Middlespot – an interesting search tool

Today I have tried an interesting search tool that can be usefull as a research tool. http://middlespot.com

It is useful that you can start using the tool at once. You can select some search results for moreadvanced analyzing and save them on your screen.

Below there is an information from their homepage

middlespot.com is a powerful new interface for analyzing and managing your
search results. No plugins, logins or passwords required. Think of us as your
web application for search.\

• see your results in a gallery you can pan and zoom




• save individual results to personalized workpads




• share your research with friends and colleagues




• manage your research efforts over multiple sessions

Ubernote – a new free tool

I have started to try a new tool Ubernote .

The main features:

• saving selected Web information (clips or bookmarks),
• type notes or send them by email to Ubernote,
• sharing with your friends (choose whether they edit or simply read)
• add notes to UberNote using your mobile phone.

The tool has a nice and easy to use interface.
Other nice feature – I use the tool using slow internet in the village. It is faster than Google Note or some other but slower than Evernote.

You can sort notes by different ways. You need carefully add tags to notes as there is no files and you can find  and reuse your notes only by sorting and browsing, by searching, by selecting tags, by selecting marked important notes.
It would be useful if a few importance levels would be used.

A short info about tool developers.

UberNote is the work of a few Penn State University graduates who have been building software for the past 10 years across many industries.

Wired-Marker – an useful Firefox extension

Japanese have developed an interesting Firefox extension Wired-Marker.
It is very useful for me as it operates using slow internet ( I use such in the village).

“Wired-Marker is a permanent (indelible) highlighter that you use on Web pages. The highlighter, which comes in various colors and styles, is a kind of electronic bookmark that serves as a guide when you revisit a Web page. The highlighted content is automatically recorded in a bookmark and saved. To use Wired-Marker, you simply drag and drop the selected sections into a bookmark folder. You can highlight not only text but also pictures, tables, and selected portions of the screen. You can even add notes to the highlighted items.”

Main features:

• Use as an “indelible highlighter” on Web pages

  Use as an electronic bookmark
  Use as a scrapbook folder
  Use as a structural organization tool for information
  Other useful functions (export, template creation, image capture, etc)

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Easy-to-use Web clipping tool “ClipClip”

Today I have started to try very simple and easy to use Web clipping tool ClipClip.

You need to drag and drop only two buttons to your toolbar:

• clipclip button
• My Clip.

When you select part of web page to save you click the first button “clipclip button”

When you want to see your saved clips you click “My clips” button.

Before saving a clip you add tags (may consists of a few words), edit title of the clip (if you need) and add you short comment (note) about the clip.

As the tool lacks folders you need to carefully select the right tags to re-use your clips.

Other options – create a new group and save you clips to an appropriate group.

Before creating a new group you should check if such a group is absent.

You can select to join a group of your interest as well

and search clips of other members.

You can save your clip as a private one or as a public one.

Powerset – more nice feature

Today we can  access Powerset.

Yesterday I wrote about some nice Powerset features.

Today I should like to pay attention to one more feature.

When you select one of search results on the right you see a box “Article outline“

Below is the SWITCH “Show outline – Show Factz“

and at the botoom of the box you see other box with text of your query and button “Go“

It is interesting to  analyze content when you select and click either one of the items in  the Outline

or one item in Factz .

Clip2Net – Web clipping tool

Clip2Net  

Clip2Net is a free and simple screenshot program with built-in Web uploading for screenshots AND image files. Select a specific part of your desktop area and it upload to the Internet for free. You will receive a link to the image and code to use for publishing image on your blog, forum, or Web site. Drag your files into the Clip2Net Drop Zone or paste them from your clipboard to upload instantly.

Features

* Capture, annotate, and share screenshots online or save them to your PC.
* Upload and store PC files online by simply dragging them on top of the Clip2net drop box.
* Upload images and files that are stored in the Windows Clipboard.
* Get embed codes at the end of each upload session.
* View upload progress via status bar.
* Windows PCs only.

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