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Google and the USPTO are making patents and trademarks available at no charge:

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Today I have to share another great Website introduced to me by KimKomando.com.   This Website is especially designed for the mobile Internet user (ie: iPhone and Blackberry).  TidyRead.com strips all of the graphics and ads providing the articles and posts only.    You can either

type in the entire url of the Website you want to [...]

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OnlineUniversities.com offered a useful list of Search Engines.   The site says that:
‘ Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only [...]

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Wired magazine’s ‘Mr. Know-It-All’ offered an interesting explanation of the likely longevity of DVDs answering the question:
‘How long can I expect my DVDs to last?  I hate to think I won’t be able to hand down my Lost box set to my daughter someday’.
Check out ‘Mr. Know-It-All’s’ answer - http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/st_kia_dvd_life/

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I learned about the ‘The Google Public Data Explorer‘ from ResearchBuzz.org.   Very interesting!  Might be of use in the classroom or for doing a research project or paper.
In Google’s own words, the resource subtitled,’Data visualizations for a changing world’:
‘makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate [...]

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The About.com article, ‘47 Alternatives to Wikipedia: 47 Websites You Can Use Instead of Wikipedia‘, indeed offers some great research Websites.  The article says:
‘Wikipedia is perhaps the most popular reference site online, with millions of high quality articles available on virtually any topic. However, there are limits to what Wikipedia can offer. Here are 47 [...]

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I have heard the iPad being described as an iTouch on Steroids as if that would be a turn-off to me.  Being an iPhone fanatic I’d love to have a tablet size version of an iTouch!   However, I recognize that it won’t please everyone. 
Obviously, Hitler himself is extremely disappointed (language warning)…

There is also a [...]

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Did you know that Google shows Twitter ‘Tweets’ under ‘Updates’ and will soon show searches from Facebook?  How much do you really want to share?  With friends?  With the world?
KimKomando.com says,
‘Facebook has long been known for its excellent
privacy tools. But it recently made changes that expose more of your
information. Search sites can find your [...]

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I have read that in the last week over 250 domain names (Website addresses or URLs) have been registered regarding Haiti relief and contributions.   While some of these are legit I suspect that some were just registered to distract givers away from legitimate sites.   Charity Navigator is a useful Website that helps charitable givers to [...]

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We had an interesting event today and I share it with you to give you hope if this ever happens to you!
My oldest son’s cat, Foster, climbed a 50 foot tree in the woods sometime BEFORE the yesterday morning.  My ‘genius’ (not kidding) brother-in-law was here and all of us were trying to figure out [...]

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