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Dzone.com - fresh links for developers. Mind Maps/Thinking Maps/Graphic Organizers. Blocking Communications during riots ? A few useful tools to help the Revolutions. Oh hai all the protesters out there, we have followed closely the events and we want to provide you with some helpful hints.The revolution will not be televised, all information will be on the internet.But to get it there is one thing, to have it stay there is an entirely other thing.So here is a collection of tools and links that will help you get your message out: Contents: 1.

A few useful tools to help the Revolutions

YOUR INTERNET IS TURNED OF - WHAT NOW? The telecomix activist network has kindly provided dial up links to the internet. INTERCOM - Emergency Communications Division. Telecomix : « hacker pour la liberté » Telecomix n'a pas de leader, ni de hiérarchie.

Telecomix : « hacker pour la liberté »

Ce n'est pas une organisation, mais une "désorganisation" bien réelle qui lutte contre la censure du Net, dans les rues du Caire, de Tunis et d'ailleurs. 28 janvier 2011. L’État égyptien coupe Internet. L’interruption est d’une ampleur jamais vue. Dans les coulisses du réseau, une poignée de citoyens, du monde entier, tentent de bricoler des alternatives pour permettre aux Égyptiens de communiquer.

Ils ont appelé ça le “Vendredi de l’Obstination”. Anas al-Fiqqi a été déclaré innocent. TelecomiX. Be the change you wish to see in the world -Gandhi A look back at highlights of 2011.

TelecomiX

Pretty sure I've forgotten something, but that's just as well. ;-) The start of 2011 found me living in rural Washington state, mostly stuck at home 30 minutes from town. Naturally, I joined Anonymous. We organized protests in support of Wikileaks in 105 cities around the world in under a week. Operation 56K: Internet for Libya. L'Opération 56K : Internet pour la Libye a pour but de rétablir un réseau internet pour les familles et habitants de Misrata, en récupérant et en y livrant des modems par convoi humanitaire.

Operation 56K: Internet for Libya

Notre objectif : il s'agit, dans un premier temps, de rassembler tous les vieux modems analogiques 56K que nous pouvons trouver autour de nous, autour de vous, et les envoyer en Libye pour restaurer une connexion internet. Nous avons reçu presque 180 modems depuis le début de l'Opération 56k. Merci énormément à vous tous, qui nous les avez envoyés par la Poste, ou qui êtes venus les déposer chez Ulule ou lors des évènements. Merci également à Global Voices, qui nous a permis de traduire les modes d'emploi en Arabe. Aujourd'hui, il est très important de financer l'envoi de ces modems vers Misrata. In case internet goes down. Anonymiss Express. 00494923197844321 User:Telecomix Pass:Telecomix 00597110844 User:freei. New Weapons Used Against Occupy Protesters. Security & Network. Google Search 3T. Google Tricks. [via onlinecolleges.net] With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer?

Google Tricks

From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs Google Docs is a great replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so learn how to use this product even more efficiently. Use premade templates. Gmail Use the Tasks as a to-do list. Google Dorks. Cache: If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document.

Google Dorks

For instance, [cache:www.google.com web] will show the cached content with the word “web” highlighted. This functionality is also accessible by clicking on the “Cached” link on Google’s main results page. The query [cache:] will show the version of the web page that Google has in its cache. Visual search. Simploos Visual Search Engine. Image analysis tool spots faked photos. Specialists at Dartmouth University in the USA have developed a tool that can spot how much images have been tweaked using Photoshop or other image editing software, something that could aid UK government plans to label retouched images in advertising.

Image analysis tool spots faked photos

The computational tool was described in a study published on 28th November in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, and scores images on a scale from one to five depending on how much digital retouching they have received, five being the most. The tool was developed by analysing 468 sets of original and tweaked images, with creators Hany Fari and Eric Kee extrapolating a mathematical way of identifying whether a picture had been retouched, and if so by how much. When testing the effectiveness of the tool, the researchers comparing its scores to those of 50 people pulled from Amazon's Mechanical Turk outsourcing service.

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