IT 5130: Week 10 Tools

Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/

Scribd is basically a free online library where people can publish and share their original content documents on the internet. Scribd uses its own proprietary document format for the web, called iPaper. Sort of like YouTube’s proprietary player for video, iPaper standardizes all document formats into one view that can be integrated into web pages.

Scribd also have the Scribd Platform which allows any web site to use iPaper to display its documents.


Paint.NET
http://www.getpaint.net/

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for Windows computers. Some of its features include an intuitive user interface supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and lots of useful and powerful tools.

The software was originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows. However, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool that has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor and The GIMP.

Paint.NET has an active online community that provides help, tutorials and plugins.


Furl
http://www.furl.net/

Furl.net is a social bookmarking web site that allows you to annotate a bookmark, find it later, refer to it and share the bookmark with others. It’s basically a personal information management system for your favorite web sites. One big benefit is that Furl.net is a free service with practically unlimited storage and is accessible from anywhere on the web.

I particularly like the Saving Archived copy (with Refresh) feature. Furl lets you save a copy of a web page and archives it for you. You’ll be able to access that page and read it any time you need to. It works even if the web site is down, the page has changed on the original web site or even if the page is no longer accessible for free. If the web page has updated content, you can refresh the archived copy at will.