Computing
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Audacity
Audacity
is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS
X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
* Record live audio. * Convert
tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. * Edit Ogg Vorbis,
MP3, and WAV sound files. * Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds
together. * Change the speed or pitch of a recording. * And more!
See the complete list of features.
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Kim
Komando
Kim's
weekly three-hour call-in talk radio show is heard (via her own
national radio network) on over 425 stations. In addition, she
does a Computer Minute radio feature five days a week; has written
eight books about life in the digital age; sends out 5 million
e-mail newsletters weekly; and authors a widely syndicated newspaper
column, which also runs in USAtoday.com. She does all of this,
while raising a son and operating a growing media empire, with her
husband and associate, Barry Young.
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MojoPac
Pick ANY Device -
MojoPac can turn any USB 2.0 compliant portable storage device, including your iPod, or your USB flash or hard drives, into
your Personal Computer - your MojoPac PC.
Run ANY Application -
You can install any of the most popular Windows applications on your MojoPac PC. You can use the same version of the applications
you use daily at work (such as Microsoft Office) or at home (such as Photoshop, iTunes, IM and Games).
Use ANY PC -
With MojoPac, you can go to any Windows XP computer, plug in your MojoPac device, and bring up your MojoPac PC. The
experience is exactly as if you are logging into your Personal Computer, complete with your desktop, shortcuts, applications
and preferences.
*** Free Microsoft Vista support coming Q2 2007 for all current customers.
Privately and Securely
Your applications, browser history, and activities leave no trace on the computer you are connected to. What happens on MojoPac,
stays on MojoPac.
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OpenOffice
2.1 – An Office Suite that's FREE!
OpenOffice.org
is one of the applications that has been modified to run on the U3
platform. This program, for both Windows and U3 platforms, is
compatible with other major office suites and is free
to download, use, and distribute.
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PDF
Pad
PDF
Pad is a comprehensive online destination where you can download and
print the high quality documents you need for work, school and play,
free of charge or registration hassles. Documants available are:
Calendars, Flags, Graph paper, Smith chart, Staff paper,
Storyboards, and Sudoku puzzles
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Portable Apps Suite
Now you can carry your favorite
computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and
more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All
without leaving any personal data behind.
Portable Apps Suite provides a truly open platform that works with any
hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc).
It's open source built around an open format that any hardware
vendor or software developer can use.
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SyncBack
SyncBack
is a freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronize
your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW,
CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.
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U3
Brings the Power of Portable Software to Your Flash Drive
The
U3 Platform is a new standard in the USB flash drive world that
takes USB drives a big step forward. It enables USB flash drives to
be much more than a storage device. U3 devices enable you to not
only carry your data with you, but your applications can also travel
with you.
Consumer Electronics & Photography:
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Consumer Elextronics & Photography
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Digital Photography Review
Breaking news from the digicam universe,
plus exhaustive reviews of the latest models.
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Engadget
The blog of gagdet lovers!
Get up-to-the-minute news on everything from
wireless technologies to digital music players.
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Flickr
Sophisticated photo-sharing site with a
social-networking bent.
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PopPhoto.com
The web site for Popular Photography is a
veritable What's What and Who's Who in photography, with news, reviews,
and how-to articles.
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Shutterbug
Another great site for professional and
amature photographers alike.
Search, Reference & Portals:
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Search Reference& Portals
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About.com
All
you ever wanted to know about everything from automobiles to
zooIogy.
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Centers
for Disease Control & Prevention
Is
what you have the plain old flu or the deadly H5N1 avian type?
Learn all about diseases -- and how not to get them.
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Dictionary.com
A
reference desk on your desktop, with links to English and foreign
dictionaries, translation tool and grammar guides.
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Encyclopedia
Britannica
Get
all the content of the world's premier encyclopedia without giving
up a yard of shelf space.
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FirstGov.gov
All
government, all the time. This is the place to find the
information you need to cut through the feds' red tape.
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Google
It's
a great web and desktop search engine and Web mail provider.
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Librarians'
Index to the Internet
California
librarians share their favorite trustworthy links.
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The
Library of Congress
Peruse
one of the world's greatest collections of information.
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Nolo
The
client of the man who represents himself will look a little less
foolish if he visits this DIY legal site.
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OpenDNS
Safer,
speedier Web surfing. It's free and there's no software
to install. Everyone can use OpenDNS — individual
computers and large networks. OpenDNS does more than speed up Web
surfing. It can also keep you safer. OpenDNS keeps an updated
list of phishing sites. If you get fooled into visiting one of
these sites, OpenDNS will block it.
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PBS
Dig
into some of your favorite shows here. Some of their pages
have loads of extra information.
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Project
Gutenberg
Now
comprising more than 13,000 e-books, all free. Project
Gutenberg could probably keep you busy for the rest of your life.
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WebMD
Read
up on conditions, diseases, drugs, nutrition, medical news and
more. Visit the symptom checker for quick diagnostic help
and advice on how soon you might want to see a professional.
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Wikipedia
This
collectively updated site aims to be the beginning of the sum of
everyones knowledge.
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Yahoo!
This
portal has so many features we don't even know where to begin. It
seems Yahoo! never met a site enhancement it didn't like.
News & Entertainment:
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News & Entertainment
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Arts
& Letters Daily
The
Chronical of Higher Education's clearinghouse of links to some of
the best articles and essays on books, culture, philosphy and ideas.
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AMG
All Music Guide
And
they do mean all music -- pretty much.
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BBC
News
The
Beeb with webcasts in 43 languages, is one of the world's most
important sources of news.
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CNN.com
In
an era of fake news proliferation, this is still an excellent source
or real news.
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Dilby
News Monitor
Dilby
compiles news from a dizzying number of sources, including links to
live video and audio streaming news from around the world. It
also provides links to nearly every type of informational resource
imaginable. You can even post your own rants in the live
chat window.
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Drudge
Report
Matthew
Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet journalist
and a talk radio host. He is best known as the proprietor
of the Drudge Report website, which made national waves when it was
the first to break the news of a relationship between a White House
intern and President Bill Clinton in 1998.
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E!
Online
Entertainment
news and reviews, plus more celebrity dirty laundry than you can
shake an Oscar at.
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ESPN.com
News,
features and stats on professional sports and athletes.
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Herald
Today
Keep
in touch with local news and events with the Bradenton Herald.
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Herald
Tribune
Another
great local paper the Sarasota Herald Tribune.
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Internet
Archive
Not
just and internet archive, this site holds terabyte upon terabyte of
software, concerts, video and audio, and of course, Web sites.
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The
Internet Movie Database
The
be-all and end-all of movie sites on the Web. Get movie
and actor info, watch trailers and sign up for IMDb Pro for tons of
industry information.
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The
New York Times on the Web
All
the news that's fit to post.
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NPR
The
home of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Terry Gross and some of the most
thoughtful radio content going.
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Pandora
Internet Radio
Part
of the Music Genome Project. Pandora Intenet Radio will build
a radio playlist around an artist or song you specify. A
highly recommended web site.
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Science
Daily
Seven
times as frequent as Science Weekly, or so the name implies. This
site has news on all things science, from aging to virtual reality.
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TV.com
What's
on, what's next, who's that, where is she now, and what's happened
on the episode last night?
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Variety.com
Everything
you need to know or will ever want to know about show business.
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The
Wall Street Journal
They
say that The Washington Post is read by the people that think they
run the country and The New York Times is read by the people who
think they should run the country, but The Wall Street Journal is
read by those who actually do run the country.
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Wired
News
A
terrific read in print or online. Wired understands that
technology is part of our lives and culture, not a separate entity.
Shopping:
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Shopping
ConsumerReview.com
As
the name implies, consumers offer buying advice here -- on the
unlikely mix of consumer electronics and sporting goods.
eBay
The
mother of all online garage sales.
Gizmodo
Drool
over all the latest gadgets and gizmos on this very popular consumer
electronics blog.
Overstock.com
The
commercials are awful, but the shopping is good at this Web outlet.
Shopping.com
Find,
compare, buy. It powers PC Magazine's site shopping
comparison engine. It must be good.
Surprise.com
A
sometimes weird but often prescient gift consultant.
Techbargains.com
For
great deals on loads of tech products, check here first.
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