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 & Eurexter; Mojeek 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 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
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 Surfsaver;
Catchtheweb; ContentSaver; HTTrack; Keepoint;
Netsnippets; 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;