Overview

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Cool Tools Update For Library Web Sites
Overview
Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan Frank
Cervone Northwestern University
November 15, 2004
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Cool Tools

• Third year
• Highlight new tools each time
• Check our site for past presentations
• Types of Tools
• Server
• Client side
• Web based
• Inexpensive or open source

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Crafty Syntax Help Chat

• http//www.craftysyntax.com/CSLH/
• A multi-user, multi-operator, multi-department
  live Help support chat system that allows the
  operators of the websites to monitor their
  visitors as they are browsing the site and
  proactively open a chat session with the visitor

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Zoom In Bookbinding's, Maps and Photos

• CSS and JavaScript
• Compatibility
• cross browser support for newer browsers with
  good implementations of CSS

http//persistent.info/archives/2004/05/08/magnifi
er
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The Rasterbator

• Create huge rasterized images
• Cover a library wall with
• New program or service
• Winning photo

http//homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
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Open ClipArt Library

• http//clipart.freedesktop.org/
• Public domain clipart library

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Dimensionizer

• Menu plugin for Mac OS X that allows you to find
  out the dimensions of an image with one click

Height, width
http//automaticlabs.com/products/dimensionizer
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Online Image Editor

• Free editor if youre in a bind and need to work
  on a couple of images
• Downside annoying ads and youll need to
  maneuver around them to use controls

http//www.myimager.com/
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3D Flash Animator

• http//www.3dfa.com/
• Create animations, interactive components for
  sophisticated website interfaces and arcade-style
  games

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Multimedia

• Serious Magic
• Do-it-Yourself Video
• 199.95 basic product for web training videos

http//www.seriousmagic.com
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Wink

• http//www.debugmode.com/wink/
• Tutorial/presentation creation software
• Primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to
  use software
• Creates Flash files
• Demo file

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For Developers

• HTML text editor that you can add to your
  applications
• Has powerful WSIWYG toolset like Word toolbar
• Free, Open Source
• Internet Explorer 5.5 and Gecko browser (Mozilla
  / Netscape) compatibility
• XHTML 1.0 support

http//www.fckeditor.net/
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FCK editor

• Server side
• ASP.Net
• ASP
• ColdFusion
• PHP
• Java

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osTicket

• http//www.osticket.com/
• Open source, problem tracking system

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Handy Lookup Tools

• HTTP Headers
• Verify that the correct MIME type (the
  Content-type line) is being sent for each file
  type
• Is your web server dishing up UTF-8 when youre
  character set is charsetiso-8859-1
• http//www.delorie.com/web/headers.html
• What is my IP?
• http//whatismyip.com/

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META Tag Analyzer

• http//www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
• Critique and advice on web page META tags

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Productivity Tools mail2web.com
http//mail2web.com/
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Access Web Browser, PDA,
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Lynx viewer

• http//www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html
• Use for testing web site accessibility

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Lynx on Windows

• http//csant.info/lynx.htm
• A version of Lynx that runs directly on the
  Windows platform

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Spurl Social Bookmark and Research Tool
Thumbnail, Internet Archive, who links to them?
http//www.spurl.net/
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SubEthaEdit

• Edit the same document, live, in real time,
  together with everyone in your group
• Mac OS X
• Cost 35.00

http//www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
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WebNote

• http//www.aypwip.org/webnote/
• Sticky note note taking application

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Primo PDF

• Download and install Microsoft
• Windows 98
• Windows ME,
• Windows 2000
• Windows NT
• Windows XP
• A minimum of 30 MB of available disk space
• Convert from Word, Excel, PowerPoint

http//www.primopdf.com
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Font Comparison Utility

• http//www.howardesign.com/exp/fonts/compare.html

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NXPowerLite

• http//www.nxpowerlite.com/index.php
• Reduces the size of a Powerpoint presentation

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Tools that Keep You Smiling

• Your own library ELF
• Consolidate your library accounts
•  Get email notices before items are due
•  Receive email alerts on overdues and holds
•  Receive text message alerts for holds

http//www.libraryelf.com/
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Translation Wizard

• http//www.faganfinder.com/translate/
• Lets get international!

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More Cool Tools ?

• Choose Cool Tools in Darlenes furl bookmark
  service
• www.furl.net/members/fichter/
• Subscribe to Darlenes RSS feed for the Cool
  Tools topic
• Link on her home page - http//library.usask.ca/f
  ichter

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Integrate Thumbshots

• Free or pay service
• Free attribution
• Integrate into dynamic pages/search results