Utilities - Software & Online

If you’ve never used WordPress and hosted your own blog or Website NOW is the time to give it a try! WordPress 3.0 has just been released and looks awesome! Check out the features via the introductory post about it
OR
the video below…

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

Patents
Trademarks

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Want to see what someone’s (maybe your own) ’social networking profile’ is? You may want to try Flowtown.com. That’s what private investigator’s use.
Turn an Email Address into a Social Profile. / Flowtown / Flowtown

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Miro Video Converter is
‘A super simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, Ogg Theora, or a specific phone or iPod.’
‘Miro Video Converter has presets that will convert video to the correct sizes and formats for popular phones, iPods, and other media players. Just convert your video and copy it [...]

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Last night I StumbleUpon.com‘ed two useful Websites that will tell you about your computer and its performance.
Ironically, I called Time-Warner Cable this morning with an Internet speed issue and the technical support person sent me to to the first of these sites as part of the repair process.
The sites are:

SpeedTest.net - tests your Internet connection [...]

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FSI Language Courses offers free foreign language courses with many different languages to choose from.  The courses consist of downloadable student texts, workbooks, instructor’s manual and sound clips.  The courses are far from flashy (looking like 1950’s military manuals or something) but if you need to learn a language you can’t beat the price.
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Good50.com is an interesting search engine that may be of value to those who eye sight is not 20/20.  In its own words,
‘Good50.com : A search engine for older adults, seniors, and young children. Powered by Google.’    I would add, ‘and for the visually impaired’.    When you arrive at the sight you’ll see a large [...]

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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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Who doesn’t know someone that has lost some important digital photos?   All of us do.   Well, there is hope!  You can count on Kim Komando to offer reliable advice!   In a recent post she shares steps to hopefully recover lost or damaged digital photos.   Check it out - http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=8539&page=1
Remember also to check your ’sent email’.  [...]

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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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