Wednesday, February 25, 2009


In dollars, how much is the library worth to you? Use this library value calculator at the Denver Public Library to find out.


Using this PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect.Best of all, it's entirely free!


Some of these sites allow you to craft a resume, while others are networking platforms that contain job listings. By signing up for all ten, you increase your chances of getting a job and decrease the amount of time you’ll spend searching for a new one.


The allmusic website was created in 1995 as a place for music fans to indulge their passion. Whether you’re visiting allmusic to look up an out-of-print recording, to get their take on a new release, or simply to explore the world of music and see where it may lead, you’ve come to the right spot.


Search for a tune by lyrics, tags, artist or where you heard it. Download the mp3 or buy the CD.


Track the Obama Administration's financial stability plan at FinancialStability.gov. The site says coming soon, but is already being advertised so I expect it will be updated soon.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009


A free email notification service Crap, I Missed It! sends email notifications before a new episode of your favorite show comes back on TV, or when your favorite artist releases a new CD. You can keep track of new books, when a concert is coming, sports scores and games, and more.


Ready to jump into Twitter, but don't know how to get started? Follow these 10 tips from PC Magazine and you'll fit right in.


For all of you Twitter addicts TweetDeck makes managing your Twitter feeds easier. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. The default columns can contain All Tweets from your timeline, @replies directed to you and direct messages. The GROUP, SEARCH and REPLIES buttons then allow the user to make up additional columns populated from the live tweet information. Once created these additional columns will automatically update allowing the user to keep track of a twitter threads far easier.

Other Twitter clients include twhirl and TwitterFox for Firefox users.


Archive of true crime stories from today and going back to the Victorian era. The stories come from the pages of the crime magazines: True Detective, Master Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul.

Monday, February 16, 2009


Open Source Living is a dynamic archive of Open Source software (OSS) spanning all major platforms, inclusive of small to large scale projects. It aims to introduce and inform new users about viable OSS alternatives to corporate, closed source software.

Thursday, February 12, 2009


Edit audio files visually; Record audio from a microphone or any other available input device; Apply various effects; Burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG; All in one program, simple and intuitive - FAE (free audio editor). Completely free!


FlightArrivals.com is a free service that offers an independent and comprehensive real time arrival/departure/delay information for commercial airline flights operating to/from/within the United States.



The OwnerIQ Network helps you locate user manuals, how-to guides, installation instructions, and tutorials from thousands of manufacturers and hundreds of thousands of products. Free registration.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009


The National Yiddish Book Center has over 10,000 out-of-print Yiddish books available online in full-text for free. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, free of charge. These titles were scanned under the auspices of the NYBC Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, and have been made available online through the Internet Archive.


Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? TinyURL.com takes long URL's and creates a short one from it for easier posting.


Front pages from Newspapers around the country in their original, unedited form. Links to the newspaper web site.

Monday, February 09, 2009

Kindle 2 to release February 24, 2009

The Kindle 2 was announced today by Amazon's Jeff Bezos. With him on stage was Stephen King who will be publishing his latest story (a novella called "Ur") for the Kindle only. The new Kindle is thinner and faster and will contain 7 times the storage as the original Kindle 1. It also has a text to speech feature and is slated to retail at $359.00. See pics and specs at Cnet.


Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organization charts, wireframes, and many more for free.


SnappyFingers is a vertical search company based in Bangalore, India. They are building a comprehensive database of Questions and Answers on the web. Their stated goal is to make it easy for you to find answers. A different approach to the typical search engine.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009


With Google Latitude you can track your friends on your computer or mobile phone. Latitude uses GPS systems and cell tower triangulation to track your friends. The software seeks the closest three cell towers and, with GPS, combines the data to show where someone is. Read an article on Google Latitude.

Tuesday, February 03, 2009


Google Earth 5 takes you below the oceans and to the planet Mars. Information on shipwrecks, sealife and more in Google Ocean. Martian terrain, photos and additional information are available on Google Mars. Download Google 5 for these layers and views.

Monday, February 02, 2009


Wikisource collects and stores in digital format previously published texts; including novels, non-fiction works, letters, speeches, constitutional and historical documents, laws and a range of other documents. All texts collected are either free of copyright or released under the GNU Free Documentation License.


"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections. "

Watch Full TV Shows and Movies Free Online

With Fancast, you can watch the hits CSI: Miami, 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, and plenty of other full-length TV series. You can also check out the latest movie trailers, clips, photos, news and reviews. And you can search for any movie and TV-related info you absolutely need at that moment.

Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.