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TOP 10 TOOLS 2007
Vaughan Waller
Vaughan Waller
is an Instructional
Designer for Moores Stephens. He
has worked in the
field of applying learning technologies where organisational
performance improvement is required, for over 20 years.
Vaughan's Top 10 Tools as at
at 17 July 2007
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On an
average day I spend
a large proportion
of my time in either
Outlook
for
emails,
PowerPoint
for
creating storyboards
or
Word
for
documents. Never
thought of going
anywhere else. Some
features of it drive
me mad but it would
be daft now to start
again somewhere
else.
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I know there are other browsers but
IE7
works for me and it does what it says on
the tin. I know other browsers could probably do
more but right now I don’t need the “more”.
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Probably the finest website anywhere.
I use
Amazon
as a research tool both
seriously and when I am “just looking”. In music,
video and especially books - I spend a lot of time
at this site!
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Google Desktop,
Google,
Google Maps,
Google Reader
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The Google
brand seems to
anticipate what we all need. Totally indispensable
and I cannot imagine life without it.
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Again, there are plenty to choose
from but
Blogger
works well.
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Don’t rely on your firewall to trap
spyware – they don’t.
XoftSpySE is able to
find spyware even after scans by other tools.
Highly recommended
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Skype
is an
invaluable tool to chat by text or phone
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When I first set up on my own the
prospect of double entry book keeping filled me with
dread. My accountant asked if I knew anything about
the subject and following the two-letter reply he
said
QuickBooks. Totally intuitive I was up
and running in hours.
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I never have got out of the habit of
reading lots of text off the page. And for “real
hard learning” the
book
wins hands down every time.
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I
know this has nothing to do with learning but so many people plump for Norton
Security Suite just because it’s the first name that comes to mind. But it
is not the best of breed for anti-virus or firewall. Norton is also very
invasive and takes up a lot of resources. I was recommended
BitDefender 10 /
ZoneAlarm Pro as
alternatives and have never looked back.
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