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2008-02-04

ImageMagick Studio

Convert or manipulate images

http://studio.webbyland.com/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi

ColorBlender.com | Your free online color matching toolbox

"Welcome to ColorBlender – your free online tool for color matching and palette design!"

http://colorblender.com/

Create and Share Floorplans Online

"Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time."

http://www.floorplanner.com/

asciiconvert - Convert any image to a text image of ASCII characters

http://asciiconvert.com/

Cronfa Data Genedlaethol o Dermau

"Mae modd defnyddio'r Gronfa Genedlaethol o Dermau mewn dwy ffordd: chwilio am derm penodol yn fyw ar y we, a llwytho geiriaduron cyfan i lawr i'ch cof cyfieithu."

http://www.e-gymraeg.co.uk/bwrdd-yr-iaith/termau/Default.aspx

Helium - Helium is a community of writers who are revolutionizing publishing.

"Who are our writers? People like you who might have a career in marketing but know more about killing crabgrass than anyone else. People who work in the post office but have raised five honors students. Ex-teachers who love to write and writers who love to teach.

We’re not a blog or a collection of edited encyclopedic listings. We are a vast resource of experience-based knowledge, wisdom and creativity. We welcome a variety of voices and opinions. Above all, we’re a community serious about writing articles of lasting value."

http://www.helium.com/

The Unofficial Web Applications List

"Convert to PDF, Edit photos, Send large files, Make web buttons, Translate to English, Use spreadsheet, Use word processor, Create presentation, Read RSS feeds,
Scan for viruses/spyware"

http://www.webapplist.com/

Preezo - Presentations for the Web

"Create professional quality presentations using an ultra-fast Ajax user interface."

http://preezo.com/

ajaxWrite i- web-based word processor

"ajaxWrite is a web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard document formats. Anytime you need to open, read or write a word processor file, simply point your Firefox browser to www.ajaxwrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be available for you to open, edit, print and save."

http://www.ajaxlaunch.com/ajaxwrite/

Welsh Audio Dictionary

"This is no ordinary dictionary - this one actually speaks the words to you, and with over 1,000 words it is a fantastic resource for any student of the Welsh language."

http://www.vwales.co.uk/welsh/dictionary/e2w/dictionary.htm

Cruel truth surfaces in the OOXML war

"Tsilas is admitting, more explicitly than implicitly, that Microsoft's profit depends on it controlling standards and that OOXML is a product designed to do exactly that. The mask has slipped and the nature of this particular war is on display."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002982,39292519,00.htm

10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online

"Whether you are a current writer or looking to break into the craft, formal writing courses can help you hone your skills. If you don't have the money or the time for a campus-based course, there are plenty of universities that offer free writing courses online."

http://education-portal.com/articles/10_Universities_Offering_Free_Writing_Courses_Online.html

Tibetan Buddhism (film from 1963)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-kOuHkQErc


"In 1963, for the first time, the Dalai Lama allowed a Westerner, Desjardins, to film the heart of the Tibetan tradition. These two films were originally shown on French television in the 1960's and are a wonderful testimony, revealing some of Tibet's foremost masters as they were then. It includes footage of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the Sixteenth Karmapa, Dudjom Rinpoche, Ling Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Sakya Trizin, and the yogis Abo Rinpoche and Lopon Sonam Zangpo. The original sixties commentaries have been retained, even though it may sound a bit dated in places."

Did Life Evolve in Ice?

"Funky properties of frozen water may have made life possible."


"If life arose in one of these frozen zones, it might still exist there. Although life as we know it requires liquid water, there are places where life survives well below freezing. In the microscopic veins that permeate Arctic ice, for example, the high concentration of salt can maintain traces of water in a liquid state down to –65°F. Bacteria and diatoms inhabit those liquid veins, and Hajo Eicken, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, suspects that similar habitats could exist in the lower, warmer layers of ice on Europa, and perhaps on the other moons as well. “There’s potentially hundreds of meters of ice, if not maybe a few kilometers, that may well be quite habitable,” Eicken says."

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/did-life-evolve-in-ice

Zamzar - Free online file conversion

"Zamzar supports conversion between a wide variety of different file formats.."

http://www.zamzar.com/