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If you own a digital camera or handycam, there is a good chance you have had to use video conversion software. The best ones often come with a price tag. Only a handful of freeware video conversion tools pack impressive features into a user friendly interface; Freemake belongs to these handful of programs.

It's not a big new feature but it's certainly one that will come in handy: YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video's URL. It's pretty surprising that this functionality wasn't

Calibre can download entire websites and convert them to any eBook format, meaning you can read your favorite news articles or blogs on practically any eBook reader, from the Kindle to the Nook to the Kobo and everything in between. Heck, it even has easy built-in connectivity for iPhone/iPad app extraordinaire Stanza.

Wikipedia's not the only project brought to us by Wikimedia. A number of ongoing experiments are offered by the not-for-profit, all aimed at making it easier for human beings to share information. There's a database of free media, a collection of public domain books and the ultimate quote book, to name a few. All of these projects represent the Internet at its best: people from all over the world getting together to build something useful for mankind. If you're not familiar with these tools you're missing out on a great deal of the web's inherent awesomeness, so let's take a look.

Microsoft Powerpoint is an immensely powerful suite, and can be used for much more than straightforward presentations. It can be used to create website mockups, and even interactive learning tools.

While online video is a great tool, automatically indexing these videos and making them searchable is still a very hard task. EveryZing, a Massachusetts-based company that focuses on media indexing through speech-to-text and natural language processing, r

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Qiqqa is a document management program built from the ground up for academics, making it a must-have tool for students and professors everywhere.

W3C Working Draft: author conformance requirements for use of the alt attribute in HTML5 and best practice guidance for authors of HTML documents on providing text alternatives for images

Ian Hickson's MINI FAQ ABOUT THE ALTERNATE TEXT OF IMAGES

With Erly, users collaborate on collections built primarily on photos from other social networks. With multiple people adding photos and other useful information, users can develop a rich tapestry of information based on an event. Together, you can tell a great story for all of you to share.