ICFAI National College – Kerala region proposes to conduct a seminar on management research all of u who is interested can write research papers in different areas of management, the seminar is proposed to be held in kochi sometime in Nov 2007, those of u is interested and need to know more about it can write to me at nishaannjacob@rediffmail.com, accomodation would be arranged for those who require it.

Smart Browsing: Browser Extensions
Firefox: Extensions
Firefox allows programmers to build new features that extend its power
Several programmers regularly develop new features called extensions
Extensions enhance the power of Firefox
Calculator extension: http://calculator.mozdev.org/
Split screen:http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/splitscreen

Bookmarklet
The familiar web site address format: http://domainname/page.htm
Here, ‘http’ is called the link protocol.
protocol part (component before ‘:’ ) tells the browser the kind of resource we are looking for and the method to be followed in extracting it.
'http:’ protocol informs the browser that we need to get a resource stored on a web server. 

Bookmarklet
Apart from ‘http’, modern browsers support such protocols as ‘ftp’, ‘file’, ‘mailto’ and so on
‘file://c:’ will list out the directory of your local hard drive.
mailto:jmurali@gmail.com
Another protocol available with most of the browsers is the ‘javascript’ protocol that runs JavaScript commands. 

Smart Browsing: Bookmarklet
javascript:alert("Hello Students")

Smart Browsing: Bookmarklet

http://www.bookmarklets.com/ http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/yuppi/links/bookmarkletlinks.html

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
http://4umi.com/web/bookmarklet/formulas.htm (unit conversion)
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/special-geek-to-live-129141.php
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/12/27/cybernotes-the-best-bookmarklets-for-your-browser/
Google toolbar: http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html
Groove: http://www.groowe.com/

Smart Browsing:Web recorder
To accomplish certain online tasks, we need to go through a set of specified steps.

The Firefox extension, DejaClick (http://www.dejaclick.com/) helps you record multi-step online tasks and replay it later with a mouse click 

Smart Browsing:
To record a session, first click on the `Power On' button available on the left-end of this toolbar.
Now, click on the `Begin Recording' button, go through the various steps as usual and when you are done, click on the `Stop recording' button.
You can click on the `Replay' button and make sure that all the steps are recorded properly.
Now create a bookmarklet and place it on to the browser's toolbar (using the Deja's button with the `Star' icon).

Power Searching: Search Engines
Database is created automatically using computer programs
Index contains billions of web pages
Large number of results
Many irrelevant ones
General search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN
Power Searching:Better Googling
query [maternal health]  will look for pages that contain all the two words.
Order of terms can change the output
OR (|), + inclusion operator and - exclusion operator
Terms can be grouped with parentheses, “Gender Violence” (data|statistics)
200/5 (google a calculator)
~ synonym operator	 ~tutorial (will look for help, guide etc)

Power Searching:Better Googling
link:cds.edu (who links to a page)
Intitle: restricts the search to web page titles
Site: restricts the search to pages from a specific site
intitle:"antenatal care” site:edu
intext: (search only the body text)
filetype:doc "Antenatal Care in Developing Countries".
filetype:ppt intitle:”reproductive health”
Inurl: restricts your search to the web page links.

Power Searching: Googling extra
Google Cheatsheet: (a web page with all google commands/services) http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
Google tutorials:
The Google Librarian Centre http://www.google.com/librariancenter/index.html, meant for helping Librarians exploit the Google services effectively, is a good resources worth exploring.
55 ways to have fun with Google A freely downloadable book on Google: http://www.55fun.com/
Services to test your Google proficiency (Google Games)
Gwigle: http://gwigle.varten.net/
Looking at the results, figure out the search string
What did I search for: http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/whatsearch/

Power Searching: Other google services
Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/   search service created for spotting scholarly materials easily
author:name-of-the-author “search string” Cited by’ feature, which provides links to other articles that cite the selected article
Google Suggest: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en Suggest popular keywords as you type
Google images: (for images) http://images.google.com/
Google video: http://video.google.com// and now google acquired youtube.
Google news: http://news.google.com
Google news archives
The service helps you dig out several-years-old news stories from news sources such as BBC news, Time magazine and the like. http://news.google.com/archivesearch
A simple interface to access different Google services: http://www.gseek.com/

Search Directory
Human edited database
Organised into subject categories
Open directory Project: http://dmoz.org/
Yahoo directory: http://www.yahoo.com/
Librarian’ Index: http://lii.org/
Google directory: http://directory.google.com/

Subject Gateways
The Social Science Information Gateway-  SOSIG: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
BIOME: http://biome.ac.uk/biome.html
Reproductive Health Gateway: http://www.rhgateway.org/
A Subject Gateway Portal http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
RFE: http://rfe.org/  (Resource for Economist)
Subject gateway list: http://www.library.miami.edu/research/guides/subject_research_guides.html
Other resources
Directory of electronic journals: http://www.dialogical.net/socialsciences/journals.html
Scout Report Archives: http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/index.php
On-line Economics text books http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm
Infomine:http://infomine.ucr.edu/ (access ‘Bio section’ search ‘maternal health’)

Answer search Engines
Answer search engines help you get direct answers to your questions (like: what is the theory of demand?)
Brain Boost: http://brainboost.com/  (Is abortion safe for women?)
Lexxe: http://lexxe.com/  (what are the issues in  reproductive health and gender violence?) (What is the GDP of India?)
Ehow: http://www.ehow.com
Answers.com: http://www.answers.com/  (induced abortion)
Hakia http://www.hakia.com/  Keyword search, phrase search and answer search

Special search engines
Acronyma: http://www.acronyma.com (to get expansion for acronyms and abbreviations) http://econterms.com/ (economic terms)
Open J-gate: http://www.openj-gate.com/ Service indexes more than 3,000 open access journals and helps you access millions of articles rather easily. 

Special search services
Nation master: http://www.nationmaster.com/    For country-wise statistics on various parameters such as agriculture, economy, health and the like. 

Search list service/Custom search engines

Rollyo (http://www.rollyo.com//) is one such service.
Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/
Listible: http://www.listible.com/
Google CSE http://www.google.com/coop/cse/overview

To access CSEs of different categories: http://www.customsearchguide.com/
Vertical Search engine
A search meant for a specific subject domain
Bio-ask: http://bioask.com, a search tool targeted at life science researchers
mines data from PubMed (a common resource for life science researchers), provides several tools for generating efficient output, with relevant and focused links.

Kosmix: http://www.kosmix.com/
Medstory: http://www.medstory.com/   (health and medicine)
Justia http://www.justia.com/ (for legal community)

Google Notebook : http://www.google.com/notebook
Google Notebook search service: http://www.google.com/notebook/search
Opendoar: http://opendoar.org/search.php
Directory of Open access repositories
Search portals
Search portals help u access several search engines from a single interface
Mr. Sapo: http://www.mrsapo.com/
Turboscout: http://www.turboscout.com/index.php 

Managing download
DL-Expert
Stardownloader.
Web site Copier
http://www.httrack.com/ 

Downloading Video Tutorials
A huge collection of videos related to a range of subjects that include Economics, Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science is hosted on the Net
Principles of Macro Economics  http://www.nr.cc.va.us/eco201/Real/Real.htm
Video lectures on physics: http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Science/Physics/default.asp
To locate instructional videos that lucidly explain/demonstrate how various life-tasks (like `how to bandage an elbow') are performed  http://www.videojug.com
Lots of videos from video hosting services like google video, youtube etc
Though you can view all the shared videos on the services mentioned above for free, you need a high-speed link for smooth viewing.
Download them on to the local storage to watch them comfortably with  Keepvid (http://keepvid.com/)
DownloadHelper https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3006/

UIADR (Version 1.0): LINKS

Browsing

Firefox Extensions

Extension room: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/

Bookmarklet Repositories

1.                  http://www.bookmarklets.com/

2.                   

2.            http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets

3.            http://www.m-w.com/button/ (Dictionary bookmarklet)

4.            http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

5.            http://4umi.com/web/bookmarklet/formulas.htm (unit conversion)

6.            http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/special-geek-to-live-129141.php

Google toolbar: http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html

Search

Search Directory

Open directory Project:             http://dmoz.org/

Yahoo directory:                      http://www.yahoo.com/

Librarian’ Index:               http://lii.org/

Google directory:                      http://directory.google.com/

Subject Gateways

SOSIG: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

BIOME: http://biome.ac.uk/biome.html

SOSIG: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

A Subject Gateway Portal

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

Other Resources

Research Methods in Social Science: http://www.library.miami.edu/netguides/psymeth.html#survey

Directory of electronic journals: http://www.dialogical.net/socialsciences/journals.html

On-line Economics text books http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm

Answer Search Engines

Brain Boost: http://brainboost.com/

Lexxe: http://lexxe.com/

Ehow: http://www.ehow.com

Special Search Engines

Acronyma: http://www.acronyma.com (to get expansion for acronyms and abbreviations)

Eeconomic terms: http://econterms.com/

For subject-specific materials: http://www.subjectfinder.com/

Open J-gate: http://www.openj-gate.com/ (For Open Source Journals)

RFE: http://rfe.org/  (Resource for Economist)

Special Search Services

Nation master: http://www.nationmaster.com/  (For country-wise statistics on various parameters such as agriculture, economy, health and the like)

Jux2: http://www.jux2.com/ (A search engine comparison tool)

Clustered Search Engines

Clusty http://clusty.com/

Mooter: http://www.mooter.com/moot

Clush http://www.clush.com

Search Portals

Mr. Sapo: http://www.mrsapo.com/

Turboscout: http://www.turboscout.com/index.php

Learning Object Repository

Merlot: http://www.merlot.org

COL: http://www.col.org/lor/

On-line storage

Gmail Drive: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Web-based solution for Gmail: https://www.xmailharddrive.com

On-line Storage service

E-Snips:http://esnips.com

E-mail based file sending service

You sendit: http://www.yousendit.com/

Rapid share: http://www.rapidshare.de/

RapidUpload: http://www.rapidupload.com/

Live Web

Free Blogging-hosts

Blogger:http://www.blogger.com/start

WordPress: http://wordpress.com/

Wiki

Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/

Sakshi (Kerala based content creation): http://sakshi.in

For a free personal Wiki: http://pbwiki.com/

On-line Bookmark service: http://www.mybookmarks.com

Social Bookmark services

Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us 

Furl: http://furl.net

Spurl: http://www.spurl.net/

CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/  (created for sharing academic papers stored on-line)

Yummy: http://yummy.printfu.org/ (on-line service meant only to store/share links to PDF files)

Grass-roots: http://grass-roots.in/ (kerala based news stories)

Tracking content

RSS reader

Blogbridge (Desktop based): http://www.blogbridge.com/

Bloglines (Web based): http://bloglines.com/

Indian Express group’s feeds: http://www.expressindia.com/syndications/

Feeds for Times Group: http://info.indiatimes.com/rss/

Blog aggregation services

Memeorandum: http://www.memeorandum.com/

Newsvine: http://www.newsvine.com/

Tail Rank: http://tailrank.com/ 

Chuquet: http://chuquet.com/

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