TimmiT Toolbox
Procurement Library – references and resources to help with procurement planning
Lexical Engineering Resources – tools for language and writing
Eclectic Engineering Resources – generally useful tools including free applications for everything else
Procurement Library
Procurement Library onlineLexical Engineering Resources
Editorial skills and rates:
- Definitions of Editorial Skills – Editors' Association of Canada. Good for determining scope of work for an editing project.
- Ready, Set... Charge!
– Editing rates depend on many factors. This short TimmiT paper explores those factors. Good if you are an editor trying to decide how much to charge or if you are a customer trying to understand the value of editing services.
Tech writing: problem words with suggested alternatives
Office software: Apache Open Office – office productivity software compatible with Microsoft Office; free software download
Dictionaries:
- Canadian Oxford Dictionary – 2nd edition
- Merriam-Webster – US online dictionary and thesaurus
- Oxford dictionaries and thesauri – in English
- Oxford Dictionaries (Lexico) – online international and multilingual dictionaries
- Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles – 2nd edition
- Thesaurus.com – online synonyms and antonyms
- Rhyme Zone – rhymes, synonyms...
- Micropedia – microagressions and their impact
- NGram Viewer – not actually a dictionary but useful for checking which alternate spellings of words are (and were) most current
- Word frequency data – not actually a dictionary but useful for checking if common words are actually all that common; see especially the free data.
- Procurement Glossary – from the Procurement School
Style guides:
- Chicago Manual of Style – The online version of the printed reference book requires a subscription. However, if you have the printed version, you can search the index online for free.
- The Canadian Style – Online version of the style guide used by some Canadian companies, organizations, and government agencies
- Canada.ca Content Style Guide – Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- IEEE Editorial Style Manual – Style guide for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers publications, also used by others
French/English:
- Language Portal of Canada – many English and French language tools
- Termium Plus – Canadian French/English terminology database
- ConjugArt – Conjugation of French verbs
- Lexiques et vocabulaires – Specialized Canadian French lexicons
- Le grand dictionnaire terminologique – Canadian French/English terminology database
US vs UK vs Canadian English:
- Canadian, British, and American spelling – Luke Mastin
- Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles – second edition
- Differences in American and British English grammar – One Stop English
- British versus American style – The Punctuation Guide
- The Canadian Style – Termium
Reading level, readability index, writing patterns:
- general info – Clear Language and Design
- SMOG
- other tools
- measure text readability – Readable.io
- readability analyzer
- compare writing patterns – Writing Well is Hard
Eclectic Engineering Resources
Free TimmiT online applications (no installation required; run in browser):
Engineering calculator: Webscalp – unit conversions, map calculations, root finding, time and date calculations, and much more
Project timer: Remitimer – on-screen stopwatch keeps time even when computer is off
Countdown timer: Loffol – on-screen liftoff (countdown) timer with audible alarm
Alarm clock: Muralarum – on-screen alarm clock with audible alarm
Clock/calendar: LaCal – date and time with 3-month calendar
Alternate timezone clock: Emitime – simple display of time and date in selectable timezone
Clocks for time zones in Canada and Alaska, also UTC
Weather dashboard: getWX – graphical display of current weather plus forecast for Canadian locations
Security: Passap – password application to generate passwords for .htpasswd
Entities: Entitne – convert symbols and accented letters to HTML entities
Text: APE – generate blocks of filler text
XML/HTML entities:
Entitne – convert symbols and accented letters to HTML entities; free TimmiT online application
- List of XML and HTML character entity references – symbols and accented characters
- Entity references – long list, not all of which are supported by all systems
- Emojipedia
- Full Emoji List – Unicode
- code charts – Unicode
HTML colours:
- HTML colours – web-safe colour codes and shades
- HTML colour codes – HTML colour code chart and colour picker
- HTML colour names – name equivalents to colour codes
Code validation:
- W3C Markup Validation – for HTML code
- W3C CSS Validation – for cascading style sheets
- Cast Feed Validator – for podcast RSS feed XML files
Link checking:
- W3C Link Checker – online
- Xenu Link Sleuth – local; free software download
Text generators:
- Lorem Ipsum – Lorem ipsum generator, useful for generating blocks of text for testing web pages or electronic publications
Aphabet Predictive Encoder (APE) – generates blocks of filler text similar to input text with a controllable level of similarity; free TimmiT online application
Letter frequency analysis:
- frequency analysis – Dcode.fr
- Letter Frequency Analysis Tool
Other:
- Internetworking: WhatIsMyIPAddress – match IP addresses and domain names, check IPs blacklisted for spam, trace email, speed test...
- Forms, graph paper: Printable Paper – for the occasions when computer applications just aren't suitable
- History: TimmiT History Exploration Notebook (THENotebook.ca) – history and hiking in Yukon
- Maps: TimmiT Info Maps for GPS (TIMaps.ca) – detailed Yukon maps for your GPS
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