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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!

Songza is the easiest way to search for, stream and share any song. For free.To help keep your music fresh and portable, you can add any songs to your Songza playlist, which you can access from any computer, any time when you Join Songza (also free!).

"ForceDo is a free online to do list. You can add as many tasks as you want and start a timer which will force you to get things done. ForceDo will help you beat your procrastination. Start to be productive now!"

Add some gentle rain to your environment. Enhance your music, sleep better, and relax. Rainy Mood is a 30-minute high-quality loop that you can play with your favorite music simultaneously.

automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. And it's free. Search for a book, article, website, or film, or enter the information yourself. Add it to your bibliography. Download your bibliography in either the MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian formats and include it in your paper. 

Save and share. You can save anything - contacts, notes, code snippets, lyrics, to-dos, whishlists, links, etc. And watch for news - we will add new types of knowledge.

Grūpthink is a living source of collective wisdom. Grūpthink is a new way to ask and explore open-ended topics with the rest of the world. Anyone can post a topic or open-ended question at Grūpthink. Here's where it gets even more interesting: Anyone can add new responses to questions and topics, and those answers can be voted on by everyone else.

Create Your Maps. Create your own map with various map-editing tools. Tour Your Maps. Add icons on the map and tour with Google Earth. Drive Your Maps. Draw the line on the map and drive by car.

Use jumbra to share your feeds from other sites with everyone. Instead of dealing with many feed URLs and having people subscribe to each one, you can combine them all into one. Others will see everything from your other site feeds... and best of all, you can add new feeds to your list and your combined jumbra feed will update automatically!

GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user friendly wiki interface. GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 7 million unique features whereof 2.6 million populated places and 2.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. (more statistics ...). The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 11 million web service requests per day.

Allows you to view the location of Flickr photos and GPS tracks. It will also allow you to geotag your Flickr photos and upload your own GPS tracks. The "yuan" command searches the maps for an address. It defaults to load Flickr photos, but you can add "-service gps" to load GPS tracks. Optionally, the zoom level can be set using "-z". Zoom options are from 1 (the whole world) to 19 (street level).

Don't have time to watch a video right now? Watch it later! The Boxee Bookmarklet allows you to easily add online videos to your Boxee Queue. Installation is a breeze:

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Search for free images to add to Wikipedia articles, or replace non-free images and placeholders.

We follow your twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks.

How does it work? Just put your image size after our URL and you'll get a placeholder. Like this: http://placehold.it/350x150 You can also use it in your code, like this: Options to add format, text, color and size Adding an image file extension will render the image in the proper format. Image format is optional and the default is a gif. jpg and jpeg are the same. http://placehold.it/300.png/09f/fff Custom text can be entered using a query string at the very end of the url. This is optional, default is the image dimensions (300×250). A-z (upper and lowercase), numbers, and most symbols will work just fine. http://placehold.it/300&text=placehold.it+rocks!

PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience. You upload any photo and just wait to see the magic. Our proprietary technology automatically identifies the face in the photo and let's you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages. choose XF, frames and filter by catogory

Ever need a good quote to add scale to a number? You know, you're giving a presentation on sales and you want to give a number some scale. "Last year our industry changed by 50 billion dollars - that's the GDP of Serbia." Only finding those quotes used to be a pain, but with NumberQuotes you can find the quote you need fast and easy.

To use Cufon (select copy does not seem to work w Cufon)\n1) Get Cufon: Download javascript file cufon-yui.js and add it to document.\n2) make font using this online font generator: to get a NAME.font.js file (~2min)\n3) Enbed cufon\n\nmake it work in MSIE :

At 100,000 characters, FF3 threw "A script is running slow, blah blah" messages.  IE7 just crashed.  Safari 4 hung in there till 1,000,000 but then it gave up.  It looks like Apple's claims about Safari 4's speed have some truth.  I didn't test any of the past generation of browsers, I may go back and add them later.