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WikiSeer provides you with a faster and richer reading experience by providing keynotes of text in real-time. WikiSeer finds the most significant content in any English text; shrinking the original up to 99%. It serves as a middle ground between skimming the titles and reading the entire article. With WikiSeer, you can preview any website, and save time by choosing to read what you find relevant. It is similar to watching a movie preview, and then deciding whether to watch the movie or not. Instead of reading the entire text and then discovering its not of much interest or use for your purpose, you can now preview the keynotes, and then make a decision whether you want to read it entirely. This way, you save your time and get to read the content that you are really interested in.

Are you searching for a way to share documents, presentations, slideshows, or a series of photos or images with your students? Then Voice Thread is the free Web 2.0 tool for you and your students (teachers can register for a free education account).

Are you a web master or a company looking for a script which can help you earn money either by showing advertisements or by providing paid service?\n\nIf your answer is "yes", this blog post will be more useful for you.

What is Wolfram Alpha? It is a supercomputing brain. It provides calculates and provides comprehensive answers to most any science or math question. Unlike other search sources, you and your students can ask questions in plain language or various forms of abbreviated notation. Contrary to popular belief, Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. Unlike popular search engines, which simply retrieve documents based on keyword searches, Wolfram computes answers based on known models of human knowledge. It provides answers which are complete with data and algorithms, representing real-world knowledge.

With its sights set on reshaping current cross-platform Web collaboration, Mikogo the free online meeting tool has announced the release of its Beta version for Mac users. Available at no cost for both commercial and private use, Mikogo now allows anyone to start or join a meeting from either a Mac computer or PC, creating a more flexible screen sharing experience for all involved.

You may or may not have heard or use some of these applications but I just wanted to highlight the "Top 10" Facebook applications that I think are best for social media users (in no particular order). Agree? Disagree? Is there one I'm missing?

Social bookmarking allows individuals to share resources and links. Del.icio.us and Digg are two prominent examples. Digg and del.icio.us are surprisingly effective at capturing the zeitgeist within a group of web users. Bookmarks grow in popularity based on how frequently they are saved. Bookmarking serves as an information filter - if thousands of individuals found a particular resource to be valuable (or at least of interest), it can be assumed to be of greater significance or originality.

A browser extension that lets you comment right next to any text or image that you find on the web. Currently only support Firefox 2 & 3 or Internet Explorer 7.

Ever wanted to turn your images or photos in to icons so you can set custom icons in your desktop or for your blog. Bradicon allows you to turn any image in to an icon quick and easily. Using the app is simple, upload an image and download the icon. The service is currently free and works well. Currently it supports Jpg, PNG and GIF formats and gives you an ICO file. The icons preserver the transparency.

unlimited access to more than 700 Smilebox designs. You can choose from hundreds of music options or add your own music, email and blog your creations full screen without ads, and print any page at school, home or at a local retail store.

Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool.

DeviantArt.com has recently launched its very own online web-application based portfolio creation service, and they even host it for you as well. Users have the choice of either signing up for a free account or a premium account. In this article I'm going to cover the free account portfolio service they offer, show you a few images of the user interface and give my honest opinion on its worth -- for better or worse.

Looking for the best way to drive a massive amount of traffic to my site and my blog, I've recently stumbled upon a very interesting article about Craigslist. I've always been considering it a very primitive website, as far as the design is concerned. However, Craigslist ranks among the 25 most visited sites of the world (Alexa.com traffic rankings, april 2009) and without any doubt it's the most important classified ads platform worldwide. I know that Google Adwords is very effective, other similar advertising programs are good too, but what if we could produce the same amount of traffic (or even more) using Craigslist for free? The idea is creating an appealing advertisement (with a link pointing to our website) and posting it in multiple sections of Craigslist corresponding to the major cities of the world (highly populated cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc.). This will certainly produce a massive traffic flow. The problem is that if we post the same ad (or similar ads) in multiple cities, all our ads will be detected by Craigslist spiderbots and deleted by the staff. Even if we offer serious products we will be considered spammers, and if we insist, we will be banned .... ..... and this will happen unless we use the method discovered by Steve Mount to avoid being detected by the spiderbots and to avoid being deleted. Follow the link to read more .....

Social media Web sites offer more than just a way to seek out friends or old classmates. More businesses are using Facebook and Twitter to gather information on potential employees or to attract customers.

Forget everything you know about Windows Mobile. Seriously, throw the whole OS concept in a garbage bin or incinerator or something. Microsoft has done what would have been unthinkable for the company just a few years ago: started from scratch. At least, that's how things look (and feel) with Windows Phone 7 Series. This really is a completely new OS -- and not just Microsoft's new OS, it's a new smartphone OS, like webOS new, like iPhone OS new. You haven't used an interface like this before (well, okay, if you've used a Zune HD then you've kind of used an interface like this). Still, 7 Series goes wider and deeper than the Zune by a longshot, and it's got some pretty intense ideas about how you're supposed to be interacting with a mobile device. We had a chance to go hands-on with the dev phone before today's announcement, and hear from some of the people behind the devices, and here's our takeaway. (And don't worry, we've got loads of pictures and video coming, so keep checking this post for the freshest updates).

There are about a million ways to make a choropleth map. You know, the maps that color regions by some metric. The problem is that a lot of solutions require expensive software or have a high learning curve...or both. What if you just want a simple map without all the GIS stuff? In this post, I'll show you how to make a county-specific choropleth map using only free tools.

Interesting article about Bing Maps.

Wandering around Home Depot until inspiration strikes is a terrible idea. If you've got a loose idea for a redesign, re-arrangement, or physical improvement to your house, apartment, or even a dorm room, we recommend these computer planning tools for the job.

Google Docs can be used for conducting surveys and polls. The survey can be embedded on your website or the link to the survey can be shared directly with the persons you are surveying using email, Facebook, Twitter or any other mean. There are several services that let you conduct polls, but using Google Docs for your surveying needs has certain advantages.

Convert scanned images into editable text. Free Online OCR is a free service that allows you to easily convert scanned documents, faxes, screenshots and photos into editable and searchable text, such as DOC, TXT or PDF. The service is completely free and you don't need to register or install anything on your computer. Just select an image file and click Convert. You can immediately download the resulting document.