EduOrigin is a new startup which endeavors at making the traditional, drab and burdensome learning process a complete joyride. This website is a common platform for all the teachers, students, counselors and professionals to come together and to get pro-actively involved in innovative learning. It’s a refreshing change from the other educational websites which are a complete overdose of random information.
The website encourages the readers to come forward, participate and make things happen. It has several forums where the learners can contribute and in this process learn to voice their opinions, share concerns and help their peers by giving valuable suggestions. This educational venture is a medium for all the stakeholders of education to showcase their talent in diverse fields such as painting, photography, music etc.
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Is music the food for your soul and twitter a way of life?? If the answer is “Yes”, Read on.. We have found a deadly combination of Twitter and Music for you. Swift.fm is the new site to use in continuation of our series on useful twitter based websites. This is a new and free service which allows users to share their music with their other Twitter friends.
The website, in its own words, helps to create a Custom Radio Station programmed by friends. The technique for sharing music is very user-friendly. All you have to do is tweet your track in a special format or upload it directly using the website and voila, your music track gets shared in no time!!
Swift.fm scores high on one ground where other services have a huge limitation. On most of the twitter-based services, you can only access the music available in the online library which the tool has access to while on this website, you can easily upload your very own MP3’s of up to 10 MB. Users can convert it into custom radio station as the website nicely collates all the songs their friends have “swifted”.
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Twitter has become a huge rage these days. Right from school kids to professionals, celebrities to high fliers of the society are using it extensively. For the uninitiated, Twitter, in simple words is the ‘SMS of the internet’. It is a free social networking service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. So, if you want to know anything and everything happening in the world, twitter is the first hand real time information source.
The only problem with Twitter is that its search engine stores tweets of maximum one or two weeks. Searchtastic is a venture which is capitalizing strongly on this one shortcoming of highly popular and widely used Twitter. Searchtastic which calls itself “Smart Twitter Search” provides the user the unique capability to search tweets as old as few months. This search engine has pitched in amazingly where twitter’s very own default search engine has failed. The search engine has a large real time twitter information archive from which any twitter can be pulled up by the user on a single search.
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Scared about your confidential web files being viewed by some notorious snoopers? We have found a very useful online utility to save you from this nightmare. DirProtect is an online tool which generates .htaccess and .htpasswd files to protect your website directories from being accessed.
The website describes this simple 3 step process with self explanatory illustrations. The live demo given on the website is very useful for people who face difficulty in understanding the technical nuances. The example with which the whole process has been nicely explained uses a directory named “demo” which needs to be protected.
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24 Nov, 2009 | Written by
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Fun
Facelift, anti-aging, Botox, cosmetic surgery, dermal fillers, nose reshaping, plastic surgery, and the list goes on. Have you heard of all these highly complicated yet extremely popular words which seem to have become the order of the day? Did you always have a strong secret desire to try at least one of these outrageously expensive treatments to make that crooked nose or wrinkled face look attractive? Are you too frightened to go under the knife or living on a budget which does not permit such luxuries?
LiftMagic is a unique website to fulfill your long cherished deep desire of seeing yourself look younger, better and attractive even if it’s only a mere virtual visualization. The website provides fully automated nose job, smile correction, eyebrow lift, jaw contouring and many more such options. Any part of your face which has always been a cause of concern can be rectified with this magical tool.
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New OCR is a new free online OCR service. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is used to analyze the text in any image file uploaded by the user. The text which is extracted from the image is converted into .doc or .txt files which can easily be edited.
This online tool can be used for both image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, multipage TIFF) and multipage PDF documents. The maximum size for image files which can be uploaded for recognition is 5 MB while for PDF documents the size should not exceed 20 MB.
The process of using this online service is extremely simple.
1. Browse the image/PDF file on your computer.
2. Chose the language of the document.
3. The document can be rotated 180 degrees or counterclockwise/clockwise by 90 degrees to suit your requirements.
4. Click the Send File Tab.
5. Download the created text file or Word document which is an option available to the service user.
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