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Online ‘To Do’ list

Posted by ucdlibrary on April 28, 2008

Remember the milkRemember the milk is an online task management tool thats allows you to prioritize and keep track of tasks. You can also get reminders of due recent tasks in different ways e.g e-mail and sms. This tool can be useful for project work and pre exam revision. Since its available online, you can add and update tasks from anywhere.Dynamic Periodic Table

Also worth checking out is the Dynamic Periodic Table. This is an interactive online version of the periodic table. Clicking on an element retrieves information on the element from wikipedia and you can quickly and easily get visual information on such topics as hardness, electronegativity or thermal conductivity

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Bookmarking needn’t be delicious

Posted by ucdlibrary on April 18, 2008

In an earlier post we highlighted delicious as a way for keeping track of websites while you are on the move. However nothing ever stands still especially on the web and we thought we’d have a look and see what else is out there.

Ma.gnoliaMa.gnolia offers similar features to delicious but also claims to make the social networking aspect of bookmarking more effective. The service allows you to range pages and once you bookmark a site will Ma.gnolia  make a copy of the text content on the web page so you can go back at a later stage to make sure you read what you thought you read. furl

Furl This once again offers a similar range of features to delicious and ma.gnolia. It will back up a copy of the web page and will allow you to update the copy when the webpage changes if you want to. You can also save a clipping with the book mark. This is a quoted portion of the page that is separately displayed and can be used for summarizing the page or identifying the most important part of it.

GoogleOf course no web based service type can ever be mentioned without Google and bookmarking is no different. Google offers Google Bookmarks as its bookmarking tool. Its ok as far as it goes but seems to ignore the social aspect of bookmarking, which to me is a drawback. You never know what other people have found on the web.

These are just a few of an ever increasing list of bookmarking sites. If you try these and you don’t like them, here’s a list of 500 bookmarking sites that you can invesigate.

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