In today’s wired world, the days of installing free or trial or open source software on your desktop/laptop to convert a file, edit and store pictures, create charts/diagrams etc are becoming scarce. It is because of the availability of new online tools on the Internet at no cost. However, the low bandwidth may be a deterrent to make use of these tools.
Some of the tools, which I found very useful for my work, have been listed below:
- Issuu [Platform to Publish]
- Lovely Charts [Create charts/diagrams]
- OCR Terminal [Convert scanned images and PDFs into text]
- PDF to Word Converter [Convert PDF documents to Word]
- Photoshop.Com [Edit, store and share your photographs]
- Picnik [Edit photographs]
- Primo Online [PDF Creator]
- Skydrive [Online storage device]
- Wordle [Create word clouds]
I feel we need to take efforts in making researchers aware of such utilities and provide orientation on how to make use of these tools in their work.
spujar
Hi Sham, thanks for this useful list of tools as an illustration, IDS used Wordle to illustrate the front of our annual report last year.
Entitled “Knowledge from All” the idea was to create the annual report using a wiki – unfortuantely it didn’t work and we had to resort to traditional means.
The content is interesting and the front cover looks great. Check it out at:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectid=B0BE7EEA-5056-8171-7B28F94C9D89241F
Catherine Fisher
IDS
Dear Sir,
These are really usefull stuffs, thanks for introducing these tools.
Regards
Shettar
Sir,
Waiting for your updates
Regards
Shettar