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AbbreviationZ.com

May 31, 2005

AbbreviationZ.com is an online glossary of hundreds of thousands of abbreviations and acronyms. As you’d expect, the dictionary can be searched and is available for browsing alphabetically. But what makes AbbreviationZ.com stand out from the crowd is the subject directory where one can find abbreviations specific to hundreds of topics such as Meteorology, Chess, Unit [...]

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Free Pass Encarta Encyclopedia

April 28, 2005

Although full access to Encarta Encyclopedia still requires paid membership, you can now get a free two-hour pass whenever you access the encyclopedia via MSN Search. To get yours, just click on the Encarta link above the search box, perform a search, and click on any of the results. When your two-hour pass expires, you [...]

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Free Computer Books

April 15, 2005

Computer books can be expensive, but if you know where to look, you can (legally) download some tech books for free. Here are three resources: Tech Books for Free , O’Reilly Open Books Project, and Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series.

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Studying Vocabulary

March 29, 2005

Microsoft Word (or Word Perfect) can be a handy tool for studying vocabulary. Simply enter your word list, and use the thesaurus feature (in the Tools menu) to find related words, synonyms and antonyms. You can find SAT vocabulary lists online at Free Vocabulary, Test Prep Review and Soundkeepers.com.

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What is a Wiki?

November 30, 2004

A wiki is an online collection of information that is created and edited by a group. Some groups are public (i.e. anyone can contribute), while others are closed (you must be a member.) Either way, the concept is the same. Popular examples of public wikis include Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/ ), and Wikiquote [...]

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Dictionary.com Toolbar

November 9, 2004

Online dictionary definitions are just two mouse clicks away with the free Dictionary.com toolbar . Once installed, you can look up any word on any Web page in either Dictionary.com or Theasurus.com by simply highlighting the word in question, and then right clicking. The toolbar requires Windows and Internet Explorer.

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Contact Elected Officials

October 25, 2004

Want to contact your elected officials? FirstGov’s Contact Elected Officials is a one-page directory for all your state and federal government officials including the White House, U.S. senators, U.S. representatives, state governors, and state legislators. Use it to let your elected officials know where you stand on important issues.

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Google SMS

October 19, 2004

Google SMS (Short Message Service) gives short answers to text queries from your mobile phone. Just send your search as a text message and get retail locations, phone book listings, or dictionary definitions in response. For example texting “Starbucks 92014″ to 46-645 (GOOGL on most phones) returns two locations of the ubiquitous coffee house within [...]

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Soople

October 12, 2004

Soople is an easy-to-use front-end to many of Google’s advance search features. For example, searching multiple cooking sites for an artichoke recipe is as simple as typing in “artichoke” and selecting “cooking” from the drop-down menu. The actual Google syntax for this search is “artichoke site:allrecipes.com | site:epicurious.com | site:foodtv.com | site:kraftfoods.com | site:cooks.com | [...]

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Birthday Look Up

October 5, 2004

Can’t remember a birthday? Here are two a sites where you can look it up: Free Birthday Database and Any Birthday. Each service asks for different information (such as a middle initial, approximate age, or zip code) so you’ll need to know a bit about the person in order to distinguish them from others with [...]

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