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28 April 2010 View Comments

Free Foreign Language Courses Website

Free Foreign Language Courses Website

The U.S. Foreign Service Institute teaches foreign languages to government diplomats and personnel for duties abroad—and its courses are available online, for free. Which means you can access audio, texts, and tests in 41 different languages.
The FSI Language Courses web site isn’t actually maintained by the U.S. government itself, but the materials developed before 1989 [...]


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11 April 2010 View Comments

Tutorial: Linear Programming with GeoGebra

Introduces to a basic application of Linear Programming.

Linear programming is often a favorite topic for both professors and students. The ability to introduce LP using a graphical approach, the relative ease of the solution method, the widespread availability of LP software packages, and the wide range of applications make LP accessible even to students with relatively weak mathematical backgrounds. Additionally, LP provides [...]


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9 April 2010 View Comments

Video Presentation at Google I/O Developers Conference

Everyone talks about Google and its search methodologies and even its home page design. But whatever you know about Google, if that is not enough then go thru the below attached 60 minutes video presentation by “Marissa Mayer” – Vice President of Search Product.
Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of [...]


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9 April 2010 View Comments

Printfriendly: Print Selected Part of Webpage

If you want to get a print copy of only text part of a webpage or without any particular image then you can try Printfriendly web application. Sometimes we need a print copy of a page but because of different ads or huge images running on that page, we ignore getting a print copy idea. [...]


8 April 2010 View Comments

Google – Don’t be Evil (Video)

Google is not just a company but now it is also used as a verb. For search operations, we generally use the term “Google it” to ask our friends to perform search for a term. Besides search, there are lot many other initiatives started in Google and here I found one video which shows the [...]


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8 April 2010 View Comments

Cool Websites: Stain Solutions Finds the Cure for Removing Any Stain

The University of Illinois’ Stain Solution web site gathers exhaustive remedies for hundreds of common, hard-to-remove stains in one easy-to-search resource—with surprising specificity. Did that coffee stain come with cream or no cream?

The site offers a variety of stain solutions, including for difficult ones like blood and ink (including fountain, red, and India ink). [...]


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2 April 2010 View Comments

Cool Tool: PaperRater

Cool Tool: PaperRater

One of the most boring things that comes with being a student is proofreading your own paper. Diligent students should make sure that their work is well-written, original, coherent, and grammatically correct. PaperRater is a web service that helps you with that. Weblink: http://www.paperrater.com/


22 March 2010 View Comments

Web Tools – Better Writing with Essayrater

EssayRater is a free web app that reviews, grades and checks essays for plagiarism, and helps you to improve them. This tool goes beyond the usual online proof-reading tools by checking your paper for the quality of word choice, sentence structure, content originality and more. Link: http://www.essayrater.com/


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