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash & frames/iframes) mimicing the way a page is loaded in a web browser; Pingdom offers free website monitoring all features of paid accountse limited to monitoring just one website or server& up to 20 SMS alerts/month; 20 November 2008: Improve web pages load times: practical advice on how to speed up your site(Pingdom Report);

Pixelpipe: Post Anything, Anywhere (content distribution gateway)                                                   18 January 2009
audio & video files, photos, text messages, most types of documents; plugins for most desktop applications for Mac, Llinux, & Windows PCs; video & photo sharing sites include Youtube, Vimeo, kyte, SmugMug, flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Photobucket, & most blogging platforms; share PDF with Twitter friends by emailing your Pixelpipe address; Pixelpipe Media Uploader 1.0 (Firefox extension) add-on to upload social media by drag-&-drop or selecting; sign in with Pixelpipe account & authorize it to work in Firefox;

Pixoh free online image editing tool                                                                                                    30 March 2006
open, resize, crop, rotate & alter image adjustments like brightness or contrast; edit images on hard disk or a specific URL; import images from any web site, including Flickr, export & save any image to GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, PDF, or TIF; unlimited undo & redo function; 

PIXresizer - Free Image Resizer                                                                                                        21 August 2006
different resizing methods; automatically recognize image sizes to calculate best fit; convert between formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG & TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale & resize multiple images in batch mode;

podmailing.com(updated beta)                                                                                                           23 February 2007
12Mb application for sharing podcasts & large files; Files up to 2Gb sent express mode are hosted briefly on Amazon.com server; others sent using p2p as an attachment(.zed file); PC’s & Mac’s;

Plain-Text Capture create & edit plain text from anywhere (desktop/tablet/phone)                            13 July 2010
Simplenote (review);

Planhacker: complete Australian naked DSL guide broadband connection(ADSL2+) without phone service   3 July 2010                                                                           

Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) applications   See Web publishing platforms                                 1 January 2009

Polls Online                                                                                                                                      4 January 2007
Vizu creates free online polls, post results, analyzes data; shared through email, IM, RSS, blogs, or Web sites; view results by age, location & gender;

Portals (Gateways)  See also Start Pages

PortForward.com                                                                                                                               13 January 2007
configure router or firewall for Peer-to-Peer file sharing(PtoP), Internet Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo & MS Messenger; detailed walkthroughs, Help & FAQ;

Port numbers                                                                                                                                       15 October 2003

Port Scan                                                                                                                                            20 November 2005
TCP/UDP port scan; TCP(full connect) scan first; maximum test duration is 60 seconds for both; Firewall software/hardware may exceed time limit & terminate;

Post-processing tools See also Online Collaboration Tools  & Screensharing technology         3 December 2004
store, organize, present research with Onfolio; AskSam's SurfsaverCatchthewebContentSaverHTTrackKeepointNetsnippets; Spresent to create & edit Flash presentations online, email or publish, use advanced vector graphics animation based on Flash, create headlines, lists, charts & tables; free;

POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Resources) W3C Recommendation                                    2 July 2010
specifies a protocol for publishing metadata about Web resources using RDF, OWL, & HTTP; supersedes previous W3C specification PICS(Platform for Internet Content Selection);

Powerpoint(Microsoft) 4 best free alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint                                    18 December 2010
Google Docs Presentation, SlideRocket, 280 Slides, Prezi, Try Spresent: Online Flash Presentation Builder also; Prezi vs Powerpoint(Classroom201X);

Presentation Technologies                                                                                                                   13 September 2007
Vcasmo(video broadcast promotion) delivery platform integrates PowerPoint with video;

Printing Over the Internet   share a printer online; print directly to the office printer                                 26 September 2007 

Print to File: capture in a file, exactly what WOULD appear on the printed page(preserve formatting)     21 October 2009

Privacy & security resources & sites (Zillman; Awareness watch; V6N5)                                             1 May 2008

Privacy Software! - Panicware                                                                                                               20 July 2001
Surf Pal browser add-on works directly in IE 5.x; one-click cleaning, pop-up window control; .Pop-up Stopper by Panicware; free

Processors 5 reasons why Intel is being pushed against the wall by AMD                                                3 September 2011
AMD newly released APUs(Accelerated Processing Unit) reignite battle with Intel; An APU is a combination of CPU & GPU on a single chip roughly the same size as any CPU & including more controllers so that Northbridge chip on a motherboard is not needed;

Prodigem                                                                                                                                            15 April 2005
uses BitTorrent protocol to upload large files; Prodigem Marketplace online (P2P) distribution service for 1Gigabyte+ files such as digital recordings or  DVD;  producers & artists sell/deliver content online efficiently & digital rights management(DRM)-free;

Program installation                                                                                                                                15 January 2012
Just pick your apps & click Get Installer. Ninite does the rest — fully automatic; See also Ninite updater starts at just US$9.99/year on a single machine;

ProgrammableWeb Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups & new Web 2.0 APIs                24 September 2006

Protect Intellectual Property Act(PIPA) See Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA)

Proxify® anonymous proxy service                                                                                                        11 August 2009
hides your IP address & encrypted connection prevents monitoring of your network traffic; useful for fleeting & hard to fathom access problems resulting from your IP, modem or PC; free access,  subscriber  access to special features;

Proxy Bench: proxy diagnostic tools                                                                                                     4 September 2003
$199/half-year subscription; SOCK & HTTP proxy lists & checkers; articles; bulk email resources; open relays

Public Proxy Servers                                                                                                                            15 September 2005
data encryption & tunneling service protection from unwanted intrusions for http, news, mail, & especially vulnerable IRC & ICQ;

PubSub Web Monitoring Service                                                                                                           26 April 2005
50000+ Internet newsgroups; SEC(Edgar) filings, press releases from wire services, FAA airport delay alerts; compatible with Internet delivery systems - email, SMS/PDA/mobile devices, IM networks; results in browser, RSS/Atom newsreader, alerts in PubSub IM sidebar; See Web monitoring services; PubSub Government select pre-built subscriptions to updated stream of news & comment about government officials & committees from PubSub sources; PubSub: community lists Law List, PR List, Librarian List, Fashion List; .

PURLs: Persistent Uniform Resource Locators  PURL FAQ                                                                13 July 2007

QR Codes Infographic; ZBar: brings barcode & QR code scanning to your desktop                            29 November 2010
2 Apr 2011:
Create QR Codes on Wolfram|Alpha:  type in “QR code” in addition to informationto be coded; encode up to 7 KB of data, including phone numbers, email addresses, URLs, or just plain text;

QuestionForm web application for creating, publishing & analysing online surveys & forms                    9 May 2007.

Qunu community                                                                                                                                 23 June 2006
real time support for tech-related issues connecting with experts; requests through IM client software; free, no registration;

Readability browser addon extracts essential text for easier reading/printing, removes clutter                1 January 2010

Real time news aggregators                                                                                                          17 October 2009
Thoora indexes stories from web & categorizes in 25 verticals including science, technology, video games, mobile, world politics & television; Unlike Techmeme it also provides an open analysis of real-time trackbacks; aggregates interesting posts from a variety of different verticals in a Digg-like news dashboard displaying reactions(number of news stories, blog posts, tweets & comments linked to story);

Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 1; Part 2; Part 3                                                                            30 August 2009
See also WordPress blogs Real-Time with RSSCloud

RDF(Resource Description Framework) triples make web connections                                              23 Septmber 2010

reCAPTCHA                                                                                                                                    29 April 2008
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers & Humans Apart(CAPTCHA) - boxes on websites where you type in characters you see before you progress; site is trying to digitise books, one word at a time & can reduce spam you get from your site or in email; 60m+ CAPTCHAs solved/day by people worldwide;  reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into digitizing books from Internet Archive. When you solve a reCAPTCHA you decipher a word that was not readable by computers; (17 Sept 09) Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA;

Reference manager software(Wikipedia) eg Zotero                                                                                 12 October 2011

Reference resources about the World Wide Web(September 08 V6N9 Awareness Watch Newsletter) 27 August 2008

Registries: the intelligence in the network (Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog: On libraries, services & networks)2 October 2008

Relational databases See also Is the Relational Database doomed?                                                          14 February 2009

Remote access to your PC  See Logmein above & Run your PC from afar — securely & easily          20 December 2007

Rendur: dynamically preview HTML & CSS                                                                                          17 February 2009

ResearcherID.com web environment (Thomson Scientific)
digital calling card for personal homepage, CV or institutional website links to a personal workspace that automatically updates citation data,  user generated tags & keywords & professional info to share or keep for personal monitoring, personal profile management;

Resizing images  3 Quick apps for resizing images on the fly                                                                   21 September 2008

Rich Internet applications(RIA)                                                                                                                 12 June 2007
Web applications with features & functionality of traditional desktop applications typically transfer processing necessary for user interface to Web client but keep  bulk of data(i.e. maintaining state of program, data etc) on application server; RIAs typically run in a Web browser, or do not require software installation; run locally in a secure environment called a sandbox; can be occasionally connected between hot-spots or from office to office;

RightSignature: sign away...with your mouse                                                                                              22 October 2009

Robots.txt protocol: a common standard  from Microsoft, Yahoo & Google                                               3 August 2008
30 Nov 2010: Google has published in-depth Robots.txt specifications; Bot sites resources & research(Zillmann, Awareness watch V.9No.1, Jan 2011);

Rogue/Suspect Antispyware Products                                                                                                       25 March 2005

Roundcube AJAX-powered e-mail client                                                                                                   27 October 2005
allows Gmail-like access to webmail, delivers contact list, message filters, folders, attachmentsc; supports as-you-type address-suggestion, customizable skins, multi- lingual capabilities; IMAP client includes MIME support written in PHP with MySQL & functions with web standards including XHTML & CSS; GNU General Public License; available free in Alpha;

Route tracing                                                                                                                                          9 August 2006
VisualRoute server with Sun's free Java tool - type in web address, click on Start Trace, for route your datagram[s] takes from your computer to destination; for Windows 1998 - 2003; free 15 day trial; Old School Traceroute(without Java) - In Windows 2000 or XP: 1. Go to Start > Run; 2. In the Open: box key in CMD & click OK button; 3. Type (for example) TRACERT WWW.VATICAN.VA then press Enter key on your keyboard;

Routers                                                                                                                                                      12 August 2009
How to secure your router;
Hubs, switches & routers; Router troubleshooting;