Two Short Trials

1) zoomerang!
This was the first of my three trials. Creating the account, free and easy. Creating a survey, not as intuitive as I thought it would be. By no means is it difficult however, buttons are not where you first think to look for them and it is on the trying side to scan for them. A couple of things are set up in a strange way, such as to add a heading or to change the title of the survey you have to add a question and select the answer type "heading" from a drop down menu of things such as "Choice: multiple answer- bullets", "Free response", etc.

When the survey is finished it looks very nice, although you do need to make sure that a large font has been selected because it is set to "1 (size point 8)" which is small for most eyes and last time I checked surveys are supposed to be easy to read so people don't dislike filling them out.

Overall I feel like this will be very helpful for my research.

2) zotero!
I have never been one to understand quite why some people love mozilla. I have never downloaded it because I felt that it was an equal to IE. I downloaded it and am now suffering some from small differences. So far my only real complaint is that Outlook Web Access acts up a little in it. But I have to say that I am starting to love some aspects of it myself, one of which being Zotero!

I did not have a long chance to get used to it, but importing information was easy. I have an ipod, and the interface was logically set up and I never had to go searching for features or buttons. I have a feeling I will be wondering what I ever did without it very soon.