opensource study tools - a presentation
DESCRIPTION
For creating the presentation, I firstly organised all the information (with extras) on a FreeMind mindmap. Files are available here: http://snurl.com/c4s22 (.mm) http://snurl.com/c4qel (.pdf)TRANSCRIPT
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OpenSource toolsTools to help you through studies and life
Presentation @ RUC - Paul Henckel CC feb2009
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Method
Ordered by Activities (Title is misleading, we know)
Namedropping tools/techniques (30min)
/Break (5min)
Workshop (30min)
Grab the pdf presentation - http://snurl.com/c4qel
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To Find Stuff
Google Operators
"link:" - To find sites that link a specific site
"info:" - To see Google’s information of a Site
"related:" - To find sites similar to a specific
"site: + filetype:" - To find specific kind of material on a site
RUb.dk
Tidsskrifter + Artikel Søgning + Eksterne Databaser
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To Maintain Your System
Antivirus
AVG antivirus(Win)
ClamXav(Mac)
Manage Space
AppCleaner(Mac) - To uninstal app's correctly
CCleaner(Win) - A no-frills way to maintain Windows
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To Organise Your System
DropBox - For instant and automatic synchronisation across computers
MemoClip(Win) - To manage clipboard items
QuickSilver(Mac)
The ClipBoard extension
A general guide/tutorial
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To Manage Information
DeepaMehta - For knowledge management, and creating conceptmaps collaboratively
alt: CmapTools
alt: PersonalBrain
Google Reader - To access the content of selected RSS content streams
alt: Snackr
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To Capture InformationRemember The Milk - A 24/7 accessible tasklist manager
For Google Calendar
Evernote - To add/synchronise notes from everywhere
Tutorial for use
Delicious - To store bookmarks in one central you can access from everywhere
Firefox extension for convenience
alt: Foxmarks
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To Communicate
Pidgin - A central client for IM
Skype - Telephony and videoconferences through VoIP
Highrise - To manage an extended number of emails
Jing - For screencasting or snapshooting your desktop
alternatives for screencasting
online no-frills alt: Screencast-O-Matic
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To Collaborate
Yuuguu - To collaborate remotely by seeing eachothers screens: “Hold online meetings, share your screen and work together on the same documents in real time.”
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To Keep Track Of Time
GCal - To manage everything with dates and events
add Weeknumbers
Rainlendar - A simple desktop calendar
Synchronisation with GCal - a tutorial
Slife - For timetracking your activity on the computer
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To Write: Notes
FreeMind - A tool for quick note taking and structuring
online alt: Mind42
online alt: Bubbl.us
Tutorials
for studies: Brainstorming and Note Taking
for general use
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To Write: Std. Reports
Google Docs - For writing documents, with real-time collaboration
alternative: Buzzword
TurnItIn - A tool for managing the writing cycle
DK alternative: Scribo
OttoBib - To make a bibliography from ISBN
Scribus - For press quality documents
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To Write: Scholarly Articles
TeX - Separating Content from Layout for a structured writing process
A good starter
An extensive introduction/resource
proTeXt(Win)
MacTeX(Mac)
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To Write: Chronologic Narratives
Celtx - For creating a storyline/sript to a timebased narrative: “Celtx is the world's first all-in-one media pre-production software. It has everything you need to take your story from concept to production.”
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To Write: Distraction Free
Ever had a time where you just wanted to write, without buttons or any distractions?
online tool: Writer
JDarkRoom
WriteRoom(Mac)
Darkroom(Win)
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To Write: Dictionaries
WordWeb
Oxford English Dictionary (@ruc)
Ordbogen (@ruc)
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To Draw
Pencil - A simple all around drawing pencil, like MS Paint with extras
Thinkature - To easily draw something collaboratively
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To Graph/Diagram
Gliffy - “With Gliffy online diagram software, you can easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more.”
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To PDF
PdfCreator(Win) - For printing documents to pdf
PDF Hammer - Online tool to edit PDF files
Foxit Reader(Win) - A no-frills fast app to read PDF’s
Learn to do anything with PDF
Preview(Mac)
Use Preview to edit PDF files
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To Convert
Audio/Video transcoders
MediaCoder(Win)
ffmpegX(Mac)
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To Survey/Interview
Express Scribe - For help in transcribing audio to text
alternatives
almost speech recognition: NaturallySpeaking, VoiceSceener, pluggd
Google Forms - For making surveys
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To do Mathematics
Cinderella - For interacting with mathematical geometry (euclidean and non-euclidean)
Sage - To do mathematics (≈MatLab and Maple)
alternatives (Maxima)
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To do Chemistry
ChemSketch - For drawing chemical molecyles and LOADS of other tools for chemistry
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To do Biology
BioKnoppix - A working self-contained linuxOS for molecular biologists
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To do Finances/Budgets
Wesabe - To get control of your money by easily getting an overview of it
YNAB - To manage money by budgeting based on previous months expenses
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To Geek
CloneZilla Live - Similar to Norton Ghost, just for everyone and everything. Make clones of your computer to save yourself from meltdown.
Howtoforge tutorial
Lifehacker tutorial
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The endThe Keynote file for this presentation is available at: http://snurl.com/c4s4x
The FreeMind mindmap with extra programs/resources at: http://snurl.com/c4s22
Paul Henckel feb2009