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This page is a place to post helpful resources for students. As you find interesting websites, academic databases, videos, etc., add them to this page. If your resource doesn't fit into one of the preexisting categories, feel free to create a new category.

Digital Composing Tools

Audacity

"Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds."

Aviary Tools

"Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing."

Prezi

"cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides."

FileLab

File Lab is an online video and audio editor.

Screencast-o-Matic

"One-click screen recording on Windows or Mac with no install for free"

How to Rip a DVD with Handbrake (Mac), How to Rip a DVD with Handbrake (PC)

Handbrake is a powerful cross-platform, free ripping and transcoding tool.

Digital Research Tools

Video Download Helper for Firefox

"The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries."

Voyeur Tools: Visualize Your Texts

"One of the more useful components of Voyeur is that it allows researchers to analyze both a corpus of documents or individual sources."

Digital Methods Initiative's database of tools

"The Digital Methods Initiative is a contribution to doing research into the "natively digital"...the focus is on how methods may change, however slightly or wholesale, owing to the technical specificities of new media." The site may cause your browser to issue a security warning because of an alleged security certificate problem. As far as I know, the site does not present a security problem.

HTTrack Website Copier

"[A]llows you to download a...site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer." Windows, Mac, Linux

IBM's Many Eyes

"This site is set up to allow the entire internet community to upload data, visualize it, and talk about their discoveries with other people."

Bamboo DiRT (beta) Digital Research Tools

"Project Bamboo is currently piloting a directory of tools, services, and collections that can facilitate digital research. This evolution of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki includes new ways of browsing and commenting on the entries."