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If you think you can type fast, I suggest you to join in the fun and compete with other pro typers at Keybr and see whether you can beat them. But if you're the opposite who can't type fast, you can still practice your touch typing with Keybr which is a free and easy-to-use Flash-based Web tool that helps you with typing skills. Keybr lets you select the language preference, keyboard layout, level of difficulty and text source such as random text, custom text or even from a website. As you type, it shows you the speed of your typing in words per minute and the number of errors you get. After you've finished your typing, you can view your performance in graphs. If you type fast enough, maybe around 100+ words per minute, you may probably be included in the high scores. Keybr doesn't requires registration for practicing touch typing but if you want to be included into the list of top 20 users, you'd have to sign up for an account. Print Page

Browsing for books at Amazon ? Well, here's an interesting way. That's to search by book cover. Created by John Forsythe , BigBookSearch is a Web app that helps you browse books, CDs, DVDs by their cover using with high resolution images from Amazon. By inputing your search in the search bar, select your choice (books, CDs, DVDs or all) and hitting "Search", all covers relevant to your search will appear and move the slider to view more. When you've found what you want, simply click on the cover and you'll be brought to product page at Amazon which will provide you more information about it. Print Page

Want to download cool logo designs to enhance the look of for example a banner ad you're creating? Well, then head to LogoInstant . It contains a collection of Web 2.0 logo designs created by professional Web designers. Since LogoInstant is a still a young start-up, you'll not find tons of logo designs there but at least it's updated on a daily basis. For each logo design, there's a download count, ratings and comments, hence you can easily find out which ones are attractive. When you download a logo design, it comes in both Photoshop (.PSD) and Illustrator (.AI) file format. If you don't have Photoshop installed in your computer, you can use an alternative image editor such as MS Paint. However, you'd have to convert the orignial .PSD file to a .JPEG format by using MediaConvert . You can browse and access logo designs quickly by clicking "Top Rated" or "Most Downloaded" on the menu bar or via the different categories on the main...

As a blogger, you should have both valuable screencasting tools with you such as Camtasia Studio and Snagit . However, since they are premium tools that requires quite a lot of money, you can try a free ongoing project by the same developer - TechSmith . Known as Jing , it's another desktop-based software that lets users snap a screenshot, record a video of onscreen action, and share them instantly with your friends via email, web or IM. The folks there says that "it's the perfect companion to the casual, fast-paced online conversations we all have every day".   This free and useful app is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. For screen capture, it even comes with a simple editor that enables you to mark up your screenshot with a basic text box, arrow, highlight, or rectangle. From there, you can share your images to anywhere you want almost instantly. On the other hand, for screencasting, it allows you to record whatever it's on your screen, record ...

  For those who don't know what an ASCII art is, well according to Wikipedia, "ASCII art is a 20th century art movement that utilizes computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters". In short, it means creative text-based art. There are actually quite a number of softwares and apps that lets you create a graphic from a text. One of them is the Text Ascii Art Generator developed by Patorjk. It offers a wide choice (at least 300) of different interesting fonts that you can't even find them in Microsoft Word. Besides that there is an aligning feature that helps you make your graphic on the left, right or center. The default is the boring black text display but this generator is thoughtful enough and allows users to add some beautiful colors in their work. You can even type in real...

Thorsten Zoerner has created a silly but interesting Twitter app that provides you a fun calculation of the amount of CO2 emission caused by your Tweets. By punching in just your Twitter username and hit enter, you'll be able to find out how much C02 in kg or lbs you've emitted. Since this simple app doesn't requires your Twitter credentials, hence you can find out how your friends on Twitter perform. Compare the results with them and see who emitted the most CO2 into the atmosphere. The result will depend on several factors such as number of followers and frequency of each tweet. It will then calculate the amount of computer usage in hours and multiple it with the amount of CO2 released in 1 KWh. From my multiple observations, Guy Kawasaki top the rankings with 6,169,515kg/13,601,453lbs of CO2 yearly for twittering (please tell me in the comments if there is someone higher than this figure). Print Page

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of July 2009, it had more than 43 million registered users, spanning 170 industries. Its really cool office is located at Mountain View, CA, USA which is where the Googleplex (Google headquarters) is situated at. Print Page