CE120COMPUTER TOOLS FOR CE APPLICATIONS

Computer Tools Useful for CE Students

• Excel

• Sending big files

• File Syncing

• PIMs

• Google Maps

• Others tools

Excel Demo

• Pivot Tables

• VBA/Macros

• Solver (Add-Ins)

• Data Ribbon

• Custom Functions

• Concatenation

• Vlookup

• Handy Formulae

Sending Large Files

• Zip compression

• Right click, send to

• No need to zip JPEGs, PNGs

• Free services

• www.yousendit.com

• DropBox (public link)

• FTP

• Post to website

File Syncing

• Dropbox

• 2.5 GB to 20+GB

• Windows SkyDrive

• Hotmail/Windows Live

• 7 GB

• Google Drive

• Gmail

• 5 GB

• Others…

PIMs

• Personal Information Manager

• Contacts

• Calendar

• Task List

• Notes

PIMs

• iOS

• Exchange

• Gmail

• Yahoo!

• Hotmail/Windows Live

PIMs• Sending meeting requests

• Checking availabilityo Sharing calendar

• Doodle/When Is Good

• Managing to doso E-mail (unread, flag)

o Task list

o Notes

o Other services Evernote

Toodledo

Remember the Milk

• Let's create a meeting (Outlook Web Access)

Google Maps for Data Collection

Google Maps for Data Collection

KML file: Keyhole Markup Language

• XML based file that expresses geographic annotation and visualization

• KML files may be bundled and compressed with other files that they reference as single KMZ files

• KML files hosted on Earth Browsers (public web server)

• Many applications display KML, including Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Maps for mobile, NASA WorldWind, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer, Adobe PhotoShop, AutoCAD, and Yahoo! Pipes.

Collaboration Tools

• Google Docs

• Office 360

• SVN

• Git

Version Control

Questions?

Eric Green, PE, MSCE, GISPKentucky Transportation CenterResearch Engineer140C Raymond BuildingUniversity of KentuckyLexington, KY 40506-0281 eric.green@uky.eduPhone: (859) 257-2680