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The sites mentioned below, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can easily learn by heart thus saving you a trip to Google. [via]
01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages.
03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
04. – find the original URLs that’s hiding behind a short URLs.
05. localti.me – know more than just the local time of a city
06. – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard.
07. – a better search engine for twitter.
08. fb.me/AppStore – search iOS app without launching iTunes.
09. iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of all sizes.
10. office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents.

11. woorank.com – everything you wanted to know about a website.
12. virustotal.com – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
13. wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching – see more wolfram tips.
14. printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter.
15. – reformats news articles and blog content as a newspaper.
16. – when you wish to share a NSFW page but with a warning.
17. e.ggtimer.com – a simple online timer for your daily needs.
18. – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN.
19. random.org – pick random numbers, flip coins, and more.
20. mywot.com – check the trust level of any website – example.

21. – Preview PDFs and Presentations directly in the browser.
22. – simultaneously upload videos to YouTube and other video sites.
23. – the best place for searching web videos.
24. – share you email address online without worrying about spam.
25. – now get read receipts for your email.
26. – visualize and compare the size of any product.
27. whatfontis.com – quickly determine the font name from an image.
28. fontsquirrel.com – a good collection of fonts – free for personal and commercial use.
29. – find data hidden in your photographs – see more EXIF tools.
30. tineye.com – this is like an online version of Google Googles.

31. iwantmyname.com – helps you search domains across all TLDs.
32. – your favorite blogs delivered as PDFs.
33. join.me – share you screen with anyone over the web.
34. onlineocr.net – recognize text from scanned PDFs and images – see other OCR tools.
35. flightstats.com – Track flight status at airports worldwide.
36. wetransfer.com – for sharing really big files online.
37. pastebin.com – a temporary online clipboard for your text and code snippets.
38. polishmywriting.com – check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors.
39. – easily highlight the important parts of a web page.
40. – work on the same document with multiple people.

41. whichdateworks.com – planning an event? find a date that works for all.
42. everytimezone.com – a less confusing view of the world time zones.
43. – you’ll need this when your bookmarked web pages are deleted.
44. gtmetrix.com – the perfect tool for measuring your site performance online.
45. imo.im – chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, etc. from one place.
46. translate.google.com – translate web pages, PDFs and Office documents.
47. youtube.com/leanback – enjoy a never ending stream of YouTube videos in full-screen.
48. similarsites.com – discover new sites that are similar to what you like already.
49. – quick summarize long pieces of text with tag clouds.
50. bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser.

51. kuler.adobe.com – get color ideas, also extract colors from photographs.
52. followupthen.com – setup quick reminders via email itself.
53. lmgtfy.com – when your friends are too lazy to use Google on their own.
54. – generate temporary email aliases, better than disposable email.
55. – lets you can quickly edit PDFs in the browser itself.
56. faxzero.com – send an online fax for free – see more fax services.
57. – get RSS feeds as an email newsletter.
58. – transfer files without uploading to a server.
59. tinychat.com – setup a private chat room in micro-seconds.
60. privnote.com – create text notes that will self-destruct after being read.

61. flightaware.com – live flight tracking service for airports worldwide.
62. – track the status of any shipment on Google Maps – alternative.
63. chipin.com – when you need to raise funds online for an event or a cause.
64. downforeveryoneorjustme.com – find if your favorite website is offline or not?
65. example.com – this website can be used as an example in documentation.
66. whoishostingthis.com – find the web host of any website.
67. google.com/history – found something on Google but can’t remember it now?
68. – find whether a photo is real or a photoshopped one.
69. – get word meanings, pronunciations and usage examples.
70. urbandictionary.com – find definitions of slangs and informal words.

71. seatguru.com – consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight.
72. – download stock images absolutely free.
73. imo.im – chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, etc. from one place.
74. – unzip your compressed files online.
75. vocaroo.com – record your voice with a click.
76. scribblemaps.com – create custom Google Maps easily.
77. buzzfeed.com – never miss another Internet meme or viral video.
78. – quickly setup email reminders for important events.
79. encrypted.google.com – prevent your ISP and boss from reading your search queries.
80. – you can ask or answer personal questions here.

81. snopes.com – find if that email offer you received is real or just another scam.
82. typingweb.com – master touch-typing with these practice sessions.
83. – send video emails to anyone using your web cam.
84. – quickly send a file to someone, they can even preview it before downloading.
85. – create timelines with audio, video and images.
86. – make a movie out of your images, audio and video clips.
87. – an online audio editor that lets record, and remix audio clips online.
88. noteflight.com – print music sheets, write your own music online (review).
89. – create a temporary web page that self-destruct.
90. – when you need to find the name of a song.

91. – design from scratch or re-model your home in 3d.
92. snapask.com – use email on your phone to find sports scores, read Wikipedia, etc.
93. teuxdeux.com – a beautiful to-do app that looks like your paper dairy.
94. livestream.com – broadcast events live over the web, including your desktop screen.
95. bing.com/images – automatically find perfectly-sized wallpapers for mobiles.
96. historio.us – preserve complete web pages with all the formatting.
97. dabbleboard.com – your virtual whiteboard.
98. – send an email without using your own account.
99. sumopaint.com – an excellent layer-based online image editor.
100. – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc.
101. – Get your Facebook and in your inbox.
 
Sunday marks the 175th birthday of one of the most used four-letter words in the world.
No, not that one.

Okay - or as some prefer to say, OK - first appeared in print, on page two of The Boston Morning Post in 1839.

“I think OK should be celebrated with parades and speeches,” Allan Metcalf, an English professor in Illinois who is the world’s leading authority on the history and meaning of OK, told Agence France-Presse.

“But for now, whatever you do (to mark the anniversary), it’s OK.” In his 2001 book, “OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word,” Metcalf calls OK “the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet”—used more often than “Coke” or an infant’s “ma.” Concise and utilitarian, it’s quintessentially American in its simplicity.

The often-used word has no direct relationship with Latin or Greek or any other ancient tongue.

Metcalf believes the OK is an abbreviation of “orl korrekt,” a derivative of “all correct” from the 1830s when jokey misspellings were all the rage, like Internet memes are today.

Credit for finding its first use in print goes to Allen Walker Read, a Columbia University professor who died in 2002 after a lifetime interest in OK and another widely used word with four letters that starts with the letter F.

It appeared in the Post in the context of an article concerning the ironically named Anti-Bell Ringing Society, founded in 1838 to oppose a municipal law in Boston prohibiting the ringing of dinner bells.


Society members were en route to New York, it reported, adding cryptically that if they should transit Rhode Island en route home, the newspaper editor in the New England state might well “have the ‘contribution box,’ et ceteras, OK—all correct—and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.”

 
Authorities say they have 108 reports of people missing or unaccounted for after Saturday's huge landslide in the north-western US state of Washington.
Eight bodies have been recovered so far after the 54m (177ft) deep wall of mud swept near the town of Oso, about 90km (55 miles) north of Seattle.
Search crews have worked day and night, using helicopters in the dangerous conditions that destroyed 30 homes.
Several people, including an infant, were critically injured.
'Situation very grim'Snohomish County emergency management director John Pennington said the figure did not necessarily represent the total number of injuries or fatalities.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26723240
 
Bill Gates Is So Rich [Gif]. Wait for it.....He makes like $20k a second just on interest...



 
What do you get when you combine two atoms of the most flammable element with one atom of the element that aids in combustion?

Incombustible water. H2O.

Combine one of the most volatile, unstable elements with one of the most poisonous elements to get table salt. NaCl.
 
Student comes up with plan to save U.S. big bucks

Politicians on both sides of the aisle like to talk about cutting costs in Washington. But few, if any, have ever come up with an idea as simple as the one recently proposed by 14-year-old student Suvir Mirchandani.

Change the font.

Suvir's story was recently reported on CNN.com. The Pittsburgh-area student began his quest by trying to think of ways to save his school district a few bucks. After examining different handouts provided by teachers in different classes, he noticed that the fonts varied and some seemed to require a lot more ink than others.

Suvir, whom we hope got extra credit for his impressive work, discovered that the most commonly used letters on handouts seemed to be r, a, e, o and t. Armed with that information, he set to work looking at how different fonts treated each letter, CNN reports. Suvir found that of the fonts he tested, Garamond (named after Claude Garamond, the original designer of the typeface) would require the least amount of ink and could save his school district as much as $21,000 per year.

But that isn't all. Suvir reached out to the Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI), "an open-access journal that publishes original research in the biological and physical sciences that is written by middle and high school students."

Workers at the journal were reportedly impressed by Suvir's work and asked him to apply his findings to the entire United States government. Now we really hope he got extra credit.

After tracking down what the government is estimated to spend on ink per year ($467 million), Suvir found that that Uncle Sam could save around $136 million per year by switching to Garamond exclusively. In addition, he found state governments that made the change could pull in $234 million in savings, according to CNN's report.

So is the government going to make the switch? Gary Somerset, PR manager for the U.S. Government Printing Office, praised Suvir's works as "remarkable," according to CNN, but he also said the government is focusing its reduction efforts on getting things on the Web.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/sid...th-plan-to-save-u-s--big-bucks-192231144.html
 
Student comes up with plan to save U.S. big bucks

Politicians on both sides of the aisle like to talk about cutting costs in Washington. But few, if any, have ever come up with an idea as simple as the one recently proposed by 14-year-old student Suvir Mirchandani.

Change the font.

Suvir's story was recently reported on CNN.com. The Pittsburgh-area student began his quest by trying to think of ways to save his school district a few bucks. After examining different handouts provided by teachers in different classes, he noticed that the fonts varied and some seemed to require a lot more ink than others.

Suvir, whom we hope got extra credit for his impressive work, discovered that the most commonly used letters on handouts seemed to be r, a, e, o and t. Armed with that information, he set to work looking at how different fonts treated each letter, CNN reports. Suvir found that of the fonts he tested, Garamond (named after Claude Garamond, the original designer of the typeface) would require the least amount of ink and could save his school district as much as $21,000 per year.

But that isn't all. Suvir reached out to the Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI), "an open-access journal that publishes original research in the biological and physical sciences that is written by middle and high school students."

Workers at the journal were reportedly impressed by Suvir's work and asked him to apply his findings to the entire United States government. Now we really hope he got extra credit.

After tracking down what the government is estimated to spend on ink per year ($467 million), Suvir found that that Uncle Sam could save around $136 million per year by switching to Garamond exclusively. In addition, he found state governments that made the change could pull in $234 million in savings, according to CNN's report.

So is the government going to make the switch? Gary Somerset, PR manager for the U.S. Government Printing Office, praised Suvir's works as "remarkable," according to CNN, but he also said the government is focusing its reduction efforts on getting things on the Web.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/sid...th-plan-to-save-u-s--big-bucks-192231144.html

Nice find Sarah.
 
Young man with a pregnant wife was out for a run when he was attacked: [link to i1.wp.com]



INDIANAPOLIS.

The victim, identified as 24-year-old Nathan Trapuzzano, was lying in front of a tire store with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was taken to Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Health in critical condition. He died around 7:40 a.m.

A witness said they heard a male screaming, heard a gunshot and then saw someone running away. Detectives believe Trapuzzano was out on his usual morning walk when he was approached by two suspects.

Police say the first suspect forced Trapuzzano between two businesses while the second suspect acted as a lookout. The first suspect and Trapuzzano struggled, and during that struggle Trapuzzano was shot.

 
Is your sex life worth $28,000?

Couple Doomed to Bad Sex Are Awarded $28K

(Newser) - It's not your everyday court decision: An Italian couple has been awarded $28,000 in relation to their bad sex life. But the case isn't quite as crazy as that might seem.

Some two years ago, the female half of the couple was hit by a car while crossing the street; the injuries she sustained initially left her bedridden for three months, reports Italy's La Nazione, and have permanently damaged their ability to have a sex life on par with what they previously enjoyed. And there are also other limitations for the two, who say they can't ride bikes or travel together.

The Local shares the rather creative line of defense offered by the driver's insurance company: that as a middle-aged couple, they wouldn't be having an active sex life anyway.

"You cannot consider age in the couple's relationship-whether in sexual, social, or leisure terms," said the Tuscan judge per La Nazione, which reports the husband now has to handle all the cooking, cleaning, and chores.

(In a reverse case of sex-leading-to-injury, a Spanish woman on Friday fell down a well in the midst of a lovemaking session.)
 
True or not?.

YELLOWSTONE ANIMALS FLEEING PARK. SUPERVOLCANO ERUPTION IMMINENT?

According to Epoch Times, multiple videos of such incidents have been posted online recently, one of which shows a herd of buffalo allegedly leaving the park and “running for their lives.” Although people behind the discussion acknowledge there’s no way to predict when the park’s massive volcano could erupt, they believe the reaction of the Yellowstone’s animals could signal some kind of alert.

On March 30, Yellowstone was struck by the most powerful earthquake it has experienced since 1980 – a 4.8 magnitude quake that did no damage, but that some believe could be connected to the various animals’ movements.

Another video uploaded to YouTube, this time by self-described “survivalist” and “search-and-rescue expert” Tom Lupshu, claims, “Biologists aren’t sure if there’s been a stunning decline in the herd or if other factors have skewed the tally.” Lupshu also said that helium releases in the area are 1,000 times above normal levels, and accused the US Geological Survey of not reporting small quakes occurring near the volcano.


“Herds of bison running for their lives on the public roadways and they were not being chased or rounded up, the bison were running down the mountain slopes onto roadways running right past a filming crew,” he added. “They detect something vast and deadly. The Yellowstone Supervolcano is the only thing there that would fit the bill.”

https://rt.com/usa/epoch-bison-yellowstone-volcano-909/

Animals are smart!
 
A Philadelphia Police officer has been arrested for allegedly threatening a pedestrian after an minor early morning traffic accident last year.
Officer Edward Sawicki, a 9 year veteran of the force assigned to the 25th District, was arrested on Wednesday following an investigation by Philadelphia Police's Internal Affairs Division.

Police say Sawicki, who was off-duty at the time, was driving down the 100 block of S. 9th Street in the Bella Vista section of the city at 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 20, 2013, when he got into an accident involving a 37-year-old pedestrian.


That pedestrian alleges the officer got out of his car, lifted his shirt to show a gun, rushed towards him and made a verbal threat while holing a hand on his gun holster, according to police. Police say the incident then ended without escalating further.


The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office charged Sawicki with Terroristic Threats, Possession of an Instrument of Crime, Simple Assault, Harassment and Disorderly Conduct.
He has been suspended for 30 days with the intent to dismiss.


 
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