Forum Discussion
Your Favorite Utility Programs
[Last updated: 3-April-2011]
Let's start a thread where we share our favorite utility programs--those "little apps" that we use:
To make us more productive
Or do that little job quicker a...
I'll share some free ones I use daily:
I find PureText indispensable as a tool for pasting without formatting across all Windows applications.
Another great clipboard utility is Ditto, which keeps a history of your clipboard items. (Especially useful when copying quiz items/responses from a Word document to Quizmaker)
I couldn't live without Notepad++ for making quick HTML edits. I pair this with FireFTP for a minimal but fast web editing environment.
FireFTP is very useful for managing our web content right within Firefox. I especially like how it has a "View on the Web" right-click menu option.
Another awesome tool is iMacros for Firefox which allows me to automate a lot of LMS tasks.
Google Analytics is handy for figuring out what content is getting watched most and what browsers people are using to watch it.
I've got more, but I also have a meeting to go to...
