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The best of the Internet Today Web 2.0 Mashup. Misc. Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources. Got a research paper or thesis to write for school or an online class? Want to research using the Internet? Good luck. There’s a lot of junk out there — outdated pages, broken links, and inaccurate information. Using Google or Wikipedia may lead you to some results, but you can’t always be sure of accuracy. And what’s more, you’ll only be searching a fraction of all of the resources available to you. Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around 50 billion web pages indexed.

Do you think your local or university librarian uses Google? Topics Covered in this Article Deep Web Search Engines | Art | Books Online | Business | Consumer | Economic and Job Data | Finance and Investing | General Research | Government Data | International | Law and Politics | Library of Congress | Medical and Health | STEM | Transportation Deep Web Search Engines To get started, try using a search engine that specializes in scouring the invisible web for results.

Art Books Online Business. Bored At Work. Un-Page. How to Download Books from the IRC - Torrent Books. The IRC is Internet Relay Chat Service. What does this mean? It means that it is an underground service where people can chat and share files in chat rooms. You will need an IRC client to download books. You can learn more here at the IRC Undernet . For more information on books in the public domain that you can legally download, please visit Public Domain Books . Download Colloquy . The Colloquy software file will appear as a zip file download, which you double click. You will be asked to establish a new connection. A "Connections" window will automatically open. You will be asked the name of the chat room you want to join. The ebooks chat window will pop up. The top of the chat window gives instructions on how to type in your commands. We enter "@search herman melville" at the screen prompt at the bottom, then hit return.

Within 20-30 seconds, Colloquy will want you to accept the incoming file transfer. You will be prompted to choose a destination for the incoming file. CD/DVD Inserts and Envelopes - cdlabelgen. Cdlabelgen, version 4.2.0, april 2012 free software © 2001-2012, Avinash Chopde Output in Color PostScript and PDF formats, with B/W GIF preview Source Code Available Create inserts and envelopes online, visit: Online CD/DVD Inserts - Fill-In Form Note: As of March 2013, above interface creates Postscript output files only. Using the Online CD/DVD Inserts and Envelopes web interface The term "cover" is used to represent the front door of a CD jewel case. Inside inserts for DVDs are created by creating a foldable two-page insert, outside inserts are similar, except they also have a spine.

The list of items is printed as the table of contents for the CD/DVD. Items are printed in a multi-column format, if the item is too big to fit in the column, the item text will be truncated, unless the option "Enable Scaling Down of Items" is selected - in which case, the entire item will be scaled down to fit in the column (note that for very large item texts, this may make the item unreadable!). Banking with Business Cards. Conundrum : Carrying around a checkbook to keep track of all your debit card purchases is a pain, and thus something likely to be skipped, leading to inaccurate balances. Experiment : Print a business card with all the numbers from $500 to $5 counting down by 5's. Then you round your balance DOWN to the nearest 5, and cross out all numbers greater than that. I have these coming in the mail, figured it might be worth a try so I made up a test batch, and I'm expecting them in the mail in a week or two.

Most Popular Reliable and Affordable Web Hosts - Web publishing. Easily get rid of change, 10 coins at a time. Everyone has coins they want to get rid of. I randomly thought of an easy way to carry change and always have enough change for a purchase. For the sake of this article, I consider change to be less than $1 of coins. To be able to make any change combination, you need to carry $0.99 of change through 10 coins: 3 quarters 1 dime 2 nickles 4 pennies These amounts will add up to $0.99 of coins. . $0.55 = 2 q + 1 n Left over = 1 q + 1 d + 1 n + 4 p$0.79 = 3 q + 4 p Left over = 1 d + 2 n No matter what change value you need, you can come up with it.

You no longer need to carry a handfull of change when you want to get rid of it — just carry 10. I tried to come up with an even smaller amount of change but I don’t think one exists. UPDATE: It seems as though my intentions for this are being misunderstood. Calculator: Add to or subtract from a date. Some printable paper rulers. Here are some rulers you can print out. Disposable paper rulers! :) Disable any "shrink to fit" option when printing.There is a note below about accuracy.

Here are more "odd" (difficult to use) rulers for education Don't "shrink to fit"! You should disable any options like "shrink oversize pages to paper size" or "scale to fit paper" on your print menu. My plan was to make all the ruler pages small enough that no browser was tempted to shrink them while printing. Accuracy Accuracy can be outstanding, but will depend on your printing setup. I've not heard of anyone having problems.

A quick and rough test is to measure an object of known size. A teacher writes: "I decided the small errors caused by printing or xeroxing wasn't important as long as ALL the rulers were xeroxed at the same time and so should be nearly identical. Other notes Please let me know if you find these rulers of use, so I'll know whether it's worth doing further work on them. Overhead transparencies can also be used.

Crafts. Blogspot reverser. Welcome to the Blog-reverser. What's the Big Idea? Blogs have developed over the years a standardized format for post order: the most recent dozen or so posts on the first page, with the most recent of all at the top. If you're a regular reader, this is a great format. But when you are late to the party at a blog that has been underway for quite some time or is perhaps a fait accompli(consider the blog format can give a Mementoesque quality to a story that would be better enjoyed from beginning to end. Does it Work on All Blogs? Sadly no. Do I Want to Click "Crawl Entire Archive"? Maybe. Was This a Lot of Work to Make? If you don't know anything about computer programming, it was probably easier than you imagine.

What If I Don't Want my Blog Reversed? Well, first let me urge you to reconsider. Upcoming Features Page-by-Page Archive ViewingLivejournal Support? 45+ Free Online Tools To Create Charts, Diagrams And Flowcharts. Charts and graphs are the best ways to represent information and relationship between two interlinked entities. Not only do charts and graphs inform visitors about the trend or relationship you want to show them but also add a visual connection with the visitors. Several online tools are available that help you create comprehensively designed flowcharts and graphs that worth a thousands words.

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