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/