Utilities - Software & Online

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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KimKomando.com does it again!  Kim introduced me to this invaluable resource for job hunters, people who are working and want to improve their salaries or careers AND students who are studying writing for businesses purposes.
We ALL know persons who are without jobs during this recession so let’s share this great tool with them.
http://www.net-temps.com/careerdev/career-tools/career-advice.html

Here is the [...]

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It used to be that you had to buy expensive Adobe software to type in or edit a PDF file.   Now there is a cheaper AND easy way - FillAnyPDF.com.   Simply ‘Browse’ to find the file and click the ‘Fill Now’ button to upload the file.   Click anywhere in the PDF and start typing.  You [...]

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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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Phototakeusa.com is offers a large resource for scientific, medical, and technological photographs
and illustrations. It offers on-line search. You may also request a catalog or acquire a CD-ROM.
In your search you can select ‘Royalty-Free’. You can search by keyword, alphabetical, numerical, and by categories.
Includes photos, clipart, illustrations, and graphics.

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I learned about Quintura for Kids from ResearchBuzz.com.    Check out their review of it.  My success was mixed.  I was satisfied with results from ‘ukulele’, ‘football’, and a couple of other keywords.  I was not satisfied with the results from ‘drawing’ - the first result was about ‘Drew Barrymore’.
I see a lot of potential in [...]

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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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ResearchBuzz.org introduced me to a ‘Huge Online Database of Blueprints‘.

I found it interesting and am going to send it to my high school’s CTE (career & technical education) teachers.  The drafting teacher in particular may be interested in it.   Budding artists may also be interested.  There are blueprints of:

cars
motorcycles
trucks
ships
buses
WWI airplanes
WWII airplanes
modern airplanes
tanks
weapons
science fiction
humans
phones
misc.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/

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