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- Avantgo.com
- The single most useful application on my PDA, it has a free subscription function to allow you to download and take with you Web content. Much of the content is provided as "channels" from news and other information sources, but you can also download Mapquest driving directions and stand-alone Web pages. My favorites: BBC, IT Canada, NY Times (Biz, Technology), NY Times Book Review, Wired, Christian Science Monitor, and the Chicago Tribune. Worst channels tried? Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Salon.
- Read more: Avantgo.com
- CIO.com
- CIO.com (for Chief Information Officer) is a fantastic collection of resources for both technology and business leaders. Their executive summaries of technology are especially useful starting points. Their magazine is of questionable value - unless you're a CIO - but make their Web site a starting point for any IT research.
- Read more: CIO.com
- Google Search Engine
- If cleanliness is closer to godliness, then using Google must fit somewhere in between, even closer! This is the pre-eminent search engine in 2003-4 (dated for posterity) and while it is now being sought by some technology behemoths as an acquisition, the future looks bright for this category killer.
- Read more: Google Search Engine
- Empower Your Bar Association
- Actually, that's N Power! This is a fantastic site that provides tools for non-profits to manage their technology better. It covers issues related to tech inventory, staffing, and other planning including fund raising. The tools are not mere checklists, but allow you to gather and store information for better analysis.
- Read more: Empower Your Bar Association
- Hotscripts Application Source
- No matter what programming language you are using to make your business or personal Web site more dynamic, Hotscripts has a fantastic collection of annotated pointers to applications written in Perl, ColdFusion, and other languages. Organized by type of application, it is a great starting point if you are looking for possible free or inexpensive applications to use on your Web site.
- Read more: Hotscripts Application Source
- Teoma Search Engine
- An up and coming search tool that has interesting "related" links, so that when your basic search results are returned, Teoma attempts to find additional categories or additional query terms to refine your search.
- Read more: Teoma Search Engine
- ITPapers.com
- This is a terrific resource which, like so many of the best ones, does not actually provide content but does the aggregation work for you. Much of the content they provide is of questionable value unless you are looking for a very specific answer, because they are provided/written by vendors pushing products. I find the best resources are the "Tech 101" papers that give the basics, or an executive summary, about the topic without getting into their "solution".
- Read more: ITPapers.com
- Altavista Search Engine
- Once a search leader, now just one of the pack, Altavista has flopped about for a long time but it's still a nice backup search utility if you aren't getting anywhere with the others. Once nice function that Altavista has remained a leader in is searching over multiple file formats.
- Read more: Altavista Search Engine
- Search Engine Watch
- This is the leading source for information about search engines. Find out about who is really behind the search (Yahoo!: first, Altavista, then Google, then . . . ) and how to make your content more easily accessible.
- Read more: Search Engine Watch
- Greenstone Digital Library
- There are any number of open source projects but the Greenstone Librarian Interface is a fantastic digital library resource. The free server software enables delivery of digitized content, from photographs to botanical rare books (see the examples at http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library?e=p-en-home-utfZz-8&a=p&p=examples).
- Read more: Greenstone Digital Library
- Google Toolbar
- Once again, the leader in search functionality! Google's Toolbar, now copied by Altavista, Teoma, and others, enables you to take your search anywhere on your Internet travels. It's one of those basic tools that, once you've used it (like the scrolling dial on a mouse!), you can't live without it. It's a free download but it doesn't work with all browsers.
- Read more: Google Toolbar
- O'Reilly Safari Bookshelf
- I buy a few technology books each year but always with significant buyer's remorse. They are often only 75% the content I need, and I typically can't have neither the time or access to vet them prior to purchase. An online bookshelf like Safari eliminates that, because I can keep up to 5 electronic titles in my bookshelf and swap any one of them out after 30 days. All for the price of about 3 books a year.
- Read more: O'Reilly Safari Bookshelf
- Infoworld Test Center
- It's hard to get reliable reviews of technology - white papers from vendors or consultants always raise the question of the potential slant. One of my regular resources for information about enterprise or emerging technologies is the Infoworld.com Test Center. The archive is a powerful tool for anyone doing technology research.
- Read more: Infoworld Test Center
- ColdFusion Content Management: Farcry
- Our environment (time stamp: late 2003) has moved from java to ColdFusion and we are investigating resources that we can use to extend our CF system with minimal cost. Our current content management system is (a) not database-enabled and (b) is very expensive. I came across the FarCry CMS the other day and was really impressed by how easy to use the interface is. Now, I'm already a convert to Zope and Plone but for anyone needing a CF-based content management system, FarCry is an open source alternative that's worth a hard look.
- Read more: ColdFusion Content Management: Farcry
- Kill Spyware
- I'm already a regular user of the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com) to kill pop-up advertisements. But Web paranoia is getting at me so I've decided to take the plunge for an ad-ware/spyware blocker. I'm not a big fan of paying money for extra protection if there is a good freeware solution. Spybot Search and Destroy is an amazing utility, free (non-commercial use) and the results so far are good (I've seen blocking happen!). But I can't take credit for finding it. I read about it in a recent spyware piece by Deborah Radcliff in Network World (http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0126spy.html). Well-written article, and great sidebar.
- Read more: Kill Spyware
- Open Source For Libraries
- OSS4Lib is a great resource for anyone trying to stay current on open source library projects. Whether you're considering moving to Linux or the relative strengths of Koha, this discussion-board-based site is easy to navigate. The best part of the site, though, is the list of open source projects.
- Read more: Open Source For Libraries
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