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Free file browser Q-Dir makes for a good USB drive app or installed replacement for Windows Explorer for those who do a serious amount of file swapping, or just like to be able to keep multiple folder views open at once. The app—which installs by default, but can run by itself after renaming it “Q-Dir.exe”—offers [...]

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/

ChurchRater – With different churches belonging to different ideologies, it is not easy to find the church that fits in a new place. ChurchRater is a web service that lets you find churches by church name, state or denomination. When the results are displayed, you can click on any church to give it a rating [...]

TubeOke – YouTube has millions of songs that you can watch but sometimes its hard to make out the exact lyrics. On the other hand, Lyrics.com has lyrics for thousands of songs but no videos. This is where TubeOke comes in. TubeOke lets you hear and watch any song from YouTube along with displaying. Link: [...]

ILovePDF – If you want to edit every aspect of a PDF, including the content and the layout, you’re going to need a professional tool like Adobe Acrobat. If all you want to do is split one PDF into two, or combine two PDF’s into one, I Love PDF can do the job for you.

Send complex math expressions over email and IM, without requiring any special software. It’s also great for previewing LaTeX on the fly and generating images for embedding in your webpages. The red mathURL links to a page on this site with your equation. To embed an equation in some other webpage, you can either save [...]

Ipe extensible drawing editor is a free vector graphics editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format. It can be used for making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations. It was developed by Otfried Cheong in 1993 and initially worked on SGI workstations only. Ipe 6 [...]

A new crop of journal reference management applications have emerged within the last 18 months.  The term “journal reference management” is used here as opposed to the older term “bibliographic management” to emphasize the importance of managing and linking the bibliographic data with the PDFs. The biggest frustration for the busy scientists is the difficulty [...]

Although Windows Vista / Windows 7  has a good desktop search software built in, I still find it too slow to work with, and the results are not as I expected most of the time. I will introduce two lighting fast program, they are Locate32, and my favourite: Everything. If you want to find a [...]

How to Install Bookmarklets It’s as simple as dragging a link from the web page to the bookmarks region. The Best Bookmarklets for Web Browsers Now that you know the benefits of using a bookmarklet and how easy it is to add one to your own browser bookmarks, let me share some of my favourite [...]