Opensource Study Tools - A Presentation

OpenSource tools Tools to help you through studies and life Presentation @ RUC - Paul Henckel CC feb2009

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

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

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

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

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

To Capture Information Remember 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

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

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.”

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

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

To Write: Std. Reports Google Docs - For writing documents, with realtime 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

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)

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.”

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)

To Write: Dictionaries

WordWeb Oxford English Dictionary (@ruc) Ordbogen (@ruc)

To Draw

Pencil - A simple all around drawing pencil, like MS Paint with extras Thinkature - To easily draw something collaboratively

To Graph/Diagram

Gliffy - “With Gliffy online diagram software, you can easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more.”

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

To Convert

Audio/Video transcoders MediaCoder(Win) ffmpegX(Mac)

To Survey/Interview Express Scribe - For help in transcribing audio to text alternatives almost speech recognition: NaturallySpeaking, VoiceSceener, pluggd

Google Forms - For making surveys

To do Mathematics Cinderella - For interacting with mathematical geometry (euclidean and noneuclidean) Sage - To do mathematics (≈MatLab and Maple) alternatives (Maxima)

To do Chemistry

ChemSketch - For drawing chemical molecyles and LOADS of other tools for chemistry

To do Biology

BioKnoppix - A working self-contained linuxOS for molecular biologists

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

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

The end The 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