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Ridiculously Useful Websites

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:07:59 GMT

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15 Ridiculously Useful Websites

Web MD

Provides a reference for anyone looking to diagnose his or her symptoms or research medical issues. It is a good place to visit before making that, oh so expensive, trip to the doctor.

E-How

A reference site for just about everything else. Want to k now how to wax snow skis? Make pizza dough? Install a bathtub? This is the place.

Bartleby

One of the better academic research websites I've come across.

How Stuff Works

A very cool website that contains explanations of those mysteries in life that you just can't figure out. A few examples are Murphy's Law, Pickpockets, and Light Sabers (Yes, light sabers).

Seriously, the coolest music-related site I've seen. You choose the mood, intensity, and genres of the music you would like to hear and the site will provide you with a virtual web of music to explore. The web evolves with each choice you make. You can click on any song in the web at anytime.

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5000+Resources to do just about anything online free

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:18:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I've clipped a few examples. Links to other resources can be found at the page

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Since May 2007, we’ve been bringing you resources and tools to be more productive on the web. Due to popular demand, we’ve brought all these lists together into one gigantic meta-list: 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online.

Enjoy! And don’t forget to subscribe to Mashable for the latest web news and resources.

6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog’s Success - Six essential tools for measuring how your blog is performing.

20+ Firefox Plugins For Managing Email - Use Firefox to help you manage and control your email.

100+ Tools For Flickr Addicts - The possibilities with Flickr seem endless, and this toolbox shows you just some of what is out there for you Flickr addicts.

90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources - Tools for editing, finding, and storing photos.

50+ Websites For the Kickass Control Freak - More tools to get your life organized and get more done online and out in real life.

120+ Web Development Resources - A huge list of tools to assist you with developing your website.

Tags: internet, tools, resources, programs, free

Beyond Wikipedia...reference sites you can''t do without

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:08:04 GMT

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Encylopedia Britannica

Scholarpedia

JSTOR

Oxford English Dictionary

Wikiseek

WikiMindMap

Online Education Database - This is a strange site, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it - but this link lists over 100 specific search and research tools, often relevant to specific subjects.

MathWorld - if you have the great misfortune of having to take math, then this site can be of great help. Everything mathematics from Geometry to Calculus is covered by this site in great detail.

GeoHive and Fedstats - These are both statistics sites, so if you need to know how many people. Fedstats allows public access to public agency statistics. Geohive is a bit cooler, primarily providing global statistics (gender populations, coal reserves, etc). I know, it’s so exciting I can’t stand it.

Theoi and Encyclopedia of Mythology - Both excellent resources on the subject of mythology and ancient religions. This is useful information all across the humanities.

Tags: research

30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:16:52 GMT

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What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.

1. Firefox

2. Thunderbird

3. Sunbird

4. Abiword

5. OpenOffice

6. ClamWin

7. Gaim

8. BitTorrent

9. GIMPShop

10. Gnucleus

22. PDFCreator

27. Workrave

28. GanttPV

29. GnuCash

30. True Combat: Elite

Tags: free

I LOVE IT! Free courses online. No Joke

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:10:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This site is absolutely amazing! It offers free education in any subject from Aerodynamics to Dentistry, from Calculus to History, from Business to Oceanography. All coursework is provided free of charge online. I checked it out and was very surprised by their offering.

Clip Source: www.free-ed.net

Free education on the Internet
No books to buy, no hidden fees
Courses, tutorials, and skill-building activities for today's most important vocational and academic disciplines

GED
High School, Homeschool
College Prep
Vocational & Career Training
College Programs
Graduate and Professional Studies
Lifelong Learning

Click Here for instant access all of our free courses.
Go ahead ... it won't cost you anything ... ever!

Complete courses and tutorials for more than 120 different vocational and academic disciplines.

Study programs for homeschooling, advanced college prep, GED, technical careers, lifelong learning, and much, much more.*

Simply pick a course and go to work on it.
No sign-ups, no passwords, no credit-card requests

Is this school really free? Yes. You don't even have to buy any textbooks--everything is provided online. Costs are covered by advertising and donations from appreciative patrons.

See more questions and answers...

Tags: education, internet, free

50 Great Free Online Libraries

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:18:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Comprehensive list of free online book resources

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Research & Education

50 Great Free Online Libraries

1. California Digital Library

2. The Online Books Page

3. Free Books

5. Research Assistance

6. BookRags - E-Books and Book Notes

7. All Bookstores.com

8. FreeTech Books

10. Free E-Books.net

11. MindView

12. The eBook Directory

13. University of Virginia's E-Book library

14. BizzyDays Ebook Publications

15. Web Source

16. free-ebooks-4u.com

17. Prosperity Point

18. Free eBooks and Best Sites

19. Free Electronic Books

20. CIW Free E-Books

21. My Free EBooks

22. Free E-Books

23. A Good Read

24. Blackmask Online

25. EBookstand

26. Bibliomania

27. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

28. The eText Archive

29. Free Books 5000

30. Classic Bookshelf

32. Samizdat Press

33. Page by Page Books

34. bartleby.com

35. Free Books 4 Doctors

36. InformIT Online Books

37. Chapter-a-Day - Free Books in Your E-Mail!

42. BeyondBooks.com

47. Free-Ed.Net

48. Free Joke Books

52. Great Books Index

54. Internet Medieval Sourcebook

55. Books by David Irving

56. Be Successful!

Tags: lists, ebooks, resources

Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:13:32 GMT

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Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity

Firefox is the browser of dreams for many people (myself included). One of the great perks of Firefox is that there are tons of extensions that enhance the functionality of the browser. With over 1500 extensions in existence, there are many that can be used to improve your productivity. The following is my take on the top 10 extensions that will keep you focused, reduce distractions, streamline your daily work flow, and improve your productivity.

Tags: firefox, browsers

Read Print - online classics and more

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:29:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast

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A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index. If you need help with something, feel free to drop us a line.

Bookmark us for future reference and use Amazon coupons to save money on textbooks!

The Invisible Man
The Wealth of Nations
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Animal Farm

1984
Paradise Lost
The Origin of Species
The Canterbury Tales
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Jane Eyre
Peter Pan
Pride and Prejudice
Inferno
Roughing It

Tags: books, literature, classics

Bookmarklets for Firefox et al

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:04:26 GMT

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A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. Because Internet Explorer uses the term favorites instead of bookmarks, bookmarklets are also less commonly called favelets by users.

Bookmarklets can be saved and used like normal web page bookmarks. Therefore, they are simple “one-click” tools that can add substantial functionality to the browser. For example, they can:

Modify the way a web page is displayed within the browser (e.g., change the font size, background color, etc.).

Extract data from a web page (e.g., hyperlinks, images, text, etc.).

Jump directly to a search engine, with the search term(s) input either from a new dialog box, or from a selection already made on a web page.

Submit the page to a validation service.

There are all kinds of services that provide bookmarks, especially for browsers that don’t support extensions or add-ons, like Opera. The problem is trying to find ones that are actually useful to you. Below I have categorized the different bookmarklets depending on what you are trying to do. I have quite an extensive collection of bookmarklets that I have gathered over the years with my two primary sources being SquareFree and OperaWiki. I’ll be mashing the two sources together to bring you my favorites, and each one will have images signaling which browsers they work with (Firefox 2 , Internet Explorer 7 , and Opera 9 ).

Note: To use any of the following bookmarklets just hold down the left mouse button and drag the hyperlink to the bookmark toolbar in your browser.

Color code links
Makes all internal links on a site red, external links blue, and links pointing to the current page (internal bookmarks) orange.

Hide visited hyperlinks
Removes all hyperlinks that you have already visited on a site, therefore making it easier to see which links you still need to open.

Tags: browsers, bookmarklets, firefox, customization, flock, opera, ie7, javascript

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:22:59 GMT

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27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

1. AI Roboform Toolbar : http://www.roboform.com/

2. All-In-One Sidebar : http://firefox.exxile.net/

3. Colorful Tabs : http://varun21.googlepages.com/main.html

4. CoLT (short for "Copy Link Text") : http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/

5. Optimise Google : http://www.customizegoogle.com/

6. del.icio.us Extension : http://del.icio.us/

7. Digg This : http://j.domaindlx.com/diggthis/

8. DOM Inspector : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

1. AI Roboform Toolbar : http://www.roboform.com/

2. All-In-One Sidebar : http://firefox.exxile.net/

3. Colorful Tabs : http://varun21.googlepages.com/main.html

4. CoLT (short for "Copy Link Text") : http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/

5. Optimise Google : http://www.customizegoogle.com/

6. del.icio.us Extension : http://del.icio.us/

7. Digg This : http://j.domaindlx.com/diggthis/

8. DOM Inspector : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/

9. Duplicate Tab : http://twanno.mozdev.org/

10. Fasterfox : http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

11. Firefox Extension Backup Extension v.3 (FEBE) : http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/index.html

12. Fission : http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=370248

13. Google Preview : http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/

14. IE Tab : http://ietab.mozdev.org/

15. Mouse Gestures : http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/

16. Mozlab : http://dev.hyperstruct.net/trac/mozlab

17. MyPortal : http://myportal.mozdev.org/

18. Performancing :http://performancing.com/

19. RanQuest SEO Toolbar : http://www.rankquest.com/

20. Reveal : http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/reveal/

21. Rite of Tongue : http://hashcolouredtabs.mozdev.org/riteoftongue/

22. RubNub : http://www.rubnub.org/

23. Sage : http://sage.mozdev.org/

24. Search Status : http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

25. StumbleUpon : http://www.stumbleupon.com/

26. VideoDownloader : http://videodownloader.net/

27. WebDeveloper : http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/

Tags: tips, firefox, extension

Trashmail.net Firefox Extension

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:15:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Firefox extension to create throwaway email addresses for spam prevention.

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TrashMail.net

by Stephan Ferraro

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Create free disposable email addresses and paste them directly in forms. This helps to protect you from spam mails and could be useful when subscribing to forums or newsletters.
The email addresses can be deleted at any time!

This plugin uses the free TrashMail.net DEA service.

Tags: antispam, spam, firefox, extension, email

The best FIREFOX add-ons (1)

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:14:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: nice and useful,utile dulci

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Gmail Space 0.5.3 by Rahul Jonna, tnarik

This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2.5 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system. The interface will make your Gmail account look like a FTP host.

After the installation, you'll get an option called "GSpace" in your "Tools" menu, which opens the GSpace window.

It's great for storing/sharing files with your friends. Also very good to backup photos and music files (as you can view/listen to them from Gspace).

If you have any problems with the extension, please look at the FAQ page (http://www.getspace.com/faq.html). If your question is not listed or the solution doesn't apply to your specific question, please email the current developer (tnarik).

Let's do something interesting: send your suggestions about Gspace to tnarik until 23/11/2006. Let's see what we can we do to please you all.

Gmail Manager 0.5.3 by Todd Long

Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

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Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5.2 by CPU, onemen

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

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Firefox Showcase

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Fotofox

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yourminis.com HUD

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Speed up Firefox with these tweaks

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:18:49 GMT

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Speed up Firefox with these tweaks

Does Firefox seem way slower than Internet Explorer to you? Well it certainly is out of the box. I’m not sure why they don’t make the following settings default but check these out. They may change your opinion of the browser.

Type “about:config” in your firefox address bar.

Search for the following settings:

1. network.http.pipelining
Set to true
2. network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
Set to true
3. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Set to 32
4. network.http.proxy.pipelining
Set to true
5. nglayout.initialpaint.delay
Set to 0

Its very likely that you won’t have an entry for network.http.pipelining.firstrequest. Thats ok. Just add one.

Right-click on the preferences list, select ‘New’ then select ‘Boolean’

On the first prompt, type:
network.http.pipelining.firstrequest

On the second prompt, set it to ‘true’

Its also likely that you won’t have an entry for nglayout.initialpaint.delay

Right-click on the preferences list, select ‘New’ then select ‘Integer’

On the first prompt, type:
nglayout.initialpaint.delay

On the second prompt, set it to ‘0′

Enabling the pipelining features allows the browser to make multiple requests to the server at the same time. The “maxrequests” is the maximum number of requests it will send at once. I’ve heard that 8 is the most it will send at once, but setting it higher won’t hurt, just in case. The initialpaint.delay is the length of time (in milliseconds) after the server response before the browser begins to paint the page.

Tags: firefox

OWL - Online Writing Lab

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:01:39 GMT

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	Our friendly staff offers writers in the Purdue community:
	one-on-one tutorials in-lab and in-class workshops study materials for English as a Second Language conversation groups for English practice	a grammar hotline a collection of reference materials computers and a printer quiet space to study
	Take our virtual lab tour to learn more about us, read our fact sheet, or find out what's new in the writing lab.

Our Writing Lab also offers the following resources for everyone:

The Writing Lab Newsletter
(including online archives of back issues)
resources for teachers on using the Writing Lab and OWL, including using OWL in the new English 106/108 course
Writing Across the Curriculum resources

Tags: owl, writing, purdue

Guides for Writing Papers

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:06:59 GMT

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Guides for Writing Papers

Elements of Style by William Strunk is the classic writer's guide. This edition has been formatted for the Web. Students should pay particular attention to the sections on the paragraph and topic sentence.

How to Write a Paper, by P. Halsall, discusses the basic steps involved in writing a paper.

MLA Manuscript Format (in html) and MLA Based Guide for Writing Research Papers (PDF document, link fixed 25 Nov., 2005). This will answer most questions concerning the proper formatting of a research paper. The basis steps in writing such papers are also discussed.

How to Write a Thesis Statement

Paragraphs and Topic Sentences

How Do I Write a Coherent Paragraph and Make Transitions? from the Academic Resource Center, Wheeling Jesuit University. The section on "topic sentences" is particularly useful.

Rhodes College Writing Center Guide to Writing Papers

The Writing Guide, developed by Prof. Carolyn Schriber of Rhodes College, is an excellent guide to the basics of constructing an expository essay (also, it is here as an MS Word doc.)

Chicago Manual of Style Online I recommend this as a guideline for properly formatting the documentation of a paper.

Tags: people, writing, web sites, technology