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How to Build a Personlized Homepage

December 1, 2008

If you’ve never created a personalized homepage, or custom start-up page for your browser, there are a lot to choose from. My personal favorite is iGoogle but Pageflakes looks interesting too. A custom homepages is a place to gather all the news, feeds, email, gadgets, widgets and apps that are important to you, to give [...]

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Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

May 20, 2008

Footnote.com, a social-networking genealogy and history site, recently released an interactive version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall . You can search for a particular solider, or view the annotated, clickable wall by browsing. Registered users (a basic account is free) can add photos, comments, and story pages to any solider on the Wall.

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Federal Website Guards Against Internet Fraud

March 18, 2008

OnGuardOnline.gov is a federal website with practical tips on securing your computer and guarding against Internet fraud. Information is delivered with videos, tutorials, and games designed to test and expand your knowledge. Topics include laptop security, social networking, malware, identity theft and much more.

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How to View Real-Time Images at Google Earth

February 20, 2008

Although it is a common misconception that Google Earth images are real-time, they are not. There are, however, two ways to view nearly real-time satellite images on Google Earth. For three-hour old weather images, look for the Clouds layer, found under the new Weather layer folder. NASA also has a layer called DailyPlanet which shows [...]

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How to Create Wall Murals

January 2, 2008

Rasterbator is a free service that creates huge mural-size images from any picture. Simply upload an image, and then download and print the resulting multi-page PDF. Re-assemble the pages and you will have an extremely cool looking poster that can be as tall as sixty-five feet. If your original image is more than a megabyte [...]

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Read This To Me

October 16, 2007

Read This To Me is a free reading service for the blind, powered by volunteers and Internet collaboration. The blind person faxes a document to be read to the toll free ReadThisToMe fax number, and a volunteer reader (with the faxed document on his screen) will call the client and read it to him. Have [...]

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BuzzDash Polling

September 25, 2007

Polling is a fun way to take the pulse of a community. And if you have a webpage, blog or profile on a popular social networking site, BuzzDash makes it easy to create and distribute a your own custom poll. Polls can have from two to five answer options, can be skinned in a variety [...]

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Google’s Street View an Invasion of Privacy?

June 5, 2007

Google’s Street View is now live at Google Maps for five cities (San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami) with more cities coming soon. Street View is a 360-degree street-level photograph that has some people upset about privacy concerns. Here, for example, is a view of a San Francisco restaurant I dined at [...]

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Swapping Books Online

May 24, 2007

Avid readers have long swapped books with friends. Now, with online book-swapping sites acting as middlemen, we can trade books with complete strangers. Although the basic concept is the same, each of the following sites handles the mechanics of postage and mailing labels slightly differently. Take a look at Bookins, and Paperback Swap. For more [...]

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Cookin’ with Google

April 5, 2007

Time for dinner? Search expert Tara Calishain created a useful recipe search tool she calls “Cookin’ with Google“. Simply enter a few ingredients, and Google will find you a list of appropriate recipes. The reason this works so much better than finding recipes directly from the Google Search box, is that Calishain’s tool restricts the [...]

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