10 Essential sites for tips and how-to's

The advent of the Internet and social media have spawned a number of how-to sites, which has made finding tips and resources easier than ever before. We’ve put together a list of 10 essential sites where you can find or in some cases contribute tips and how-to’s on a wide range of topics.

No matter what your interest, these sites will connect you with the information that you’re looking for. What are your favorites?

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Nothing Sells Like Celebrity

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Timeline: Bill Gates and Microsoft

The history of the personal computer is inextricably linked to the life story of Bill Gates - the boy from Seattle who had the audacious vision of "a computer on every desk and in every home".

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Wayback Machine

Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.

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Rare Bill Gates Photos, Narrated by Bill Gates

Marking Bill Gates' retirement from Microsoft, Fortune has a gallery of 15 rare photos from throughout his life, from peewee football star to tech titan to superhero, all narrated by Bill Gates himself.

Watch the pictures, narrated by Bill Gates

Tweak Firefox To Display Richer Colors

If the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that's because Firefox 3's advanced color management capability isn't turned on by default. To turn it on, type about:config in Firefox 3's address bar, then click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button. Then, in the Filter field, type gfx.color_management.enabled and set that value to true (its default value is false). Restart Firefox. From there on in, your photo colors will be richer than they were. Why isn't this value true by default? Well, according to Mozilla, you'll see a 10-15% performance hit using this setting, but if you've got a reasonably fast machine, it'll be worth the better-looking photos. Hit the link below for an extended explanation of Firefox's color profile support.

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Smoking Causes Premature Ageing

'Oldest' computer music unveiled

A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.

The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester.

The recording has been unveiled as part of the 60th Anniversary of "Baby", the forerunner of all modern computers.

The tunes were played on a Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine.
Hear the first computer's music

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Download Day is here! Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do to help us set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is get Firefox 3 now – it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

Please download Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008. That's 11:16 a.m. in Mountain View, 2:16 p.m. in Toronto, 3:16 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 8:16 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 10:16 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 2:16 a.m. in Beijing and 3:16 a.m. in Tokyo.

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Why You Should Carry a Digital Camera At All Times

Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover. This, my friends, is why always having a camera nearby is helpful. Oh, and no one was injured during this tornado, fortunately.
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Einstein's first notes on relativity

One lot includes 130 reprints from Albert Einstein's collection of his scientific papers, including his first one on relativity.

To Be Continued...

Tiger Woods needed a birdie on the 72nd hole, and that's exactly what he got to force an 18-hole playoff with Rocco Mediate, who was sitting in the clubhouse with the lead.
Tiger Woods did it again. Just when it looked like he would lose the U.S. Open, Woods made a birdie on 18 to force an 18-hole playoff on Monday with Rocco Mediate.

Games for the Brain

“... get into shape in a more leisurely fashion at Games For The Brain. From Suduko to jigsaws to word puzzles and more, there are plenty of brain busting time wasters here for you to enjoy.”
– BBC Click

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Visual Dictionary Online

A dictionary with a new point of view

that catches the eye and enriches the mind.

• 20,000 terms with contextual definitions,
  developed by terminology experts;
• 6,000 full-color images of a wide variety of objects
  from all aspects of life;
• One essential reference.

The Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find the right word at a glance. Filled with stunning illustrations labeled with accurate terminology in up to six languages, it is the ideal language-learning and vocabulary dictionary for use at school, at home or at work.
There is a Visual Dictionary for every age... for every need... for everyone.

Apple announces cheaper 3G iPhone

Apple has unveiled a second generation of its iPhone, with support for faster 3G wireless networks.

The company is hoping to boost its share of the smartphone market, which is dominated by Nokia and Blackberry.

The new devices were launched by Apple boss Steve Jobs who said the phone would be "more affordable" for consumers, starting at $199 (£100).

The new iPhone also comes with GPS satellite navigation built in for location-based services.

The iPhone was first launched last year and was criticised for its support for slower 2G networks only.

Mr Jobs said the 3G iPhone was "three times faster" downloading content over a mobile network compared to the original device.

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Is invisible possible?

Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Moreover, if you want to annotate a PDF document, you have to pay US$299 to buy certain software.

Now with Foxit Reader, you don't have to endure such pain any more. The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader:

• Incredibly small
• Breezing-fast
• Annotation tool
• Text converter
• High security and privacy

Read more on the company website
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PDF Search Engine

PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files.

You can find and download a tons of e-books but please respect the publisher and the author for their creations if their books copyrighted.

Ebook Search Engine

TinEye

TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in private beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.

Silversphere is really amusing and interesting game

Silversphere Get the Silver Sphere in to the Blue Vortex.

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70 Amazing Business Cards

Do you have to print a new business card? Are you Looking for Inspiration?

Here you can find 70 new amazing designs. Enjoy…

This is our moment,Barack clinchs democratic nomination.

In what he called a "defining moment for our nation," Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major political party.
Obama's steady stream of superdelegate endorsements, combined with the delegates he received from Tuesday's primaries, put him past the 2,118 threshold, CNN projects.

"Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," he said.

"Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States."
Via CNN

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50 Things Everyone Should Know

Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.

While not totally comprehensive, here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do.

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Fashion king Saint Laurent dies

Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71.
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O'reilly Library

This is amazing O'Reilly's bookshelf which you can have it forever and in everywhere you are!

14 Habits That Make You Fat

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