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Best of the best freeware and open sourse apps.

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:06:01 GMT

clipped by: JeannieGrrl
clipper's remarks: I didn't even know that some of this stuff existed. This is bar none the best application list I have ever seen.

Clip Source: www.digitaldarknet.net

Mohawke's Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection

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Tags: freeware, open source, software, computer, mac, windows, free, awesome

Reduce Firefox Memory Usage

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:27:03 GMT

clipped by: abbysname

Clip Source: www.helpero.com

How to lower the amount of memory that Firefox uses?

Fist of all you should see this: How to Reduce Firefox Memory Usage

But if you are in a hurry...

1. In your Firefox address bar, enter the following text: about:config

2. Scroll down to the entry titled browser.cache.memory.enable and make sure the Value is set to true. If it’s not, double-click anywhere in the browser.cache.memory.enable line and the status will change to true

3. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu

4. Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value pop-up box

5. You’ll need to enter a number in the Enter integer value, but that number depends on how much memory you have (specifically, how much you want to 'give' Firefox). If you have 256MB or less RAM, enter 4096 as the value. If you have 512MB of RAM, enter 6144 or 8192. If you have 128MB or less RAM, you may want to consider upgrading - memory is getting very inexpensive.

6. Confirm that the new entry has been created and the integer value is correct

7. If for any reason you wish to restore the default settings, change the browser.cache.memory.capacity integer value to -1 (that’s minus one).

Source: simplehelp.net

Tags: firefox, computer, memory, practical

100 Tools for Learning (by popularity)

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:06:41 GMT

clipped by: frogtuxedo
clipper's remarks: "This list is being compiled from the Top 10 Favourite Tools lists of a growing number of contributions from e-learning professionals."

Clip Source: www.c4lpt.co.uk

Firefox

del.icio.us

Skype

Google Reader

Gmail

Google Search

Blogger

WordPress

Microsoft PowerPoint

Bloglines

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

iGoogle

Audacity

Captivate

Microsoft Word

Dreamweaver

Facebook

flickr

Google Calendar

Wikispaces

Articulate

Elgg/Eduspaces

MindManager

Moodle

Netvibes

Ning

Flash

Google Maps

Microsoft Outlook

Snagit

Thunderbird

YouTube

Books/Paper/Sketchbook

Microsoft Excel

Explode

FreeMind

Google Desktop/Sidebar/
Gadgets

Google Talk

IE7

iTunes

MediaWiki

OpenOffice

PB Wiki

Slideshare

TypePad

Zoho

Adium

diigo

Edublogs

Google Alerts

Google Scholar

Parallels

Photoshop

Scribd

Web Developer Toolbar

MSN/ Windows Messenger

Wikipedia

Yahoo Mail

Yugma

Zotero

Adobe Reader

Apple Mail

Blogmusik

CoComment

Drupal / DrupalEd

eXe

FeedBlitz

Firebug

Fireworks

Flock

GIMP

Gliffy

Google Earth

Google Groups

Google Page Creator

HTML-Kit

Jaiku

Jotspot

Last.fm

Meebo

MindMeister

Mozy

MyBlogLog

NetNewsWire

Notepad++

OmniGraffle

Paint Shop Pro

Pidgin

QuickBooks

Quicksilver

TeacherTube

Tiddlywiki

twitter

Voicethread

Yahoo Groups

Tags: internet, tools, lists, web2.0, elearning

Know where to search, No where to hide

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:34:13 GMT

clipped by: antiw

Clip Source: bhandler.spaces.live.com

Know Where to Search, No Where to Hide

We all have our favorite search engines tips, and use Google, MSN, and Yahoo! – but there are times when these search engines don't have the information you're looking for, so you'll need to venture down the road to know where!

STANDARD SEARCH

About – Comminity Help Search

Accoona – artificial intelligence for “better” searches

AddAll – book search

AltaVista

Answers – searches for answers (aka Guru)

AOL

Ask Jeeves

BookFinder – Book Search

Brainboost – searches for answers using “natural” language

dmoz – Open Directory Project (ODP)

Exalead – still in Beta

Excite

Kazazz! – Combines Search Engine and Social Networking

Lycos

Microsoft Search Result Clustering – still a research project, uses "clustering" to group results.

Snap

METASEARCH - Metasearch engines gather information from many other search engines and provide consolidated search results. Most metasearch engines combine the results from: Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, & Yahoo! and more.

Clusty – uses "clustering" to group results

Dog Pile

gada.be – My new favorite

Gigablast

Kartoo

MyriadSearch

QKsearch

Walhello

WebCrawler

GENERAL RESEARCH

Apple’s Advanced Computation Group

AT&T Labs – Research

Google Tools and some not ready for prime time.

IBM Research

Intel Technology & Research

Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs)

Macromedia Labs

Microsoft Research and Sandbox Prototypes.

Sony-Kihara Research Center

Sun Research

Xerox – Palo Alto Research Center

Yahoo! Research

ACADEMIC & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

ArXiv – Scientific Journal Archive

CiteSeer – Scientific Literature Library

Google Scholar Search

Scirus – Scientific Information

SmealSearch – Academic Business Literature

NEWS

All Headline News

FeedsFarm

Plazoo – still in Beta

BLOGS

Bloglines

Feedster

Google Blog Search

Pubsub

NEW! Talk Digger

Technorati

NOTE: I didn’t include many search engines like A9, AllTheWeb, Teoma etc because they have too close ties to commercial entities!

Tags: search, tips, links

Clipmarks helps make Firefox a favorite browser

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:19:40 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: As part of a piece about Apple launching Safari for PCs, the Telegraph's inhouse expert gave ONE example of an extension that makes Firefox the favorite browser for many. Guess which one? Clipmarks! Thanks Rick!

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

As for which browser is best, our inhouse expert, Rick Maybury, says: "There's no such thing as the perfect browser, nor is there ever likely to be. You don't have to use only one. Should you be so inclined, you could install all of them and run them at the same time."

Maybury, like a growing number of users, favours Firefox (getfirefox.com). This free software offers tabbed browsing (where you can open multiple web pages in the same browser window and flick between them), RSS feeds (which stream news and updates from your favourite sites), and a host of extensions that improve surfing, such as Clipmarks, which allows you to bookmark only the most interesting parts of a web page, rather than the whole thing.

Tags: clipmarks, firefox, browser, web, extensions

It's the End of the World

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:24:46 GMT

clipped by: ArghDangIt

Clip Source: www.wiu.edu

When the end of the world arrives,
how will the media report it?

USA Today:	WE'RE DEAD
The Wall Street Journal:	DOW JONES PLUMMETS AS WORLD ENDS
National Enquirer:	O.J. AND NICOLE, TOGETHER AGAIN
Playboy:	GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE
Microsoft Systems Journal:	APPLE LOSES MARKET SHARE
Victoria's Secret Catalog:	OUR FINAL SALE
Sports Illustrated:	GAME OVER
Wired:	THE LAST NEW THING
Rolling Stone:	THE GRATEFUL DEAD REUNION TOUR
Readers Digest:	'BYE
Discover Magazine:	HOW WILL THE EXTINCTION OF ALL LIFE AS WE KNOW IT AFFECT THE WAY WE VIEW THE COSMOS?
TV Guide:	DEATH AND DAMNATION: NIELSON RATINGS SOAR!
Lady's Home Journal:	LOSE 10 LBS BY JUDGMENT DAY WITH OUR NEW "ARMAGEDDON" DIET!
America Online:	SYSTEM TEMPORARILY DOWN. TRY CALLING BACK IN 15 MINUTES.
Inc. magazine:	TEN WAYS YOU CAN PROFIT FROM THE APOCALYPSE
Microsoft's Web Site:	If you didn't experience the rapture, d ownload software patch RAPT777.EXE.
Sun:	ARMAGEDDON-TOLERANT SOFTWARE NOW AVAILABLE !
The Vatican Press:	"Told you So"

Tags: humor, end of the world, news, entertainment

Geek office slang

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:34:53 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: Hahaah....more at the source.

Clip Source: www.berro.com

Geek Office Slang: New Office Slang Incorporating Geek Language

404: Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, "404 Not Found," which means the document requested couldn't be located. "Don't bother asking John. He's 404."

Alpha Geek: The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. "I dunno, ask Rick. He's our alpha geek."

Assmosis: Remember "Osmosis" The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

Betamaxed: When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in "Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market"

Chips and Salsa: Chips = hardware, salsa = software. "First we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."

Dilberted: To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. "Damn, I've been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."

Treeware: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

Vulcan Nerve Pinch: The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the warm re- boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key and the Power On key.

Yuppie Food Coupons: Twenty dollar bills from an ATM

Tags: humour, humor, funny, geek, language, slang, internet, computers, technology

Kill Cravings by Eating These Foods

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:35:07 GMT

clipped by: NoRest

Clip Source: diets.aol.com

Kill Cravings With These Foods

If you just can't curb the urge to wolf down chocolate or cookies, you should head straight to the kitchen. That's right. Because even though mindless noshing packs on the pounds like no other pastime, some foods can make a definite dent in your need to nibble.

Nuts: New research shows the fatty acids in pine nuts initiate the release of an appetite-suppressing hormone called cholecystokinin (CKK). According to Stokes, it’s too soon to tell if these results will stand up. In the meantime, sprinkle pine nuts on your salad or mix them into pesto over whole wheat pasta. Want a more accessible nut? Try almonds. People who consume these nutrient powerhouses lose more weight and fat mass than those who don’t. Why? The cell walls of almonds seem to act as a physical barrier to the total absorption of fat.

Hot Stuff: Spicy foods have a metabolism-boosting benefit and can dull your taste buds so you're apt to eat less. Even foods that are hot in temperature -- like tea and soup -- may diminish your appetite. Just make sure your soup is tomato or broth-based (not cream!) and your tea isn’t of the sugary variety (beware commercial flavored types like Chai). In fact, if you go green, your tea may actually give your metabolism a boost, too.

Apples: Apples pack a lot of fiber -- twice as much in every bite as peaches, grapes and grapefruit. Fiber helps turn on the fullness switch and prevents you from overeating. Get into the habit of eating an apple before dinner. Chances are, you’ll eat less of your meal as the fiber starts to kick in.

If snacking doesn’t do the trick, sniffing might. According to Alan Hirsch, M.D., neurological director of the Smell and Taste Research Foundation in Chicago, just a whiff of green apple, banana and peppermint might help you drop some weight.

By Amy Paturel, M.S., M.P.H.

Tags: food, cravings, weight

Thinking of peeling an apple? - DON'T!

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:27:11 GMT

clipped by: RecordSage

Clip Source: v.mercola.com

What is the Healthiest Part of an Apple?

Traditionally, apple peels have been considered healthy because of their fiber content, as the peel contains about 75 percent of the dietary fiber in an apple.

But a recent study has shown that the peel also contains most of the beneficial phytochemicals responsible for apples' anticarcinogenic effects.

Scientists processed more than 200 pounds of Red Delicious apples, and extracted phytochemicals from about 24 pounds of peel. They screened the compounds for anti-cancer effects in laboratory cultures of human liver, breast, and colon cancer cells, and identified a group of compounds with potent anti-cancer properties.

Specifically, 13 triterpenoids from the peels of Red Delicious apples were identified and confirmed to be highly effective against cancer. Exactly how and why these biochemicals seek and destroy cancer cells is still unknown.

Apple consumption has previously been linked to a reduced risk of lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Tags: health, apple, peel, cancer

Pepsi Admits it's Bottling Tap Water

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:24:15 GMT

clipped by: apple white
clipper's remarks: A related story about Coca Cola and Dasani, its bottled water brand, from a few years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3523303.stm

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission: Its bestselling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Last week, Pepsi agreed to change the labels of Aquafina to indicate the water comes from a public water source.

Each day an estimated 60 million plastic water bottles are thrown away. Most are not recycled. The Pacific Institute has estimated 20 million barrels of oil are used each year to make the plastic for water bottles.

Economically, it makes sense to stop buying bottled water as well. The Arizona Daily Star recently examined the cost difference between bottled water and water from the city's municipal supply. A half-liter of Pepsi's Aquafina at a Tucson convenience store costs $1.39. The bottle contains purified water from the Tucson water supply. From the tap, you can pour over 6.4 gallons for a penny. That makes the bottled stuff about 7,000 times more expensive, even though Aquafina is using the same water source.

Tags: business, water, drinks

How to Write Great Headlines

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:33:07 GMT

clipped by: adamc
clipper's remarks: Each one is explained nicely at the source.

Clip Source: www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk

Mention keywords & hot trends

Bad headline : 'Qatar TV Channel aquires new hardware'

Good headline : 'Al Jazeera International chooses Apple Technology'

Best tip, ever: Use superlatives

Bad headline: 'Send large files to your friends'

Good headline: 'The easiest way to send Super Large Files'

Summarise it all in one sentence

Bad headline: 'Scientists conduct cell transplant experiments'

Good headline: 'Scientists grow human ear on back of a mouse'

Pose a question (or an opinion dressed as a question)

Bad headline: 'Zune not much better than the iPod'

Good headline: 'Is the Zune any better than the iPod?'

Use lists to gain interests

Bad headline: 'Great films released this year'

Good headline: 'The Top 10 films of 2006'

Tags: headlines, tips, writing, clipmarks

Top Ten Spices That Defend You Against Aging

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:48:13 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee

Clip Source: articles.mercola.com

Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar.

When researchers tested extracts from 24 common herbs and spices, they found a direct correlation between antioxidant phenol content and the ability of the extracts to block the formation of compounds that contribute to damage caused by diabetes and aging.

Cloves (ground)

Cinnamon (ground)

Jamaican allspice (ground)

Apple pie spice (mixture)

Oregano (ground)

Pumpkin pie spice (mixture)

Marjoram

Sage

Thyme

Gourmet Italian spice

This is not the first time scientists have declared culinary herbs and spices as potent anti-diabetic alternatives.

Cinnamon and cinnamon extracts have previously been shown to effectively lower blood sugar. As a matter of fact, cinnamon was found to increase glucose metabolism 20-fold, in one such study!

1 in 4 Americans Now Suffer From Pre-Diabetes or Some Form of Diabetes

EverNote - Create, Organize, Find any type of Notes

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:41:05 GMT

clipped by: RecordSage
clipper's remarks: Nice stuff from some Russian boys. Remember the Apple Newton fiasco? They were responsible for the hand-recognition piece. I heard a story (which is likely to be BS, but it has an amusement factor) that they bought the technology from some professor for a bottle of vodka. Hopefully this version works better than Newton did.

Clip Source: www.evernote.com

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