Speakers: Darlene Fichter & Frank Cervone
I arrived 25 min late due to not getting lunch served in a timely manner. This means I missed the first part.
- textexpander – Mac-only tool, highly recommended; useful for creating macros for repetitive text input
- CrowdScience – website demographics
- Fusestats – web analytics; heatmaps
- Read It Later – Firefox extension for bookmarking and tracking online resources that you want to read later
- Top Posts Widget – display the most popular items on your blog, which will generated more traffic to your archives
- Internet Health Report & Internet Traffic Report – tracking problems with the connections between your network and other networks; "why is the internet so slow?"
- FriendConnect – social networking for your website visitors
- FireShot – Firefox extension for taking screenshots
- FileJuicer – extracts images or audio files out of PDFs, Flash, and presentations
- XnView – converts image file formats of any type; provides a view of the contents of any directory
- ColorPicker – fast, easy tool for getting hex codes for colors
- Color Wizard – can give suggestions for complementary colors
- Accessibility Color Wheel – can test the visibility of color combinations for various color blindness
- Personal Fonts – create fonts out of your handwriting
- Lovely Charts – clean, attractive chart design
- XML/SWF Charts – interactive charts based on data
- Bubbl – collaborative mind-mapping tool
- MindMeister – collaborative mind-mapping tool; subscription service with institutional options
- script.aculo.us – ?
- xcavator – search photo websites for images that are similar to a particular image you have
- Google Unsend – Gmail labs tool for delaying sent messages from leaving for 5-10 seconds (GoogleGoggles lite)
- Lifehacker tip for making searches in Firefox open in a new tab
- Review Basics – fee-based tool for reviewing projects/documents in a collaborative environment; any document in native format
- Quintura Kids – search widget for children’s sections of websites
- Virus Total – detects Trojans; gives reasons why
- WinDirStat – visual representation of server contents
- LetsCallMe – phone number hiding while still allowing people to contact you
- DamnIT – javascript that sends an email to the admin whenever something goes wrong with a javascript
- Chunk It! – pulls in URLs from a web page, indexes it, and then allows you to search that content
I will add the remaining URLs later – they moved through the last part of the presentation too quickly to capture them then. (Tip: Leave the slide with the URL up longer or make sure you include the URL on the slide you move to when showing examples.)
Here’s a link to the Cool Tools presentation on Slideshare. Hope to get all the links up soon.