Top 10 Most Useful Websites for Students

Many websites exist with the goal in mind of making your life easier as a student, but how do you know which ones are actually going to help? After some research, I believe the ten websites below will be the most useful during your years as a student. Lets face it- we all need a little help getting organized, finding sources, sharing and communicating with one another and inside knowledge on classes.

10. Project Gutenberg

This site enables you to download more than 30,000 free electronic books to read on your computer or other portable electronic devices in a variety of file formats. Goodbye heavy textbooks!

9. Ref Desk

This site is a great place to find and check facts. They have an enormous collection of reference materials, searchable databases and other resources that can’t be found anywhere else.

8. Free Translation

Use this site to translate a word, a document or even a website. Spanish class just got a whole lot easier.

7. Rate My Professor

A website with reviews of over 1 million professors and 10 million student opinions. Check out the professors before you decide to take their class or provide feedback on one or your professors so students don’t have to go through what you just did.

6. Half.com

No need to pay full price for a text book with this Ebay subsidary. Half.com has textbooks searchable by their UPC, IBN or SKU so you can find the exact edition needed for your class and save that precious money for something a little more exciting.

5. Easy Bib

An automatic bibliography citation maker. The site automatically formats sources in MLA, APA, and Chicago style for research papers. Thank goodness for this site and no more bibliography!

4. Meebo

The web platform for IM on any network or site. connects you to MSN, Yahoo, AOL/AIM, MySpace, Facebook, Google Talk, and many more so you don’t have to worry which platform to find your friends on.

3. Google Docs

Group projects just got a whole lot simpler. Create and share your work online and access your documents from anywhere.

2. Evernote

Post its are a thing of the past- save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer, phone or device you use for free.

1. StudyMode

A huge online library of free essays and free term papers on almost any topic. StudyMode is a great resource for helping students with their papers from topic ideas, formatting, essay styles and citing sources.

Techtoday...

"MAKE YOUR SMARTPHONE SMARTER"-GECKO

Gecko is a device to make a smartphone more integrated into the user.The basic  idea here is that the accelerometer-equipped Gecko connects to your smartphone via low energy Bluetooth to help you monitor the various things in your life like controlling the music in your phone,clicking snaps, a lot more and most of them use gesture controls and triggers to your smartphone.

30 Interesting Facts I Bet You Didn’t Know

1. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!

2. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

3. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

4. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

5. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

6. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

7. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

8. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

9. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

10. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20

11. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

13. The world’s first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

14. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

15. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

16. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

17. 20.70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.

18. Country with the highest percentage of net users is Sweden (75%).

19. The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993.

20. Amazon, originally a printed book seller company, now sells more e-books than printed books.

21. The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.

22. U.S. President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

23. Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, Google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

24. Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free.

25. Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube.

26. Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month.

27. The first computer mouse, constructed in 1964, was made out of wood.

28. With it’s 800 million interent users, Facebook would be the third largest country in the World.

29. The first hard drive was created in 1979 and could hold 5MB of data.

30. If history had been tweaked slightly, it’s possible that we would all be sitting in cubicles with weird headpieces attached to our faces (OK, weirder headpieces attached to our faces). One of Englebart’s prototypes suggested using a tracking device based on head movements instead of manual mouse clicking, but the mouse was ultimately more convenient to use. No kidding

Todays' Fact...

Did you know...?

 

If the tracks on a standard DVD were laid in a straight line, they would run for about 5 miles...!!!

Bluetooth communication

Why Is Bluetooth Called Bluetooth?

When two devices need to talk to each other,they need to have a handshake on various parameters before the conversation starts. The first agreement is on the medium – will they use wires, or talk over some wireless signal? Bluetooth is one such wireless signal (protocol) over which two (or more) device communicate over. Strange name though isn’t it – are the bluetooth waves invisible but blue and shaped like teeth? Wrong! There is absolutely no relation between the name and the meaning. The Bluetooth protocol was created by Ericsson (pre-Sony Ericsson) which is a major Swedish telecommunication company. They named it after the Danish viking king, Harald Blåtand. As legend goes, Blåtandhad the blessed ability to bring people negotiate with each other, and cometo talking terms.So skilled was he, that he was able to unite Denmark and Norway together! The literal translation of Blåtand means blue-tooth, hence the name Bluetooth for the protocol. It does precisely what Blåtand did – lets two wireless device to communicate with each other! The Bluetooth symbol has HaraldBlåtand’s initials inscribed into it (in Runic). The two lines stickingout of the back of the B actually represent a Runic H – thats H for Harald .The B for Bluetooth also stands for Blåtand!

Today's Update...!

Microsoft release Windows 8.1...!!! 

 

Windows 8.1 was unveiled today to users and can be downloaded  from the Windows store.

The new update looks to improve Windows 8 after listening to customers issues about the system, Windows 8.1 offers a range of improvements to combat problems many struggled with when using Windows 8.

One notable change is the return of the traditional Windows Start Menu and also the start button to the Windows 8.1
 

Users now have the privilidge to choose a 'desktop mode' that avoids using the tile interface on Windows 8.

We also have a better Split screen i.e a 4 way split screen which can also be customized further

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