IL Day 1 – Cool Tools for Webmasters
2007 November 1
Communicating Ideas
- Sketchcast
- JingProject
- mini-screencasts, just in time demos
- www.screencasts.com
- picnik
- online photo editor
- Firefox and IE extension
- capture full page even if it scrolls off the screen
- send things through to other sites like Flickr
- online photo editor
- Just for Fun
- storybook creation
- Slideshare.net – can add sound
- Scribd – supports searching text
- SplashCast – combine PPT, mp3, images
- Zoho Show – edit online, jump to a slide
- SlideAware – best stats, limit access
- thumbalizr – capture screen or page image
- Visual PageRank
- IBM unstructured information modeler
- analyze unstructured data sets
- automatically classify and create catagories
- works for up to 10,000 records
Utilities
Development
- SOAP Sonar
- testing and analyzing web services
- Complex SOAP WSDL support
- Evolved
- text editor which adapts to a large number of programming languages
- Perl Express – for perl development
Fun with Images
Searching and Indexing
Open Source Federated Searching
Freedom
- Portable Firefox – bundled with portable aps to take bookmarks, extensions, passwords
- Asterisk Logger
- Undelete
- Unstoppable copier
- Simple file shredder
- KeePass – Store all your password in one databases locked with one master key
Every year Frank and Darlene do this presentation and they show great tools. However, here are a few of my own personal picks of tools I’ve found super useful the last year.