This document provides a list of free or low-cost online tools categorized into 8 sections: Googling, Digital Literacy, Social Search, Network Visualization, Design, Video, Security, and General. Each tool is briefly described including its purpose and key features. The document concludes by providing contact information for Mike Kujawski, the presenter.
16. goo.gl/x4RPbK (plugin)
*For more advanced OSINT try:
inteltechniques.com/menu.html
Purpose: To search through
FB,TW, LI and find people by
name, job, location, age,
gender, their friends, the
groups they are members of
etc. Also great for managing
your own digital footprint.
22. Social network analysis (SNA) is a strategy for
investigating social structures through the use
of network and graph theories. It characterizes
networked structures in terms of nodes (individual
actors, people, pages or things within the network)
and edges (relationships or interactions) that
connect them.
A sociogram is the visual representation of these
nodes and their relationships (edges) to one
another. The colour represents community
affiliation and the size of each node represents
importance of place in the network.
23. socioviz.net
Purpose: To quickly identify
the key influencers and
communities within a topic
area + to identify key hashtag
sub-topics
*Free version analyzes 500 of the latest tweets.
If you make a donation it allows 5000
TIP:You can
export to
GEPHI
25. gephi.org
Purpose: This is the leading
visualization and exploration
software for all kinds of graphs
and networks. Best of all it’s
open source (FREE)
28. Right click in PowerPoint
→Grid and guides→
Display drawing guides
on screen
Purpose: Make your
presentations look better by
aligning objects properly
30. colorzilla.com (plugin)
Purpose: Never get a colour
wrong again. Particularly
useful when trying to blend a
web based image into the
background of a presentation.
31. faststone.org/FSCapt
ureDetail.htm
Purpose: A full-featured
screen capture tool that allows
you to easily capture and
annotate anything on the
screen including windows,
objects, menus, full screen,
rectangular / freehand / fixed
regions as well as scrolling
windows / web pages.
32. Purpose: Stock photography
for use in your content. Plenty
of sorting capabilities
including by colour and style
*On-demand credit-based option. Usually
about 10 hi-res images for $50-$60
123rf.com
34. 4Kdownload.com
Purpose: Allows downloading
videos, playlists, channels and
subtitles fromYouTube,
Facebook,Vimeo and other
video sites in high quality
*Always make sure to check video rights and
properly source any videos that you use
35. camtasia.com
Purpose: Makes it easy to
record your screen and create
polished, professional-looking
videos / tutorials.
*$99 once free trial ends.
37. 1Password.com
Purpose: Provides a place for
users to store various
passwords,software licenses,
and other sensitive
information in a virtual vault
that is locked with a PBKDF2-
guarded master password.