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Teaching with maps (whether on the whiteboard or using a set of personal computers) makes learning much more visual, exciting and personally relevant. uLearn is the easiest way to access a range of Ordnance Survey mapping in the UK, plus stunning aerial imagery and historic maps, all in a safe educational environment. Much more than just Geography Use maps as an index, not only to study geographical locations but also alongside uLearn's enormous library of geo-referenced resources. Explore the historic, cultural and factual aspects of your chosen locations across the planet. Just select a topic, zoom in to a place of interest and the resources available will automatically light up. And uLearn's mapping tools are interactive - stitch maps together, add your own photos and videos or annotate them to highlight your teaching focus. uLearn's maps and resources can be manipulated to meet your classroom needs, whatever the curriculum area. Really simple tools for creating lessons Whether using the resources already in uLearn or uploading your own resources, uLearn allows you at the click of a button, to capture the maps and resources for your lesson, ready to use in the classroom. It's as simple as clicking the 'Save current view to playlist' button!

Pulse of the Planet visualize tweets in real-time using Google Maps. Sensation and Perception Experiments Two experiments which I designed and ran for my Sensation and Perception class in Fall 2009. They are designed to measure counting thresholds. Both experiments use HTML5 canvases which requires a modern browser such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. Life on a Canvas simulation of Conway's Game of Life and I added a bunch of features to make it interactive. Go ahead and enjoy it! Tier3 Tier3 attempts to build itself as a layer on top of social news sites like Digg and reddit.  Pong written in JavaScript Radius Radius is a portal-esque web page. Shiny graphics, Ajax, and APIs are at the heart of this prototype. It may not be practical, but it is an experiment in making a portal type page. 

a group of volunteers throughout the world began creating an open, free, online Japanese-English dictionary. The form and content of the dictionary are decided by the participants in the project. Among its features are the following: * Definitions that explain the meaning of words as completely as possible * As many examples as possible of each word in real contexts * Photographs and other illustrations, especially for entries about uniquely Japanese things * No restrictions on the type or range of vocabulary * No restrictions on the length of entries The dictionary has been named jeKai (je海), pronounced "jay-kai" or ジェーカイ.

What is exaly? This is a non-profit project run by researchers to address the practical needs of researchers. The project is absolutely independent with no link with publishers, research institutions, funding agencies, etc. whatsoever. Find which journals publish the most about a given keyword. Find which authors have more papers for a given keyword. Check the trends of keywords by number of publications over years. Full analysis of each author including who and where cited. Search for an author by name (firstname lastname). If you look for the statistical analysis (who cited? where cited?) of a single paper, you can lookup by its DOI. Only peer-reviewed articles are indexed, and some (not all) book chapters. No patent or non-peer-reviewed document is included. The journal stars are mostly based on Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level.

Different variety and versions of Smart TVs have been launched with different level of customization. While some of them can play applications only, others can efficiently connect to the internet for content browsing. Some reasons for the increasing popularity of smart televisions in recent years are discussed here.

Hundreds of thousands of emails are sent every second, and yet, you wouldn't really know it because there aren't public-facing streams like that of Twitter. Outside your own inbox, how much email is there exactly? Yahoo, in collaboration with information visualization firm Periscopic, shows you how much email they process in real-time with this interactive feature. The initial view is a world map, and scaled bubbles represent how many emails were currently sent. Hover over continents for user geographic distribution and gigabytes sent. There's also trending topics from anonymized subject headers via streamgraph. The view is interesting as you can click on sections so that the surrounding streams split, so you get a sense of distribution along with details per keyword. The keyword data, however, isn't all that interesting for the most part. You'll see keywords such as online, free, and nights. Not too meaningful. There are a few exceptions though like Oprah and wars. There is also an option to include spam keywords with equally generic terms. Finally, if you go back to the map and keep on clicking, you eventually get to some fun facts about email, such as there are over sextillion ways to spell Viagra. All in all, it's a comprehensive view of how much email Yahoo handles that's fun to poke around. Turn on your speakers for playful sound effects. via http://flowingdata.com/2011/10/13/visualizing-yahoo-email-processing-in-real-time/

Ammap is an interactive flash map creation software. Use this tool to show locations of your offices, routes of your journeys, create your distributor map. Photos or illustrations can be used instead of maps, so you can make different presentations, e-learning tools and more. With amMap you can: * customize every detail of your map - sizes, colors, disable features you don't need; * create multi-level structures; * create map charts (heat maps); * load icons or other custom movies or photos on top of your map; * use your own custom maps; * draw lines and add texts; * set values of countries and create map chart; * set start-up zoom level and position; * use it as zoomifyer to display big pictures; * control map with JavaScript (reload data and settings, set and get data and separate params, register clicks); * export map as an image. More facts: * weights only 35 Kb; * works with Flash player 8 and later versions; * loads data from XML; * uses latitude and longitude for storing point position. Check examples to find out how many different views you can achieve with amMap. You can download and use it for free.

Interactive Flash Pie Charts, Line Charts and Bar/Column Charts. Users can pull out a slice of pie chart by clicking on it. Users can zoom in/out by highlighting a specific area of the line chart. The bar/column can be 100 stacked, mouseover to view more details. All Charts are free to download, the only limitation of free version is that a small link to AmCharts will be displayed in top left corner of your charts.

"MODELUR is a revolutionary 3D application for parametric urban design that enables: rapid design of built environment, quick response to changed conditions of planned site, automatic change of built environment, quick creation of different variants of urban design solution,"

NowRelevant.com allows users of its PPC campaigns to access the wealth of its resources dating back chronologically to exactly 14 days from the time of their search. This enables both the viewers of search results as well as PPC advertisers to target their PPC campaigns to a specific set of keyword phrases that are bound to receive public attention no matter what, enabling advertisers to compete better on NowRelevant.com with a much lower advertiser competition ratio than found on any other search engine. 

What is Redcaster?Semantic Web The 'Semantic Web' is the concept the Internet is more than just a collection of documents with words in them.  The development of the semantic web consists of efforts to 'understand' what the content is about, and to link it together with related documents. Automatic Categorisation Redcaster provides a system which can automatically identify the higher-level 'meta' categories that the article discusses. Redcaster currently offers two distinct categorisation services: Article categories For instance, an article about Barack Obama and the annual state of the nation address would return the categories 'United States', 'Politics', 'Government'.  These categories do not need to be specifically mentioned in the article for them to be identified.Related categories Redcaster can suggest categories which are closely related to the category in question.  For instance, 'Politics' returns 'United States', 'United Kingdom', 'Government' and more.Learning System Redcaster is not a static knowledge base.  It is a learning system capable of recognising new topics and concepts.  If a new subject or person enters the lexicon, then over time this will become a category which Redcaster will start tagging articles with. Free access Redcaster offers a free account and an easy-to-use interface for news publishers to access.  With this account, publishers can submit either their content directly, or links to published articles.

Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download. Smush it comes in different flavours: * You can upload a bunch of pictures in your browser * You can provide us with a list of image urls or * You can get a Firefox Extension or a cross-browser bookmarklet to optimize the images found on any web page Saving bytes has never been so easy - you point us in the right direction, and we'll do the rest for you. A ZIP archive with optimized images will be generated for you.

Flashcards are a great tool for memorizing just about anything and they are simple to create. Just write a term on one side of an index card and the term's definition on the other side. Once you have a stack of them, you can quiz yourself to see which ones you know, putting the ones you knew in one pile and the ones you didn't in another pile. Even if you didn't know any of the terms before you started making the cards, you'll find that through the process of creating the cards you actually learned several of them.

Trackle is a new service that tracks all of your personalized information on the Web, all in one place. Offering the industry's most comprehensive index of popularly tracked categories, Trackle keeps tabs on everything in your life, from local, to social to shopping. The service is built with advanced algorithms that provide a layer of intelligence to the tracking process - ensuring timely and relevant results. Users get automatically notified over the Web, email or SMS whenever Trackle finds a match. Trackle is built on top of a robust tracking platform, designed to offer a wide range of tracking services. The service is completely free, secure and privacy compliant.

Using commands you can target any of the 40+ categories or 250+ search engines from the search bar. You can also view the complete list of commands here. You can also use the commands on the homepage or from the search box on your browser. Commands work best when used from the search box of your browser. To add it to your browser follow these instructions. To use a command : (colon) is used. To search for images use the following command. This will search for "images" of clouds. This way you can end up targeting any of the 40+ categories supported by fefoo. :images clouds

follow cost measures how much people tweet. We use an absolute scale (average number of tweets per day) but also measure tweets in milliscobles, or 1/1000th of Robert Scoble's Twitter output. One milliscoble is defined as 1/1000th of the average daily Twitter status updates by Robert Scoble as of 10:09 CST September 25, 2008. At that time, Scoble had tweeted 14,319 times in 675 days, for an average tweets per day of 21.21. Thus, one milliscoble is defined as 0.02121 tweets per day.

LocaPoint is the state-of-the-art location pointer code that can express any location of the world, only with 12 letters. SW8.HQ9.CS6.PQ8 Statue of Liberty SD9.XC4.FE1.CV4 Tokyo Tower UL4.MZ7.FP3.TU4 London Eye You can say prompt answer, "10:35" or "16:45" to the question, "What time is it". But, can you say a prompt answer to the question, "Where is it" ? You may use Address, Landmark, Direction, or Map. But there is no prompt way to answer - before LocaPoint came. Application LocaPoint can be used in anything that need to show a location. * Directory/Travel Guide/Restaurant Guide * Blog/Travel Diary * Real Estate information * Pleasure * Appointment * Advertising/Signs * and More.... Advantages of using LocaPoint LocaPoint has a unique format - "Letter, Letter, Number" , that leads a three advantages. First, you can easily recognize that this is a information regarding a location by this format, as you do for "***@***.com" as email address, or "http://****" as URLs. Second, the pattern of "Letter, Letter, Number" helps you to cognize, read, tell, listen, input, or remember. If a code has no pattern, or is totally random, you may have a difficult time to use it. Third, LocaPoint unique format is also "Detectable" for a computer. Computer can detect LocaPoint as a "location information" and can automatically start a GIS application, such as Map or Navigator. Here is a simple program to do it. By clicking this, every LocaPoint that is written in plain text will be "Linkify" to GoogleMaps with specified location.

Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell. Surfraw abstracts the browser away from input. Doing so lets it get on with what it's good at. Browsing. Interpretation of linguistic forms is handed back to the shell, which is what it, and human beings are good at. Combined with netscape-remote or incremental text browsers, such as lynx, links or w3m, along with screen a Surfraw liberateur is capable of navigating speeds that leave GUI tainted idolaters agape with fear and wonder.

A cue sheet, or cue file, is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. Cue sheets commonly have a ".cue" filename extension. They were originally used for the CDRWIN CD recording program, but are also used with other CD software as well as music and video playback software. For an audio CD, the cue sheet can specify titles and performers for the disc and its tracks as well as the names of one or more audio files to be used. MP3, WAV and BIN files are often used, although some programs support other formats. Cue sheets are especially useful when burning or listening to live sets where all tracks are recorded in one file. Cue sheets are also used for many types of CDs in conjunction with an image file. The image file generally has a ".bin" extension. A description of cue sheets and a list of cue sheet commands can be found in the CDRWIN user's guide.

Factual is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a comprehensive directory of restaurants along with dozens of searchable attributes, a huge database of published books, or a list of every video game and their cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data.

ere you can resize images maintaining quality, edges and texture. This means Reshade reduces or eliminates most of the usual side-effects of photo enlargement: 1. pixelation: visible square pixels in an image 2. loss of focus: blurry / out of focus image edges 3. loss of sharpness: reduced edge contrast 4. exagerated noise: random pixel values, stains