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TOP 10 TOOLS 2008 & 2009
Nicola Avery

I work at the University of Surrey, advising on adoption of
emerging technologies within learning. www.friendfeed.com/nicolaavery
and
http://www.linkedin.com/in/navery
N icola's
Top 10 (Mobile) Tools as at 1 April 2009
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Notepad / Notepad++ notes and writing / copying /
pasting web coding
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Screenshot - taking still screenshots from a s60 phone,
using one of the phone cameras - I use it to show shots for
experimenting and for showing how to do things
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Find.mobi -
brilliant mobile search e.g. enter any flight number in the
search box and it will ping back the current flight status.
Provides web and mobile web-friendly page searches.
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Skype
- chat and meetings
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Nokia
Maps / Google
Mobile maps - steering myself around places
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Zpen - note taking in meetings, scribbling random
thoughts - works on any paper in theory - I've tried a few
but mostly regular paper so far.
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Friendfeed /
Delicious
- bookmarking and sharing bookmarks
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Adobe mobile pdf
reader - mostly using for work files and articles I've
bookmarked on del.icio.us which can be read on the go.
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Right-click and Open New Tab - save
thousands of hours a year doing this !
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OperaMini browser - free download and works on loads of
phones/devices - I use it as a backup for any browsers I
have on an older phone which for whatever reason may format
pages strangely (hasn't happened with webkit but earlier
browsers on older phones).
Nicola's Top 10
(Mobile) Tools as at 2 August 2008
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Utterz - voice
blogging on the go with publishing options on the spot.
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Screenshot - taking still screenshots from a s60
phone, using one of the phone cameras - I use it to show
shots for experimenting and for showing how to do things
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Find.mobi
- brilliant mobile search e.g. enter any
flight number in the search box and it will ping back
the current flight status. Provides web and mobile
web-friendly page searches.
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Mobile flickr - upload photos quickly
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Nokia Maps /
Google Mobile maps - steering myself
around places (I like both equally at the moment).
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Fring - Skype,AIM,GoogleTalk,MSN,SIP - see contacts
all in one place and who is online, with options to
chat/call/send files
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Nokia
mobile Web Server & extensions - starting to play with
but finding useful, can blog, upload, IM, chat and
manage a mobile site from the phone (have to pay data
fees for transfer, according to your operator package).
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Adobe mobile pdf reader - mostly using for work files
and articles I've bookmarked on del.icio.us which can be
read on the go.
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Mobiseer - mobile bookmarking, tagging, sharing pages
(I would prefer to use mobilicious but that is not
looking too hopeful at the moment in terms of developing
it for further use)
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OperaMini browser - free download and works on loads
of phones/devices - I use it as a backup for any
browsers I have on an older phone which for whatever
reason may format pages strangely (hasn't happened with webkit but earlier browsers on older phones).
Nicola's Top 10 Tools as at
28
January 2008
- Notepad
- any time needing to cut and paste particularly
into web pages also I handwrite my html code with it
all the time.
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Pageflakes - my newspaper on the world, finding
updated information via RSS
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Searchcrystal for attractiveness and finding
stuff
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Yahoo Answers - not really a tool but use
regularly to get quick answers to anything
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del.icio.us for accessing my bookmarks, just
discovering networking features at the moment
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Babelfish - for quick translations, to get a
general idea of meaning
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WinAvi /
DivX
/
QuickTime Pro for playing around with video and
conversion to podcast friendly formats
- Paint.net
- when don't have access to Fireworks or Photoshop,
easy to use and quick to convert for decent graphics
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PDF995 - for quick PDF conversion, more
functionality than CutePDF
- iGoogle
- not really a tool but quick access to Google Talk,
docs, mail, calendar etc
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