Posts under ‘Research Aids’

You might want to take a look at a new tool called Tabbery if any of the following describes you:

you hate having to constantly move desktop windows out of the way to see other ones;
you sometimes wish you could save your current set-up of files, webpages, etc. for easy access;
you ever want to share your current [...]

KallOut lets you search the web from any web page, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel or Powerpoint) document or Adobe PDF.  It’s easy to use and extremely helpful. It’s free, too!
Basically, when you highlight a word or set of words, KallOut adds a little icon above the highlighting.  You click on that and it gives you [...]

For the last few months, I’ve participated in the beta testing of a site called TWINE.  As of today, it’s open to the public.  If you get a chance, check it out.
TWINE’s a great way to pull together research material from various sources.  It’s both a social networking and a web content bookmarking capability.  Even better, [...]