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Add to my contacts Allen Gunn

Executive Director at Aspiration in San Francisco
http://www.aspirationtech.org/
All great progress happens in small circles :^)

• Google in 105 toolboxes
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  Google is the quintessential search engine.

  tagged: engine, find, free, google, hosted, leadlearn, search, searchengine, web
• CommunityWalk in 3 toolboxes
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  Google Maps mashup for basic map viewing of community data, easy to use

  tagged: gis, google, mapping, maps, mashup
• Tesseract in 1 toolbox
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  Probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF images.

  tagged: conversion, google, image, ocr, scan, text, utility
• Acrobat Capture in 1 toolbox
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  Tool to convert paper documents into searchable Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Accurate OCR, page and content recognition, and cleanup tools.

  tagged: conversion, google, image, ocr, scan, text, utility
• EtherPad in 8 toolboxes
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  Live, collaborative text-editing

  tagged: collaboration, documents, free, google, groupware, hosted, live, open, source, web-based, wiki
• EventBox in 4 toolboxes
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  Integrated social messaging app, enables managing Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, Reddit and other feeds from 1 dashboard.

  tagged: aggregate, aggretator, atom, dashboard, facebook, feeds, flickr, google, integrated, manager, messaging, reader, reddit, rss, social, twitter
• Pixlr in 3 toolboxes
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  Almost as good as Photoshop. And its online, fast AND free...what more!

  tagged: album, digitalcamera, digitalpictures, edit, editing, fireworks, free, GIF, google, graphics, image, imageediting, images, jpeg, JPG, photo, photoalbum, photoshop, picasa
• PDF to Excel in 4 toolboxes
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  Lets you create editable XLS files and re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office.

  tagged: acrobat, adobe, conversion, convert, converter, docs, excel, format, free, google, hosted, microsoft, office, openoffice, pdf, wordperfect
• Collusion in 11 toolboxes
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  Collusion is a Firefox addon that provides an interactive, real-time visualization of the entities that track your behavior as you surf the web.

  tagged: addon, cookie, cookies, doubleclick, evil, firefox, google, invastion, monitoring, plugin, privacy, snooping, spyware, tracking
• Ghostery in 5 toolboxes
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  Ghostery tracks the trackers and provides a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

  tagged: cookie, cookies, doubleclick, evil, google, invasion, monitoring, privacy, snooping, spyware, tracking
• TACO in 3 toolboxes
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  Indicates who is tracking your web browsing, and provides opt-out of targeted ads

  tagged: cookie, cookies, doubleclick, evil, google, invasion, monitoring, privacy, snooping, spyware, tracking
• Priv3 in 3 toolboxes
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  The Priv3 Firefox extension lets you remain logged in to the social networking sites you use and still browse the web, knowing that those third-party sites only learn where you go on the web when you want them to.

  tagged: anonymity, cookie, cookies, doubleclick, evil, facebook, google, invasion, monitoring, Network, privacy, snooping, social, spyware, tracking
• CalenGoo in 1 toolbox
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  Sync your various Google Calendars with this iPhone app. Much nicer presentation than the Apple calendar.

  tagged: calendar, google, iphone, sync
• GQueues in 1 toolbox
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  Project and task management integrated with Google Apps

  tagged: account, apps, google, information, management, personal, project, reminders, task, tasks