Search
LibX is a Firefox or Chrome plugin that enables direct access to the user's library's resources, including support for Google Scholar, CiteULike, COinS, and xISBN. Users can search their library catalog(s) and databases through a search bar or through a context menu. Presently it is no longer supported on Chrome (and maybe also Firefox) but it is supported by Internet Explorer. The latest release was in 2013 so it might not be compatible with recent releases of Internet Explorer.
Library Lookup is a bookmarklet that can look up whether a book is available in the user's local library, based on information about that book on a separate website (e.g. Amazon). Supported library systems are listed here.
Storage
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system running on all major platforms. It supports native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl and ODBC among others. Features: fully ACID compliant full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages) includes most SQL 2008 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) Highly customisable
Google Scholar searches books and scholarly articles (and optionally patents, legal opinions, and legal journals).
Creation
Pro Tools is audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for pictures and video with out havingto use a variety of software. Features: - over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins - over 8 GB of audio loops - view, edit, arrange and print MIDI data as music notation - Supports files up to 4 GB
Search
Google Books provides full, free PDF scans (and web-viewable versions) of public domain books and magazines, free previews of some books and magazines under copyright, and the option to purchase digital editions of available items to save and read on Google Play, their e-reading platform. You can also find a local library based on your zip code that has the item available. Reader reviews of the items are available and you can contribute your own. Search for authors, titles, as well as keywords and Google will return results with matches in the title/text of the item. There are permalinks to available pages. Highly useful for finding items that contain your keywords in its text. It has the Google Ngram Viewer as part of its service. The Ngram Viewer is a service connected to Google Books that graphs the frequency of word usage across their book collection
Search
DeeperWeb was a browser add-on that adds a tag cloud to Google search results. It grouped and sorted the results obtained from google search for further exploration. It provides tags related to the search item and helps the user refine the search. As of 2016, it is no longer available.
Gathering
Yahoo Pipes allows users to combine, filter, translate, and geocode data from RSS feeds, JSON, KML, or other similar formats, and power widgets/badges using that data.
Storage
Zamzar is an online file conversion service. Zamzar converts between a wide variety of formats (including support for word processing documents, audio, images, video, and ebooks) and emails the result to the user. There is a monthly subscription fee that depends on the volume of data converted. It also has storage services.
Creation
Transformer loads Unicode text files and performs sequences of transformation operations on them — search-and-replace, or JavaScript operations. It provides you with an interface to create and test these sequences of transformations before running them in batch mode on a set of files. Transformer was created to assist in the rescue of textual data from obsolete file formats such as DOS word-processor files. Sometimes, it proves impossible to rescue old data through normal means such as running the original application and exporting to a format which can be imported by a more modern program. Perhaps the program which created the data no longer exists or cannot be run on available hardware, or perhaps it cannot save to any format but its own. In these circumstances, it is often necessary to rescue the data by a process of manual conversion, identifying blocks of text or other data in the original file which can be replaced with Unicode characters, and building sequences of replacement operations which gradually convert the data. This often requires an exhaustive trial-and-error approach in which transformation operations are added incrementally and tested in various sequences before a reliable sequence is developed; then the sequence can be run on a group of files. Transformer should provide as efficient a working environment as possible, so that the user can focus on the task itself rather than the machinery.