January 17, 2012
There are many ways to look at and browse through Wikipedia. From browser extensions and plugins to web apps that make browsing Wikipedia more than a scholarly exercise. The vast bank of human knowledge stored within Wikipedia pages also makes for some interesting uses – some which you might not even consider seriously. But checking out these five useful ways of using Wikipedia could be worth your reading time.
January 13, 2012
There are web highlighter tools and then there are citation tools. Both are different types of study aids. A new Firefox plug-in, or let’s accurately describe it as a Firefox toolbar combines the two and gives us a personal research organizer and citation recorder called Citelighter. Citelighter is not merely for students, because with its information gathering features, it could be handy across the board.
August 9, 2011
One of Zotero’s biggest cons is that it works only within Firefox. This means you have to be running Firefox and use it to save the articles you find. As long as I was using Firefox, this was not a big issue, but when I switched to Chrome for a while, it became quite cumbersome. This is why I was delighted to find out that Zotero have come up with Standalone Zotero Alpha.
August 9, 2011
Most of us use the web to look for information and with the amount of information available online these days, it seems that we can find almost anything as long as we know how to search for it. The problem is, one piece of information often leads to another and following those leads often distracts us from what we were looking for in the first place.
July 28, 2011
I have to admit that I’m generally not much of a fan for toolbars. In fact I hate them, thanks to their spam-related nature. Even those that weren’t spam weren’t on my nice list either. I just felt like the features weren’t of any real use. However, there happens to be a very elite number of toolbars that do make it into my nice list, and the one we’re talking about today is one of them.
July 6, 2011
MS Office 2010 adds another by letting you link MS Word 2010, and MS PowerPoint to OneNote 2010. This linking allows you to refer back to either the note or the main document by clicking on the link. This free ‘exchange’ of information makes for a great information management and research aid. But how do we set it up?
June 28, 2011
Thanks to the information age, the web is the best career tool you can have at your disposal. Type in a company name and you are sure to get more than a few hits which will give you a peek into what a company is about. Let’s check out seven more career websites that collect company information and job reviews.
June 27, 2011
The web has seen its fair share of research-friendly tools grow over the past years. Let’s discuss some tools that help you keep your PDF article library neat and catalogued for use when you have to compose your research paper. So read on to find out which services stand out in this category.
April 27, 2011
We are all interested in what the next man is doing. Biographies give us a historical look into the lives and times of notable people. Reading up on biographies can be about general knowledge, about research, or simply about inspiration. Here are the top seven sources for you to visit if you are interested in the biographies of the who’s who.
March 30, 2011
It might be old and stale, but dated news still has its uses. Does the image of a guy who keeps stacks of yellowing newspapers in his attic seem somewhat out of the ordinary? It might be an obsessive disorder, and rummaging around in that pile may not appeal to us, but that pile could be a storehouse of valuable information.
