*All resources are free unless otherwise noted
Miscellaneous:
- EasyChair – free conference management system
- online stopwatch/timer – enter any precise amt. of time
- wheresmycellphone.com – find your phone by having this website call it, free
- Google Motion Charts – make animated charts
- printfreegraphpaper.com – print free, custom graph paper
- pandora recovery – yes, there IS a free program that recovers your lost photos!
- morewords.com – “wordgame word finder” that’s useful for scholars/linguists, too!
- stolencamerafinder.com – track your stolen camera if the thief posts photos taken with it
- OED (Oxford English Dictionary) online – many students/faculty can access this for free
- doodle.com – great for arranging meetings, and even works for student conferences
- conference posters 101 – everything you ever wanted to know about posters, plus templates
- remove personal info – remove your info. from creepy data-aggregating websites
- phpSyntaxTree – website-based way to make syntax trees
- Vassar Stats – 2×2 chi square test and more
- Soundscriber -transcription aid that repeats a stretch of audio before moving forward
- yellowpagesoptout.com – opt out of receiving those pesky, wasteful Yellow Pages
- World Atlas of Language Structures – database of structural properties of languages
- Wordle – create word clouds from your own texts
Travel
- Bedbug Registry – avoid bedbug-infested hotels
- toandfromtheairport.com – info on getting to and from any airport
IPA, Phonetics, Phonology
- IPA Character Picker – quickly get the IPA characters you need
- Complete IPA chart with sound – just click a phoneme to hear it
PDF Stuff:
- SmallPDF – compress PDFs, online (no program download required)
- RotatePDF – rotate PDFs permanently, online, for free
- CutePDF – turn anything into a PDF by sending it to this “printer”
- Foxit PDF Reader – like Adobe PDF reader/annotator, free
- PDFSAM – split & merge PDFs (free, light program)
Corpora and/or Corpus Tools
- MICASE – Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
- state of the union analyzer – NYtimes fun tool for analyzing several of these speeches
- COCA (Corpus of Contemporary Am. English) – 450 million word corpus + tools
- Princeton’s Wordnet – “tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing”
- Visuword – Princeton’s Wordnet transformed into a graphical interface
Sending files, one way or another
- wetransfer.com – transfer files up to 2GB in size. free and no sign-up
- faxzero.com – website-based way to send a fax
- mailbox locator – find the nearest USPS mailbox
Good for your mind/body:
- f.lux – no more squinting in pain at your laptop screen after dark
- simplynoise – super simple online white noise maker, with a few settings
