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Textorizer - Vectorise a picture using text strings. To use the cool textorizer generator, simply point to an image on the web, enter the text to add, set some size and effect controls and then Textorize! Neat effect.

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Google SketchUp is a software that you can use to create, export and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models for Google Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you’re done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

Start modeling with SketchUp in less than a day

Even the most powerful tool is useless if you can’t figure out how to make it work. Most people get rolling with SketchUp in a couple of hours. Dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and live training classes mean that anyone who wants to make 3D models with SketchUp.

Use SketchUp to model anything you can imagine

Redecorate your living room. Build a volcano for the science fair. Model your business and put it in Google Earth. SketchUp is designed to make it easier for you to think and communicate in 3D. How you decide to use it is entirely up to you. Check out the Google 3D Warehouse to see what other people are modeling.

Work in an intuitive way

Instead of making you type coordinates, SketchUp has an advanced guidance system of colors, lines and text hints that help you keep track of where you are and what you’re doing. And just like the tools you use in real life, each of SketchUp’s small number of tools does a multitude of things. This makes it easier to learn, easier to use and (most importantly) easier to remember how to use.

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A dictionary is a book of alphabetically listed words in a specific language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information;[1] or a book of alphabetically listed words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon.

Acronym Finder
With more than 600,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.

BNC
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.

Dictionary - MSN Encarta
Search terms and find Dictionary definitions or find synonyms and antonyms.

Lexicool.com online Dictionary
The directory currently has links to over 6000 dictionaries and glossaries, many of which have been created by translators working in very specialist fields.

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.

Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet. To use the dictionary, simply type a word in the blue search box that appears at the top of every page and then click the ‘Search’ button.

YourDictionary
The free dictionary search gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results for your word. Alternatively, you can browse the English dictionary alphabetically or by related terms to find meanings and synonyms. In addition, YourDictionary provides resources to help you find the best dictionary and translation sites for French, Spanish, Italian, German and hundreds of other languages.

OneLook Dictionary
12,739,111 words in 1065 dictionaries indexed, a OneLook Dictionary Search Engine

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Publish dictionaries for people learning English all over the world.

Free English Online Dictionary
Roughly 6,912 known languages and dialects spoken in the 191 countries of the world, only 2,287 have writing systems (the others are only spoken) and about 300 of these have online dictionaries. You can search for them on Google and wade through 50 million mostly irrelevant returns or quickly peruse the cream of the crop here at alphaDictionary. We carefully select and add new dictionaries, grammars, and LANGUAGES regularly

Can’t surf your favorite sites such as mySpace at school or office? Employer blocked most wanted sites? Sad but true and they have full control over their firewall and can block anything.

OffSurf safely bypass firewall restrictions at work, university, school: it doesn’t only unblock, but also obscures and encrypts URLs being visited, and nobody will be able to track which web sites you are visiting.

OffSurf is a Firewall Bypass Service which lets you surf the web privately and securely. Just enter a URL (web site address, e.g. mySpace.com or google.com) in the box below and hit Navigate!

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Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you’re learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses.

Mango is the place to go to learn foreign language at your own pace and in a fun and engaging way. It’s clear that a lot of work went into Mango’s compendium of online language lessons.

Mango does an excellent job of combining audio clips and written text. Recommended by LA Times Travel as an online language learning resource for travelers.

Mango’s unique teaching method quickly engages you in real conversations between two native speakers. Your instructor will take you through every step of the process!

Each lesson revisits previously learned material, but you have complete control over your learning experience.

Language support

Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish
Japanese
French
German
Italian
Greek
Russian
Mandarin Chinese
ESL Polish
ESL Spanish
ESL Brazilian Portuguese

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Ultimate Flash Face lets you to create any faces you like online. This website service lets you to choose different kind of faces, noses, eyes, lips and many more to create your own face creations.

It provides a palette of facial objects: eyes, jaw, hair, etc. For each, you pick the one you like, then place and size it appropriately. I thought the Flash-based interface was pretty clever. You can even save your creation.

You can choose different types of faces for your creation. I enjoyed creating my own faces for my projects.

To create one, click here.

The XE Universal Currency Converter®, the world’s most popular currency tool, lets you to perform currency and foreign exchange rate calculations, using live, up-to-the-minute mid-market currency rates. The Universal Currency Converter® contains the top 85 currencies sorted by country name - listing the ten most popular currencies first. Special units and precious metals are listed both alphabetically and separately, at the end of this list.

Type the amount of source currency in the input box. You may include commas and a decimal point. Then Scroll down to select the source and destination currencies and press “Go!”. The results of your conversion will be displayed.

Note: An asterisk (*) indicates if currencies are obsolete or being phased out.

Learn more about the three-letter currency codes, or take a look at the list of world currency symbols.

To calculate your currency and foreign exchange rate online click here.

I Dose has a collection of free Binaural Beats and +45,000 tracks already played, they say that Binaural beats can help you relax your stress online. Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli.

Here are some list of Binaural Beats :

Super brain (Recommended before problem solving activities)

Meditation (Recommended for meditation and healing)

Inspiration and Creativity (Recommended for artists, writers and generally man of letters)

Coffee break (Recommended instead of coffee drinking)

Aspirin (Recommended against headaches)

Relaxation (Recommended at the end of busy days or weeks)

Pain Killers (Recommended against any kind of pain)

Lucid dreams (Recommended for intense dreams, Out of body experience and Astral projection)

Red Bull (Recommended for energy boost and for reducing sleeping hours)

Mirage (Recommended before art & creative activities)

Focus (Recommended before activities in which you should stay sharp and quick)

According to Google, they are “constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers.” To that end Google offers several options for current AdSense Referral publishers:

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“We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate your patience during this transition and here are some alternative options to consider:”

Visit http://adsense.blogspot.com to read more.

Google today introduced a 3D chat room plug-in called Lively that is easy to embed in websites and blogs. Ars Technica went hands-on to see if Google actually has introduced us to “another dimension of the web.”

Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design.

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Lively’s Getting Started Guide