Mags' Top 10 Tools as at
7 April 2009
- iGoogle - it's
the home page of every piece of online work I do. Everything
I need sits there, including most of the rest of this
list...
- Gmail - clean,
always behaves, and houses all my other email stuff.
- Google
Documents - filing cabinet, scribble pad, personal or
collaborative work updates can be made on the fly
- del.icio.us
- no more searching for the scrap of paper with the
indecipherable site name scribbled on it. Really useful for
sharing links among a working team.
- PowerPoint
- in it purest multimedia form of image, smooth transitions,
words to nudge a thought or fire a synapse. Haven't the
bullet-point-readers have given it a bad image? It's a super
fast way to compose a picture for other places - make slide
and save as jpeg.
- Picasa 3 -
sorting images for presentations made sooooh easy
-
Picture Resizer 3.5 - I know there are lots of other
resizers but none as dear to me as this little desktop
widget
-
Wildvoice - quick easy to learn - record, edit, publish.
With teachers and students I use it offline as a download.
Not as precise as Audacity but easier for beginners and even
more fun. Turn any computer into a recording / broadcasting
studio or language lab.
- Google
calendar - shareable
- Google maps
- distances and directions (not to mention distractions -
planning trips when I should be working)
