Tobey mailed me an invite to Aardvark the other day which left me puzzled for a short time. The email basically stated that Tobey had invited me and trusted my opinion on blogging, computers and technical advisory. That’s actually a very nice way of inviting users to join a service that they know nothing about. [...]
User Manuals
I was recently checking and cleaning my parent’s top floor when I discovered heaps of user manuals that dated back five to ten years. That got me thinking that we – that is every person in the world – usually keep instruction manuals for devices. It’s actually a fact that instruction manuals stay longer than [...]
Free OCR Scanning
If you are looking for an online service that offers free OCR scanning then you might want to point your web browser to the Free Online OCR service. The service allows users to upload images that will then be processed immediately. The OCR scanning does not take longer than a few seconds after uploading the [...]
Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber
VocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy and paste text into the form on the Visual Thesaurus website to receive an in depth analysis of the [...]
- Author: David Pierce
- Published: Jun 13th, 2009
- Comments: 6
Make The Web Your Notebook with WebNotes (With 50 Pro Invites)
I’m a student. I’m also a writer, a researcher, and a number of other things that all seem to involve a ton of research. Particularly that student thing. An increasing number of us, regardless of what we do, rely on the Web to get information, do research, and get work done.
For most of us [...]
Computer Keyboard Typing Course
If you are one of those users who use the two-finger typing technique you might want to invest some time in a typing course to improve your words per minute count. Several free computer typing courses are available on the Internet. One of them is Typing Web’s Online Typing Tutor which can be accessed by [...]
uTorrent Port Checker Online
Port forwarding is not something that needs to be configured on most computer systems. It basically describes the concept of forwarding connections to a specific local computer system. Usually a computer router, firewall or other hardware device that is managing or controlling traffic is involved in the process and needs to be configured to forward [...]

