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Alright...Up and at 'em here we go.

• Write From Anywhere

We've been seeing alot of online applications these days, and this is one of the cooler ones. It's an online word processor that can be accessed from anywhere you can find an internet connection. It has a the mass majority of features that you would regularly find as well as some other neat things, such as, posting directly to a blog, exporting to text-compatible file formats and, best of all, the ability to have many people work on it at once. It's neat and although lacking a few simple features it is something you should really check out.

• Drag and Type - It's As Easy As That

Protopage, using the Ruby-On-Rails framework is really quite cool. Another online application, this makes the website design process a piece of cake (not literally, although I wish it was). It'll take you maybe 15 seconds to learn and it's a whole lot of fun (if your into that kind of thing), and the best part is it's free! My simple page took maybe five minutes to set up. Fool around with it and let me know if you come up with anything neat (post in the comments section).

• Google and Microsoft...Programs

Here are a couple of great programs from Microsoft and Google. From Google we have Google Desktop. After an indexing of your computer (which can take awhile depending on how many files you have) you can easily find anything on your computer about as fast as a Google websearch is. It also has built in weather, Gmail support, Google Talk support as well as a whole load of plugins that can do many things from a stop-watch to controlling iTunes. From Microsoft we have Microsoft PowerToys (Windows XP Only), although not officially supported by Microsoft they are developed by the Microsoft team, there are about ten of them there and they have many neat functions. The few that I have are the Alt-Tab enfancement, Taskbar Magnifier, Desktop Manager and Image Resizing. Check out the site, some of these are really worth the download (which only takes a few seconds normally)

• Videos

As a follow up to the Yo-Yo video that I posted last week, in which that guy was the third place world champion, here is a full index of the '05 championship. I definately recommend checking out Shinji Saito under 2A who scored a PERFECT 100!
Then there is this questionable basketball video. Some of the shots look unrealistic but they've done a good enough job hiding it if they are fake. Interesting and some-what entertaining watch non-the-less.
Ok, not a video but a audio clip that shows that some people really can love their computers too much, especially Mac's, enter the I Love My Mac song.
If you still have doubts about whether to chose Internet Explorer or Firefox, please, listen to the people!

• Random Things You Should Know About

These are just a few things I believe you should check out:
This is an interesting population chart that shows the number of people in proportion to their countries size by building the counties shape out of small blocks representing every one million people.
Hey Crackhead is a humourous but honest letter from a vandalization victim to the crackheads who did the vandalization. Very entertaining read.
To show that the RIAA (if you don't know who they are you are just so out of the loop it isn't even funny...Google it) really are the bad guys Princeton students are selling shirts to pay for their friends fine that he recieved when getting busted.
The Best of 2005 as released by BuisnessWeek. I found this article/articles quite interesting. Especially some of the ideas that got featured.
Stretchable Silicon...Not to much to say about it, other then that this could really be revoloutionary in alot of fields, check it out.

• New Cells

This story tells of these sub-human cells have been around for awhile but show the interesting origin and usages of the Helacyton Gartleri cells. Definately worth a read although some of the stuff mentioned (namely the origin) is kinda gross, that is if your grossed out by tumors and death...yeah, fun stuff...It's neat though.

• Wallpapers, Wallpapers, Wallpapers

This site has wallpapers for almost any occasion, event, or/and person. As a bonus, they're good! From Snowy Days to Sunsets and the City, it has alot of landscape backrounds as well as abstract and wallpapers that would otherwise be proprietary to a certain OS. Deffinately worth a bookmark in my book (yes I know, that was a REALLY bad pun, sorry). It's there for all of your (computer) wallpapering needs!

And so ends another post, expect another post in January, probably not many on account of horrible and ugly finals.