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Sandbox from Yahoo! Research. ASCII CHART. Apple. Mac. Official Apple Online Store - Buy Mac Computers and Notebooks, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and More. Mac Tips / Trick. Things Macintosh Table of Contents. Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips. 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.

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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 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? Google.

A librarian's choice of the best of the Web. KartOO : The First Interface Mapping Metasearch Engine. Nibbo - Search, your way. Bing. Dogpile Web Search. Ask.com Web Search. Yahoo! Search - Web Search. Ipl2: Information You Can Trust.

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Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity

The "visible web" is what you can find using general web search engines. It's also what you see in almost all subject directories. The "invisible web" is what you cannot find using these types of tools. The first version of this web page was written in 2000, when this topic was new and baffling to many web searchers. Since then, search engines' crawlers and indexing programs have overcome many of the technical barriers that made it impossible for them to find "invisible" web pages. These types of pages used to be invisible but can now be found in most search engine results: Pages in non-HTML formats (pdf, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), now converted into HTML.

Why isn't everything visible? There are still some hurdles search engine crawlers cannot leap. The Contents of Searchable Databases. How to Find the Invisible Web Simply think "databases" and keep your eyes open. Examples: plane crash database languages database toxic chemicals database. DeepPeep: discover the hidden web. Welcome to INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections. IncyWincy: The Invisible Web Search Engine. Resources by Subject. The Best Tools for Visualization.

Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data.

The Best Tools for Visualization

When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data.

Here are some of the best: Visualize Social Networks Last.Forward: Thanks to Last.fm's new widget gallery, you can now explore a wide selection of extras to extend your Last.fm experience. Last Forward Friends Sociomap: Friends Sociomap is another Last.fm tools that generates a map of the music compatibility between you and your Last.fm friends. Fidg't: Fidg't is a desktop application that gives you a way to view your networks tagging habits. Fidg't The Digg Tools: One more: Digg Radar. YouTube: Visualize Music Musicovery Last.fm music visual tools: Amazon. Wallpaper. Videos See the universe come to life via animations, scientific visualizations, expert commentary, and more.

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