'What makes real-time search results different from standard search results is that the most current links are given priority over older links. Real-time search is very helpful for finding information about the latest trends or news in a particular niche.'

'For this list, we've collected educational apps from a variety of categories that can replace popular commercial software. In many cases, the open source options listed here offer features that aren't matched by their closed source counterparts. And while we limited our list to 50 apps, you can find many more on the Web. '

Pull in videos, pictures, and updates from hundreds of sources instantly

"Add comments to any image and share."

'Skitch.com is a webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.'

'Register & use it anywhere, anytime No download. Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. Capture videos of onscreen action in one click Record screencasts, tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more. Share and stream videos online in Flash Embed them on blogs and webpages or send them by email. '

Video aggregator

'a free site that allows users to easily find and search sound effects and musical instruments samples'

'Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use.'

'a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading.'

'Google News Timeline is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.'

'The new Twitter archive search allows users to enter any keyword or phrase and see what was being said on Twitter about it over time or on a particular day (and even a particular hour or minute during that day). For example you could search on "Obama health care reform" or "Iran Election" or "Lindsey Vonn" and so on. Results are displayed like traditional Google.com search results together with a timeline that shows peaks and valleys of activity on Twitter.'

'That's right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter's inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That's a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.'