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Bing Search Engine : Reference Page Including Details About Daily Image
Bing's Reference page displays information from Wikipedia and Freebase, and also provides detail about its daily image.
October 13, 2009, at 10:32 P.M. EDT
Looking for more information about the image that Microsoft's Bing search engine uses every day? You can now find it and more on Bing's Reference home page, which also contains facts about this day in history, a list of people in the news, and sample searches.
From the Reference page you can perform searches that pull information from Wikipedia, and in some cases also from the Freebase open database. ...
Sites to Browse - Sports : See How Far Home Runs Were Hit
How far did a grand slam ball fly? Find out with Hit Tracker.
October 13, 2009, at 4:38 P.M. EDT
Curious how far that two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth went into the stands? Is your favorite slugger only hitting long balls in baseball parks with short right field lines, or is no stadium safe? Consider Hit Tracker, which uses "atmospheric information and observation data, and gives as an output the true distance that the home run traveled, along with the initial speed of the hit off the bat and the precise angles at which the ball left the bat."
All types of related information can be found, broken down by season and playoffs for the last few years. View the top distance by batter, see the speed baseballs came off the bat, and display home run stats by league and player. For a particular player, display "true" landing spots plotted on a graph. There are also links to top plays on external sites if you want to see video....
[MODIFIED] Google Search Engine : Display Weather Reports
Will it rain? Snow? Or are sunny days predicted? Display weather reports for the U.S. and selected cities around the world from within the Google search engine.
October 13, 2009, at 2:51 P.M. EDT
Instead of visiting other weather search sites, you can display weather reports for the U.S. and selected cities around the world directly in Google. Google displays the current temperature, conditions, humidity, wind speed and direction, and a four-day forecast with graphics.
Next to the weather report is a link allowing you to add the forecast to your iGoogle page. Plus, underneath U.S. weather reports you will find links to external sites such as AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, and Weather Underground, offering more detailed weather forecasts and radars if desired....
Digital Photo Processing : Drag and Drop JPEG Photos to a Folder to Resize Them
Drag and drop JPEG photos to a folder to automatically resize them for e-mail, web, or presentations with DropResize.
October 13, 2009, at 12:33 P.M. EDT
Need to frequently resize photos smaller for quicker transfer via electronic mail, faster display on websites, or for use in PowerPoint presentations?
Instead of using external software to resize images, one option for Windows XP and above users is the freeware DropResize application. This tool adds an icon to the System Tray area of the Windows Taskbar, allowing you to choose a folder so that when JPEG images are "dropped" into it via Explorer drag-and-drop, they will automatically be resized to the height or width that you specify. You can also choose the JPEG quality for the newly resized photos....
[MODIFIED] IrfanView : Disable Most Recently Used Directories for Privacy
Increase your privacy by making IrfanView forget the most recently used directories from where images were loaded or saved.
October 12, 2009, at 9:27 P.M. EDT
For convenience, IrfanView offers a "Recent Directories" option in its "File" menu. This way you can access the most recently-used directories, locations where you may have opened or saved files.
While this feature may be a convenience, it can be a potential privacy risk if multiple people share the same machine. Thus, you can turn it off if desired:...
Sites to Browse - Food - Drinks - Recipes : An Editable Food and Recipe Encyclopedia
Contribute your culinary know-how to the Foodista cooking encyclopedia.
October 12, 2009, at 7:34 P.M. EDT
Think you can help cook the perfect minestrone? When you see others' cornbread recipes, do you note a spice missing that would add an extra 'zing'? Are most peoples' jambalaya dishes just not hot enough?
If you think you have what it takes to make the perfect dish, check out "Foodista" which labels itself as "The Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit". Besides recipes, you can view (and edit) photos and details about particular food items such as macadamia nuts and Tabasco sauce, food creation tools, and even cooking techniques such as caramelizing and salt broiling. ...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 : Prevent Page Transition Animations from Appearing
If you find webpage transition animations annoying when browsing the web with Internet Explorer 8, disable them.
October 12, 2009, at 3:48 P.M. EDT
Internet Explorer 8 supports page transition animations that some web developers may apply when entering or exiting a page. These include wipes, blends, and dissolves.
While some may find these animations enjoyable, others may place them in the same class as the blink tag - extremely annoying. Thus if you frequently browse sites that use this feature, the following disables transitions:...
Font Managers - Viewers : dp4 Font Viewer for Windows
Perform basic font viewing and management functions with the freeware dp4 Font Viewer for Windows - requires no installation.
October 12, 2009, at 1:20 P.M. EDT
dp4 Font Viewer is a freeware TrueType font viewing application for Windows. Viewed fonts can be filtered by family, weight, width, and whether they are monospaced, and the font size is adjustable. The software can display characters from ASCII 0-255, all glyphs available, your own text, or text from an external file.
Other features include the ability to install and delete fonts, save the preview pane as a bitmap, and print a list of fonts....
Mozilla Firefox - Plugins and Extensions : Translate Text or Web Pages Directly from Firefox
The BabelFish Instant Translation add-on lets you translate words, paragraphs, or whole web pages from within Firefox by accessing external translation services for you.
October 9, 2009, at 6:44 P.M. EDT
Need to translate web page content from one language to another, but don't want to have to manually visit an external translation service from Google or Yahoo? The BabelFish Instant Translation plug-in for Mozilla Firefox can call these services for you.
1. Visit the following page from within Firefox:...
RSS Readers : YeahReader for Windows
YeahReader is an Atom / RDF / RSS reader for Windows with an integrated mini blog client.
October 9, 2009, at 3:59 P.M. EDT
YeahReader is a free (for non-commercial use) Atom, RDF, and RSS reader for Windows. The software allows you to organize feeds by category, and includes an integrated tabbed viewing pane. Updates appear as a pop-up above the Windows Taskbar. Feed lists can be imported via OPML format, and you can export feeds to CSV, HTML, or text files, among other formats.
The software also includes a basic blog client, allowing you to post messages via Blogger, Delicious, LiveJournal, or via the MetaWebLog API (Drupal, Movable Type, WordPress, etc). Configuration options including running the software at Windows startup, toggling sounds, and using a proxy server....
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