tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89854644085667099712024-03-13T21:43:31.610-07:00Tips & TricksDark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-50518947387839545262010-11-10T10:58:00.000-08:002010-11-10T10:58:27.951-08:00Computer Short Keys You Need to Know<h2 class="subtitle" style="font-weight: normal;">Shortcut Keys</h2><div class="txtd" id="txtd_7351856" style="word-wrap: break-word;">A few great shortcut keys that are great computer tricks are:<br />
<ul><li><strong>Hold the windows key and press M</strong><br />
This will minimise all windows in one key press! This is the same as pressing the 'Show Desktop' icon but without having to click on it. It should be noted that Windows key + D also works for this!</li>
<li><strong>Hold the windows key and press L</strong><br />
This will lock your workstation instantly. This means that if you are in a public place or a shared machine and go for a toilet break but do not wish for anyone to sneak a peak at what you are doing, or at worst steal your files, then this will take you back to the login screen instantly. Very handy indeed!<a name='more'></a></li>
<li><strong>Hold alt then press F4</strong><br />
This is quite a common one but should be mentioned here anyway. This key press will close your current window. If your screen is getting cluttered you can go on a 'close rampage' by holding down the F4 key as well! Good times!</li>
<li><strong>Hold ctrl then press F4</strong><br />
The junior brother of alt F4. Instead of closing the whole window this will close internal windows within the current program. For example if you have multiple windows open in one instance of Microsoft Word this will close them one at a time. The best part is this works for the tab browsing that has come in to play in recent browsers. The key press closes the active tab you are viewing! This is one of the best computer tricks I find when browsing as it is really effective for FireFox for closing tabs.</li>
<li><strong>Hold alt and press tab</strong><br />
This will cycle between programs on your computer. This feature isn't that useful until you install this nice little Microsoft tool which will show a thumbnail of the program your about the switch to. If you don't wish to activate the selected program keep holding down alt and press tab again to cycle to the next one!</li>
</ul></div><ul><li><strong>Hold the windows key and press break</strong><br />
A lesser known shortcut but still useful! This one will open the System Properties dialog window which displays your RAM etc.</li>
<li><strong>Hold the windows key and press E</strong>This will open 'My Computer' in explorer style mode. This is very handy if you want to access your files and disk drives from anywhere without having to find the icon on the desktop or start menu. </li>
<li><strong> Custom Shortcut Keys!</strong><br />
Another lesser known trick is setting up your own custom key presses. This works for a per-program basis. To setup a shortcut key to your favorite program first you need to right click on the shortcut icon you commonly use and then press on properties. Click on the Shortcut' tab and there will be a text field called 'Shortcut key'. Simply click in that and enter the key press you wish to use. Press OK and that key press is permanently associated with that program. This is very handy for many things such as opening word or opening your favorite game!</li>
</ul><h2 class="subtitle" style="font-weight: normal;"> </h2><h2 class="subtitle" style="font-weight: normal;">Computer Optimization</h2><div class="txtd" id="txtd_7352085" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Are you keeping on top of the general maintenance of your computer? Here are some tips to optimize your computer's performance:<br />
<ul><li><strong>Temp folder cleanup</strong>The temp folder found in C:\Windows\Temp often contains files that have no reason to exist any longer. The folder is used by a large number of programs to store temporary files but unfortunately due to lazy coding the files often remain afterwards leading to a massive amount of data filling up the temp folder over time.<br />
You can use the 'Disk Cleanup Wizard' that comes with windows to sort out your temp folder by clicking on the Start menu then clicking on Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. Select the drive you wish to clean (usually C:) and then after a while of loading a dialog box will appear with recommendations. One of my favorite computer tricks when my computer starts to get a bit sluggish.</li>
<li><strong>Remove old programs</strong>Make sure you keep on top of your installed software. The Add/Remove Programs tool allows you to do this. Click on the start menu then settings then control panel. In the window that appears double click on 'Add or Remove Programs' and a dialog will appear after a short time. Any software you do not actively use be sure to get rid of it. This will save disk space, prevent any future software conflicts and hide the fact you installed a naughty program from friends or family!</li>
<li><strong>Defragment</strong>Over time a hard disk gets a bit sluggish due to being fragmented. It occurs every time the system struggles to store a whole file (generally big files) so it slots bits of the data in between other files. To make the files whole again you have to perform a defragment. Click on the start menu then programs then accessories then system tools then 'Disk Defragmenter'. Depending on disk size it can take several hours to complete so perhaps go and watch a film while it works, something like the Matrix is good! Another one of my favorite computer tricks because it feels like my hard disk is 'purified' afterwards.</li>
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<h2 class="subtitle" style="font-weight: normal;">Microsoft Office Tricks</h2><div class="txtd" id="txtd_7353178" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Microsoft Office, being the most common office suite, has some really useful and computer tricks that can be used. Here are a few good ones:<br />
<ul><li><strong>Mousewheel Zooming in Word</strong>Sick of clicking manually on the zoom drop down all the time? No problem! Hold down the Ctrl key and scroll with your mouse wheel... pretty neat huh? The page zooms in and out based on the direction you move the mousewheel. This also works in most modern web browsers which is incredibly useful if you have short sight problems etc. Computer tricks don't get much better than this!</li>
<li> <strong>Save All and Close All in Word</strong>Sometimes when you have a ton of documents open that you wish to save, or perhaps they are becoming overwhelming and you wish to close them all, you can hold down the shift key then click on the file menu. Two new options appear which are 'Save All' and 'Close All'. Click as appropriate.</li>
<li><strong>Increase font size in Word with a keypress</strong>Holding down ctrl and shift while press the '<' or '>' keys (they operate as a comma and period normally) the font size of the selected text will grow and shrink as specified. This can be handy if you aren't sure what specific font size you want and wish to 'see' what looks good without having to enter or select any numeric size values. I find myself using computer tricks a lot but this one is used rather frequently now that I am used to it.</li>
<li><strong>Instant new worksheet in excel</strong>By holding shift and pressing F11 a new worksheet is instantly added to your excel file. This saves a ton of clicks! After the key combo is pressed the new workbook instantly becomes the active one making it double handy.</li>
<li><strong>Create a new document in any office application</strong>I should mention that this key press also works for a large range of software packages including the browser you are using right now (don't quote me on that though!). Holding Ctrl and pressing N results in a new window opening for the currently active software application. Give it a try!</li>
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You can create a file of any size using nothing more than what's supplied with Windows.<br />
Start by converting the desired file size into hexadecimal notation.<br />
You can use the Windows Calculator in Scientific mode do to this.<br />
Suppose you want a file of 1 million bytes. Enter 1000000 in the calculator and click on the Hex option to convert it (1 million in hex is F4240.) Pad the result with zeroes at the left until the file size reaches eight digits—000F4240.<br />
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Now open a command prompt window.<br />
In Windows 95, 98, or Me, you can do this by entering COMMAND in the Start menu's Run dialog; in Windows NT 4.0, 2000,Or XP enter CMD instead.<br />
Enter the command DEBUG BIGFILE.DAT and ignore the File not found message.<br />
Type <b>RCX</b> and press Enter.<br />
Debug will display a colon prompt.<br />
Enter the last four digits of the hexadecimal number you calculated (4240, in our example).<br />
Type RBX and press Enter, then enter the first four digits of the hexadecimal size (000F, in our example).<br />
Enter W for Write and Q for Quit. You've just created a 1-million-byte file using Debug.<br />
Of course you can create a file of any desired size using the same technique.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-77343482086651620982010-11-10T10:34:00.000-08:002010-11-10T10:34:13.271-08:00Computer AcronymsHere is a list of computer acronyms.<br />
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<b>--- A ---</b> <br />
ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line<br />
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port<br />
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated<br />
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit<br />
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices<br />
APC - American Power Conversion<br />
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange<br />
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit<br />
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface<br />
AT - Advanced Technology<br />
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc.<br />
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended<br />
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<b>--- B ---</b><br />
BFG - BFG Technologies<br />
BIOS - Basic Input Output System<br />
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector<br />
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<b>--- C ---</b><br />
CAS - Column Address Signal<br />
CD - Compact Disk<br />
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder<br />
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer<br />
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory<br />
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft�/min)<br />
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor<br />
CPU - Central Processing Unit<br />
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)<br />
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<b>--- D ---</b><br />
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DDR - Double Data Rate<br />
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory<br />
DFI - DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)<br />
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module<br />
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory<br />
DPI - Dots Per Inch<br />
DSL - See ASDL<br />
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc<br />
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory<br />
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<b>--- E ---</b><br />
ECC - Error Correction Code<br />
ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems<br />
EDO - Extended Data Out<br />
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory<br />
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory<br />
EVGA - EVGA Corporation<br />
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<b>--- F ---</b><br />
FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array<br />
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller<br />
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive<br />
FPS - Frame Per Second<br />
FPU - Floating Point Unit<br />
FSAA - Full Screen Anti-Aliasing<br />
FS - For Sale<br />
FSB - Front Side Bus<br />
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<b>--- G ---</b><br />
GB - Gigabytes<br />
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second<br />
GDI - Graphical Device Interface<br />
GHz - GigaHertz<br />
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<b>--- H ---</b><br />
HDD - Hard Disk Drive<br />
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited<br />
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company<br />
HSF - Heatsink-Fan<br />
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<b>--- I ---</b><br />
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation<br />
IC - Integrated Circuit<br />
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics<br />
IFS- Item for Sale<br />
IRQ - Interrupt Request<br />
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture<br />
ISO - International Standards Organization<br />
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<b>--- J ---</b><br />
JBL - JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers<br />
JVC - JVC Company of America<br />
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<b>--- K ---</b><br />
Kbps - Kilobits Per Second<br />
KBps - KiloBytes per second<br />
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<b>--- L ---</b><br />
LG - LG Electronics<br />
LAN - Local Area Network<br />
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display<br />
LDT - Lightning Data Transport<br />
LED - Light Emitting Diode<br />
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<b>--- M ---</b><br />
MAC - Media Access Control<br />
MB � MotherBoard or Megabyte<br />
MBps - Megabytes Per Second<br />
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second<br />
MHz - MegaHertz<br />
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second<br />
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions<br />
MSI - Micro Star International<br />
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<b>--- N ---</b><br />
NAS - Network Attached Storage<br />
NAT - Network Address Translation<br />
NEC - NEC Corporation<br />
NIC - Network Interface Card<br />
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<b>--- O ---</b><br />
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)<br />
OCZ - OCZ Technology<br />
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer<br />
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<b>--- P ---</b><br />
PC - Personal Computer<br />
PCB - Printed Circuit Board<br />
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect<br />
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant<br />
PCMCIA - Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture<br />
PGA - Professional Graphics Array<br />
PLD - Programmable Logic Device<br />
PM - Private Message / Private Messaging<br />
PnP - Plug 'n Play<br />
PNY - PNY Technology<br />
POST - Power On Self Test<br />
PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM<br />
PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet<br />
PQI - PQI Corporation<br />
PSU - Power Supply Unit<br />
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<b>--- R ---</b><br />
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks<br />
RAM - Random Access Memory<br />
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor<br />
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory<br />
ROM - Read Only Memory<br />
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute<br />
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<b>--- S ---</b><br />
SASID - Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display<br />
SCA - SCSI Configured Automatically<br />
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface<br />
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory<br />
SECC - Single Edge Contact Connector<br />
SODIMM - Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module<br />
SPARC - Scalable Processor ArChitecture<br />
SOHO - Small Office Home Office<br />
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory<br />
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions<br />
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array<br />
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface<br />
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<b>--- T ---</b><br />
TB - Terabytes<br />
TBps - Terabytes per second<br />
Tbps - Terabits per second<br />
TDK - TDK Electronics<br />
TEC - Thermoelectric Cooler<br />
TPC - TipidPC<br />
TWAIN - Technology Without An Important Name<br />
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<b>--- U ---</b><br />
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter<br />
USB - Universal Serial Bus<br />
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair<br />
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<b>--- V ---</b><br />
VCD - Video CD<br />
VPN - Virtual Private Network<br />
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<b>--- W ---</b><br />
WAN - Wide Area Network<br />
WTB - Want to Buy<br />
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get<br />
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<b>--- X ---</b><br />
XGA - Extended Graphics Array<br />
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine<br />
XMS - Extended Memory Specification<br />
XT - Extended Technology<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-84548243987922638712010-11-10T10:29:00.000-08:002010-11-10T10:29:27.889-08:00COMMON FTP ERROR CODES<b>Here are some ftp errors which usually occurs with their codes.</b><br />
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<b>110</b> Restart marker reply. In this case, the text is exact and not left to the particular implementation; it must read: MARK yyyy = mmmm where yyyy is User-process data stream marker, and mmmm server's equivalent marker (note the spaces between markers and "=").<br />
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<b>120</b> Service ready in nnn minutes.<br />
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<b>125</b> Data connection already open; transfer starting.<br />
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<b>150</b> File status okay; about to open data connection.<br />
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<b>200</b> Command okay.<br />
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<b>202 </b>Command not implemented, superfluous at this site.<br />
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<b>211</b> System status, or system help reply.<br />
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<b>212</b> Directory status.<br />
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<b>213</b> File status.<br />
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<b>214 </b>Help message.On how to use the server or the meaning of a particular non-standard command. This reply is useful only to the human user.<br />
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<b>215</b> NAME system type. Where NAME is an official system name from the list in the Assigned Numbers document.<br />
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<b>220 </b>Service ready for new user.<br />
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<b>221</b> Service closing control connection.<br />
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<b>225</b> Data connection open; no transfer in progress.<br />
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<b>226</b> Closing data connection. Requested file action successful (for example, file transfer or file abort).<br />
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<b>227</b> Entering Passive Mode (h1,h2,h3,h4,p1,p2).<br />
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<b>230</b> User logged in, proceed. Logged out if appropriate.<br />
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<b>250</b> Requested file action okay, completed.<br />
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<b>257</b> "PATHNAME" created.<br />
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<b>331</b> User name okay, need password.<br />
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<b>332</b> Need account for login.<br />
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<b>350</b> Requested file action pending further information<br />
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<b>421</b> Service not available, closing control connection.This may be a reply to any command if the service knows it must shut down.<br />
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<b>425</b> Can't open data connection.<br />
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<b>426 </b>Connection closed; transfer aborted.<br />
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<b>450</b> Requested file action not taken.<br />
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<b>451</b> Requested action aborted. Local error in processing.<br />
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<b>452 </b>Requested action not taken. Insufficient storage space in system.File unavailable (e.g., file busy).<br />
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<b>500</b> Syntax error, command unrecognized. This may include errors such as command line too long.<br />
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<b>501</b> Syntax error in parameters or arguments.<br />
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<b>502 </b>Command not implemented.<br />
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<b>503</b> Bad sequence of commands.<br />
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<b>504</b> Command not implemented for that parameter.<br />
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<b>530 </b>Not logged in.<br />
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<b>532</b> Need account for storing files.<br />
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<b>550</b> Requested action not taken. File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access).<br />
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<b>551 </b>Requested action aborted. Page type unknown.<br />
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<b>552 </b>Requested file action aborted. Exceeded storage allocation (for current directory or dataset).<br />
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<b>553</b> Requested action not taken. File name not allowed.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-11465569405890146182010-11-10T10:22:00.000-08:002010-11-10T10:22:05.254-08:00Change Your IP In Less Then 1 MinuteHow To: Change Your Ip In Less Then 1 Minute<br />
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<b>1.</b> Click on "Start" in the bottom left hand corner of screen<br />
<b>2. </b>Click on "Run"<br />
<b>3.</b> Type in "command" and hit ok<br />
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You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.<br />
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<b>4.</b> Type "ipconfig /release" just like that, and hit "enter"<br />
<b>5.</b> Type "exit" and leave the prompt<br />
<b>6.</b> Right-click on "Network Places" or "My Network Places" on your desktop.<br />
<b>7.</b> Click on "properties"<br />
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You should now be on a screen with something titled "Local Area Connection", or something close to that, and, if you have a network hooked up, all of your other networks.<br />
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<b>8.</b> Right click on "Local Area Connection" and click "properties"<br />
<b>9.</b> Double-click on the "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" from the list under the "General" tab<br />
<b>10.</b> Click on "Use the following IP address" under the "General" tab<br />
<b>11.</b> Create an IP address (It doesn't matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).<br />
<b>12. </b>Press "Tab" and it should automatically fill in the "Subnet Mask" section with default numbers.<br />
<b>13.</b> Hit the "Ok" button here<br />
<b>14.</b> Hit the "Ok" button again<br />
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You should now be back to the "Local Area Connection" screen.<br />
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<b>15</b>. Right-click back on "Local Area Connection" and go to properties again.<br />
<b>16.</b> Go back to the "TCP/IP" settings<br />
<b>17.</b> This time, select "Obtain an IP address automatically"<br />
<b>18.</b> Hit "Ok"<br />
<b>19. </b>Hit "Ok" again<br />
<b>20. </b>You now have a new IP address<br />
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With a little practice, you can easily get this process down to 15 seconds.<br />
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<b>P.S:</b><br />
This only changes your dynamic IP address, not your ISP/IP address. If you plan on hacking a website with this trick be extremely careful, because if they try a little, they can trace it back<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-9188507989263772632010-11-10T10:13:00.000-08:002010-11-10T10:18:16.460-08:0010 reasons why PCs crashes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2c69NpGuJS1IhNkvw05BxOGwXIp1aP9ltwYDFhrJk_Ag4-JJYH5lb6ar94C4zB2IZIaG-iLT3k8M4Kr26LawyjYLzIdlWhg2ZKAC4l2UjxqmkQJaEfwRgthyphenhypheneAcq0RTkUDylNuKGmbVw/s1600/1313150_f260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2c69NpGuJS1IhNkvw05BxOGwXIp1aP9ltwYDFhrJk_Ag4-JJYH5lb6ar94C4zB2IZIaG-iLT3k8M4Kr26LawyjYLzIdlWhg2ZKAC4l2UjxqmkQJaEfwRgthyphenhypheneAcq0RTkUDylNuKGmbVw/s200/1313150_f260.jpg" width="155" /></a></div>Most of us got PC crashes messages or errors related to PC.<br />
Here are 10 major reasons for them<br />
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Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications."<br />
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You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?<br />
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<b>1:</b> <u>Hardware conflict</u><br />
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The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device.<br />
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For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself.<br />
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If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both devices at the same time, a crash can happen. The way to check if your computer has a hardware conflict is through the following route:<br />
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* Start-Settings-Control Panel-System-Device Manager.<br />
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Often if a device has a problem a yellow '!' appears next to its description in the Device Manager. Highlight Computer (in the Device Manager) and press Properties to see the IRQ numbers used by your computer. If the IRQ number appears twice, two devices may be using it.<br />
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Sometimes a device might share an IRQ with something described as 'IRQ holder for PCI steering'. This can be ignored. The best way to fix this problem is to remove the problem device and reinstall it.<br />
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Sometimes you may have to find more recent drivers on the internet to make the device function properly. A good resource is www.driverguide.com. If the device is a soundcard, or a modem, it can often be fixed by moving it to a different slot on the motherboard (be careful about opening your computer, as you may void the warranty).<br />
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When working inside a computer you should switch it off, unplug the mains lead and touch an unpainted metal surface to discharge any static electricity.<br />
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To be fair to Mcft, the problem with IRQ numbers is not of its making. It is a legacy problem going back to the first PC designs using the IBM 8086 chip. Initially there were only eight IRQs. Today there are 16 IRQs in a PC. It is easy to run out of them. There are plans to increase the number of IRQs in future designs.<br />
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<b>2: </b><u>Bad Ram</u><br />
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Ram (random-access memory) problems might bring on the blue screen of death with a message saying Fatal Exception Error. A fatal error indicates a serious hardware problem. Sometimes it may mean a part is damaged and will need replacing.<br />
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But a fatal error caused by Ram might be caused by a mismatch of chips. For example, mixing 70-nanosecond (70ns) Ram with 60ns Ram will usually force the computer to run all the Ram at the slower speed. This will often crash the machine if the Ram is overworked.<br />
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One way around this problem is to enter the BIOS settings and increase the wait state of the Ram. This can make it more stable. Another way to troubleshoot a suspected Ram problem is to rearrange the Ram chips on the motherboard, or take some of them out. Then try to repeat the circumstances that caused the crash. When handling Ram try not to touch the gold connections, as they can be easily damaged.<br />
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Parity error messages also refer to Ram. Modern Ram chips are either parity (ECC) or non parity (non-ECC). It is best not to mix the two types, as this can be a cause of trouble.<br />
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EMM386 error messages refer to memory problems but may not be connected to bad Ram. This may be due to free memory problems often linked to old Dos-based programmes.<br />
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<b>3:</b> <u>BIOS settings</u><br />
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Every motherboard is supplied with a range of chipset settings that are decided in the factory. A common way to access these settings is to press the F2 or delete button during the first few seconds of a boot-up.<br />
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Once inside the BIOS, great care should be taken. It is a good idea to write down on a piece of paper all the settings that appear on the screen. That way, if you change something and the computer becomes more unstable, you will know what settings to revert to.<br />
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A common BIOS error concerns the CAS latency. This refers to the Ram. Older EDO (extended data out) Ram has a CAS latency of 3. Newer SDRam has a CAS latency of 2. Setting the wrong figure can cause the Ram to lock up and freeze the computer's display.<br />
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Mcft Windows is better at allocating IRQ numbers than any BIOS. If possible set the IRQ numbers to Auto in the BIOS. This will allow Windows to allocate the IRQ numbers (make sure the BIOS setting for Plug and Play OS is switched to 'yes' to allow Windows to do this.).<br />
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<b>4:</b> <u>Hard disk drives</u><br />
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After a few weeks, the information on a hard disk drive starts to become piecemeal or fragmented. It is a good idea to defragment the hard disk every week or so, to prevent the disk from causing a screen freeze. Go to<br />
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* Start-Programs-Accessories-System Tools-Disk Defragmenter<br />
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This will start the procedure. You will be unable to write data to the hard drive (to save it) while the disk is defragmenting, so it is a good idea to schedule the procedure for a period of inactivity using the Task Scheduler.<br />
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The Task Scheduler should be one of the small icons on the bottom right of the Windows opening page (the desktop).<br />
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Some lockups and screen freezes caused by hard disk problems can be solved by reducing the read-ahead optimisation. This can be adjusted by going to<br />
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* Start-Settings-Control Panel-System Icon-Performance-File System-Hard Disk.<br />
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Hard disks will slow down and crash if they are too full. Do some housekeeping on your hard drive every few months and free some space on it. Open the Windows folder on the C drive and find the Temporary Internet Files folder. Deleting the contents (not the folder) can free a lot of space.<br />
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Empty the Recycle Bin every week to free more space. Hard disk drives should be scanned every week for errors or bad sectors. Go to<br />
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Otherwise assign the Task Scheduler to perform this operation at night when the computer is not in use.<br />
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<b>5:</b><u> Fatal OE exceptions and VXD errors</u><br />
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Fatal OE exception errors and VXD errors are often caused by video card problems.<br />
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These can often be resolved easily by reducing the resolution of the video display. Go to<br />
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Here you should slide the screen area bar to the left. Take a look at the colour settings on the left of that window. For most desktops, high colour 16-bit depth is adequate.<br />
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If the screen freezes or you experience system lockups it might be due to the video card. Make sure it does not have a hardware conflict. Go to<br />
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Here, select the + beside Display Adapter. A line of text describing your video card should appear. Select it (make it blue) and press properties. Then select Resources and select each line in the window. Look for a message that says No Conflicts.<br />
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If you have video card hardware conflict, you will see it here. Be careful at this point and make a note of everything you do in case you make things worse.<br />
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The way to resolve a hardware conflict is to uncheck the Use Automatic Settings box and hit the Change Settings button. You are searching for a setting that will display a No Conflicts message.<br />
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Here you should move the Hardware Acceleration slider to the left. As ever, the most common cause of problems relating to graphics cards is old or faulty drivers (a driver is a small piece of software used by a computer to communicate with a device).<br />
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Look up your video card's manufacturer on the internet and search for the most recent drivers for it.<br />
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<b>6:</b> <u>Viruses</u><br />
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Often the first sign of a virus infection is instability. Some viruses erase the boot sector of a hard drive, making it impossible to start. This is why it is a good idea to create a Windows start-up disk. Go to<br />
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Here, look for the Start Up Disk tab. Virus protection requires constant vigilance.<br />
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A virus scanner requires a list of virus signatures in order to be able to identify viruses. These signatures are stored in a DAT file. DAT files should be updated weekly from the website of your antivirus software manufacturer.<br />
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An excellent antivirus programme is McAfee VirusScan by Network Associates ( www.nai.com). Another is Norton AntiVirus 2000, made by Symantec ( www.symantec.com).<br />
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<b>7:</b> <u>Printers</u><br />
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The action of sending a document to print creates a bigger file, often called a postscript file.<br />
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Printers have only a small amount of memory, called a buffer. This can be easily overloaded. Printing a document also uses a considerable amount of CPU power. This will also slow down the computer's performance.<br />
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If the printer is trying to print unusual characters, these might not be recognised, and can crash the computer. Sometimes printers will not recover from a crash because of confusion in the buffer. A good way to clear the buffer is to unplug the printer for ten seconds. Booting up from a powerless state, also called a cold boot, will restore the printer's default settings and you may be able to carry on.<br />
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<b>8:</b> <u>Software</u><br />
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A common cause of computer crash is faulty or badly-installed software. Often the problem can be cured by uninstalling the software and then reinstalling it. Use Norton Uninstall or Uninstall Shield to remove an application from your system properly. This will also remove references to the programme in the System Registry and leaves the way clear for a completely fresh copy.<br />
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The System Registry can be corrupted by old references to obsolete software that you thought was uninstalled. Use Reg Cleaner by Jouni Vuorio to clean up the System Registry and remove obsolete entries. It works on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE (Second Edition), Windows Millennium Edition (ME), NT4 and Windows 2000.<br />
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Read the instructions and use it carefully so you don't do permanent damage to the Registry. If the Registry is damaged you will have to reinstall your operating system. Reg Cleaner can be obtained from www.jv16.org<br />
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Often a Windows problem can be resolved by entering Safe Mode. This can be done during start-up. When you see the message "Starting Windows" press F4. This should take you into Safe Mode.<br />
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Safe Mode loads a minimum of drivers. It allows you to find and fix problems that prevent Windows from loading properly.<br />
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Sometimes installing Windows is difficult because of unsuitable BIOS settings. If you keep getting SUWIN error messages (Windows setup) during the Windows installation, then try entering the BIOS and disabling the CPU internal cache. Try to disable the Level 2 (L2) cache if that doesn't work.<br />
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Remember to restore all the BIOS settings back to their former settings following installation.<br />
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<b>9:</b> <u>Overheating</u><br />
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Central processing units (CPUs) are usually equipped with fans to keep them cool. If the fan fails or if the CPU gets old it may start to overheat and generate a particular kind of error called a kernel error. This is a common problem in chips that have been overclocked to operate at higher speeds than they are supposed to.<br />
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One remedy is to get a bigger better fan and install it on top of the CPU. Specialist cooling fans/heatsinks are available from www.computernerd.com or www.coolit.com<br />
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CPU problems can often be fixed by disabling the CPU internal cache in the BIOS. This will make the machine run more slowly, but it should also be more stable.<br />
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<b>10:</b> <u>Power supply problems</u><br />
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With all the new construction going on around the country the steady supply of electricity has become disrupted. A power surge or spike can crash a computer as easily as a power cut.<br />
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If this has become a nuisance for you then consider buying a uninterrupted power supply (UPS). This will give you a clean power supply when there is electricity, and it will give you a few minutes to perform a controlled shutdown in case of a power cut.<br />
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It is a good investment if your data are critical, because a power cut will cause any unsaved data to be lost.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-48271638106080626752010-11-10T09:47:00.000-08:002010-11-10T09:58:50.842-08:0023 Ways To Speed up Windows XP, Not only DefragSince defragging the disk won't do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of yours or your customers' PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.<br />
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<b>1.)</b> To decrease a system's boot time and increase system performance, use the money you save by not buying defragmentation software -- the built-in Windows defragmenter works just fine -- and instead equip the computer with an Ultra-133 or Serial ATA hard drive with 8-MB cache buffer(now even better ones are available).<br />
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<b>2.) </b>If a PC has less than 512 MB of RAM, add more memory. This is a relatively inexpensive and easy upgrade that can dramatically improve system performance.<br />
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<b>3.)</b> Ensure that Windows XP is utilizing the NTFS file system. If you're not sure, here's how to check: First, double-click the My Computer icon, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Next, examine the File System type; if it says FAT32, then back-up any important data. Next, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the prompt, type CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and press the Enter key. This process may take a while; it's important that the computer be uninterrupted and virus-free. The file system used by the bootable drive will be either FAT32 or NTFS. I highly recommend NTFS for its superior security, reliability, and efficiency with larger disk drives.<br />
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<b>4.)</b> Disable file indexing. The indexing service extracts information from documents and other files on the hard drive and creates a "searchable keyword index." As you can imagine, this process can be quite taxing on any system.<br />
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The idea is that the user can search for a word, phrase, or property inside a document, should they have hundreds or thousands of documents and not know the file name of the document they want. Windows XP's built-in search functionality can still perform these kinds of searches without the Indexing service. It just takes longer. The OS has to open each file at the time of the request to help find what the user is looking for.<br />
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Most people never need this feature of search. Those who do are typically in a large corporate environment where thousands of documents are located on at least one server. But if you're a typical system builder, most of your clients are small and medium businesses. And if your clients have no need for this search feature, I recommend disabling it.<br />
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Here's how: First, double-click the My Computer icon. Next, right-click on the C: Drive, then select Properties. Uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching." Next, apply changes to "C: subfolders and files," and click OK. If a warning or error message appears (such as "Access is denied"), click the Ignore All button.<br />
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<b>5.) </b>Update the PC's video and motherboard chipset drivers. Also, update and configure the BIOS.<br />
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<b>6.) </b>Empty the Windows Prefetch folder every three months or so. Windows XP can "prefetch" portions of data and applications that are used frequently. This makes processes appear to load faster when called upon by the user. That's fine. But over time, the prefetch folder may become overloaded with references to files and applications no longer in use. When that happens, Windows XP is wasting time, and slowing system performance, by pre-loading them. Nothing critical is in this folder, and the entire contents are safe to delete.<br />
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<b>7.) </b>Once a month, run a disk cleanup. Here's how: Double-click the My Computer icon. Then right-click on the C: drive and select Properties. Click the Disk Cleanup button -- it's just to the right of the Capacity pie graph -- and delete all temporary files.<br />
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<b>8.)</b> In your Device Manager, double-click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device, and ensure that DMA is enabled for each drive you have connected to the Primary and Secondary controller. Do this by double-clicking on Primary IDE Channel. Then click the Advanced Settings tab. Ensure the Transfer Mode is set to "DMA if available" for both Device 0 and Device 1. Then repeat this process with the Secondary IDE Channel.<br />
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<b>9.)</b> Upgrade the cabling. As hard-drive technology improves, the cabling requirements to achieve these performance boosts have become more stringent. Be sure to use 80-wire Ultra-133 cables on all of your IDE devices with the connectors properly assigned to the matching Master/Slave/Motherboard sockets. A single device must be at the end of the cable; connecting a single drive to the middle connector on a ribbon cable will cause signaling problems. With Ultra DMA hard drives, these signaling problems will prevent the drive from performing at its maximum potential. Also, because these cables inherently support "cable select," the location of each drive on the cable is important. For these reasons, the cable is designed so drive positioning is explicitly clear.<br />
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<b>10.)</b> Remove all spyware from the computer. Use free programs such as AdAware by Lavasoft or SpyBot Search & Destroy. Once these programs are installed, be sure to check for and download any updates before starting your search. Anything either program finds can be safely removed. Any free software that requires spyware to run will no longer function once the spyware portion has been removed; if your customer really wants the program even though it contains spyware, simply reinstall it.<br />
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<b>11.)</b> Remove any unnecessary programs and/or items from Windows Startup routine using the MSCONFIG utility. Here's how: First, click Start, click Run, type MSCONFIG, and click OK. Click the StartUp tab, then uncheck any items you don't want to start when Windows starts. Unsure what some items are? Visit the WinTasks Process Library. It contains known system processes, applications, as well as spyware references and explanations. Or quickly identify them by searching for the filenames using Google or another Web search engine.<br />
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<b>12.) </b>Remove any unnecessary or unused programs from the Add/Remove Programs section of the Control Panel.<br />
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<b>13.)</b> Turn off any and all unnecessary animations, and disable active desktop. In fact, for optimal performance, turn off all animations. Windows XP offers many different settings in this area. Here's how to do it: First click on the System icon in the Control Panel. Next, click on the Advanced tab. Select the Settings button located under Performance. Feel free to play around with the options offered here, as nothing you can change will alter the reliability of the computer -- only its responsiveness.<br />
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<b>14.)</b> If your customer is an advanced user who is comfortable editing their registry, try some of the performance registry tweaks offered at Tweak XP.<br />
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<b>15.) </b>Visit Microsoft's Windows update site regularly, and download all updates labeled Critical. Download any optional updates at your discretion.<br />
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<b>16.) </b>Update the customer's anti-virus software on a weekly, even daily, basis. Make sure they have only one anti-virus software package installed. Mixing anti-virus software is a sure way to spell disaster for performance and reliability.<br />
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<b>17.)</b> Make sure the customer has fewer than 500 type fonts installed on their computer. The more fonts they have, the slower the system will become. While Windows XP handles fonts much more efficiently than did the previous versions of Windows, too many fonts -- that is, anything over 500 -- will noticeably tax the system.<br />
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<b>18.)</b> Do not partition the hard drive. Windows XP's NTFS file system runs more efficiently on one large partition. The data is no safer on a separate partition, and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operating system. The same excuses people offer for using partitions apply to using a folder instead. For example, instead of putting all your data on the D: drive, put it in a folder called "D drive." You'll achieve the same organizational benefits that a separate partition offers, but without the degradation in system performance. Also, your free space won't be limited by the size of the partition; instead, it will be limited by the size of the entire hard drive. This means you won't need to resize any partitions, ever. That task can be time-consuming and also can result in lost data.<br />
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<b>19.) </b>Check the system's RAM to ensure it is operating properly. I recommend using a free program called MemTest86. The download will make a bootable CD or diskette (your choice), which will run 10 extensive tests on the PC's memory automatically after you boot to the disk you created. Allow all tests to run until at least three passes of the 10 tests are completed. If the program encounters any errors, turn off and unplug the computer, remove a stick of memory (assuming you have more than one), and run the test again. Remember, bad memory cannot be repaired, but only replaced.<br />
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<b>20.)</b> If the PC has a CD or DVD recorder, check the drive manufacturer's Web site for updated firmware. In some cases you'll be able to upgrade the recorder to a faster speed. Best of all, it's free.<br />
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<b>21.)</b> Disable unnecessary services. Windows XP loads a lot of services that your customer most likely does not need. To determine which services you can disable for your client, visit the Black Viper site for Windows XP configurations.<br />
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<b>22.)</b> If you're sick of a single Windows Explorer window crashing and then taking the rest of your OS down with it, then follow this tip: open My Computer, click on Tools, then Folder Options. Now click on the View tab. Scroll down to "Launch folder windows in a separate process," and enable this option. You'll have to reboot your machine for this option to take effect.<br />
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<b>23.)</b> At least once a year, open the computer's cases and blow out all the dust and debris. While you're in there, check that all the fans are turning properly. Also inspect the motherboard capacitors for bulging or leaks. <br />
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Following any of these suggestions should result in noticeable improvements to the performance and reliability of your customers' computers. If you still want to defrag a disk, remember that the main benefit will be to make your data more retrievable in the event of a crashed drive.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-61537117703338329472010-08-26T10:33:00.000-07:002010-08-26T10:33:46.385-07:00Create An Ftp Server On Your PCCreate FTP server on your PC<br />
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First of all you have to get an static IP-Address.<br />
Need a static ip-address for your FTP Server.Necessity for getting this static ip-address is your not suppose to use your own IP-Address.The main reason is you don't want to show your IP-Address to everyone , there are many other reasons too but leave them aside..<br />
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<strong>1)</strong> Goto no-ip & create urself a free account.<br />
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<strong>2)</strong> Now your account been created & ll receive ur account password via mail to your email address.<br />
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<strong>3) </strong>After getting your password login to ur account of no-ip.com<br />
<strong>4)</strong> After getting logged in, click upon add a HOST its on the left menu.<br />
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<strong>5) </strong>Type any hostname you want (eg:-abc) & select any domain from the given list (eg:-ftpserve.com) Click on Submit.<br />
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<strong>6) </strong>Now you have owned your own static address (example: abc.serveftp.com)<br />
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<strong>7)</strong> Now click downloads button which is present above on the page & click on which operating system your using & then download DNS update client(search google).<br />
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<strong>8) </strong>After getting downloaded, u have to install this software & login here with ur email addresss & p/w wen asked for it.<br />
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<strong>9) </strong>At last tick on da check box present at the static address.<br />
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<strong>10)</strong> U have ur own static web address.<br />
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Installation & setting of the FTP-Server<br />
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<strong>1)</strong> You have to install Serv-U 4.1.03 , download this software from here<br />
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<strong>2)</strong> Run Serv-U & use da wizard to setup ur FTP.<br />
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<strong>3)</strong> Click on next until u have been asked for IP-Address, leave it as it is & click upon next.<br />
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<strong>4)</strong> Enter ur domain name u have registered (example: abc.serveftp.com) it above in da domain field & click upon next.<br />
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<strong>5) </strong>You will be asked for anonymous access, select No & click upon next.<br />
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<strong>6)</strong> Next u ll be asked for creating a named account, select yes & click upon next.<br />
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<strong>7) </strong>Choose any user name u wish (eg:-xyz) & clcik upon next.<br />
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<strong>8) </strong>Enter password for dis account (eg:-adc341) for security purpose choose difficult password.<br />
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<strong>9)</strong> U ll be asked for da home directory for the account which u have created above.Select directory & click upon next.<br />
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<strong>10) </strong>Click on yes for locking dis account to da home directory, doing dis da user cannot further move up into home directory, click upon next.<br />
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<strong>11)</strong> At last ur account has been created click finish.<br />
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Configuring the user accounts which u have been created.<br />
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<strong>1) </strong>On the left tree-menu, select da account which u have been created above & den click upon General Tab.<br />
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<strong>2)</strong> Goto Hide 'Hidden' Files.<br />
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<strong>3) </strong>Check Allow only and enter the number one in the box.<br />
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<strong>4) </strong>Set da maximum downloading speed upto wat extent u want.As this is an account so many ll be using so set it low(eg:-10-20) to save ur bandwidth.Don't leave it blank as uers can download with full bandwidth.<br />
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<strong>5)</strong> choose how many users u want to login at on time.It depends on ur connection speed try these (56 - 1, ISDN - 3, ADSL or cable - 5-6 users.)<br />
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<strong>6) </strong>Click upon Dir Access Tab.<br />
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<strong>7)</strong> Now u can c home folder here.Highlight it & make ur permission.<br />
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<strong>8)</strong> If u want only users to download check only these Read,List & Inherit.<br />
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<strong>9)</strong> If u want ur users to upload into ur server & bu tto only 1 particular folder but not to downlaod, click upon dat add button & then select dat folder, Now u have to highlight dat folder & set these permissions on dat folder.Check,Write,Appened,List,Create & Inherit after setting these permissions click on the arrow which is present at the bottom right-hand corner.U want dis upload folder 2 be list first, before da home folder.<br />
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<strong>10)</strong> If their is any folder which u dont want anyone to access it, & it is present in the home folder, den click da add button & den select da folder.Now u have to highlight dat folder & see dat no all da checkboxes are left.After doing this click upon upper arrow which is present at bottom right hand corner.<br />
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<strong>11)</strong> There are many things u can do, These are only the basics....<br />
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<strong>12) </strong>Your server is now ready to be connected..<br />
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<strong>13)</strong> Login with your username & password...<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Note: </span>Do this on your own risk.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-74308903363353312912010-08-05T09:48:00.000-07:002010-08-05T09:48:53.711-07:00Hide Drives Without RegistryHere is a cool technique which hides entire hard disk drives by a simple procedure.<br />
This is the best security tip to be employ against unauthorised users.<br />
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<strong>1)</strong> Go to Start > Run > type "diskpart".<br />
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<blockquote>DISKPART></blockquote><strong>2)</strong> Then type "list volume"-<br />
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<strong>3)</strong> Suppose you want to hide drive E then type "select volume 3"<br />
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<strong>4)</strong> Now type "remove letter E"<br />
Now a message will come { Diskpart Removed the Drive letter }<br />
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Sometime it requires to reboot the computer.<br />
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Windows XP is not having capabilty to identify the unknown volume.<br />
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To access the content of hidden Drive repeat the process mentioned above. But in 4th step replace " remove" by "assign".<br />
It means type "assign letter E".<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-51186903713842309112010-06-10T19:59:00.000-07:002010-06-10T19:59:10.451-07:00"No Audio Device" Windows Problem - Here's the solution!<object height="405" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9idzHNWZLP0&hl=en_US&fs=1&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9idzHNWZLP0&hl=en_US&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br />
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IF got this "No Audio Device" and try every thing to solve this and nothing worked than try this.<br />
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This is what worked for me:<br />
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1)Go to the Realtek website (www.realtek.com). You can either:<br />
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2) click "Downloads" and do a search for "WDM_R198", or<br />
3) on the front page under "Quick Links" click "HD Audio Codec Driver" and that should take you there as well.<br />
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4)Accept the High Definition Audio Codecs agreement and click "Next".<br />
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5) Find your operating system (Windows Vista or XP... even Unix/Linux) and click "GO" (choose site 1, 2, or 3, it doesn't matter).<br />
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6) Install and reboot, and hopefully it works, although I still had to adjust one more thing in Device Manager followed by one more reboot to get it going.<br />
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7) If that doesn't work, try doing a search for "WDM_A404" and maybe that's the correct driver for you.<br />
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Hope I can help someone out there! :)<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-26601407265238505972010-06-01T22:48:00.000-07:002010-06-01T22:48:23.900-07:00How to Add a Live Traffic Feed to your Website or Blog<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
<h1 class="Heading1a" id="nointelliTXT" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ever wonder where all the traffic is coming from on your website or blog? In this article you will learn how to easily add a free traffic widget to your website or blog that will show you your traffic statistics in real-time.</span></h1><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Things you will nedd for this: <b>A website or blog</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><br />
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</div><div><ol id="intelliTxt" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li id="jsArticleStep1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Step 1:</span></span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It's easy to show real time traffic statistics on your website or blog with FEEDJIT's cool widgets. Just cut and paste the FEEDJIT widget to your website or blog, that's it. There is no registration required which makes it even easier and it's completely free.</div><a name='more'></a></li>
<li id="jsArticleStep2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Step 2:</span></span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FEEDJIT.com has several different widgets so you will want to choose the right widget for your website or blog. Just click on the GET FEEDJIT button and it will take you to a page that contains a guide that will help determine which widget to choose based on your website or blog hosting.</div></li>
<li id="jsArticleStep3" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #dfa641; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Step 3:</span></span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To add the widget to your website or blog just visit FEEDJIT.COM and click on the GET FEEDJIT button. You will then be taken to the Widget Feature Guide so you can choose which type of widget code to place on your website or blog. There are two types of widgets; the javascript widget or the image based widget. The user guide will help you choose the right one. Click on the widget GET link.</div></li>
<li id="jsArticleStep4" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Step 4:</span></span></b></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Next just choose your widget, customize it, then cut and paste the generated widget script code to your website or blog. You can use the quick link in the resources section of this article which will take you the FEEDJIT website. Please visit my website AuctionBump.com so you can see a real-time example of a website using FEEDJIT to track and display real-time traffic statistics.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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</ol></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-57930022910551665982010-05-29T21:46:00.000-07:002010-05-29T21:46:10.495-07:00100 Coolest Science Videos on YouTube<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-size: 1.05em;">Just about everybody can find a YouTube video they appreciate these days, whether they love animals, practical jokes, dance, politics, or academia–even science. From evolution to the future of medicine, the following videos encompass nearly every aspect of science a student would need to know. Some are 90 minutes long, while others are 20 seconds, but all of them are full of valuable information for the modern scientist.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
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</div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Chemistry</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">Moles, moles everywhere. Learn about chemical reactions, periodic elements, and gas laws with the help of these great videos.</div><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45dXztokZM" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The World of Chemistry</a></strong>: This cute and quirky video shows the exciting dynamic of chemical reactions.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIvXVMbII0&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The Element Song</a></strong>: Explore the periodic table with this song.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X87ok9UXKVM&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The First 20 Elements</a></strong>: Here’s a great mnemonic to help you engrain the first 20 elements into your brain.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPzOvOMv0M8&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The Basics of Chemistry</a></strong>: Outlines the basic concepts behind chemistry.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX6lL6hvoEo&feature=PlayList&p=0F8FE030FD7FB95B&index=0&playnext=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Electron Spectroscopy</a></strong>: This advanced video from UC Berkeley is not for the faint of heart, but experienced chemistry academics will appreciate this interesting lecture.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuTJSde8PF0&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=0F8FE030FD7FB95B&index=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Electron Spectroscopy II</a></strong>: Here’s the conclusion to the electron spectroscopy lecture.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQdxcB9lkw&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=0F8FE030FD7FB95B&index=2" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Aromatic Compounds</a></strong>: Professor Peter Vollhardt lectures about aromaticity.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndOwa5zET8Y" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">O-Chem 101</a></strong>: Chemguy reviews the various diagrams in organic chemistry.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO5f50wELjA" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Chem Rap</a></strong>: DJ Paul and Big Jim teach you about the gas laws.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK0MZk3Q4jk&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Recrystallization</a></strong>: A demonstration of the technique of recrystallization used in Organic Chemistry labs.</li>
</ol><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Experiments</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">Talk about educational fun. Who doesn’t like to see the powerful reaction of sodium and chlorine? Even non-scientists will think these videos are cool.</div><ol start="11" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kh5FpSWVMo" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Colored Flask</a></strong>: Sugar+NaOH and KMnO4.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqi50sjJVc0&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Dehydration of Sugar</a></strong>: C12H22O11(s)–> 12 C(s) + 11 H2O(aq) Chemical dehydration with sulfuric acid.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuSmcVnYs4Y" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Fire Without Matches</a></strong>: Making fire with KMnO4+H2SO4 and acetone.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gihAT6eXaoc&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">NaOH + Aluminum</a></strong>: Concentrated sodium hydroxide solution easily reacts with aluminum foil.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQEdUgY8XkQ&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Sodium and Water</a></strong>: When sodium and water react, sodium hydroxide and hydrogen gas are produced. 2Na(s) + 2H2O(l) = 2NaOH(aq) + H2(g).</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76CNkxizQuc" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Dry Ice Bubble</a></strong>: Have fun and entertain with this cool dry ice expermiment.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-kMLeH_oQ&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Aluminum Bromide</a></strong>: In this experiment we are going to react aluminium with liquid bromine to make aluminum-bromide.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx5JJWI2aaw&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Sodium + Chlorine</a></strong>: Pyromaniacs will love this volatile reaction.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRBDRAsP6U&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Gummy Bear Experiment</a></strong>: This classic experiment shows one of the most classic chemical reactions.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3asSdngzLs&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Physics/Chemistry Mystery</a></strong>: Who doesn’t appreciate the power of liquid nitrogen?</li>
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Physics</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">It used to take a lot to love physics. Boring text books and diagrams don’t exactly captivate the audience. Thanks to YouTube, however, today’s physicist can watch these demonstrations in 3-D, which makes complexs concepts easier to grasp.</div><ol start="21" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/a/u/0/sabP2TXDWGs" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Diffraction and Interference</a></strong>: Light intensity in Young’s double slit experiment. Slit width increases, then decreases. Diffraction fringes change position, interference fringes keep the same position.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/a/u/1/VcqoLoOWOI0" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Planetary Gear Train</a></strong>: The little sun gear (magenta) is the input, and the ring gear (yellow) is the output. The two yellow ring gears turn together. All planets (short and long) are on the same planet carrier.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/a/u/2/epelN72gNFE" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Incline</a></strong>: A block is held in place on a frictionless incline by a string. This video shows how the normal force and the tension in the string are affected by the angle of the incline.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/u/3/8A7DiGzJUvg" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Straight Line Motion with Constant Acceleration</a></strong>: Graphs of position, velocity and acceleration vs time for an object thrown vertically upward.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/u/4/eeYRkW8V7Vg" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Harmonic Motion</a></strong>: Acceleration vector, graphs of position, velocity and acceleration vs time for a body suspended to a spring.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/u/5/4mUjM1qMaa8" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Doppler Effect</a></strong>: The source of sound (red) is stationary. First, the listener (green) is stationary, then he moves toward the source, finally he moves away from the source.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/u/6/ZBfy-MNgtoY" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Parabolic Motion</a></strong>: Velocity vector and its components during parabolic motion.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/u/15/Xi7o8cMPI0E" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Direct Current Electric Motor</a></strong>: DC electric motor.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/u/20/a2_wUDBl-g8" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Charged Particle in Magnetic Field</a></strong>: Helicoidal motion of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PelletierPhysics#p/u/13/f66syH8B9D8" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Longitudinal Wave</a></strong>: This is a longitudinal wave: the particles are moving parallel to the direction of wave propagation. Each particle is moving in simple harmonic motion. The dots at the bottom show the position of equilibrium of each particle.</li>
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Biology</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">This subject is one of the most important in the field of science. From muscle contraction to ADP production, we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for these wonderful processes.</div><ol start="31" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/a" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Muscle Contraction</a></strong>: Impulse to activate action potential in skeletal muscle.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/1/m79HiApDJ2I" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Action Potential of a Nerve Impulse</a></strong>: Watch this animation of nerve impulses and action potentials.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/2/x-stLxqPt6E" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Glycolysis</a></strong>: This is the first step of Cellular Respiration.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/3/aCypoN3X7KQ" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Kreb’s Cycle Overview</a></strong>: Get to know one of the most complicated steps of Cellular Respiration.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/4/Idy2XAlZIVA" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">ETC Animation</a></strong>: Learn the Electron Transport Chain to watch the synthesis of ATP.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/5/mHU27qYJNU0" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Calvin Cycle</a></strong>: Watch Carbon Dioxide become sugar.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/6/y_k8xLrBUfg" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Fermentation (Anaerobic Respiration)</a></strong>: When cells cannot or do not use oxygen in ATP production, they have another pathway to make energy (ATP). This is called Anaerobic Respiration or more commonly Fermentation.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/7/IJCVg9M-7S0" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Photosynthesis</a></strong>: This is a primer on how sunlight (solar energy) becomes potential energy that plants use for life functions.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/8/eY1ReqiYwYs" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Light (Dependant) Reactions of Photosynthesis </a></strong>: Photosynthesis takes the human/animal waste product carbon-dioxide (CO2) and in the presence of light and water creates the things we need for cellular respiration, oxygen and glucose.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/DaggerBiology#p/u/9/iXmw3fR8fh0" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Cellular Respiration Recap</a></strong>: Make sure you know everything you need to know about celluar respiration by quizzing yourself with this awesome video.</li>
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Astronomy</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">These astronomy and cosmology lectures and videos will likely have you looking at the stars tonight in a much more humble manner.</div><ol start="41" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1UJ2sAyPPo" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Amateur Astronomy for Beginners</a></strong>: Some advice for beginning your hobby in amateur astronomy and how to use a planisphere.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89VFb9t69nM&feature=fvw" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Astronomy – Orion</a></strong>: This short astronomy video introduces the constellation Orion and M42, the Orion Nebula.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVjGGF4BCM&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Astronomy Lecture</a></strong>: This lecture will prepare you for any astronomy test.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL4cFjmnQT8&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The Universe- How Big Are You</a></strong>: Talk about a sense of humility. See how small the earth is in relation to the rest of the universe.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt9Bvc8s_d0&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Hubble Space Telescope</a></strong>: Part 3 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoN53QpGXaQ&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Astronomy Lecture- The Planets</a></strong>: This video might be long, but for a planet lover, it’s worth the watch.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSYNT7GbWeI&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The Solar System</a></strong>: See all the planets in our solar system and fly inside a comet.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXjopsobPg&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The Pleiades</a></strong>: Take an in-depth look at the seven sisters.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEoT_EH_Uss&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The Sun</a></strong>: An animated depiction of the surface of the sun.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Wc2boxdYE" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Beyond Einstein</a></strong>: Albert Einstein’s theories rank among humanity’s greatest achievements. They sparked the scientific revolution of the 20th Century. In their attempts to understand how space, time and matter are connected, Einstein and his successors made three predictions…watch the video to find out what they said.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtiK82ZjXLY" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Quasars</a></strong>: The advancements in radio telescope technology lead to the discovery of quasars.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoLvOvGW3Tk&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwars, Space and Time</a></strong>: A journey of simulations of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and Space and Time.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gib2i3_KW5Y&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Black Holes: Creation & Consumption of Galaxies</a></strong>: The Creation & Consumption of Spiral Galaxies, by Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zVlEywGZg&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Hubble Universe: Nebula & Galaxies: A Cosmic Journey</a></strong>: A documentary film that explores the universe as we know it.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByUod2VmBQY&feature=channel" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Origin of Life 1: Myth of the Organic Soup & Abiogenesis</a></strong>: A scientist reflects on life on earth and its origins.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wIKaLkvc4" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Cosmology Lecture 1</a></strong>: Lecture 1 of Stanford professor Leonard Susskind’s Modern Physics concentrating on Cosmology.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVApTLE7Csc&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Hubble’s Law and the Big Bang</a></strong>: Hubble’s 1919 finding that the universe is much larger than anyone previously understood.</li>
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Psychology</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">Stress, anxiety, fear, love and sex are all included in these fun, informative psychology videos.</div><ol start="58" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYwAPF0mh-U&NR=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">10 Mind & Brain Mysteries</a></strong>: Look at the history of mind control, what it is, and how it works.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n36OIjVftQ&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">The Psychology of Fear & Anxiety</a></strong>: Discuss phobias with Sandy.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS1jlW7yVh0&feature=PlayList&p=6B4602C4EB1550BF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs</a></strong>: Learn about human needs, from food to self-actualization.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dkU2ce_E4&feature=channel" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Sex Drive, Libido and a Woman’s Body</a></strong>: The doctor here describes some of the possible causes of libido loss in women, and how sexual dysfunction be remedied.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4njdHTBmJY&feature=PlayList&p=6B4602C4EB1550BF&index=18" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Psychology Origin of Word, Psyche – Mind, Soul, Breath</a></strong>: Shannon discusses the etymology of the word psychology and how psychology today means something different than traditional psychology. This is where we get words like psychic, psychedelic, and psychiatry.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5WLPe5-4uk" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Stress and Your Body: Psychology of Stress</a></strong>: The physical effects of stress are well documented, but there are a variety of other issues to consider as well.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS_qMHPI0XM&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Physcial Repsonses to Emotion</a></strong>: Emotion Fear is one of the most extreme emotional feelings and, like all extreme emotions, is accompanied by physiological changes in the body.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hyn_z0o2M&feature=PlayList&p=A904A2C68D7E0992&index=0&playnext=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Psychology of Love</a></strong>: Jeremy Wolfe explains love and human nature.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVPKiucB12M&feature=PlayList&p=BC23BAEE25C9B40B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Psychology of Religion</a></strong>: Steven Pinker looks into the desire for human beings to seek a higher power.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhXaA4FXa48" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Psychology of Change</a></strong>: Rob Williams, M.A. and Originator of PSYCH-K, discusses how beliefs determine your biological and behavioral realities and shows how to establish communication with the subconscious to "rewrite the software of the mind" and facilitate change.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MvOwqNB_CQ" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Intro to Pyschology</a></strong>: Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QWu83ai6qs" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Psychology vs. Psychiatry</a></strong>: Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. psychologist discusses the difference between psychiatry and psychology.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBxfd7DL3E&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Why Psychology</a></strong>: Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner.</li>
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Geology</strong></div><ol start="71" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">As they say, geology rocks. Get to know the geological face of the earth, from rocks to minerals to plate tectonics to tides.</div><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vgNvXdkQaU" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Basic Rock Identification: Geology</a></strong>: This video is a great visual aid for students who need extra help with rock identification.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnM8ebB06MU&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Mineral Identification</a></strong>: Owen Hopkins shows how to identify various minerals using their unique physical properties.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZogcgl6ns" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Catastrophic Geology</a></strong>: 100,000 years of explosive volcanic eruptions.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUQWfJIYKg4" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Bill Nye’s Great Discoveries</a></strong>: Host Bill Nye gives an inside look at planet Earth, from its inner core to its protective magnetic field. Discover how earthquakes and volcanoes help explain plate tectonics and the dynamic geology of oceans and continents.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDqskltCixA&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><strong>The Early Earth and Plate Tectonics</strong></a>: The Earth is formed by accretion of spatial particulates and large masses and eventually forms an outer crust.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft-dP2D7QM4&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Science on a Sphere</a></strong>: Look at billions of years of earth history through geology.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANeH9W-HMPc&NR=1&feature=fvwp" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Continental Drift</a></strong>: Explores the inner earth and its surface. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the Mount St. Helen’s volcanic eruption are explained and illustrated.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLJLFYXp-0Q&NR=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Plate Tectonics animation</a></strong>: A short animation about how a continent splits up into a continental rift valley and later into an open ocean by sea floor spreding, and finally the closure of the ocean by subduction.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_ycVcyxlY" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Tides and Waves</a></strong>: Describes tides and waves and how they are created by the gravitational forces of the sun and moon.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wLatK7sXg&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Coastal Currents</a></strong>: Describes coastal currents and how they might effect oil spills and objects in the ocean.</li>
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Genetics</strong></div><ol start="81" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">From Mendel’s fruit flies to recombinant science of the future, these videos keep you in the know about heredity and more.</div><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOvMNOMRRm8" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Genetics 101</a></strong>: Find out about the basics of cells, chromosomes, and the genes contained in your DNA.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_-mQS_FZ0&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Meiosis</a></strong>: The biology of meiosis.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQ5xXJSmK4&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Mitosis</a></strong>: One of the most important genetic processes is described here.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEUvRrhmcxM" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Introduction to Heredity</a></strong>: This video outlines heredity and classical genetics.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxobgkPEAo&feature=PlayList&p=A2D4E7F62016FDC0&index=0&playnext=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">From RNA to Protein Synthesis</a></strong>: RNA is synthesized from DNA, and enters the ribosome where protein translation and synthesis occurs.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJzZ7p-47P8" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Genetics 101: Where do your genes come from?</a></strong>: Find out how chromosomes and genes are passed down from parent to child.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8dk5iS1f0&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">DNA Structure</a></strong>: You’ll learn everything you ever wanted to know about the double helix with this video.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2jUMG2E-ic&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Genetic Engineering</a></strong>: Look at the latest technologies in controlling genetic outcomes.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drC7rR7CIBg&feature=fvw" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">DNA Fingerprinting</a></strong>: One of the most important tools in crime scene investigating, creating genetic fingerprints is something every forensic lover must know how to do.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdjvUv-1vCI&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Recombinant DNA </a></strong>: Using restriction enzymes to create Recombinant DNA.</li>
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</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;"><strong>Paleontology and Dinosaurs</strong></div><div style="font-size: 1.05em;">What characteristic of academics makes them invaluable to our society? Not just their reading, theorizing, experimentation and invention; above all else, the true academic has a love and appreciation for history. Learn about our old friends and travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs.</div><ol start="91" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOR20kBK0M" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Paleontology and Evolution</a></strong>: It’s worth seeing. Video about evolution from dinosaurus to human.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7rkgqDvpXY&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Dinosaurs</a></strong>: Amazing images of 50 dinosaurs species.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oErBsN1lDLc" style="color: #114477; text-decoration: underline;">Jack Horner on Paleontology</a></strong>: Kasey-Dee Gardner finds out from Jack Horner what’s on the horizon in the world of dinosaurs.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGjCH9IhrVI" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Virtual Paleontology</a></strong>: Using imaging technologies like CT scans, paleontologists are moving from the pit to the radiology lab, peering into those fossils.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9hdDmZ0g48" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">NASA and Archaeology</a></strong>: From the Mayan ruins to Jamestown Virginia, current NASA technologies are helping archaeologists uncover exciting artifacts.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQFPhQ2zaDE&feature=PlayList&p=B33CAA8F2979A6A9&index=0&playnext=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Jurassic Fight Club</a></strong>: Read about the Albertosaurus and its strength and power.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iByZqS2O5WY&feature=PlayList&p=B33CAA8F2979A6A9&index=1" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Tyrannosaurus</a></strong>: In this exciting episode, we explore Allosaurus, Utahraptor, Majungotholus, Albertosaurus, and the mighty king of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rst1CUxWKE&feature=PlayList&p=B33CAA8F2979A6A9&index=27" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Prehistoric Short Face Bear</a></strong>: Learn all about this rare, prehistoric animal here.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavdxwimAXI&feature=related" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Smilodon (Saber-Tooth Cat)</a></strong>: This video tells about smilodon fatalis.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3sdCHwMWOg" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Human History 101</a></strong>: This video introduces human prehistory starting over 200,000 years ago. Who were our first human ancestors? Where did they live? Find out more about your deep ancestry here.</li>
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</div><div><b>[via </b><a href="http://www.onlineschools.org/2009/11/16/100-coolest-science-videos-on-youtube/"><b>OnlineSchools</b></a><b>]</b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-73190209437204779652010-05-29T21:42:00.000-07:002010-05-29T21:53:01.875-07:00100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you,have an interest in all things scientific, then you will enjoy the treat provided by Sarah Russel at <a href="http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/" target="_blank">BestCollegesOnline</a>. She has gathered together a list of 100 fantastic lectures by some of the world's leading scientists, including:</span></b> <ul><li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" target="_blank">Richard Dawkins</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram" target="_blank">Stephen Wolfram</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Chu" target="_blank">Steven Chu</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter" target="_blank">Craig Venter</a></span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking" target="_blank">Stephen Hawking</a></span></b></li>
</ul><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The topics are sorted into the following categories:</span></b><br />
<ul><li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">General</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Science and Engineering</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Biology and Medicine</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chemistry</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Physics and Astronomy</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Earth and Environment</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Technology</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Science in the Future</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Science and Business</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Miscellaneous<a name='more'></a></span></b></li>
</ul><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some of the lectures are on:</span></b><br />
<ul><li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The history of science</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The evolution vs creation debate</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Exploring Mars and life on Mars</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The physics behind the collapse of the WTC towers</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The space shuttle</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">How drugs are researched and developed</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The evolution of the human species</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cancer research</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nuclear power plants</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nanotechnology</span></b></li>
</ul><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The lectures are primarily sourced from <a href="http://www.ted.com/" target="_blank">TED</a>, <a href="http://mitworld.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT World</a> and <a href="http://academicearth.org/" target="_blank">Academic Earth</a>.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/06/18/100-incredible-lectures-from-the-worlds-top-scientists/" target="_blank">100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists</a></span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-73736653594417916942010-05-29T21:34:00.000-07:002010-05-29T21:34:20.420-07:00Universities with the Best Free Online Courses<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Need help choosing what classes to take and where to take them? This list will make it easier.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Taking classes online is becoming easier all the time. The ranks of top rated universities offering free, non-credit courses is large and keeps growing. (see <a href="http://all-tipz-tricks.blogspot.com/2010/05/free-online-lectures-from-top-rated.html" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Free Online Lectures from Top Rated Universities - Academic Earth</a>and <a href="http://all-tipz-tricks.blogspot.com/2010/05/200-free-outstanding-online-classes.html" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">200 Free Outstanding Online Classes</a> for more information)<br />
Wading through all the universities and classes can be time consuming.<br />
The Education Portal has a great writeup of ten universities with the best free online classes that makes finding courses a little easier.<br />
The site offers up a few other gems that help narrow courses to certain areas of interest:</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<ul style="margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.techsupportalert.com/themes/acquia_marina/images/bullet-orange.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;"><a href="http://education-portal.com/articles/10_Sources_for_Free_Online_Technology_Courses.html" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">10 Sources for Free Online Technology Courses</a></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.techsupportalert.com/themes/acquia_marina/images/bullet-orange.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;"><a href="http://education-portal.com/engineering_courses_online.html" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Engineering Courses Online</a> (with class descriptions)</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.techsupportalert.com/themes/acquia_marina/images/bullet-orange.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;"><a href="http://education-portal.com/cna_to_lpn_courses_online.html" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">CNA to LPN Courses Online</a>: Course Options and Requirements </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.techsupportalert.com/themes/acquia_marina/images/bullet-orange.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;"><a href="http://education-portal.com/online_science_courses.html" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Online Science Courses</a></li>
</ul><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://education-portal.com/articles/Universities_with_the_Best_Free_Online_Courses.html" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Universities with the Best Free Online Courses</strong></a></div></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-48839746718967605382010-05-29T21:33:00.000-07:002010-05-29T21:33:33.220-07:00Free Online Lectures from Top Rated Universities<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Academic Earth features over 1500 lecture videos from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Here's a list of subjects:</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> * Astronomy<br />
* Biology<br />
* Chemistry<br />
* Computer Science<br />
* Economics<br />
* Engineering<br />
* English<br />
* Entrepreneurship<br />
* History<br />
* Law<br />
* Mathematics<br />
* Medicine<br />
* Philosophy<br />
* Physics<br />
* Political Science<br />
* Psychology<br />
* Religion</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some of the lecture videos are grouped into courses that contain anywhere from 4 to 50 lectures.<br />
Lectures are searchable by subject, university and popularity.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Clicking on the name of an instructor brings up a page listing the lecture videos related to that instructor.<br />
No credits are given for the courses. You can take as many as you wish and learn as much as you want to.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">On each lecture page there are course details and licensing information (mostly Creative Commons), any related resources such a syllabus, and a fun "dim the lights" feature that blacks out everything but the video.<br />
All the lectures can be saved one way or another. Check individual lectures for formats, or check the FAQ. </div><a name='more'></a><br />
If you register, you can save lecture videos under "Favorites" in your profile.<br />
<div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You might lose a lot of time at this site. I did. I was also unsurprised to find that Physics still doesn't make sense to me, and that some instructors still make me sleepy.<br />
I love the design of this website - it is so easy to use and the layout is clean. You can get most places with a few clicks.</div><div style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://academicearth.org/" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Academic Earth</span></b></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-48555441518532299712010-05-29T21:30:00.000-07:002010-05-29T21:30:15.317-07:00200 Free Outstanding Online Classes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
<div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Take classes online from Yale, MIT, Tufts and other respected institutions for free.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">UPDATE: Some of the schools have moved the pages for some of the courses, and the OEDb hasn't updated them on their site yet.<br />
I checked every link listed. The majority still point to the proper course.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some have moved and provide a link to the new page. The links all led to the the new URL of the same class.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some have error messages. In the case of error messages, check the home page of the University's Open Course section.<br />
I've listed the links to each University's Open Course site. They have the current class listings.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some of the links (all at Utah State University) wanted a name and a password. If you run across one of those, check the the Open Course home page. END UPDATE</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Online Education Database has put together 200 online classes from these and other institutions.<br />
You can take as many as you like that interest you - there seems to be no limit and I couldn't find any strings attached in any of the material I've looked at.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Topics cover a very wide range - everything from Natural Science to Law and Politics.<br />
If you want to learn three-dimensional modeling and animation using the Open Source software Blender, there's a course for that.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
Learning and applying HTML, Network Security, Flash, Quantum Mechanics, First Year Chinese, Modern Poetry, and Implant Dentistry are some titles of other classes being offered.<br />
<div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Visual Arts seem to be missing. I would like to see classes in that area appear in the catalog.<br />
Aside from the missing Visual Arts, if you are a life long learner (of any age) there is a lot to keep you busy.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Beginning Online Learning page has some wonderful articles and resources. Geared specifically towards learning, there are some gems that anyone can use.</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The site is geared towards helping people find financial aid for college and is a bit on the commercial side in places. The class listings segment is relatively free of advertising and worth a few ads.<br />
</div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/200-free-online-classes-to-learn-anything" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">200 Free, Quality Online Classes</a></div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>University Open Course Home Pages:</b></div><div style="font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://ocw.tufts.edu/" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tufts Open Course</a><br />
<a href="http://ocw.umb.edu/about" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">UMass Boston Open Course</a><br />
<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">MIT Open Course</a><br />
<a href="http://ocw.usu.edu/" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Utah State University Open Course</a><br />
<a href="http://oyc.yale.edu/%3Ca%20href=" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Yale Open Course</a><br />
<a href="http://ocw.nd.edu/about" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Notre Dame Open Course</a><br />
<a href="http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">UCIrvine</a> <a href="http://ocw.jhsph.edu/" style="color: #27638c; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Johns Hopkins Open Course</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-90938139835248831292010-05-29T21:15:00.000-07:002010-05-29T21:15:36.612-07:00250+ Places for Free Books Online<div class="content"><span class="print-link"></span><br />
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This is a listing of 260 sites that legally offer free books (eBooks) for download or for online viewing.<br />
Some time ago I went looking for some free eBooks and was surprised to find that there are many resources for this. I decided to put together this list of sites that offer free eBooks as a reference. Since there are so many, I was not able to check each one out thoroughly. So comments from you on any of these sites would be appreciated and added to the comments in the article. <br />
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I have tried to make certain that all of the eBooks at these sites are legally available for viewing/downloading. However, it is possible that I have made a mistake. If you suspect any of these sites of illegally offering copyrighted materials.Then please let me know<br />
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Putting this together was exhausting, but the list is not exhaustive, so I encourage you to post any sites that you know of that are not listed here.<br />
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The listing here is in alphabetical order. Given the size of this list now, it may be easier to search by <strong>genre</strong>. I have set up 14 pages here of different genres. If you do not see one that covers your interests, let me know and I may be able to put one together.<br />
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I have also put together a listing of sites that offer free and legal audio books at<br />
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<h2><a href="" name="alphabetical_listing"></a>Alphabetical Listing</h2><strong><a href="http://1romanceebooks.com/free-reads/cat_19.html" target="_blank">1RomanceEBooks</a></strong> offers 27 free books from their romance collection for download in a variety of formats. These are not public domain offerings, but some of their usual offerings made available for free.<br />
<strong><a href="http://2020ok.com/0.htm" target="_blank">2020k</a></strong> Large collection, divided into categories and sub-categories for download in a variety of formats. <strong>Note:</strong> Many of the links to the Internet Archive from this site are not working.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.adaic.org/free/freebook.html" target="_blank">AdaIC.org</a></strong> has several free books on Ada as well as <a href="http://www.adaic.org/learn/textbook.html" target="_blank">textbooks</a> and <a href="http://www.adaic.org/learn/index.html">tutorials</a> on Ada.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.c3f.com/alivfree.html" target="_blank">Alive and Free</a></strong> - Links to free ebooks of living authors<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.allbooksfree.com/" target="_blank">AllBooksFree</a></strong> A small, but unique, listing of free fiction ebooks, available for download, mostly in pdf.<br />
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<strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/allpdfbooks/" target="_blank">AllPDFBooks</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics18" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a good sized collection of books available in biology, chemistry, physics, computer, magic and hindi kahaniyan, for download in pdf. Suggested by an anonymous user.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.allromanceebooks.com/category180.html" target="_blank">AllRomanceBooks</a></strong> lists 169 free romance ebooks for download. Registration is required. I noticed that there appeared to be the 1RomanceEBooks and eHarlequin listings shown there, as well as quite a few others. Again, these are not public domain, but the free offerings of current publishers.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.ams.org/online_bks/online_subject.html" target="_blank">American Mathematical Society</a></strong> has a pretty complete listing of books involving mathematics.<br />
<strong><a href="http://arthursclassicnovels.com/" target="_blank">Arthur's Classic Novels</a></strong> - Over 4000 novels covering a great variety of topics, nicely separated into categories and "best" lists. Some very interesting entries here. Available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/" target="_blank">Ask Sam</a></strong> - A small collection of classics, including Shakespeare, and legal, resource and government texts.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/866741/where_to_find_free_cookbooks_online.html?cat=22" target="_blank">AssociatedContent</a></strong> has several cookbooks available for download in pdf. Most are short and specific (muffin recipes etc.), but the Chocolate recipe book is over 600 pages and the Blue Ribbon recipes are over 400 pages.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.astrologyweekly.com/astrology-books/index.php" target="_blank">AstrologyWeekly</a></strong> 10 books for online reading and about 30 for download. All on astrology.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.authorama.com/" target="_blank">Authorama </a></strong>offers a few hundred books, searchable by author, for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/" target="_blank">BABBooks</a></strong> is a children's site that has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.baen.com/library/" target="_blank">Baen Free Library</a></strong> - A small library of downloadable science fiction novels in a variety of formats.<br />
<strong><a href="http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/" target="_blank"><u>BaenCD</u></a></strong> - A small collection of science fiction books from Baen's promotional CDs. They are downloadable in a variety of formats as well as viewable online.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.mainlesson.com/displaybooksbytitle.php" target="_blank"><u>Baldwin Online Children's Projects</u></a></strong> 520 classic children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing.<br />
<a href="http://www.bannerbooks.com/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>BannerBooks</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics18" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers 5 unique books for reading online.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/index.html" target="_blank">Bartelby</a></strong> - Harvard classics and encyclopedias. HTML only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/index.shtml" target="_blank"><u>BBC (Dr. Who)</u></a></strong> for those who like Dr. Who, this is a collection of 8 books for online reading or download in a choice of 3 formats<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html" target="_blank">Beenleigh State School</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics1" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> of Queensland, Australia has a large collection of children stories to read online with audio built in.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Literature/" target="_blank">Berkely SunSite Classics</a></strong> - A small collection of classics. HTML only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bibliomania.com/" target="_blank">Bibliomania</a></strong> - Over 2,000 classic novels, study guides, biographies and more. HTML only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://blackmaskmagazine.com/fiction.html" target="_blank">BlackMaskFiction</a></strong> offers 20 or so free detective stories that were originally published in magazines during 1925 to 1939 for download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://bookboon.com/us/student" target="_blank">BookBoon</a></strong> offers a number of free textbooks on computer programing and other subjects for download in pdf. These are legal textbooks written for BookBoon which contain some ads within the books.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://book-bot.com/bookbot/public/reader" target="_blank">Book-bot </a></strong> 14,571 books available for online viewing in their easy to view reader. Very nice find by fellow editor Rhiannon.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bookbox.com/free_stuffcat.php" target="_blank">BookBox</a></strong> is a children's site that has about 20 free books available for download in pdf (as a single page) and MP3. Also free games and coloring books.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bookglutton.com/" target="_blank"><u>BookGlutton</u></a></strong> is a collection of 1200+ books for online reading with the added feature of groups available for discussion of the readings. Nice combination of reading and socializing. Suggested by an anonymous poster.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html" target="_blank">BookPop</a></strong> is another children's site that has a number of illustrated books free for online reading. There are also some coloring pages for download. There are supposed to be music and story downloads, but I kept getting an error when trying to reach those.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bookrags.com/browse/ebooks/" target="_blank">BookRags</a></strong> - Small collection of free with many paid. Hard to find the free ones. Available in Word or PDF.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/" target="_blank">BooksShouldBeFree</a></strong> While primarily a good sized collection of audio books, each of the books is available for online reading or for download in text.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bookstacks.org/" target="_blank"><u>Bookstacks</u></a></strong> is a small collection (100+) of classic works available for online viewing, with many also available in Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader versions. Nicely set up.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bookyards.com/" target="_blank">BookYards</a></strong> - 16,000+ books, videos, educational material.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bored.com/ebooks/" target="_blank">Bored.com</a></strong> has over 15,000 books available for online viewing. Nicely divided into a good variety of categories.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html" target="_blank"><strong>BritishLibrary</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics6" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a virtual books section with a small, but interesting, collection for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.talewins.com/Browzer/novels.htm" target="_blank">BrowzerBooks</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics24" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has an interesting collection of novels in a wide variety of genres (check bottom of page for links to genres) either available for online reading or download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://bucarotechelp.com/download/business/default.asp" target="_blank">BucaroTecHelp</a></strong> has an interesting collection of free business books available for download in pdf. These deal with internet business for the most part. You do have to view their news feed to be able to download, but registration is not necessary.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.bygosh.com/" target="_blank">ByGosh</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics19" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers a small collection of very nicely illustrated classics for younger children and older children. Also some short stories. Suggested by Cathy of <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8985464408566709971#puzzled">PuzzlEd</a>.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.candlelightstories.com/storybooks/" target="_blank">CandlelightStories</a></strong> has a good number of stories from the Arabian nights collection as well as other story books available for online reading.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/" target="_blank">CBeebies</a></strong> is a BBC site that offers a good number of free stories, in flash, for online reading and listening. Also, has games, music and coloring books.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.chessville.com/downloads/ebooks.htm" target="_blank">Chessville </a></strong>40+ ebooks on Chess available for download (mostly in PDF)<br />
<strong><a href="http://chestofbooks.com/" target="_blank">ChestofBooks</a></strong> Large collection, divided into categories, for online viewing. Nice collection.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/" target="_blank">ChildrensBooksForever</a></strong> has a nice collection of illustrated books available in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/super-index.htm" target="_blank"><u>Children's Books Online</u></a></strong> is an excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's books for viewing online. They are also available for download at a fee. This little gem was suggested by an anonymous poster.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.childrenstory.info/biblestoryforchild/childstory.html" target="_blank">ChildrenStory</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics2" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> a children site that offers a nice collection of fairy tales for online viewing as well as Bible stories and coloring books.<br />
<strong><a href="http://classicauthors.net/" target="_blank"><u>Classic Authors.net</u></a></strong> contains the works of over a hundred authors (and short biography for each), with a varying number of works per author. Online viewing only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://classicbook.info/" target="_blank"><u>Classic Book Library</u></a></strong> is a small collection (100+) of classic works arranged by genre. Online viewing only.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/" target="_blank"><u>Classic Book Shelf Electronic Library</u></a></strong> offers the works of 50+ authors in varying amounts. Online viewing only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/" target="_blank">Classic Literature Library</a></strong> Decent size collection that has complete works of a small variety of authors and works of others and a nice children's section available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.classicreader.com/" target="_blank"><u>Classic Reader</u></a></strong> offers thousands of free classic books for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.computer-books.us/" target="_blank">ComputerBooks.us</a></strong> larger collection, sub categorized and available for download in pdf<br />
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<strong><a href="http://cougarwebworks.com/downloads/" target="_blank">CougarWebWorks</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics25" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has several of the works of Nowick Gray available for free download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.crankylibrarian.com/" target="_blank">CrankyLibrarian</a></strong> 3011 books by 752 authors available for online viewing. Complete works of several authors and some interesting categories.<br />
<strong><a href="http://craphound.com/?cat=5" target="_blank">CrapHound </a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics26" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a few works of Cory Doctrow available for free download.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.creativehomemaking.com/download.shtml" target="_blank">CreativeHomemaking</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics14" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a number of free cookbooks available for download in pdf. Some interesting entries here, including "How to Make a Gingerbread House".<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.dailylit.com/" target="_blank">DailyLit</a></strong> - Read books online by daily email or RSS feed. Over 700 titles.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.developnew.com/books/" target="_blank">Developnew</a></strong> a good collection of free computer software books available for reading online.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category/free_download" target="_blank">Diesel eBooks</a></strong> - Offers 750+ ebooks formatted for Microsoft Reader and MobiPocket.<br />
<a href="http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/cmu.htm" target="_blank"><strong>DigitalLibraryofIndia </strong></a><img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics21" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a large collection of works available in several formats for online viewing or download. Sorted by title.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.dlshq.org/download/download.htm" target="_blank">DivineLifeSociety</a></strong> over 200 books on Yoga, religion and philosophy available in pdf or HTML<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/" target="_blank">DLTK-Teach</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics3" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers free printable children's books. Most are geared towards pre-schoolers, including a set on the alphabet, but there are some stories for older children also. Suggested by Cathy of <strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8985464408566709971#puzzled">PuzzlEd. </a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lumfylomax/" target="_blank">DominicGreen </a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics27" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers 4 of his science fiction novels for free reading online.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.dovercentrebooks.com/index.htm" target="_blank">DoverCentreBooks</a></strong> has a very large collection of links to free online cookbooks, horror stories, meditation, spiritualism and fables.. They are sorted alphabetically and since they are to a variety of download sites, the availability of online viewing and download formats vary.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/index.html" target="_blank">DragonBytes</a></strong> Nice collection of horror novels available for online viewing. Separate section for Vampire novels.<br />
<strong><a href="http://duncanlong.com/DuncanLongPublications/index.html" target="_blank">DuncanLongPublications</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics28" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers several works for free online viewing. Generally, a pdf download costs money, but some are ad supported and are free.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.virtualimprint.com/earthbound/download.htm" target="_blank">Earthbound</a></strong> The 5 book science fiction series of Earthbound available for download in <span style="font-family: HELVETICA, ARIAL;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">lit .pdb .pdf .txt .rtf.</span></span><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.easymediabroadcast.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: HELVETICA, ARIAL;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">EasyMediaBroadcast</span></span></a></strong> <span style="font-family: HELVETICA, ARIAL;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">offers a nice size collection of mostly classical works for download in TK3. You must use the TK3 reader, available for free at the site, for these books</span></span>. Books are sorted by author and title.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.freeebooks.info/" target="_blank">eBookLobby</a></strong> - Small, but interesting and unique, collection divided into 13 categories<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: HELVETICA, ARIAL;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">E-Books Directory</span></span></a></strong> <span style="font-family: HELVETICA, ARIAL;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">944 books in 344 categories available for download in varying formats.</span></span><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.saskschools.ca/~ebooks/" target="_blank">eBooksforYoungReaders</a></strong> offers a large collection of free books for download nicely categorized into reading levels.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.ebooksjustpublished.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: HELVETICA, ARIAL;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">eBooksJustPublished</span></span></a></strong> Interesting collection of DRM free eBooks listed daily. Most are free.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.ebooknook.com/" target="_blank"><u>eBookNook</u></a></strong> A good number of stories, mostly romance, but some children and vampire stories available for online reading.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://ebookplanet.net/" target="_blank">eBookPlanet</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics20" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has an interesting and unique collection of works in 12 categories available for download in pdf. Suggested by an anonymous user.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.ebooksread.com/" target="_blank">eBooksRead</a></strong> Over 41,000 books available for download in pdf or text. Search by author or title<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.e-cookbooks.net/library/free.htm" target="_blank">e-cookbooks.net</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics4" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has 14 smaller cookbooks available for free download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.eduplace.com/marketing/leveledbooks/sampler/content/index.html" target="_blank">eduplace</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics5" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers 14 "leveled" books for children for online reading or printing.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.eharlequin.com/store.html?cid=1317" target="_blank">eHarlequin</a></strong> offers 17 free romance novels for download in several different format options. These are not public domain novels, but some of Harlequin's usual offerings.<br />
<a href="http://www.eldritchpress.org/" target="_blank"><strong>EldritchPress</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics37" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a good sized collection of public domain works with some unique categorization.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.ereader.com/servlet/mw?t=freebooks&si=59" target="_blank">eReader.com</a></strong> has a small collection of free ebooks for download, but a couple interesting entries. Registration required.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.grtbooks.com/exitfram.asp?idx=0&yr=-5000&aa=AA&at=AA&ref=links&URL=http://eserver.org/" target="_blank">eServer</a></strong> - Over 30,000 works covering a variety of interests<br />
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<strong><a href="http://tc.eserver.org/" target="_blank">eServer Technical Communications</a></strong> has 875 works in its software section and 161 in its web design section (although a number were no longer available) as well as some articles in its other sections.<br />
<strong><a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/subjects/" target="_blank">eText.lib</a></strong> The University of Virginia online library has a large collection of works available for online viewing (some are available in Microsoft Reader). Even though a good number are limited to UVA students and staff, there is still a good amount of interesting material available to the general public. Suggested by poster mike dutch.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.everyonesreading.com/#" target="_blank">EveryonesReading</a></strong> is offering 10 free romance novels for download in several formats. These are one book from each of their series and are being offered to celebrate their first anniversary (so they may not be there long).<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.fablevision.com/place/library/index.html" target="_blank">FableLibrary</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics6" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has an interesting and unique collection of childrens works. Most are available for viewing online, including some flash versions. But a few are available for download. Suggested by Cathy of <strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8985464408566709971#puzzled">PuzzlEd. </a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/" target="_blank"><u>Federal Citizen Information Center</u></a></strong> offers informational booklets on a great variety of subjects. Many are free and most of the paid ones are available for a free download. Suggested by an anonymous poster<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/" target="_blank">FeedBooks</a></strong> - Thousand of eBooks downloadable in a variety of formats<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.fiction.us/" target="_blank"><u>Fiction eBooks</u></a></strong> is a interesting small collection of works of fiction (including some Beatrix Potter illustrated childrens books) as well as some books for writers and works philosophy and sociology. Online viewing only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.fictionpress.com/" target="_blank">FictionPress</a></strong> is a growing network over 1 million writers/readers, and home to over 1,200,000 original works by unsigned authors.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/freeBooks.htm?cache" target="_blank">FictionWise</a></strong> has 35 books available for free download in a great variety of formats. Most are the usual classics available elsewhere, but there are a couple of unusual ones and a few reference books that might be interesting. Registration is required.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://finding-free-ebooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">FindingFreeeBooks</a></strong> has links to free book offerings posted. Also worth checking out the <strong><a href="http://finding-free-ebooks.blogspot.com/search/label/limited%20time%20offers" target="_blank">limited time offers</a></strong> section. This is a nice spot to check as there are unique entries here.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.floridadisaster.org/kids/teachPlan.htm" target="_blank">FloridaDisaster.org </a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics7" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers three books on hazardous weather for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade readers in download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary/" target="_blank">Franklin</a></strong> - Thousands of free titles available in text and HTML format<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.freebookcentre.net/" target="_blank">FreeBookCentre</a></strong> links to thousands of computer ebooks divided into many sub-categories<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.freebookspot.net/" target="_blank">FreeBookSpot</a></strong> - 5,000 free eBooks downloadable in 96 categories available for download in a number of different formats. Suggested by devinathann.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/" target="_blank">FreeBooks4Doctors</a></strong> Over 650 works (in varying languages) dealing with medical matters. Available in pdf download.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.free-ebooks-canada.com/" target="_blank">FreeeBooksCanada</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics8" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a large listing of free books available for download in pdf. Very interesting collection worth checking out.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.freebooksforall.com/" target="_blank">FreeBooksforAll</a></strong> A fairly large collection of non-fiction books available for download (mostly in pdf)<br />
<strong><a href="http://freecomputerbooks.com/" target="_blank">FreeComputer Books</a></strong> - Free computer, math, technical books and lecture notes<br />
<strong><a href="http://free-ebook-download-links.blogspot.com/search/label/Computer%20Sciences" target="_blank">FreeeBookDownloadLinks</a></strong> has a very nice size collection of links to free computer science books online. Download options vary as these are links to other sites.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.free-ebooks.net/" target="_blank">Free eBooks Net</a></strong> - Free books and resources for authors. Also magazines<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.freeonlinebooks.org/" target="_blank">FreeOnlineBooks</a></strong> offers over 5,000 free books, mostly classics, for online viewing. Works may be searched by author, title, keyword, reading level and 15 genres. You can adjust the page width and font size and style. Registration is not necessary, but free registration allows some extra features.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.wendymcelroy.com/freebooks.html" target="_blank">FreeOn-LineBooks</a></strong> Interesting collection on individualist feminism and libertarianism available for online viewing.<br />
<a href="http://freeonlinebookstore.org/" target="_blank"><strong>FreeOnlineBookstore</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics8" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a good number of links to free books in a wide variety of categories. The most engineering and electrical engineering books I have seen listed at a site. But they also have works in about 15 other categories. Since most link off site, the options for downloading/viewing vary.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.free-online-novels.com/" target="_blank">Free Online Novels</a></strong> Interesting collection for online viewing. Several hundred novels separated into categories.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.freequickrecipes.com/free-online-cookbooks.php" target="_blank">FreeQuickRecipes</a></strong> 3 cookbooks available for download in pdf and a large amount of recipes for online viewing as well as other information on kitchen and diet<br />
<strong><a href="http://freeread.com.au/" target="_blank">FreeRead</a></strong> a bibliography of Australian writers who died before 1955, with links to a good number of them for download or viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.freeromancefiction.com/index2.htm" target="_blank">FreeRomanceFiction</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics29" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers 5 free works available for download in pdf. These are in their Holiday, Paranormal, Erotic and historical subsections. There may be works added in the future.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://freesfonline.de/index.html" target="_blank"><u>Free SF Online</u></a></strong> over 2,000 links to science fiction books for reading online<br />
<strong><a href="http://freesf.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">FreeSFReader</a></strong> Collection of links for mostly science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and short stories, but also some other genres<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.freetechbooks.com/" target="_blank">FreeTechBooks</a></strong> - Computer science and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.fullbooks.com/" target="_blank">FullBooks</a></strong> - Thousand of free full text books.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.auburn.edu/~murrag1/bookindex.html" target="_blank">GenieBooks</a></strong> offers 15 books for younger readers for download in PowerPoint. Has not been updated in a while, but links still work. Sponsored by University of Auburn. PowerPoint can be read with the free <strong><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">Open Office</a></strong>.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.getfreeebooks.com/" target="_blank">GetFreeEbooks</a></strong> - Smaller collection of all free ebooks.<br />
<strong><a href="http://giraffian.com/kids/books" target="_blank">Giraffian</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics9" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers a nice collection of books for pre-schoolers, covering the alphabet, numbers colors and other topics. Suggested by Cathy of <strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8985464408566709971#puzzled">PuzzlEd. </a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.globusz.com/" target="_blank">Globusz</a></strong> - A place for new authors to post their work and for readers to check them out for free.<br />
<strong><a href="http://goldengems.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">GoldenGems</a></strong> a collection of little golden books and other illustrated books for children for online viewing and saving as jpg.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?as_q=&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_brr=1&lr=&as_vt=&as_auth=&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb=c&as_miny=&as_maxy=&as_isbn" target="_blank">Google Book Search</a></strong> - Good selection of free ebooks available in a variety of categories.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.grtbooks.com/" target="_blank">GrtBooks</a></strong> - A large collection of great books and classics.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Gutenberg</a></strong> - Over 25,000 books for download there and over 100,000 available through their affiliates.<br />
<a href="http://www.handebooks.com/books/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>HANDebooks</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics39" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has 15 public domain classics available for download in Plucker or eReader.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.healthrecipes.com/free_cookbooks.htm" target="_blank">HealthRecipes</a></strong> 8 cookbooks available for download in pdf<br />
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<strong><a href="http://coins.ha.com/tfi/" target="_blank">HeritageAuctionGalleries </a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics30" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers two works of James L. Halperin, The First Immortal and The Truth Machine, for free download in MS Word.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.heygidday.com/download.htm" target="_blank">Heygidday</a></strong> Thousands of works in a great variety of categories available for download in pdf (zipped).<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.horrormasters.com/Themes/horror_classics.htm" target="_blank">HorrorMasters</a></strong> 2100 classic horror novels available for download in pdf, plus links to horror novels at other sites.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.howto.co.uk/" target="_blank">HowTo</a></strong> offers around 150 free "how to" ebooks on a wide variety of topics. Suggested by an anonymous poster.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://infomotions.com/alex/" target="_blank">Infomotions</a></strong> - 14,000 listings from full classic novels to Western philosophy. HTML only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.ink.imagedjinn.com/" target="_blank">Ink.Imagedjinn</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics10" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a nice collection of short fairy tales, a couple of myth stories and the book Pinocchio available for online viewing. A site for children.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.inklesstales.com/stories/" target="_blank">InklessTales</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics11" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers 15 children stories for online viewing as well as games, poems and activities.<br />
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<a href="http://intechweb.org/books.php" target="_blank"><strong>In-Tech</strong></a> <img alt="" height="12" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers 80 full length books for free download in pdf (zipped). Large selection on the topic of robotics. There are also about 2000 journal articles available here for free.<br />
<strong><a href="http://en.childrenslibrary.org/" target="_blank">InternationalChildrensDigitalLibrary</a></strong> nice collection of children's books from around the world in a variety of languages and nicely categorized, available for online viewing<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts" target="_blank">InternetArchive</a></strong> - Over 500,000 texts available for download<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/" target="_blank">Internet Sacred Text Archive</a></strong> very interesting and large collection of books on religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.geocities.com/athens/olympus/9958/books.html">Islaam Pure & Clear</a></strong> around 50 Islamic books for reading or download<br />
<strong><a href="http://members.atlantic.net/~jcd/" target="_blank">JamesDunavant</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics31" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers his book, The Keepers of Forever, for download in HTML. or online viewing. A download compatible with Palm Pilot is also available.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.sitelane.com/ebooks/aliencradlejinlo/index.htm" target="_blank">JeffInlo</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics32" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers his book, Alien Cradle, for download in a large variety of formats and for online reading.<br />
<strong><a href="http://jimdefilippi.com/index.php?p=1_2_Books" target="_blank">JimDeFilippi</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics12" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers 8 of his crime novels for free download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://jodykihara.com/download.html" target="_blank">Jody Kihara</a></strong> has made two of her books for children available for free download in PDF and apparently more freebies are forthcoming.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.julieacarda.com/books.html" target="_blank">JuliaCarda </a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics33" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers her novel, Portal to Peace, for free download in pdf at her website.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.kellscraft.com/textcontents.html" target="_blank">Kellscraft Studio </a></strong>Around 250 books available for online viewing. Kellscraft lists out of print, public domain novels, most published prior to 1923. Searchable by title, author and topic.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.kiddotime.com/" target="_blank">KiddoTime</a></strong> is a site for those learning to read. It has phonics, word, music and puzzle games. Suggested by Sefi.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.kidsaudiobooks.co.uk/read_it.htm" target="_blank">KidsAudioBooks</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics21" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has 12 classic books for children for download in pdf. Most are available elsewhere, but there is one unique entry. Also a good collection of audio books and some coloring books. Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.kidsknowit.com/" target="_blank">KidsKnowIt</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics13" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> is not a book site, but it does have a lot of reading for children, along with educational puzzles and games.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.kidsnurseryrhymes.co.uk/" target="_blank">KidsNurseryRhymes</a></strong> a British site featuring over 1200 nursery rhymes for online viewing. Also has sing along rhymes (must have midi player-available there) and some nursery rhyme disco recordings available for download in MP3.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/directory.jsp" target="_blank">Knowledgerush</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics15" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a good sized collection separated into about 30 categories. Nice children and Mystery sections, among others.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.learningisland.org/" target="_blank">LearningIsland </a></strong>Nice collection of children books available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/ewe_preview.html" target="_blank">LearningPage</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics16" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a series (38) of printable "Tommy" story books suitable for about 8-10-year-olds, plus some other printable books, for free. Suggested by Cathy of <strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8985464408566709971#puzzled">PuzzlEd. </a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://librivox.org/" target="_blank">Librivox</a></strong> Although mostly know for its excellent collection of audio books. A poster named Les has pointed out that they also have links to online viewing sites for all of its large collection of audio books and also download links.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html" target="_blank">LilFingers Storybooks</a></strong> Small collection of books for very young children for reading and being read to.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.linux.org/docs/online_books.html" target="_blank">Linux Online</a></strong> Around 25 Linux, open source and programing, books for download or reading<br />
<strong><a href="http://listverse.com/2007/10/25/10-free-science-fiction-books-online/" target="_blank">Listverse</a></strong> has a interesting top ten list (though there are 11 entries) of free sci fi books on the web.<br />
<a href="http://gruntose.com/Info/Books/literature.html" target="_blank"><strong>Literarium</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics16" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a small collection of classic works available for online viewing. A nice collection of Sherlock Holmes, some interesting historical documents and a few unique classic works.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.literature.org/authors/" target="_blank">Literature.org</a></strong> has a collection of classics, arranged by author, for online viewing.<br />
<a href="http://www.literaturemaster.com/" target="_blank"><strong>LiteratureMaster</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics16" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has thousands of ebooks in a wide variety of categories available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.online-literature.com/" target="_blank">LiteratureNetwork </a></strong>has over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors available for online reading. Searchable by author and they have a few unusual ones.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.literaturepost.com/" target="_blank">LiteraturePost</a></strong> 825 works from 71 authors available for online viewing.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.everymanedict.com/e16_ensouled.htm" target="_blank">Luisa Green</a></strong> offers 3 of her romance ebooks for free download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.magickeys.com/books/" target="_blank"><u>Magickeys</u></a></strong> small, but interesting, and unusual, collection of childrens books for online viewing.<br />
<a href="http://www.magick-spells.net/" target="_blank"><strong>MagickSpells</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics16" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />is a collection of books on astrology, magic and mythology for free viewing online.<br />
<strong><a href="http://manybooks.net/" target="_blank">ManyBooks</a></strong> - 22,000 books available for download in a variety of formats.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.authentic-greek-recipes.com/free-cookbooks.html" target="_blank">Maria'sCouzina</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics17" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has 3 free cookbooks available for download in pdf. Two of the books are Greek recipes an the other is world cuisine. These appear to be shortened versions of the full cookbook, but still have some interesting entries and information.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.mastertexts.com/" target="_blank"><u>Master Texts</u></a></strong> is a collection of 30+ authors for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://meatbook.com/" target="_blank">MeatBook</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics22" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has an online cookbook image of the Ground Meat Cookbook available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://medlineplus.gov/" target="_blank">MedLine Plus</a></strong> is a great, trustworthy site for general health information, including tutorials, clinical trial updates and the latest news in medicine. You can also find plenty of <strong><a href="http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&query=book&x=0&y=0" target="_blank">books</a></strong>, including some intended for children.<br />
<strong><a href="http://memoware.com/" target="_blank">MemoWare</a></strong> - Free books for PDA.<br />
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<u><strong>MicrosoftReader</strong></u> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics16" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has links to free works at the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/reader/find/category.aspx?mnr=FRE000010" target="_blank"><strong>University of Virginia</strong></a> and the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/reader/find/category.aspx?mnr=FRE000040" target="_blank"><strong>University of Oregon</strong></a>. Between those two sites, there is a large number of works available for download.<br />
<strong><a href="http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=subject&Id=117" target="_blank">Mises Institute</a></strong> Several hundred books, mostly on economics (and from a libertarian point of view) available for download as pdf. Some unique entries here. Suggested by poster, Bill Starr.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.grtbooks.com/exitfram.asp?idx=0&yr=-5000&aa=AA&at=AA&ref=links&URL=http://classics.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT Internet Classics Archive</a></strong> - Over 400 works of classical literature available for download.<br />
<strong><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#SloanSchoolofManagement" target="_blank">MIT OpenCourseWare</a></strong> offers a large selection of business courses in its Sloan School of Management section.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=126" target="_blank">MobileRead</a></strong> - Forum listing thousands of free ebooks.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/default.aspx" target="_blank">MobiPocket </a></strong>over 10,000 works, in a variety of categories, available for download in MOBI.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.molwick.com/en/ebooks/index.html" target="_blank">Molwick</a></strong> Small collection of scientific and educational books available for download in pdf<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.munseys.com/site/home" target="_blank">Munsey's</a></strong> - Over 18,000 ebooks available in a variety of formats<br />
<a href="http://www.musicaltales.com/" target="_blank"><strong>MusicalTales</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics34" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers "Helena and the Orchestra of the World of Mist" as a download in text, video, soundtrack or audiobook.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.myromancestory.com/fstory/fs_main_login.php" target="_blank">MyRomanceStory</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics34" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> offers 2 free romance novellas daily. Registration is required.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.nancyskitchen.com/free_cookbooks.htm" target="_blank">Nancy'sKitchen</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics23" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a nice size collection of small cookbooks available for free download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html" target="_blank">NetLibrary</a></strong> - Small selection of free. But annual membership is only $8.95 for over 500,000 works.<br />
<strong><a href="http://newfreebooks.com/" target="_blank">NewFreeBooks</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics35" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has links to free ebooks covered by copyright, but still available legally (most times direct from the author's site. Excellent source for newer works.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.nightowlromance.com/nightowlromance/FreeReads/FreeReads.aspx" target="_blank">NightOwlRomance</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics36" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has 6 interesting romance novels available for download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.onlinebooks4free.com/" target="_blank">OnlineBooks4free</a></strong> large collection of links to other sites for online viewing or download. Nicely categorized.<br />
<strong><a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/" target="_blank"><u>Online Books Page</u></a></strong> from the University of Pennsylvania is a listing of over 30,000 free books on the web. Mostly this references to other sites, but they do have the Gutenberg listings available for download as well as some interesting special exhibits.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.onlinecomputerbooks.com/" target="_blank">OnlineComputerBooks</a></strong> - Good selection of free computer books.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.onlinefreeebooks.net/" target="_blank">OnlineFreeeBooks</a></strong> - links to various ebooks (mostly pdf) in 9 categories<br />
<strong><a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=149" target="_blank"><u>Online Library of Liberty</u></a></strong> hosts over an interesting collection of over 1,100 books available for online viewing and also for download.<br />
<strong><a href="http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html" target="_blank">OnlineSapiens</a></strong> has a small collection for online viewing, but a few unique entries worth a look.<br />
<strong><a href="http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/" target="_blank">OxfordTextArchive</a></strong> - Over 2,000 classical texts downloadable as ASCII or DOC<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/title.html" target="_blank">PagebyPage</a></strong> a few hundred works available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.palaceofamino.com/free-novels-bounty-hunters.htm" target="_blank">PalaceofAmino</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics37" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has the 9 book "Bounty Hunter" series available for free download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.paytonlee.com/Free.htm" target="_blank">Payton Lee</a></strong> offers 17 of her romance works and several short stories for download in pdf. The downloads are at LuLu, which supposedly requires registration to download, but I was able to download and did not have to register.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://pdfbooks.co.za/" target="_blank">PDFBooks</a></strong> - 4,700 pdf ebooks<br />
<strong><a href="http://pdfreebooks.org/" target="_blank">PDFFreeBooks</a></strong> Small collection of children's books and two rare books on Syriac grammar and Arabic-English lexicon. Available for download in PDF or DJVU.<br />
<a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/" target="_blank"><strong>PennLibraries</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics37" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has several special collections for online viewing, including a <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/" target="_blank"><strong>Celebration of Women Writers</strong></a> and the <a href="http://verity.library.upenn.edu/search97cgi/s97_cgi?action=filtersearch&collection=ebooks&access_type=penn&ResultTemplate=ebooks/results.hts&ResultMaxDocs=-1&filter=ebooks/browse_title_filter.hts&ebooksQueryType=title&SortField=titles2sort&query=a" target="_blank"><strong>verity.library.upenn.edu/search97cgi/s97_cgi</strong></a><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/" target="_blank">PerseusDigitalLibrary</a></strong> - A large collection of classical texts broken down to time period written.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.planetebook.com/" target="_blank">PlaneteBook</a></strong> - Free classical literature<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1" target="_blank">PlanetPDFeBooks</a></strong> - Small collection of classical works.<br />
<strong><a href="http://appsapps.com/ebooks/" target="_blank">ProgrammingeBooks</a></strong> has a very nice collection of downloads and links for a wide variety of programming languages.<br />
<strong><a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/pgaus.html" target="_blank">Project Gutenberg Australia</a></strong> over 1600 novels and an assortment of other works available in varying ways, including test, pdf and online viewing<br />
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<a href="http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/" target="_blank"><strong>PsychClassics</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics18" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has 25 books on site for reading, links to 200 other books and about 200 articles all classic works in the field of Psychology.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.publicbookshelf.com/#browse-cats" target="_blank">PublicBookShelf</a></strong> around 150 books in varying categories for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://publicliterature.org/" target="_blank">PublicLiterature</a></strong> Has some unique public domain novels among its <strong><a href="http://publicliterature.org/2007/08/11/online_books/" target="_blank">classic collection</a></strong> of around 100 books. Also has a large selection of writings submitted by authors which are free and legal to download, but not to distribute. All are available for online viewing and download in several formats.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books" target="_blank">PubMed Bookshelf</a></strong> is an engine which lets you search for books containing keywords of your choice and then browse them.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PMC&itool=toolbar" target="_blank">PubMed Central</a></strong> This search engine covers all the open-access articles [rather than books] available on PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's main scientific portal (where you can also find abstracts from many restricted-access articles).<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.epuzzled.net/" name="puzzled" target="_blank">PuzzlEd</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics38" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> is not a book site, but has links to sites offering free books (which will be incorporated here when I have time) and a collection of jigsaw and other puzzles and other activities for children.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.questia.com/publicdomainindex" target="_blank"><u>Questia Online Library</u></a></strong> offers over 5,000 classic and rare works for free online viewing<br />
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<strong><a href="http://food.quickfound.net/" target="_blank">QuickFound</a></strong> has links to many and varied free online cookbooks for viewing and for download in pdf. Definitely worth checking out.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library" target="_blank"><u>Qvadis</u></a></strong> hosts over 6,000 free titles available in Palm Database (.pdb) format.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.ralphrobertmoore.com/books.html#fatfig" target="_blank">RalphRobertMoore</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics39" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers his work, Father Figure, for free download in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://randomstatic.net/newtonssleep.php" target="_blank">RandomStatic</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics40" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers Newton's Sleep, a novel published in 2008, for free download in pdf or html.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.readbookonline.net/" target="_blank">ReadBookOnline</a></strong> has a nice collection of classics available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.readeasily.com/" target="_blank">ReadEasily</a></strong> - Small collection of works that has option for larger print. HTML only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.readprint.com/" target="_blank">ReadPrint</a></strong> - Thousands of books, poems and short stories.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.readtheselips.com/index.html" target="_blank">ReadTheseLips</a></strong> short fiction, poetry and other writings especially for and about lesbians.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.realtimepublishers.com/" target="_blank">RealTime</a></strong> - Free media for IT professionals<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet.htm" target="_blank">RIF Reading Planet</a></strong> has an interesting collection of books for online viewing that changes monthly. Also has activities and games as well as Asian/Pacific, Caribbean, Hispanic and native American sections with books and activities.<br />
<a href="http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NH.HTM" target="_blank"><strong>RJRummel</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics18" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers his six book "Never Again" series for free download in pdf.<br />
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<strong><u>RobertBurtonRobinson</u></strong> offers a number of free books and short stories for <strong><a href="http://www.robertburtonrobinson.com/" target="_blank">free online viewing</a></strong> and for <strong><a href="http://www.robertburtonrobinson.com/free-ebooks-downloads/" target="_blank">free download in pdf.</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/content/free-downloadble-332-page-guide-building-web-sites.htm" target="_blank">RobertSchifreen</a></strong> has made his new book "The Web Book", which covers everything involved in setting up a website available exclusively to visitors here at Gizmo's.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.rodcockle.com/" target="_blank">RodCockle </a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics41" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers a nice collection of illustrated books for online viewing, as well as games and puzzles for 4-8 year olds. Suggested by Cathy of <strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8985464408566709971#puzzled">PuzzlEd. </a></strong><br />
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<a href="http://members.shaw.ca/rolfwitzsche/novels/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Rolf A.F. Witzsche</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics13" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers 14 of his novels for online viewing, download in pdf or as audio books in MP3/M4B. 12 of the novels are part of his "The Lodging of the Rose" series.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.free-ebook-online.com/" target="_blank">RomanceCorner</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics42" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers quite a few short works for online reading. They look to be adult oriented works.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.romancenovel.tv/2009/05/20/free-reads/" target="_blank">RomanceNovelTV</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics43" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />lists 7 romance novels available for free Kindle download at Amazon.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.romantic4ever.com/index.html" target="_blank">Romantic4Eve</a></strong>r <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics44" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers 2 free ebooks by author, Joan Reeves, as well as some short story romance fiction for reading online.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.romanticmarriagestories.com/" target="_blank">RomanticMarriageStories</a></strong> features romance works about married life. These short stories present a high view of marriage and portray the fun a romantic couple can have in a happy and sexy marriage.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.rtis.com/reg/roundtop/sunrise1.htm" target="_blank">RoundTopRegister</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics45" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has the romantic novel, Children of the Sunrise, available for online reading.<br />
<a href="http://samizdat.mines.edu/" target="_blank"><strong>SamizdatPress</strong></a> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics45" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a small collection of science and math works and links to other works. Their focus is on "material of a pedagogical nature".<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.reinkefreereads.blogspot.com/index.html" target="_blank">Sarah Reinke</a> </strong>has made several of her romance novels, and some non-romance novels, available for download in pdf. These are for mature audiences and you must be over 18 years of age to download.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/read/index.htm" target="_blank">Scholastic</a></strong> Small collection of children's books available for online viewing (or read to you). Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog.<br />
<strong><a href="http://minibooks.scholastic.com/minibooks/home/" target="_blank">Scholastic Mini-books</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics46" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a good selection of stories available to read or print, many of which are free. Suggested by Cathy of <strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8985464408566709971#puzzled">PuzzlEd. </a></strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencebooksonline.info/computer-science.html" target="_blank"><strong>ScienceBooksOnline</strong></a> <img alt="" height="12" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has a large listing of links to computer science books available for download in its computer science category. Since these links are off site, download options vary, but most seemed to be in pdf.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.sciencefictionandfantasy.co.uk/free-books-to-download.htm" target="_blank">ScienceFictionandFantasy</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics47" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />has a small listing of public domain works available for download in text or html. Most can be found elsewhere, but there are a few unique entries.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.scifimatter.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=73" target="_blank">Scifimatter</a></strong> has a nice listing of free sci fi books available on the internet. Some are already listed here, but there are quite a few unique entries.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/index.html" target="_blank">SebastianSwan</a></strong> a collection of Sebastian Swan stories for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index2.html" target="_blank">SejarahMelayuLibrary</a></strong> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">is perhaps the largest public on-line collection of books and other documents on the history of the Malay archipelago and its surrounding region. Consisting of over 700 books and academic papers in electronic PDF format, the library is divided into seven broad sections:</span></span><br />
<strong><a href="http://www.sillybooks.net/page_two.htm" target="_blank">SillyBooks</a></strong> has a number of free books available for online reading. There are also puzzles, games and contests.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.sloanstjames.com/Site/Welcome.html" target="_blank">Sloan St.James</a></strong> has made 4 of her romance novels, <span style="font-size: x-small;">including THE DARK PLAIN, an RWA award winning novel,</span> available for download in pdf.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.snipfiles.com/" target="_blank">SnipFiles</a></strong> - Small collection of free ebooks and software.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.specficworld.com/downloads.aspx" target="_blank">specficworld</a></strong> has a small collection of free sci fi books available for download in pdf. Mostly short story collections.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.starfall.com/" target="_blank"><u>Starfall</u></a></strong> nice little collection of works to help children learn to read<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.starry.com/free-online-novels/index.htm" target="_blank">Starry FreeOnlineNovels</a></strong> small collection, but some interesting entries, available for online viewing.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.stiltjack.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stiljack</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics48" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" />offers a free complete crime novel of Martin Cooper along with 5 short stories and also has a few other authors short stories. Aspiring writers are encouraged to have their books posted there.<br />
<strong><a href="http://storiesrus.com/ROMANTICVENTURE.html" target="_blank">StoriesRUs</a></strong> <img align="BOTTOM" alt="" border="0" height="12" name="graphics49" src="../../../../files/images/srk-new.jpg" width="31" /> has the romantic novel "Romantic Venture" available for online reading.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp" target="_blank">StoryPlace Elementary</a></strong> has six stories and related activities for online viewing geared for elementary school age children.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp" target="_blank">StoryPlace PreSchool</a></strong> has a nice collection of books and activities designed for pre-schoolers available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.suvudu.com/freelibrary/" target="_blank">Suvudu</a></strong> offers the first book in some of their acclaimed sci fi series for free download. Interesting entries.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.tampareads.com/books-ol/index-ol.htm" target="_blank">TampaReads</a></strong> offers 3 first grade books for online reading.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.techbooksforfree.com/" target="_blank">TechBooksforFree</a></strong> offers a wide range of free programming and computer books divided into nine main categories.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/195-free-online-programming-books" target="_blank">TechToolBlog</a></strong> Links to 345 online programing books<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/literature.aspx" target="_blank">TheFreeLibrary</a></strong> has a large collection of free classic books sorted by author and searchable by author, title or keyword. There is also a small biography of every author along with the listing of that author's works on the site. The site claims to have over 5 million works. Online viewing only.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.tikiri.com/e-kathandara.html" target="_blank">Tikiri</a></strong> has a nice collection of Sri Lankan stories available in English and Sinhalese available as pdf.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.toddlerschool.net/" target="_blank">ToddlerSchool</a></strong> has a small collection of illustrated books to read and listen to online. Also has educational games for younger children. Suggested by Sefi.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.topmystery.com/online_books.htm" target="_blank">TopMystery</a></strong> A good amount of each of the few mystery authors listed are available for online viewing or download<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=stories" target="_blank">Tor.com</a></strong> has a good number of Science Fiction & Fantasy stories available for download in pdf, mobi pocket, html or ePub. Also available for listening or download as MP3.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.trinitymoon.com/Articles-Book-Catalog.html" target="_blank">TrinityMoon</a></strong> a small collection of novels and short stories for online reading.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.vitalita.com/vcg/cookbooks/" target="_blank">Vitalita</a></strong> The Vitalita Culinary Group is offering two free vegan cookbooks for download in text. A Taste of Vitality and Desserts of Vitality include pictures of the finished dishes.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.webliterature.net/" target="_blank"><u>Web Literature</u></a></strong> has 6500+ works of over 350 authors available for online viewing. A nice feature is that they try to display the full works of the listed authors<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.witguides.com/" target="_blank">WitGuides</a></strong> - Small collection of free ebooks in a variety of categories.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.wordiq.com/books/index.php/" target="_blank">WordIQ</a></strong> Nice collection of over 10,000 books available for online viewing. There are some unusual entries here, but hard to find unless looking for specific title or author.<br />
<strong><a href="http://worldoftales.com/" target="_blank">WorldofTales</a></strong> a collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available for online viewing.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html" target="_blank">WorldWideSchool</a></strong> has a fairly large collection of free books spread across 12 categories, with numerous sub-categories. Search by author name and title also available. Available for online viewing.<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.wowio.com/" target="_blank">Wowio</a></strong> - Good size collection of novels and also comic books.<br />
<strong><a href="http://www.zbooc.com/" target="_blank">Zbooc</a></strong> has a large collection of books, tutorials and how to guides for download in pdf. A free site, but registration is required. Suggested by Glenn.<br />
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If you are using another browser and don't use Internet Explorer anymore, there's a case to be made that you should remove it from your system. It is, after all, a potential security threat so, if you don't need it, why not get rid of it?<br />
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Except, getting rid of IE is not that easy. In fact, with later versions of Windows there's no satisfactory way of removing it completely without risking crippling Windows itself.<br />
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That hasn't stopped folks from trying to remove IE, however, and you can find several techniques documented on various web sites. Instead of removing IE I favor the simple and safer approach of disabling it. Sure, it may not provide the same degree of security as complete removal but that's a small price to pay compared to the cost of potentially de-stabilizing Windows.<br />
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There are several disabling techniques but I suggest the method below as it's simple, easy to reverse and doesn't interfere with the operation of the Windows Update service. Furthermore it should work with any modern version of IE.<br />
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<b>Step 1.</b> From IE select Tools/Internet Options/Connections/LAN Settings.<br />
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<b>Step 2. </b>Put a tick in the check box next to "Use a Proxy Server for your LAN ...”<br />
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<b>Step 3. </b>Type in "0.0.0.0" in the address box and "80" in the Port box. Don't type in the quote marks of course, just what's inside them.<br />
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<b>Step 4. </b>Click OK.<br />
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What you've done is set up a dummy proxy server 0.0.0.0 that goes nowhere. With these setting IE cannot make an HTML connection to the internet and vice versa. You have simply and effectively disabled IE.<br />
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There's no magic in the 0.0.0.0 address, any dead proxy address would work just as well. I've used that particular address to keep things simple.<br />
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If you ever need to re-enable Internet Explorer start it up and select Tools/Internet Options/Connections/LAN Settings from the toolbar and un-check the box "Use a Proxy Server for your LAN ...”<br />
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If you really want to remove IE more completely then you can check out these resources but, as I said, I don't recommend it.<br />
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<b>Windows 95 - Windows 2000 SR1 </b><br />
<a href="http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html">http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html">http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html</a><br />
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But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about five minutes work and for the cost of precisely nothing at all. Here's what you need to do.<br />
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<b>1. Enable pipelining</b><br />
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.<br />
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<b>2. Render quickly</b><br />
Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn't want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it's received so far every 0.12 seconds (the "content notify interval"). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.<br />
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Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that's five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.<br />
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Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.<br />
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If you haven't moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.<br />
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Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.<br />
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You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.<br />
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Type about:config, press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.<br />
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<b>5. Block Flash</b><br />
Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there's a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it'll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn't entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.<br />
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<b>6. Increase the cache size</b><br />
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.<br />
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TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It's still buggy so isn't available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you're willing to risk the odd crash or two then there's an easy way to try it out.<br />
Install the latest nightly build (<br />
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If you've a slow internet connection then it may feel like you'll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that's not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there's much less to download. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you're on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-74799791553901608522010-05-28T20:51:00.001-07:002010-05-28T20:51:27.271-07:00Hidden Program In Windows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1ZR0JhfmKSFqEVdlLLMnBF8z-lyaHUtijGWU3C2X1tx6NA7OMwEXOGvL8xC5OAR0Q8Ijk4W3pPZ_g_Vyu-VhmGRrhMSLhgZFCWy7TuntQXY0p5TDJEtMSMcx5KxswNMu9NQKK_F2aXs/s1600/hiddenxp.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1ZR0JhfmKSFqEVdlLLMnBF8z-lyaHUtijGWU3C2X1tx6NA7OMwEXOGvL8xC5OAR0Q8Ijk4W3pPZ_g_Vyu-VhmGRrhMSLhgZFCWy7TuntQXY0p5TDJEtMSMcx5KxswNMu9NQKK_F2aXs/s320/hiddenxp.JPG" /></a></div>Go to Start > Run > and type in eudcedit - this will open up a font editor -<br />
allowing you to design your own custom fonts and characters to be used in things like MS Word.<br />
MS Microsoft Word Font Character Hidden Secret Program Windows XP<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-9024377307628238572010-05-28T20:47:00.000-07:002010-05-28T20:47:51.306-07:0020 Things the Average Person Doesn’t Know About Windows XP<b>1.</b> It boasts how long it can stay up. Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option, and then type ’systeminfo’. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep these, type ’systeminfo > info.txt’. This creates a file called info.txt you can look at later with Notepad. (Professional Edition only).<br />
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<b>2.</b> You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the Start menu, select Run… and type ‘gpedit.msc’; then select User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it. Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many interface and system options, but take care — some may stop your computer behaving as you wish. (Professional Edition only).<br />
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<b>3.</b> You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter ‘rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation’ in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That’s it — just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that’s not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same.<br />
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<b>4. </b>XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can make it show everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word ‘hide’ and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be the software and you can now uninstall it.<br />
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<b>5.</b> For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP has a number of interesting new commands. These include ‘eventcreate’ and ‘eventtriggers’ for creating and watching system events, ‘typeperf’ for monitoring performance of various subsystems, and ’schtasks’ for handling scheduled tasks. As usual, typing the command name followed by /? will give a list of options.<br />
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<b>6.</b> XP has IP version 6 support — the next generation of IP. Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has, so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type ‘ipv6 install’ into Run… (it’s OK, it won’t ruin your existing network setup) and then ‘ipv6 /?’ at the command line to find out more. If you don’t know what IPv6 is, don’t worry.<br />
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<b>7.</b> You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer from the command line by using ‘taskkill /pid’ and the task number, or just ‘tskill’ and the process number. Find that out by typing ‘tasklist’, which will also tell you a lot about what’s going on in your system.<br />
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<b>8.</b> XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice if you’ve got a fast machine. On slower machines, you can make XP leave zip files alone by typing ‘regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll’ at the command line. If you change your mind later, you can change things back by typing ‘regsvr32 zipfldr.dll’.<br />
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<b>9. </b>XP has ClearType — Microsoft’s anti-aliasing font display technology — but doesn’t have it enabled by default. It’s well worth trying, especially if you were there for DOS and all those years of staring at a screen have given you the eyes of an astigmatic bat. To enable ClearType, right click on the desktop, select Properties, Appearance, Effects, select ClearType from the second drop-down menu and enable the selection. Expect best results on laptop displays. If you want to use ClearType on the Welcome login screen as well, set the registry entry HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop/FontSmoothingType to 2.<br />
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<b>10. </b>You can use Remote Assistance to help a friend who’s using network address translation (NAT) on a home network, but not automatically. Get your pal to email you a Remote Assistance invitation and edit the file. Under the RCTICKET attribute will be a NAT IP address, like 192.168.1.10. Replace this with your friend’s real IP address — they can find this out by going to www.whatismyip.com — and get them to make sure that they’ve got port 3389 open on their firewall and forwarded to the errant computer.<br />
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<b>11. </b>You can run a program as a different user without logging out and back in again. Right click the icon, select Run As… and enter the user name and password you want to use. This only applies for that run. The trick is particularly useful if you need to have administrative permissions to install a program, which many require. Note that you can have some fun by running programs multiple times on the same system as different users, but this can have unforeseen effects.<br />
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<b>12. </b>Windows XP can be very insistent about you checking for auto updates, registering a Passport, using Windows Messenger and so on. After a while, the nagging goes away, but if you feel you might go insane before that point, run Regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Advanced and create a DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips with a value of 0.<br />
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<b>13. </b>You can start up without needing to enter a user name or password. Select Run… from the start menu and type ‘control userpasswords2′, which will open the user accounts application. On the Users tab, clear the box for Users Must Enter A User Name And Password To Use This Computer, and click on OK. An Automatically Log On dialog box will appear; enter the user name and password for the account you want to use.<br />
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<b>14.</b> Internet Explorer will automatically delete temporary files, but only if you tell it to. Start the browser, select Tools / Internet Options… and Advanced, go down to the Security area and check the box to Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed.<br />
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<b>15.</b> XP comes with a free Network Activity Light, just in case you can’t see the LEDs twinkle on your network card. Right click on My Network Places on the desktop, then select Properties. Right click on the description for your LAN or dial-up connection, select Properties, then check the Show icon in notification area when connected box. You’ll now see a tiny network icon on the right of your task bar that glimmers nicely during network traffic.<br />
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<b>16. </b>The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to something a little snappier. Like 0.<br />
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<b>17. </b>You can rename loads of files at once in Windows Explorer. Highlight a set of files in a window, then right click on one and rename it. All the other files will be renamed to that name, with individual numbers in brackets to distinguish them. Also, in a folder you can arrange icons in alphabetised groups by View, Arrange Icon By… Show In Groups.<br />
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<b>18.</b> Windows Media Player will display the cover art for albums as it plays the tracks — if it found the picture on the Internet when you copied the tracks from the CD. If it didn’t, or if you have lots of pre-WMP music files, you can put your own copy of the cover art in the same directory as the tracks. Just call it folder.jpg and Windows Media Player will pick it up and display it.<br />
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<b>19. </b>Windows key + Break brings up the System Properties dialogue box; Windows key + D brings up the desktop; Windows key + Tab moves through the taskbar buttons.<br />
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<b>20. </b>Windows XP secretly KNOWS that the average user has no idea what they are doing. Therefore, it doesn’t let you do really stupid things like deleting the windows directory (at least not without spending several hours convincing it that you REALLY want to do this). Oh yeah, and internet explorer kinda sucks, get Firefox.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-83841925797992846252010-05-28T20:37:00.000-07:002010-05-28T20:37:17.862-07:00Shut Down Your Pc FasterShut Down Your Pc Faster Like Never Before!!<br />
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Click on the "Control" Folder.<br />
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"<br />
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Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).<br />
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Thats it guys and see the difference when u shut down ur PC.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-51002364164630033042010-05-28T20:34:00.000-07:002010-05-28T20:34:14.365-07:00Speed up your internet by 20%Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own<br />
purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc<br />
<br />
You can get it back:<br />
<br />
Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens <br />
the group policy editor. Then go to:<br />
Local Computer Policy<br />
then Computer Configuration<br />
then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler<br />
and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.<br />
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<br />
Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not<br />
configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default,<br />
the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth<br />
of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.<br />
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So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. <br />
This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default <br />
20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-72263847991935860912010-05-28T20:30:00.000-07:002010-05-28T20:30:34.010-07:00Find ip address of the sender of a mail in Gmail, Yahoo and HotmailWhen you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.<br />
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<b style="color: #990000;">Finding IP address in Gmail</b><br />
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<blockquote>1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.<br />
2. Open the mail.<br />
3. To display the headers,<br />
* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.<br />
* Click on Show original<br />
4. You should get headers like this:<br />
Gmail headers : name<br />
Look for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is<br />
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65.119.112.245.<br />
That is be the IP address of the sender!<br />
5. Track the IP address of the sender</blockquote><br />
<b style="color: #990000;">Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail</b><br />
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<blockquote>1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.<br />
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.<br />
3. Open the mail.<br />
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,<br />
* Click on Options on the top-right corner<br />
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences<br />
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option<br />
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected<br />
* Click on the Save button<br />
* Go back to the mails and open that mail<br />
5. You should see similar headers like this:<br />
Yahoo! headers : name<br />
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.<br />
That is be the IP address of the sender!<br />
6. Track the IP address of the sender</blockquote><b style="color: #990000;"><br />
Finding IP address in Hotmail</b><br />
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<blockquote>1. Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.<br />
2. Click on the Mail tab on the top.<br />
3. Open the mail.<br />
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,<br />
* Click on Options on the top-right corner<br />
* In the Mail Options page, click on Mail Display Settings<br />
* In Message Headers, make sure Advanced option is checked<br />
* Click on Ok button<br />
* Go back to the mails and open that mail<br />
5. If you find a header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender's IP address<br />
Hotmail headers : name ,In this case the IP address of the sender is [68.34.60.59]. Jump to step 9.<br />
6. If you find a header with Received: from followed by a Gmail proxy like this<br />
Hotmail headers : name<br />
Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].<br />
In this case, the IP address of the sender is [69.140.7.58]. Jump to step 9.<br />
7. Or else if you have headers like this<br />
Hotmail headers : name<br />
Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].<br />
In this case, the IP address of the sender is [61.83.145.129] (Spam mail). Jump to step 9.<br />
8. * If you have multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that have proxy.anyknownserver.com.<br />
9. Track the IP address of the sender</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Catch more Stuff</div>Dark Legionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473618283823759869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8985464408566709971.post-48015692785793773272010-05-28T20:25:00.000-07:002010-05-28T20:27:29.898-07:00Binary Tricks Watts v1.0.7 MacOSX<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-cvcPZNsDDJzRtxnHKjKwidFQ_NUy18nAEXZD2_xtQAtl6QHih29vAhGbE7MC_xQpPoRJIS1XC1w4ezfoB3dr_rSA0Ho58JZLER7B6QbveY3hUfHUk8-9nOrmrio96t05u0uNCnzeZ0/s1600/205xook.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-cvcPZNsDDJzRtxnHKjKwidFQ_NUy18nAEXZD2_xtQAtl6QHih29vAhGbE7MC_xQpPoRJIS1XC1w4ezfoB3dr_rSA0Ho58JZLER7B6QbveY3hUfHUk8-9nOrmrio96t05u0uNCnzeZ0/s320/205xook.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44jVjWGjUUnYYZ6eqAeqQVKcitXe2gOJznHZ74jCWHl_3F6dPtivsctfWbCie5X-5-rfy764NTtCI0Z9bdFO4o2E-VwgbVj_PiOCVpWBaS9OAf47oE8ts3CiG5Je0XU6VEcaYvdB3V84/s1600/2zfmuqs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44jVjWGjUUnYYZ6eqAeqQVKcitXe2gOJznHZ74jCWHl_3F6dPtivsctfWbCie5X-5-rfy764NTtCI0Z9bdFO4o2E-VwgbVj_PiOCVpWBaS9OAf47oE8ts3CiG5Je0XU6VEcaYvdB3V84/s320/2zfmuqs.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Binary Tricks Watts v1.0.7 MacOSX | 7.2 MB </b></div><br />
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