Archive for March, 2008

Cool web tools

Posted by abrown 18 March, 2008 (0) Comment

Billshrink helps you to pick a cellphone carrier and plan.

Watchmycell monitors your cellphone usage and alerts you before you exceed your monthly minutes.

Mymilemarker helps you to chart your fuel economy. You may enter data from your cell phone.

Dimetracker assists you to track your spending and, as does mymilemarker, provides a way to do so via cellphone.

Howjsay is a pronunciation dictionary. Type in your word and click submit and it will speak the word for you, albeit with a distinct British accent.

Gate2Home provides multilingual onscreen virtual keyboard emulation, allowing you to type in a language you specify on any computer.

SpokenText allows you to record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file. Readthewords provides similar service. There are other such sites but these two seem to have better speech engines. I’d recommend submitting your own writing, as hearing your own writing helps you to catch your mistakes.

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Periodic Table of the Elements

Posted by abrown 2 March, 2008 (0) Comment

This interactive Periodic Table of the Elements linked to Wikipedia is done in all XHTML so as to be scalable. Try adjusting your window size to see it adjust accordingly. Here is a non-scalable but equally well executed Table done in Flash and another flashcard type site for testing your memory of where on the table the elements fall.  This multimedia table includes videos and demonstrations.

update: Here’s more, ptable, webelements (click symbol for description of elements).

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