Compiled by Cathy Rodriguez (cathyr@ksu.edu)
Productivity
Slick Run - a utility
that allows you to quickly launch any program or
website by configuring a magic word and launching
the program or website with that word. For example,
instead of having to open a web browser, then type
in the url to your favorite site, you could setup
a magic word that will launch it. Then you simply
type the word at the slick run command prompt.
- Website: http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
- Cost: FREE
- A few features:
- Pre-defined
magic words (editable)
- Create
new magic words
- Customize
appearance and positioning
- Import
other magic word
packs
- Jot – allows you
to keep short notes by dragging
and dropping text from any
program. SlickRun automatically
saves the content of jot
Stickies – an electronic
sticky note
- Website: http://www.btinternet.com/~tom.revell/
- Cost:
FREE
- A
few
features (copied from website):
- Once
on
screen,
stickies will remain where
placed
until
closed, even through reboots
Stickies
appearance
can
be customized; fonts, colours and
buttons may be changed, and styles
saved.
- Stickies
can be
resized horizontally.
- Languages
other than
English for
the interface
are also supported.
- Stickies
can be
transferred from
one machine to
another
either over
a TCP/IP network
connection, or
by using
a SMTP mail server.
- Hierarchical
friends list,
which may
be automatically
transferred
from other
friends
- WAV
file play/PC
speaker beep
on receive
- Signature
for transmitted
or emailed
stickies
- Favorite
friends can
be chosen
- Stickies
can be
hidden (sent
to sleep!)
for a certain
period, until
a specified
date
and
time, or to
wake every
day, week
or
month, to
act as reminders
Trillin - chat software
- Website: http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
- Cost: FREE
- A few features:
- Connects to
5 major chat networks (AIM,
ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC)
- Simultaneous
connections, even
on the same network
- Customizable
appearance
- Archive
chat sessions
- Organize
chat windows
into
containers
- Chat
securely using SecureIM
- Mail
notification
for your chat accounts
Open
Office – multi-platform
office suite
- Website:
www.openoffice.org
Web
Surfing
Mozilla -
multi-platform web browser
- Website: http://www.mozilla.org
- Cost: FREE
- A FEW features
as stated by a satisfied user on campus:
- Standards
compliant web browser,
works on 95%+ of web pages
I’ve
tried
Built
in great mail client, Mozilla
Mail it's all I use
- Full
support for IMAP, POP, multiple
accounts
- Message
filtering into folders
- Built
in Bayesian spam filter
learns as you use it
Built in WYSIWYG
HTML editor & IRC
client;
- Tools
I use with Mozilla
that I find
make web life
better:
- Bookmarklets – tools
that extend the surf
and search capabilities
of Netscape and Explorer
web
browsers.
- Websites:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
(note that
some of the
bookmarklets
are also available
for IE).
http://www.bookmarklets.com
- Cost:
Free
- Features:
- Modify
the
way
you
see
someone
else’s
webpage
- Extract
data
from
a
webpage
- Search
more
quickly,
and
in
ways
not
possible
with
a
search
engine
Navigate
in
new
ways.
- Recommended
Bookmarklets
- For
Web
Developers:
- Dev > edit
styles
(Edit
CSS
on
the
fly)
- Dev > show blocks (See the
structure
of page)
- For
Web
Surfers
- Forms > enlarge
textareas
(makes
textareas
bigger)
- Forms > character
count
(shows
num
chars
in
fields)
- Misc > increment/decrement
- Many
others,
see
Forms & Misc
bookmarklets
- DevEdge
sidebar,
handy
reference
on
HTML,
CSS,
DOM,
Javascript
- Website:
htp://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/sidebars/
- Cost:
Free
- PrefBar,
handy for all
sorts
of
things Customizable!
- Website:
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
- Cost:
Free
- Features:
- Lets
you toggle images,
java, js,
cookies, referrer
- Can
clear browser
cache,
history, cookies
with "clear
all
- Handy "Resize 640x480" & other
resolutions
buttons
- Can
change User
Agent
with
a drop down
box
and
more, use
the "Customize" button
to find all
options
- Mouse
Gestures some
like
em, some
don't.. I
do.
- Website:
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures
- Cost:
Free
- Features:
- Resize
images with
a gesture,
navigate
pages, & more
- Tabbed
browsing everyone
should
try
it
standard
feature of Mozilla,
but
it's best when
config'd
- Edit
Menu > Preferences > Navigator > Tabbed
Browsing
- Check "Load
links in background" Check
both options
under "Open
tabs instead
of windows
for..." section.
Now
when
you
middle/wheel
click
links,
it opens
them
in
the background
in a
new
tab.
Once
you try
it,
you'll
never
go
back!
- For
you keyboard
users, use
Ctrl >pgup/pgdown
to navigate tabs.
Text
Editors
- TextPad
- Website:
http://www.textpad.com
- Cost:
Free
- NoteTab -
NoteTab
Light is
the
ultimate
free
Notepad replacement
and
a capable
HTML editor.
A slimmer
version
of the award-winning
NoteTab
Pro, this
slick application
makes
text
editing
a breeze. Move
quickly
around
a stack
of large files
with
a simple tabbed
interface.
Format your
text to your
heart's
content.
Write
with the font of
your choice,
fixed-width
or proportional.
- Website:
http://notetab.com/ntl.php
- COST: Free
Graphics
GIMP:
photo retouching,
image
composition
and image
authoring
- Website:
http://www.gimp.org/
- Cost:
Free.
Screen
Capture Utilities
- Hypersnap – iTAC
has a volume
purchase.
- Website:
http://www.ksu.edu/itac/training/hypersnap/description.htm
- Cost:
Free
while
supplies
last.
- MWsnap3
- Website:
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/index.html
- Cost:
FREE
Security
- Agnitum Outpost Firewall (home use)
- Website: http://agnitum.com
- Adaware - will provide the user with the
confidence to surf the Internet
knowing that their privacy will
remain intact. Let Ad-aware protect
your
privacy.
- Website:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Operating Environments
- CYGWin – linux-like environment for
windows.
- Xxcopy - http://www.xxcopy.com/#summary
Palm Pilots
- YAPS – Yet Another
Password Safe for Palm Pilots
- Website: http://www.msbsoftware.ch/yaps.html
Websites
HTML Techniques for Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
- Good website
for referring to HTML specifics
on accessibility.
- Website:http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
W3Schools
- great resource of free web
building tutorials
- Website: http://www.w3schools.com/
InfoTech Tuesday
- Covers IT news at K State
plus interesting technology
tools.
- Website: http://www.ksu.edu/InfoTech/news/tuesday/
Restrict access to webpages
on K State's central website.
- Webpages can be
set up to require an eID/password,
or limited by IP addresses (and limited to only K
State IP addresses).
- Website: http://www.ksu.edu/tools/restrict-access/
Search Engine for departments on K State's central
website
- The search engine's really cool
feature is that it can
restrict searches to just your
unit's webpages. (It doesn't cover most departmental
servers.)
- Website: http://search.ksu.edu/
K State's Message Manager
- Lets you retrieve voice mail
messages via a PC, which
saves tremendous amounts of time!
- Website: http://www.telecom.ksu.edu/voice/messmanager.html
IT Index
- Povides links to a lot
of IT resources, services,
and contacts at K State.
- Website: http://www.ksu.edu/InfoTech/services/
K State's Samba server.
- Allows directory space on K State's central website
to be linked just like another computer drive, so
files can easily be accessed and updated.
OneLook Dictionary Search
- OneLook is a handy way to find words, spellings,
and capitalizations, especially
computing related terms. OneLook searches "more than 5 million
words in more than 900 online dictionaries".
- Website http://www.onelook.com/