WordWeb - Dictionary + Thesaurus + Word Finder

WORDWEB FREE^* VERSION

WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include:

Definitions and synonyms Proper nouns Related words Pronunciations

150 000 root words 120 000 synonym sets Look up words in almost any program

Millions of people from all over the world use this top-rated software.

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WordWeb 5.5 for Windows 98/2000/Me/XP/Vista
Free^*. No SpyWare. No AdWare. No viruses. Works off-line.

Get the FREE download now

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The software has a full dictionary and thesaurus for American, British, Canadian, Australian, Indian, and global English.

Web-based Yahoo! Messenger released

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Yahoo!'s answer to web-based Google Talk is now live on the tubes: Yahoo! Messenger for the Web lets you chat, download-free, on the Y! network right inside the web browser.

Let's cut to the chase. Web-based Y! Messenger takes the desktop app experience in the browser to a whole new level with some killer features: "so-and-so is typing" notification while your chat buddy is composing a message (Campfire, you need this), slick tab title scrolling of a new message when Web Messenger is in a background tab, online per-contact message history, a tabbed interface for multiple chats and an animated selection of Y!'s classically fun and expressive emoticons. Also, Y! Messenger plays nice with Windows Live Messenger, too.

It was on Yahoo! Messenger that I fell in love with chatting back in the late 90's, so I'd be lying if I said Messenger for the Web didn't make my heart skip a beat or two tonight. Browser support is impressive, too: you can get your web-based Y! chat on in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera AND Safari. My Y!-loyal pal over in IT lockdown is literally throwing a party over this, she hasn't had her favorite instant messenger at the office for so long. Sign in with your Yahoo! account over at http://web.im (nice domain, Yahoo) to give it a spin.
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Convert an image to an icon with ConvertIcon

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Web site ConvertIcon quickly converts a PNG into an ICO (icon) file online, then lets you download the results.

This is a great tool to have bookmarked, especially if you're at all interested in creating custom icons for you desktop. Personally, it came in very handy when I was converting my (admittedly crappy) Lifehacker Code images into icons, since finding a free, simple PNG-to-ICO converter for Windows turned out to be a pain in the ass.
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How fast can you type?

Ever wondered what your typing speed was? I had, so here’s a little experimentation that you can do. Go on to JPhantom and measure up your typing skills.

How did you fare? I had this.. 89.73 WPM is pretty bad, don’t you think so?

There’s another interesting game that you can try it out if you have time at 2addicted.

http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/

Reinstall your drivers with DriverMax

After we format and re-install Windows to our PC, we need to install back all the drivers to make sure that our computer works smoothly. But to install all the drivers one by one is a pain. But thanks to Innovative Solutions for the solution they made.

DriverMax is new free program (get FREE registration code) that helps you to reinstall all drivers at once. No more searching for drivers or install drivers from CDs because all comes in one compressed file.

Before you format your PC, you just need to export all your drivers settings and files with DriverMax and DriverMax will save it in a compressed file. After you finish reinstalling your Windows, just import the file to install all the drivers.

With DriverMax, you also can display complete report of all your drivers installed in your computer. This is really useful if you want to analyze the differences between the drivers installed on different PCs.

Download DriverMax

Make SlideShows with your Flickr Pictures, Also Upload to Youtube

Slideroll™ is a photo slideshow maker that you can use to create slide shows with your photos. Publish your slideshows on the internet, put them on MySpace or YouTube, and e-mail them to friends.

Create Cool Slideshows from Your Photos

Upload photos from your computer into our interactive drag-and-drop slide show creator. From there, you can build slide shows with smooth pans, zooms, and fades. Create documentary-style slideshows with that famous "Ken Burns Effect".

Publish to the Net

You can publish your slideshow on this site, or get code to embed the slide show on your own site. They are in Flash SWF format, so they are small and anyone can see them, even over dialup! There are privacy options so that only your friends and family can see your slide shows.

Publish to Video for DVD or YouTube

With Slideroll Videomaker, you can turn your slideshows into video that you can use for your DVDs, or upload to YouTube. You can even add your own MP3 Soundtrack. With Slideroll™, you can turn those static photos into wonderful stories!

Alternatively, you can download Flickr slideshows to your hard drive as MPEG Video using the free Slideroll Videomaker application and later upload them directly to Youtube.

Slideroll | VideoMaker [Flickr Slideshows for MySpace or YouTube].

YouTube Download and Save

YouTubia allows you to search for and download videos from YouTube to your hard drive. In order to view the downloaded videos, rename the files with an FLV extension.

Where can I download a free FLV player?
VLC media player
Price: FREE
get the free VLC Media Player

How do I convert FLV videos to other formats (AVI, MPEG, etc)?
Riva FLV Encoder
Price: FREE
get the free VLC Media Converter

Translate text and webpages- Altavista Babel Fish

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

AltaVista Babel Fish Translation enables you to translate short passages of text or entire Web sites among 19 pairs of languages.

As an automatic translator, Babel Fish works best when the text you wish to translate uses proper grammar. Slang, misspelled words, poorly placed punctuation and complex or lengthy sentences can all cause a page to be translated incorrectly. Expect Babel Fish to allow you to grasp the general intent of the original, not to produce a polished translation.

To Translate Your Own Text

• Type or paste text into the “Translate a block of text” text box.
• Select the language pair from the list (for example, English to French).
• Click the Translate button.

Babel Fish translates text up to about 150 words at a time

To enter special characters
To enter accented or Russian characters, click the World Keyboard link. An on-screen “virtual keyboard” will appear. You can add characters to the text box by either clicking on the keys or typing with your physical keyboard. The World Keyboard link turns your physical keyboard into the international keyboard of your choice. To return your physical keyboard to normal operation, just click the close box on the virtual keyboard. After you close the keyboard, press Control-k to use it again.

Tips
To enter accents, click first the accent and then the character it appears with. To type capital letters, click the Shift key and then the letter.
Be sure your Windows control panel keyboard is set to English. The World Keyboard does not run on Macintosh computers.

To Translate a Web Page

• Enter the address of the page you wish to translate into the “Translate a Web page” text box.
• Select the language pair from the list (for example, German to English).
• Click the Translate button.

Babel Fish translates individual Web pages up to 10K. When you click a link, the linked page is also automatically translated.

Posted by: Vivek Toshniwal

iLoveLanguages - Quality links of the great translation wesbites

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/ is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you’re looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you’ve heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.

Formerly known as The Human-Languages Page, iLoveLanguages is still your biggest and best guide to language-related Web sites.

I really like this website because it has almost the best links which you need for the translation or language oriented needs. Fabulous website with very easy interface and quick search up for the links. So go ahead and express your mind to the world in the language they understand.

Posted by: Yogesh Goel

I will not show my IP address to anyone of you!!!!

http://www.anonymouse.org - This site is best if you do not want your IP address detected while visiting a website. I am still not sure how helpful it is but I try and use this when I am visiting websites which allow for password hacking so that my ip address is not on display amongst hackers atleast.

This link will also help you if you are working in office and your office has installed a cyber software for disallowing access to certain links. You can actually visit the links BANNED in your office.

Just go to this site and type in the box the site you wish to visit and YOUR THEREEEE…Go great guns friends. Now you have got a CHEAT TOOL….

This is what the website has to say. Its sure to make your concept and fear right in place. “Many mice surf the web under the illusion that their actions are private and anonymous. Unfortunately, it isn’t so. Every time you visit a site for a piece of cheese, you leave a calling card that reveals where you’re coming from, what kind of computer you have, and other details. And many cats keep logs of all your visits, so that they can catch you! This service allows you to surf the web without revealing any personal information. It is fast, it is easy, and it is free!”

Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, GTalk - Chat without the messenger

http://www.meebo.com - Another site for office users.

Has your office banned chats like Yahoo, MSN, AIM or ICQ, Jabber or GTalk? Of course since they have banned then the system engineers have even not installed these chat clients on your machine right? No problem. Just visit ‘Meebo’ and you have all these chat clients opening inside the same browser. Just type your user name and password like you would do under the chat client you wish to chat with.

Once logged in, the page refreshes and inside the internet window itself, you will be able to see your chat client and chat. Chat windows open inside the browser itself so you have complete privacy and what’s more it can’t be tracked by the office cyber software.. yipeeeee.

I must say this is the greatest website. Above all no need to download and install the particular messengers. What do you say. Isn’t it a noble idea. Terriffic. I just can’t explain in words. Now chatting for all.

Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Too COOL to believe!

http://www.cooltoad.com/

This is one site which is really COOL. It offers you a whole lot of stuff and that too FREE of cost.

Services

• SEARCH- Search everything over the internet.
• EMAIL- Free 100 MB email space.
• AUCTION- Free auction services.No fees for listing, relisting or final values.
• MUSIC-Download free MP3 music from various catagories. You can as well upload your own music files for others to download.
• WEBPAGES-Create your homepage for free on their server. You can also create an auction site with their pre-made theme.

USP
Everything on this site is FREE and the server is also pretty reliable and fast.

by: Vivek Toshniwal

Participate! Spread the word! Start your own free petition today!

http://www.petitiononline.com/

The idea of PetitionOnline.com is to facilitate grassroots democracy, using independent petition hosting system to give a high level of integrity to the process. The site believes that in a world with many powerful organizations, both private and governmental, responsible forms of collective grassroots expression are more important than ever and that the Internet can facilitate this kind of participatory democracy.

With PetitionOnline, you write the text of your petition and submit it, using a simple online form. Then you promote your petition to get signers, and you deliver your petition when you feel it is ready. The site provides a free Internet petition system that makes the petitioning process easy.

The free online petition system automatically formats your petition for the web, hosts the petition here on fast, secure web servers, and collects, displays, and maintains the all-important petition signatures.

USP
The ancient methods of grassroots democracy, combined with the
latest digital networked communications, running live and free 24 hours a day.

So, have your word and spread the message!

Posted by: Vivek Toshniwal

FILE Searching - Music, Images, Videos, Drivers !!!

http://www.filesearching.com/

From DvD ripped Metallica Videos to Latest ISOs of all available OSes to Innumerable list of Movies, Filesearching.com has everything for you.Filesearching.com, has a database comprising of some real cool ftp servers(mostly Russian) that are mostly on and provide you with with almost everything. The advance search tab allows you to refine your search and supports some useful features like size specs, filetype, HIde/Unhide Unix system related files etc.

It has a huge database of drivers also categorised under-

• Video
• Sound
• CD ROM
• Scanner
• BIOS
• Printer
• Modem
• Monitor
• Network
• SCSI, IDE, RAID

So you see how helpful this website is. You can say it is another form of a search engine designed and presented and helpful in a very different way.

Give it a try!!!

Contributed by: Prateek Gupta, Posted by: Yogesh Goel

Everything is not yet FREE on the NET!

https://mediamax.streamload.com

There are a lot of websites providing online storage space for files, videos, music. Most of them give a trail 15 day membership after which things are chargeable. But there’s this site which claims free online storage space of 25 GB. Sounds unbelievable – in fact, you don’t need to believe it because I found a lot of loopholes while reviewing this site so I wanted to make other users aware of it all before you register and fall in the trap.

The loopholes are as below:

• The site is ambiguous about its price plans and features. There are 2 registration pages at different locations, each showcasing different Price Plans and Features.
https://www.streamload.com/Account/CreateNewAccount.asp?userName=xyz
https://mediamax.streamload.com/home/pricing.aspx

The first link has 5 plans with different prices and the second link has 3 plans which are not the same as any of the 5 previously mentioned ones.

• On registration, the site doesn’t actually provide 25GB but just 500 MB space. Moreover, there’s a restricted bandwidth too. At the same point of time, the file size limit is 25 MBs, so you cannot really share Videos as claimed by the site on its Homepage.

After coming across all these discrepancies, no one would really trust the genuineness of the site and for that matter would anyone jeopardize the safety and security of his important files?

No doubt, the server is quite fast and the file management is also user friendly but then, you don’t really get what you want!

by: Vivek Toshniwal