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Music.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Songza - Listen to Music Curated by Music Experts. Top 10 Useful Sites I’ve Found. This isn’t work at home related, but it’s (mostly) helpful stuff I really wanted to share.

Top 10 Useful Sites I’ve Found

I’ve come across a lot of different sites that have been helpful for whatever reason and I know you’ll really love some of them too! Get a Human Do you hate calling a company and speaking to a robot right off the bat with no idea of how to get through to an actual person? Then you need GetHuman. They have a database of companies with information on exactly what to press when you call each one to bypass all the automated, robotic junk. Ibotta This is actually an app you can use for your Apple or Android device that actually pays you cash money for the things you buy at the grocery store! Crackle I am loving this site. Nielsen HomeScan This company will send you a cool little scanning thing in the mail that you can use at home to scan the bar codes on your grocery purchases.

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Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing.

Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free!

Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it.

So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? Watermelon vs. pear. Design for kids and the home. Better Flight and Hotel Search. Image Mosaic Generator. FutureMe.org: Write a Letter to the Future. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills.

Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills

You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time. Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new. Hack a Day - Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks (short tutorials) every day from around the web and one in-depth ‘How-To hack’ guide each week.eHow - eHow is an online community dedicated to providing visitors the ability to research, share, and discuss solutions and tips for completing day-to-day tasks and projects.Wired How-To Wiki - Collaborate with Wired editors and help them build their extensive library of projects, hacks, tricks and tips.

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The Hunt. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use. Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.

100 Websites You Should Know and Use

Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life By Kylie Dunn What do you get when you cross a 39-year-old perfectionist with 54 TED Talks and far more honesty than any person probably needs to experience? Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Culture My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life.