WebLaminarTools
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WebLaminarTools "WLT" is a mashup supported by Weblaminar LLC. It consists of over 35 open source and freeware
applications, running on Microsoft Windows
from a USB stick. WebLaminarTools provides tools to support IT administrators, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs. Its main components are Mediawiki
for documentation and portable applications.
model. A portable platform was chosen for ease of use and zero installation requirements.
* Collecting concrete experience, - wiki documentation w/ collaboration - group thought
* Observation of and reflection on that experience, - reviewing the wiki - models, visualizations, videos
* Formation of abstract concepts based upon the reflection, - brainstorming for procedures, solutions and implementations. - mind map, forum
* Testing the new concepts, - Admin tools integrated in the wiki
Study group
The ease of installation and mediawiki plugins allows the student or group to create a private wiki for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Security can be set to allow only your team to view and edit.
IT Administration
The distribution of IT administration is organized to help the user achieve greater effectiveness by incrementally building on the lessons of the previous day in a personal wiki. Search capabilities and a customizable menu system make the wiki ideal to ease retrieval of data. You can make decisions quicker and become proactive.
Entrepreneur/Scientist
The Entrepreneur/Scientist mashup is collated to help with brainstorming, idea formation, hypothesis testing and factual reporting. It has business infrastructure tools to support finance, sales and support for a fledgling startup so you can concentrate on the business at hand. It is intended to be a personal or team notebook that can be built on as your ideas and business pursuits expand.
All WebLaminarTools distributions can securely enable access to the wiki through the use of MOWES technology.
Freeware
Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
applications, running on Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
from a USB stick. WebLaminarTools provides tools to support IT administrators, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs. Its main components are Mediawiki
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites...
for documentation and portable applications.
History
- 23 February 2010 - WebLaminarTools - WLT 1.0 download enabled on WebLaminar website for IT administrators
- 25 November 2010 - WebLaminarTools - WLT 2.1 download enabled on WebLaminar website for entrepreneurs, students, scientists and engineers.
- 25 April 2011 - WebLaminarTools - WLT2.1_IT Download enabled on the WebLaminar website for IT administrators upgraded to Mediawiki 1.16 and vector skin.
- 24 August 2011 - WebLaminarTools - WLT 2.2 upgraded for contributions tracking and updated getting started page
Usage
The combination of documentation, collaboration and tools attempts to support Kolb's experiential learningLearning styles
Learning styles are various approaches or ways of learning. They involve educating methods, particular to an individual, that are presumed to allow that individual to learn best. Most people prefer an identifiable method of interacting with, taking in, and processing stimuli or information...
model. A portable platform was chosen for ease of use and zero installation requirements.
* Collecting concrete experience, - wiki documentation w/ collaboration - group thought
* Observation of and reflection on that experience, - reviewing the wiki - models, visualizations, videos
* Formation of abstract concepts based upon the reflection, - brainstorming for procedures, solutions and implementations. - mind map, forum
* Testing the new concepts, - Admin tools integrated in the wiki
Study group
The ease of installation and mediawiki plugins allows the student or group to create a private wiki for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Security can be set to allow only your team to view and edit.
IT Administration
The distribution of IT administration is organized to help the user achieve greater effectiveness by incrementally building on the lessons of the previous day in a personal wiki. Search capabilities and a customizable menu system make the wiki ideal to ease retrieval of data. You can make decisions quicker and become proactive.
Entrepreneur/Scientist
The Entrepreneur/Scientist mashup is collated to help with brainstorming, idea formation, hypothesis testing and factual reporting. It has business infrastructure tools to support finance, sales and support for a fledgling startup so you can concentrate on the business at hand. It is intended to be a personal or team notebook that can be built on as your ideas and business pursuits expand.
All WebLaminarTools distributions can securely enable access to the wiki through the use of MOWES technology.
Presentation
- Mediawiki 1.16
- Math LaTeXLaTeXLaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
- CategoryTree
- Website_in_iFrame
- wikihiero
- Calendar
- AWC forum
- JMOLJmolJmol is an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D,that does not require 3D acceleration plugins.Jmol returns a 3D representation of a molecule that may be used as a teaching tool, or for research e.g...
structures
- Math LaTeX
- Joomla CMS 1.5 ( Content Management System )
Admin Tools
- 7-Zip7-Zip7-Zip is an open source file archiver. 7-Zip operates with the 7z archive format, but can read and write several other archive formats. The program can be used from a command line interface, graphical user interface, or with Microsoft Windows shell integration. 7-Zip began in 1999 and is actively...
- File Compression - KeePassKeePassKeePass Password Safe is an open-source password management utility for Microsoft Windows, with unofficial ports for Linux, Mac OS X, and a variety of other systems.-Cryptography:...
- Password Safe - Notepad++Notepad++Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for Windows. One advantage of Notepad++ over the built-in Windows text editor, Notepad, is tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files.Notepad++ is distributed as free software...
- ASCII Editor - PuTTYPuTTYPuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client...
SSH - shell access - WinSCPWinSCPWinSCP is a free and open source SFTP, SCP, and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality...
SFTP - file transfer - LightscreenLightscreenLightscreen is a lightweight screen shooting application for Microsoft Windows used to automate the process of saving and cataloging screenshots. It operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's...
- Screen Capture - ClamWinClamWinClamWin is free, open source antivirus software for Microsoft Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the ClamAV engine.- Features :* Scanning scheduler ....
- Virus Scan - CamStudioCamStudioCamStudio is a screencasting program for Microsoft Windows released as free software. The software renders videos in an AVI format. It can also convert these AVIs into Flash Video format, embedded in SWF files...
- Video Capture - JKDefrag - Disk Defragmentation
- CommandPrompt - DOS Prompt
- CygwinCygwinCygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment...
w/Vi - Unix Prompt - DBbrowser - Database browser
Web Tools
- GIMPGIMPGIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
- Image Editing - KompozerKompoZerKompoZer is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor based on a rewritten version of the now-discontinued Nvu editor. KompoZer is maintained as a community-driven fork and is a project on Sourceforge....
- HTML Editor - DiggDiggDigg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems...
- DNS - WgetWgetGNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get...
- Command Line URL - CurlCurlIn vector calculus, the curl is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal rotation of a 3-dimensional vector field. At every point in the field, the curl is represented by a vector...
- Command Line URL - GreenfishGreenfishGreenfish is an alternative common name for two different species of fish:* Murray cod, Maccullochella peelii peelii* Thalassoma ascensionis, also known as Ascension wrasseIt may also refer to:...
- Icon Editor
Project Tools
- Open OfficeOpen officeOpen office may refer to:* OpenOffice.org, a free and open source suite of office productivity programs .* OpenOffice.org XML, a deprecated international file format used by earlier versions of OpenOffice.org....
- Gantt Project - Gantt Charting
- FreeMindFreeMindFreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in Java. FreeMind is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It provides extensive export capabilities. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X via the Java Runtime Environment....
- Brainstorming - DIADiaDia is free and open source general-purpose diagramming software, developed originally by Alexander Larsson. Dia uses a controlled single document interface similar to GIMP and Sodipodi.- Features :...
- Drawing - CoccinellaCoccinellaCoccinella is the most familiar genus of ladybird . The elytra of most species are of a red or orange colour, punctuated with black spots or bands...
- IM / Whiteboard
Math, Science and Entrepreneurial
- TaskFreak - Task Mgmt
- MantisMantisMantis is the common name of any insect in the order Mantodea, also commonly known as praying mantises. The word itself means "prophet" in Latin and Greek...
- Bug tracking - TigerTigerThe tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...
- CRM - OS Ticket - Work Request
- MathSpeQ - Calculations
- SciLabScilabScilab is an open source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. Itcan be used for signal processing, statistical analysis, image enhancement, fluid dynamics simulations, numerical optimization, and modeling and simulation of...
- Calculations - Advanced - JmolJmolJmol is an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D,that does not require 3D acceleration plugins.Jmol returns a 3D representation of a molecule that may be used as a teaching tool, or for research e.g...
- Jmol 3D chemical structures - OSPOSP- Acronyms :* Independent Socialist Party * obiit sine prole, Latin phrase meaning "died without offspring"* Oblate Sisters of Providence* Off-street parking* Office of Special Plans...
- OSP Physics visualizations - LilyPond - LilyPond Music Scoring
See also
- Portable applicationPortable applicationA portable application , sometimes also called standalone, is a computer software program designed to run independently from an operating system...
- Portable application creatorsPortable application creatorsPortable application creators allow the creation of portable applications . They usually use application virtualization.- Creators of independent portable applications :...
- List of portable software