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helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike?
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helpful online products and services that can help students, teachers and administrators alike?
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web-based alternatives to desktop office applications including: word processing, presentations, diagrams, spreadsheets, and more.
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learn a new language - get fast conversational tips
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learn a language online - basic conversational mp3 downloads
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12 Tips for Creating Better Presentations
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webapp that creates a TrueType font from your handwriting, I thought the nifty idea was almost too good to be true. Turns out that Fontifier delivers exactly what it promises.
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Create your own countdown clock page for free showing exactly how much time is left until a big event, like a birthday, wedding, last day of school, baby birth, party, holiday and more. Place a SHORTCUT on your desktop from the link they provide and have it at the click of the mouse.
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If you wanted to say hello to everybody in the world, how many people would that be? And how many languages would you have to learn?
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find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents
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Welcome to TeenSpace in the IPL. We've put together information to help you with life, school, friends, and work. You'll find articles written especially to help you solve problems, links to web sites you can use for homework, and a place to ask questions. There's lots more, too. Explore!
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The US Governments Official Web Portal
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Record a short video demonstration using screen recording software CamStudio.
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Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you.
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You can use this way to reset any password on local accounts on your PC including administrators.
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Darik’s Boot and Nuke (’DBAN’) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.
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video demonstrating how to install and configure a dual-monitor setup.
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Courtesy of Microsoft, these category headings basically contain a total of 250 free MS Office Templates that you can use at will. Have fun.
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Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.
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The goal of this site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings.
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At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.
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Welcome to how-to-study.com. Please use the free study skills, study strategies, and study tips on this site. We update our content, so check back often for valuable new study aids. Click on any topic below to learn about it.
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I’m going to briefly go over what I’ve stuffed into my thumb drive along with a description of how I use it and why.
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If we could just improve the efficiency of how we use our PCs, the savings in energy costs would be over $3 billion dollars! The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent in energy terms to the gas consumption used by one car.
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teach yourself math.......
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Find new ways to enhance student learning through technology. Click the links below to view lesson plans from Microsoft by subject that cover grades K-12.
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Beginner section of Drawspace focus on the very basics of drawing and are designed for both absolute beginners with no drawing experience whatsoever, and artists wishing to review or expand their current skills. How to Use Beginner Lessons
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MathBits.com is devoted to offering fun, yet challenging, lessons and activities in high school/college level mathematics and computer programming to students and teachers.
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To grow up to be a zombie - memorize procedures. To grow up to be a thinker - gnaw on math problems.
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tutorials for middle and high school students
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Don't buy any video converter before trying Any Video Converter!
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Linux for Newbies: A Series for Beginners
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Tesla was famous at the turn of the century for inventing the alternating current system still in use today.
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Welcome to how-to-study.com. Please use the free study skills, study strategies, and study tips on this site. We update our content, so check back often for valuable new study aids. Click on any topic below to learn about it.
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Freeware program Quit Counter helps motivate you to quit smoking by tracking your progress and milestones.
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If you're interested in learning a language in '07, iTunes has a whole section of podcasts devoted to language.
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Web site Make The Move offers beginner-friendly information about Linux and open-source software.
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For sale: the world’s smallest country, complete with its own passports, currency, stamps and national football team. Uninterrupted sea views and complete privacy assured. Oh, and more wind than you will ever want. Offers in the region of eight-digit sums considered.
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Back to School - PC apps and utilities
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While in an age of text-messaging, public speaking has lost its once-vaunted status as a communication medium, as long as people meet face to face, others will judge them on their manner of speech.
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This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English language.
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I procrastinate. You procrastinate. We all procrastinate. Let's get back to work.
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Access millions of original documents - most never seen on the web before.
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A Key to Scientific Research Literature
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I DECLARE that the professor has no brain
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Signers of the Declaration of Independence WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?
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pairing up VNC with Hamachi, a Virtual Private Network application, you can remote control any computer securely over your private network across any combination of operating systems.
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iPod is a brand of portable media players that is designed and marketed by Apple. In addition to playing music, iPods with display screens can display calendars, contact information, and text files, and play a limited range of games.
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Recover deleted files with Recuva, a new utility from the developers who brought you the venerable system-scouring tool CCleaner.
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Freeware program Undelete Plus lets you recover your deleted files on your Windows box.
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Articles and lessons, in the Beginner section of Drawspace focus on the very basics of drawing and are designed for both absolute beginners with no drawing experience whatsoever, and artists wishing to review or expand their current skills.
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achieve this desktop layout from a fresh Ubuntu install. It’s not actually that hard, and you’ll only need one piece of additional software.
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Ubuntu is an african word meaning “humanity to others” or “I am what I am because of who we all are”. Ubuntu is also a distribution of Linux, a free open source operating system. Providing a great alternative to Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu is very professionally finished, and both looks and operates brilliantly. Ubuntu is created soley by a community who dedicate their time toward making a better operating system.
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Now that I’ve completed my move to Linux , someone emailed me to suggest that I update my essential software list. So here you go.
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Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
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Like it or not, our work lives involve meetings - status meetings, planning conference calls, brainstorming sessions, meetings for the sake of meetings. But a meeting is only as valuable as the action taken after everyone's left the conference room.
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Use this month-by-month guide to make it your best year ever.
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Whether you've integrated computers into every corner of your home for work and play like I have (two computers for work and a dedicated, home-built DVR), or you've got kids and computers strewn all around the house, you probably understand how difficult it can be to keep a central repository of music without lots of duplication.
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Build your own DVR - Linux and Ubuntu application
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According to FCC regulations, all DVRs that cable companys rent must have an active firewire port. While unfortunately you likely won't be able to record premium channels such as HBO, INHD, DiscoveryHD. All broadcast channels must be open. If any broadcast channels are encrypted a quick call to your cable company will fix this. This is a dream come true for all you TV archivers.
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Most computers now come with a firewall built in, but despite this, the number of computers that are infected with viruses, worms and other types of malware grows by the day. One of the biggest reasons why firewalls are not doing their job, is because many of us have never taken the time to tweak our firewall to make it effective. This ten step list will help introduce individuals and small business owners alike to some very simple ways that they can tweak, supplement, and support their firewall in order to keep their computer and private information as secure as possible.
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If you've been playing the MP3 game for more than a few years, you've probably amassed a library that's both sizable and eclectic. It's probably a bit messy, too, with inconsistent volume levels, missing or incorrect album art and messed-up metadata.
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Here are some of my best assignments from 29 years of teaching
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Newly-hatched webapp Footnote offers an impressive database of original historical documents for searching, viewing, annotating and discussing. See detailed images of historical documents over 100 years old like the Bill of Rights or the Gettysburg address (pictured above) in a modern, dynamic interface. Footnote offers many images for zooming and browsing for free
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Free Windows software Restoration is a data recovery program for you PC.
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Any road warrior will tell you life with a lappie isn't always easy. As a freelancer with a keyboard permanently propped up on my thighs (like right now on an airplane bound for Seattle), I've got a few hints and tips for extending the life of your laptop and easing the pain of the never-ending outlet and hotspot hunt.
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When was the last time you backed up the important files on your computer? Last year when your best friend called in tears after the Blue Screen of Death ate her thesis? Yeah, I thought so. Hard drives fail. It's a fact of computing life. It's not a matter of whether or not your computer's disk will fry, it's a matter of when. The question is how much it will disrupt your life.
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Welcome to Jodies Coston's Free Online Photography Course sponsored by the morguefile.com and its contributors. This course is free and open to the public.
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If you don’t have a calendar on hand, here’s an easy way to figure out which months have 31 days and which have 30: Count the months on your knuckles and the grooves between your knuckles. Leave out your thumb knuckle. Every month that lands on a knuckle is 31 days, every month that lands on a groove between knuckles is 30 days (or 28 for February). Thanks to my client Rebecca @ w-rehab for this little hint which came from Tipnut
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Open your Zoho Writer documents from within Word. Save Excel spreadsheets directly to Zoho Sheet. Do that and more with the Zoho Plug-In for Microsoft Office.
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Organize, manage, search and archive all your documents with Docsvault Home Edition.




