Widgets Tools and Doodads for Webmasters - CIL 2008

Widgets, tools, and doodads for library webmasters Darlene Fichter Data Librarian University of Saskatchewan Frank Cervone Director – Library, Information, and Media Studies Chicago State University

Photo by: aaardvaark (Creative Commons license) They have got WAAAAYYYY to much stuff to talk about! Well, I hear that they’re supposed to be amusing But I doubt they have our sense of balance!

Firefox tools
SafeCache
SafeHistory
FoxMarks
FEBE

SafeCache
Protects your privacy
Defends against cache-based tracking techniques
Embedded content is cached
Segments the cache according to the domain of the originating page.
Enable/disable in the Privacy pane of the Options menu.
Learn more about Protecting Browser State using Same Origin policy ( paper )
www.safecache.com

SafeHistory
Protects your privacy by defending against visited-link-based tracking techniques.
It allows offsite visited links to be marked only if the browser's history database contains a record of the link being followed from the current site.
Enable/disable SafeHistory in the Privacy pane of the Options menu
www.safehistory.com

FoxMarks
Automatically synchronizes bookmarks
Access your bookmarks anytime at my.foxmarks.com.
Works in the background to keep your bookmarks up-to-date on all your computers
www.foxmarks.com

mysteryuser

FEBE
Firefox Environment Backup Extension
Quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions
Easily synchronize your office and home browsers
May specify user defined items
Backup virtually any data on your computer
customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/febe/febe.html

Other webtools for collaboration
Meebo chat widget
LinkBunch
DocSyncer
Twirl
polldaddy

Meebo Chat Widget www.meebome.com

Let’s stretch it Add it to your catalog. Add it to your null results page. More info: David Lee King’s Blog Post

LinkBunch
Lets you put multiple links into one small link
Firefox extension creates a bunch from all your open tabs
Twitter bot in the works
Isn’t finished yet
linkbun.ch

DocSyncer
Automatically finds and syncs your document files to Google Docs
This means everything
“ Users are even reporting that launching a document directly from their desktop using DocSyncer is FASTER than launching the document natively in Microsoft Office!”
Yeah…right
www.docsyncer.com

twirl
Desktop client for twitter
www.twhirl.org What is twitter?

polldaddy: Get interactive polldaddy.com

Webtools for web development
VisCheck
Feng GUI
Browsershots
Flickr photo badge
Photoshop Express
Addthis
Google countdown
Babelfish/Google translate

VisCheck
A computer simulation of the entire process of human vision
Way of showing what things look like to someone who is color blind
Online service
Image files
Web pages
Downloadable
Windows and Mac
www.vischeck.com/vischeck

Tritanope Protanope Deuteranope Full color

Full spectrum Red/green deficiency Blue/yellow deficiency

Feng GUI www.feng-gui.com
Automatic alternative to eye-tracking
Creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look at

www.fenggui.com

google.com

flickr.com

useit.com

Browsershots
Creates screenshots in different browsers
Open source, online service
How it works:
Submit your web address
Added to the job queue
Distributed computers open the website in their browser
They create screenshots and upload them to the browsershots server
browsershots.org

Flickr Photo badge http://flickr.com/badge.gne This is also a great example of progressive tutorial.

Photoshop Express Tutorial http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =4LT9Sb-iYFY Geoff Baum – CNET News www.photoshop.com/express

Forget location: Think web site distribution http://addthis.com

Pick a button – Grab your code

Bookmark button statistics
Top Bookmarks (Past Week/Month/Year)
Top Bookmark Services Used

Google countdown short url: http://urltea.com/32m0

Altavista Babelfish site translator www.altavista.com/help/free/free_searchbox_transl

Google translate my page Short url: http:// urltea.com/32lx

Nifty utilities
Process Tamer
File Hamster
Syncback Freeware
LinkExtractor
reCaptcha
Anonymouse
Prism

ProcessTamer
Monitors CPU usage of processes
Reduces the priority of apps that hog the CPU
Windows only
www.majorgeeks.com/Process_Tamer_d4651.html

File Hamster
Real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work
Monitors files or directories
Automatically creates incremental backups
Store notes about the changes that have been made
www.mogware.com/FileHamster

Syncback Freeware
Backup all files anytime with a single click
Scheduler to automate backups
Versioning
Synchronization
Incremental backups
Machine to machine via ftp
Encryption
Compression
www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html

LinkExtractor www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-extractor.shtml

Moving large files 100 MB, 7 days 500 MB, 7 days 100 MB, 7 days 100 MB, no time limit 1 GB Peer to Peer

reCaptcha recaptcha.net

Anonymouse
Want to private
Check if resources are accessible outside your IP range or not
http://anonymouse.org/

Prism
An application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop
Web platform integrated into the desktop experience
Developers don’t have to target it separately
Windows today
Mac and Linux available soon
labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism

More Widgets & Gadgets
Widgetbox
http:// www.widgetbox.com /
Google Gadgets
http:// www.google.com/ig/directory?synd =open
Previous Cool Tools Presentations
http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/cool_tools/

All work and no play lolinator.com

Thanks! Darlene Fichter Data Librarian University of Saskatchewan [email_address] Frank Cervone Director – Library, Information, and Media Studies Chicago State University

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