Program presented Monday, January 17, 2011, by Sandi Meeker. Following are annotated links to websites.
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Investopedia
- www.investopedia.com/ Forbes
collection of definitions and articles about all things financial
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Kayak
www.kayak.com Pulls info from hundreds of
travel sites based on your query
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OpenWith
www.openwith.org Database of file extensions for
whenever you come across an unknown file type. Easy to browse, links you to
freeware applications to open your file.
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PDF
Reference www.pdfgeni.com Search engine to indexing PDF
files scattered all over the web. Good
for finding manuals.
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Get
The Human www.gethuman.com
Bypass the touchtone menu
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So
You Wanna www.soyouwanna.com
Provides instructions on all sorts of projects
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Perfect
Wallpaper www.inferfaclift.com
Organized easy sorting by resolution rating
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Google
Labs www.googlelabs.com
Beta projects in Google
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Adobe
Labs www.labs.adobe.com
Beta projects in Adobe
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Hula
Labs www.hulu.com.labs
Beta projects in Hula
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Photojournalsim
www.boston.com/bigpicture
Collects best photojournlism of the day
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Newsmap
www.newsmap.jp Organizes stories into a big
colorful tree map based on category and importance. Measured by number of
outlets reporting on the story
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Fatburgr
www.fatburgr.com Calorie count of popular dine in
and fast food restaurants
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Cooking
for Engineers www.cookingforengineers.com
Recipes written out and photographed in detail
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Drinkhacker
www.drinkhacker.com
Reviews of spirits cocktail recipes
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Crackle
TV Movies www.crackle.com
Fills in some things you cant get on Hula owned by Sony Pictures
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Meme
www.knowyourmem.com is used to describe a concept that spreads
via the Internet
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Ars
Technica www.arstechnica.com
Technology site in depth analysis in the tech industry
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We
choose the moon www.wechoosethemoon.org
Experience the Apollo 11 mission stage by stage. Part of Kennedy Museum
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Akinator
www.us.akinator.com
Play 20 questions
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Pretty
Loaded www.prettyloaded.com
Showcases very best of preloaders from the web
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80
gigapixel London www.360cities.net/london-photo-en.html
Worlds largest photo. 360 degree panorama of London
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Photosynth
www.photosynth.net
Project of Microsoft lets you take collections of digital photos and stitch them
together. While moving thru the image you can see objects from different angles
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Measy
www.measy.com Quiz based decision maker.
E-reader, TV
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RetailMeNot
www.retailmenot.com
Coupon Clipper
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Bubble
Wrap http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com
Stress
Reliever