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TextFlow: another collaborative editing tool

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

I don’t usually ooh and aah at a collaborative editing tool, but TextFlow has a neat feature that lets you drag and drop the various edited copies of the same document and blends them all into a single document in which you can accept or reject suggested changes. I’m not sure how it would handle […]

Zotero

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Zotero is a citation management tool that is aimed at humanities researchers, but which could be of use to other types of researchers as well. It is integrated into Firefox, and while it is a single-user tool at the moment, the developers are promising that version 2 will incorporate collaborative features.
I am particularly impressed with […]

Colaab

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Mashable pointed me to Colaab, a for-profit collaboration website (that is, there is no free version, although you can try it out for free for 30 days). By the way, you’ll need to install Microsoft Silverlight to get the full experience at the Colaab site.
At prices that start at 24 dollars per month, Colaab is […]

Gantt charts

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

I’m trying to figure out how to build a Gantt chart for my five-year plan. I mean, I know how to build a Gantt chart, I just don’t have the tools to do it. Or don’t I?
Microsoft has a page explaining how to create a Gantt chart in Excel.  Okay, Excel, I take back my […]

For synchronous collocated collaboration

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Here’s a tool that could be useful during meetings: TeamPlayer is a Windows-only application that lets several mice and keyboards control a single system.
Via LifeHacker who points to a couple of problems with the system, though nothing that seems a deal-breaker.

Lots of web design tools

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Mashable has a very useful article listing over 130 tools to help support your web design efforts. They include such things as web templates, CSS builders, colour selection tools, image manipulation tools, favicon makers, and lots of other cool stuff. Some of the tools are free and you know that’s the price I’m always looking […]

IntuiFace

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Some interesting stuff on collaborative surfaces: IntuiFace, a French company coming out with its own software for interactive tables (there’s an English version of the website); and a video showing an  interactive design process over an interactive table.

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