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Share your files with colleagues and students, keep track of your work from at home or in college. No more Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments needed - just save it on-line! Create new files or edit them on-line using familiar toolbars. So much more useful than Office - you can even save as pdf files and create web pages!
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html |
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This is Microsoft's Live Mesh. The word synchronise is key - add each computer you use to Live Mesh and you'll be able to synchronise folders of your choice so that you're not forever wondering which is the most recent version. What's more, you can access one computer's files from the other. Amazing! Lots and lots of possibilities.
http://mesh.com |
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Still featuring this as it is such a good browser. There's now Internet Explorer 8 which is a significant advance and now matches many of the best features of Firefox and Google's Chrome is also attracting attention. If you're still battling with IE7 or worse in the classroom and miss Firefox, though, get Portable Firefox which you can use from a USB drive.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox |
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Create diagrams in your web browser without downloading additional software. Similar to Visio but simply there, wherever you are. Add collaborators to your work and watch it grow, link to published Gliffy drawings from your blog or wiki. Create many types of diagrams: flowcharts, UI wireframes, floor plans, network diagrams etc.
http://www.gliffy.com/ |
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Not a web application but a free Microsoft Labs add-in for PowerPoint2007 that does pretty much what Prezi below does. This really does transform both making and showing presentations, totalling changing the way you'll work, and probably for the better. (The feedback button goes to a page for both at the moment.) http://www.officelabs.com/#pptplex |
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Prezi have taken a new look at presentations and decided to offer us a huge canvas where we can put things which we then link together and display in that order. Takes a bit of getting used to but the facility to zoom in on particular items as well as easily present a ,more complete picture is great. This is a cool product. No so sure about the logo or some of the user interface, though.
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Now this is impressive. If you're publishing documents then this will convert your Word docs or pdfs into iPaper. These can then be stored on-line so that you link to them instead of to bulky and annoying formats. Better still you can embed the document on a web page and I just love the page turning effects. Worked a treat first time trial with huge course guide!
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| A great place to share files. No registration - just do it. No real restrictions and possibly the fastest way to share media of all sorts and sizes.
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Box.net offers a free 1Gb online storage area (with full security for sharing files with others). Keeping your files online means you need never miss having the right file when needed. It’s a great tool for giving groups of students access to course content, and for files too large to send via email, (as well as giving 24x7 access to your materials.
http://www.box.net/ |
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Google's interface leaves a lot to be desired but with over 2Gb of space and a really, really fast delivery and a bundle of other facilities that come with a Google account, it is probably the best e-mail application. You can now use Gmail but have your organisation or alternative personal address shown in the From box, incl .ac.uk addresses. A notifier add-on is also available which tells you when mail arrives.
http://mail.google.com |
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This is a complete Office package and may well be what your children use at school - it's become the officially recommended software for schools in Scotland. Included here because you ought to know about it! Opens MS Office documents and has simple save as pdf feature unlike the expensive but still ubiquitous Microsoft pack. Use it to transfer Word documents to web format for easier use in VLEs too.
http://openoffice.org |
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It can be very useful to have an on-line calendar, especially one you can share and access anywehere. A well-designed Google product that can also be added to your own web site.
http://calendar.google.com |
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Microsoft's nicely designed 1GB on-line storage space - almost My Documents on-line. Make folders, store images, documents etc. and decide who to share them with, no-one, certain people or anyone. Integrated with their new Spaces and, unfortunately, MSN and Hotmail but you can ignore them.
http://skydrive.live.com |
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LOOP is a free web-based application that allows you to upload and combine multiple documents into one secure PDF document. You do not need to install software or be working from your desktop computer. LOOP is delivered on-demand and available for use 24/7 through any web browser. It works with Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well as pdfs and you can even change the order of pages.
http://www.drawloop.com/ |
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Delightfully simple file storage and sharing site. just upload and make a note of the url.
http://www.wikifortio.com/ |
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Remarkable range of applications from the Zoho team. Several individually featured on this site but no room for all of them! Check out Zoho Docs, their on-line document management application. Several features included that Google haven't got yet. Something in there for Sharepoint fans too. Zoho Polls used for the ratings on this site.
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Zoho Projects is a project management tool that lets you define and manage tasks, milestones, status reports (including Gantt charts), time tracking, and file sharing. Tasks and subtasks can be structured in nested form, with duration, start date, due date, and task owner easily defined. Task owners can even be notified by e-mail of a task assignment (by the project manager). Amongst other features, team meetings can also be scheduled.
http://projects.zoho.com/ |
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Want to take notes about a particular Web page? MyStickes are like sticky notes for the Web. Once you've registered (free), you can add sticky notes wherever you like. When you come back to a page, the sticky will be there.
http://www.mystickies.com/ |
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Empressr is a presentation/slideshow tool that lets you use a variety of audiovisual content (video, audio, pictures, Flash, charts, and graphs). Presentations can be shared.
http://www.empressr.com/ |
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Campire is a group communication tool. With it, you can share content and graphics. Just set up access lists and send out invites by e-mail. Configure what each person can see in the private chat room. Chat history is available.
http://www.campfirenow.com/ |
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 ZCubes claims to be 'the world's first website that seamlessly integrates browsing, searching, editing, painting, freehand drawing, cursive hand-writing, audio-video media management, publishing, and much more into a pure browser-based platform'. ZCubes handles over 30 file-formats. Work, play, research, create, think, browse, organise, and have fun with this. Loaded with an incredible 300+ features, your creativity may be your only limitation!
http://home.zcubes.com/AboutZCubes.htm |
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Recently launched project management tool that seems to do what you'd like to have done in Outlook but got confused. More in the planning section, or just see for yourself now.
http://www.hitask.com/ |
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only just found this but with 5GB of free space for anything and facilities similar to box.net above it had to be included on first glance. An excellent file-sharing resource that has established itself and growing ever more popular.
http://www.esnips.com |
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Nearly forgot this important and great little tool and hope they don't mind me quoting from their site: "This "TechDis User Preferences Toolbar" has been designed to provide students and teachers with a simple way of imposing their accessibility preferences onto potentially any web page. A section of high contrast and pale colour schemes have been provided along with a choice of serif and non-serif font. The toolbar also offer a handy zoom function that magnifies the page." Brilliant.
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/index.php?p=1_20051905100544 |
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