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Best Free Reference Websites

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:43:42 GMT

clipped by: bunnicula
clipper's remarks: There are SO many good resources listed on this website (I only clipped a few of them). I really suggest checking it out.

Clip Source: www.ala.org

Best Free Reference Web Sites

All-Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/)
Matrix Software, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/).
Lynn Nelson and Kendall Simmons.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/).
Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Cyberschoolbus (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/).
United Nations Statistics Division

Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Economist Country Briefings (http://www.economist.com/countries/).
Economist Newspaper, Ltd.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Fact Monster^TM (http://www.factmonster.com/).
Family Education Network Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

50 States and Capitals (http://www.50states.com/).
Ray Weber; Weber Publications.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

Foreign Government Resources on the Web
(http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

GrayLit Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports (http://graylit.osti.gov/index.html).
Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

The Merck Manual Home Edition (http://www.merckhomeedition.com/).
Merck & Company, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

NoodleTools: Smart Tools for Smart Research (http://www.noodletools.com/).
Debbie Abilock, Librarian/Curriculum Coordinator, Damon Abilock, NoodleTools Web site design and development.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://www.bls.gov/oco/).
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Online! Citation Styles (http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html).
Bedford/St. Martin's.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

WebMD Health (http://www.webmd.com/)
WebMD, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

World Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/).
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Tags: reference, research, websites

Create printable business cards

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:20:56 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Whip up a batch of business cards in a hurry at Businesscardland, then print them on your own printer.

The site provides a handful of basic templates to choose from, then lets you fill in as much personal information as you'd like (business name, phone numbers, etc.). Next, you choose from a palette of about 100 colors for the text, accents and background. The biz-card maker then produces a downloadable PDF with either a full sheet of cards for home/office printing or a single card you can give to a commercial printer.

Tags: free, web services, business cards, business

Letterpop - make beautiful newsletters online

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:15:14 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Clip Source: www.downloadsquad.com

LetterPop! is a funky little web application that allows you to use drag and drop techniques to put together very sharp email newsletters. You pick from a set of templates, and you can drag and drop photos and write text, and basically publish a newsletter in short order. You'll need to sign up for the service, which is currently in beta mode, and therefore free for a year. Once you've signed up you are permitted to upload your own photos for use in your newsletters.

Tags: free, newsletters, web services

Bookmarklets for Firefox et al

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:04:26 GMT

clipped by: ghiberti
clipper's remarks: There's a dozen plus extra little bokkmarklets (snippets of javascript) to do various useful site customizations for you at the source.

Clip Source: tech.cybernetnews.com

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