Web 2.0

Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online

You know what a crossbow is, but i bet you don’t know the name of its components unless you  studied Weaponry or you’re just fascinated by crossbows and start your quest in finding out about its mechanism.
When i need to know things like this, i just use my image dictionary, which is really cool and it’s in 4 languages .
BUT, if you haven’t got one, then Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online has it.

The Visual Dictionary Online is an interactive dictionary with an innovative approach.
A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images.
Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before.

Head over there and see it for yourself.

If you’re still curious about the crossbow, here’s a shot explaining it:


via Visual Dictionary Online.

30+ File-share and drop bookmarks

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FeedDemon now free

According to Wired, NewsGator is now giving FeedDemon and its other news readers away for free-NewsGator Go! Mobile, Inbox for Outlook,

New Version! Top new features in FeedDemon 2.6:

  • “Panic Button” – detects when you have a ton of unread items and offers to mark them (or a subset of them) as read
  • Significant performance improvements
  • Redesigned newspaper UI
  • Significant improvements to offline reading support, including redesigned “prefetching” of feeds
  • Inline page search
  • Attention reporting/APML export

Up until now i have been using , but taking that is causing me troubles sometimes, and still has some bugs, i just switched to FeedDemon, and i really like it.

Works perfect with Vista.

Enjoy it!

Symbaloo-Your personal online desktop

A while back, i was looking for a web service where i could put together all my favourite web sites that i visit every day, but i couldn’t find a decent enough one.

See, is so much better when you have them all listed on one page, and you don’t have to look through your bookmarks for them.

Services such as Gmail or YouTube are easy to remember, but when it comes to all the other services i have subscribed to, then is a mess to keep track of them.

And so, is one of those web sites who are saving my day and spare me some minutes of looking for my most important bookmarks.

With a great interface that will resize to your screen’s resolution, Symbaloo offers you the possibility to add lots of bookmarks in blocks and order them in rows and columns by dragging and dropping.

You can choose from a variety of services such as: dictionaries, encyclopedias, news, translations, movies, images, books, currency and so much more- or you can add your chosen ones such as Gmail, gDocs, Veoh, FaceBook, Zooomr and so on- or….just add your links by typing in the URL and you’re set.

If you have lots of stuff you want to see in one place, then you can add more rows and more columns to the page

Have a look at this screenshot and you’ll see what i mean.

symbaloo

You can start testing by filling the blocks and if you decide that you want to use Symbaloo as your startup page, then you can create an account and keep the newly created blocks.

To add links to the blocks, move your mouse over an empty one and then click add. You will then be taken to another view from where you can pick up bookmarks, search modules, news feeds, widgets and radio.

The only thing that i would love to see soon in Symbaloo is the option to import my own bookmarks.

Apparently they are working on that feature as we speak.

Of course, the service is still in beta, so there are lots of goodies to come and make Symbaloo much more useful than it is at the moment.

Today’s tips, tricks, goodies and freeware

Education – My fellow blogger and friend has posted a very useful entry about OpenLearn-Online Courses.

The beauty of Open Learn is that all the courses are free, ranging from arts to technology and open to all people around the world. Nice one, David!

Tweaks – Here’s a quick tweak from : Block Irritating Live Hotmail Mail Ads !

Comment: I tried it myself and the adds are gone. Gotta love tweaks like that…

Goodies – Web based word processor is now open to the public and let me tell you this: it’s so cute!

Ok, that was very girly, but i can’t help it.

Freeware- Don’t know what to pick as a anti-virus or anti-spam software? Go to and see the .

Freeware – If you’re looking for an alternative to iTunes, then DownloadSquad might have just made your search easier – – for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Web 2.0 – If you’ve decided to move all your stuff online and take the best out of 2.0 but you’re still looking for the perfect services, then you might want to have a look at SimpleSpark.com.

With over 6605 web services listed and still tracking, is one of the most interesting place to start your hunt….and you’ve got plenty to look at.

Well, that’s it for today. I will be back with more goodies, as soon as i will find them.

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