Exploring Web Applications

Firefox - web app #1

I have recently downloaded Firefox to my computer. I chose to use Firefox because many people I work with and many other students are using it and seem to like it a lot. I have been using it for about a week and also like it a lot. It has a clean look. It's easy to use. It asks you if you want it to remember your password when you log on to a new site. I like that features as I can never remember my passwords. It's customizable with add-ons. I have downloaded several add-ons to use with Firefox.

The first add-on I loaded was Fast Dial which puts all of my frequently used sites on one tab for quick access. Since installing it I use Fast Dial all the time. It is a great help in keeping me organized and making access to my frequently used websites in one easy to find place.

I also found Zotero and added it to Firefox. It is a research organizing application. As you find things of interest on the internet you can mark them and enter them into Zotero. Access to Zotero is through an icon that is attached at the bottom of the browser screen. It allows you to take a snap shot of a page and easily pastes it into a file folder for later use and reference. You can then add notes and tags. You can create folders and pages within the folders. You can easily attach photos or images from a website or another application into your folders. No more researching for webpages are photos you found while looking up information and resources while searching the inernet.

Luminote - web app #2

Luminotes is the first web2.0 application software I am downloading for the ed693 web applications assignment. I chose this application because I have been using OneNote by microsoft on my work computer and Luminotes is a free application that seemed like it would serve the same purpose. Here is the link to the application https://luminotes.com
Luminotes will allow me to take notes and collect them into notebooks in an application I will then have access to the notes no matter where I am. It is a web based word processing program. Because it is web based your notebooks are available on any computer that has internet access.

Linoit - web app #3

I just uploaded a sticky note application which I think will be useful to help me stay organized. Here is the link to my current page.
http://linoit.com/canvas/rgilcrist/school%20notes
This app was super easy to access, upload and start using.

• You can customize the background and select the color of sticky note you want to post.
• It has a built in spell checker
• You can upload photos as a sticky.
• All the stickies can be moved around on your personal canvas.

I just learned that it e-mails you to remind you of what you have on your canvas. How cool is that?

InkScape - web app #4
I have been using the free graphic program InkScape this week for creation of a project for another class I am currently taking. This has given me the opportunity to really get into the program and evaluate under pressure. It is a vector graphics editing program. It is pretty easy to use. Though it is not really intuitive to use. I have had to spend a lot of time with the tutorials but they are very good. I have created several graphics that combine photos and text. Here is a poster I created for use in the classroom using InkScape.