Have you been envious of your apple-totting friend's iChat?
Well, now you can get ManyCam -- a FREE iChat alternative for your windows machine that let's you use your webcam with multiple applications at the same time and add cool graphics to your webcam video window.
Using the new Diet.com Nutrition on the Go service really is as easy as 1,2,3:
You put your phone in text message mode, type in the menu item you need help with, then send that info to DIET1 (34381).
In a flash you receive a text with the information you requested
Make an informed decision! Feast on tasty, guilt-free, diet-friendly food!
The site offers access to over 36,000 foods from 1700 restaurants in North America!
*Note: Try to be as accurate and specific as possible - the less words you include from the menu item, the less likely you are to recieve information for the item you want to look up.
Users enter their specific details and receive free health insurance quotes and can compare features among multiple options rather than researching individual plans from different sources.
Most other learning tools replicate pencil and paper learning processes. Socrato brings the power of computing and data analysis to your studies.
"We constantly analyze your learning patterns, quantify your strengths and weaknesses and allow you to customize your practice session based on your goals"
What practice tests does Socrato currently have available?
Socrato has imported 5 years of prior MCAS tests (i.e., questions and answers) for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. The tests are organized by grade year (6, 7, and 8), and include Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science and Technology/Engineering, and History and Social Science.
In all there are over 1000 MCAS questions available from 27 previous tests.
With today's myriad of travel sites, even the most experienced traveler has their hands full managing all the details of a typical trip.
Booking airline tickets, hotels, rental cars and restaurants leaves you with lots of separate pieces of paper. Throw in maps, directions, things to do, and weather and the chaos multiplies.
Enter TripIt -- a FREE, personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans.
TripIt turns chaos into order by making it easy for anyone to:
Organize trip details into one master online itinerary -- even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites
Automatically include maps, directions and weather in their master itinerary
Have the option to book restaurants, theatre tickets, activities and more right from within the online itinerary
Safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights, or print an itinerary
How it Works:
The easiest way to get started with TripIt is to simply forward all your travel confirmation emails to: plans@tripit.com
Once they receive your bookings, TripIt will email you a link to view your itinerary and your new TripIt account. Using TripIt is free and your travel plans are kept secure and confidential.
What happens to my travel booking?
This is when the cool stuff starts -- the TripIt "Itinerator" takes over and automatically combines your related travel bookings into a single master itinerary. Then the Itinerator searches the Web to add related information, including daily weather, local maps, driving directions, city guides and more.
You'll get an email from TripIt once your new itinerary is ready.
What can I do with my TripIt itinerary?
You can simply print your itinerary and head out the door with all your travel plans and confirmation numbers in one place. Or you can customize your itinerary with additional maps and directions, meetings and activities, or even other Web pages that you'll need on your trip.
You can also access all your travel plans while on the road from your mobile device or automatically sync your detailed itineraries to your personal calendar.
It's easy to create a network of TripIt Connections so you can view each other's travel calendars and get alerted when your travel plans overlap with each other. It's also easy to share complete itineraries with friends or family who need to know your travel plans, or collaborate with fellow travelers on a trip.
Here's some other information about TripIt that you may find helpful:
While there are several sites that allow users to input locations of usual speed trap locations, red light cameras, speed cameras - a map of speed traps on a Web site will NOT help you avoid a ticket.
Police are not stupid. They change the locations where they set up speed traps many times per day. Only real time data is useful.
Trapster™ data is real time data -- with Trapster your mobile phone alerts you as you approach police speed traps.
How trapster works:
When you see a trap, report it by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number.
Other user's phones will alert them as they approach the trap.
Trapster™ learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.
Here's how to get started using Trapster™ on your mobile phone:
Create a Trapster account from your Web browser (not mobile) using the "Sign-up" button on the home page.
To get Trapster on your Mobile Phone you can either install the Trapster™ application or simply use the voice and SMS features (no install required).
If you have remote friends, colleagues or clients odds are you are familiar with WeEx - the remote collaboration tool, now owned by Cisco.
Although it's a very good product; it has two drawbacks:
it requires participants to perform an install on their machine (which they seem to always postpone to AFTER the meeting begins) and...
it is pretty expensive (plans start at $39/month)
Dimdim is a FREE web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely NO download required for attendees.
Dimdim is extremely easy to use. It has a very simple user interface, and is designed so the people you invite to your meeting do not have to install anything (even to broadcast audio or video!) A single click starts your meeting.
Dimdim’s built-in VoIP capability is great for attendees with limited access to quality phone service, providing free calling to and from any computer with a microphone and an Internet connection.
With no software to download or install, Dimdim democratizes web- based live meetings. In seconds - right from your browser - you easily host or attend web meetings complete with audio and video conferencing, screen and application sharing.
So what are the odds that you're signed up for the cheapest cell phone plan and add-ons for your personal calling pattern?
Pretty darned close to zero.
It's hard enough to understand how all the different plans work, let alone to figure out which one of the millions of combinations will cost you the least.
BillShrink, is a new and FREE service that aims to save you time and money through highly-personalized analysis of your particular usage.
The BillShrink application for Wireless enables you to discover the best cell phone carrier and plan that meet your personal usage requirements, with the best call quality, at the lowest cost.
With all this unavoidable complexity, there is no single “right” answer for everyone; rather, the optimal choice depends squarely on how you personally use your cell phone (i.e. who you call, when you call, how much you call, whether you use SMS, etc.)
To solve this problem, our application allows you to interactively describe your wireless usage profile, and in return, receive comprehensive, real-time analysis and feedback on which plans are the best fit for you.
Plans are ranked as a function of the two parameters that wireless subscribers tend to care most about: a) how much a plan costs; and b) which carriers will provide the best call quality.
For cost, BillShrink calculates how much YOUR cell phone usage would cost on that plan -- plans that support your usage with the lowest associated cost are rated highest in the cost dimension.
For call quality, they perform a comparison of the expected signal strength provided by each carrier’s network at the locations that matter most to you (i.e. at home, at work, etc) -- carriers with the strongest network in those areas will rank the highest in the call quality dimension. Lastly, we combine the cost and coverage sub-rankings to come up with an aggregate plan rank.
ILRG Legal Forms Archive boasts the Internet's largest collection of FREE legal forms with over 2,000 forms; many of their forms are adapted for state-specific use.
The site offers basic agreements (buying and selling, credit and collection, employment, leases, loans, assignments, personal and family, and divorce) and is NOT meant to substitute for official legal advice, but if you need a basic form, this is the place to get it.
If you are a small business owner, you'd probably prefer to spend your time providing your customers with great products and services; and not creating, sending, and tracking invoices.
Billing Manager is an easy way to create and manage your invoices online. And it's from Intuit – the makers of QuickBooks, Quicken, and TurboTax.
To get started just pick an invoice style and add your logo. Your company and customer information is remembered as you enter it, so each invoice is faster and easier than the last.
With one click, you can see your overdue invoices or who owes the most. Browse or search your online invoices or customers—instantly!
Billing Manager is FREE — you can create online invoices for free, you can track your customers and payments for free, you can use your own logo for free and so on.
So what's the catch? how do they make money?
There is an optional electronic payment service (QuickBooks Merchant Service) that is fully integrated with Billing Manager. It costs money.
It lets you process credit cards in Billing Manager. It also lets your customers pay your invoices online.
You don’t have to do this (ever), and you can happily use Billing Manager for free.
But the idea is that for some businesses, accepting credit cards and letting their customer pay online will help them get paid faster and more easily.
That’s it, that’s the catch.
Here are some other things you can do with Billing Manager:
Select from professional invoice templates
Email or print online invoices
See each invoice’s history—when it was sent, received and paid
See what’s overdue and easily send reminders
They do the math (sales tax too!) for fast, accurate invoices
Whether it's a digital camera, printer, or laptop - most manufacturers of gadgets, electronics and consumer products do not provide adequate technical support through their web sites, despite these products becoming more and more technologically advanced.
Enter FixYa - the largest online source for FREE technical advice on gadgets, electronic equipment and consumer products.
FixYa users can quickly and easily post technical questions for Experts in the FixYa troubleshooting forums - seeking solutions for problems or advice/instructions on proper usage of a product.
Users can also upgrade to Premium Assistance to get fast, guaranteed technical assistance from Top Experts - via posting or Live Chat.
The power of FixYa stems from the unique, community-generated content found in the FixYa troubleshooting forums.
Technical problems and solutions posted on FixYa are based on users' real life experiences, rather than the hypothetical scenarios presented in product manufacturers' FAQs.
In addition, through FixYa's unique rating system, problem solutions are continually refined, with the goal of offering users the most helpful and accurate technical support information possible for any consumer product.
Besides connecting users with Experts who can provide technical advice, FixYa also stores manuals and troubleshooting guides for over half a million products, provides a forum for postings product tips and user created wiki-manuals, offers Extended Warranties and warranty management tools, maintains a directory of Repair Service providers, and makes it easy to purchase new consumer products.
Having reached the "age of wisdom", I live with my wife and two boys in Houston, Texas.
I have long been interested in business, technology; and the relationship between them.
My hobbies include, marathon running, history, politics and gadgetry.
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