docstoc : find and share any document

Welcome to docstoc : find and share any document: "docstoc is a user generated community where you can find and share professional documents. Find free legal documents and free business documents. Upload your documents for all the world to share."

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About

Qipit - Copy and share documents

Qipit - Copy and share documents: "Get Qipit - free mobile online copy service Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish! * Turn documents, notes and whiteboards into digital copies (PDFs) * Email or fax qipit digital copies via email, your online Qipit account, or right from your phone * Store all of your paper documents and notes as digital documents for easy archiving and sharing * Tag your qipit documents for easy searching and sorting * Publish and share your documents on the web"

Technophilia: Get Lost in Translation Sites

(a great review of web-based translation services)
Technophilia: Get Lost in Translation Sites: "The web makes it possible to search for documents written in every conceivable language, but what if you don't actually know the language you find that special somethin' written in? No worries—there are plenty of online translation services that can give you anything from just a good idea to a complete translation of what you're looking at."

Free documentaries.org

Free documentaries.org: " At freedocumentaries.org we believe strongly that in order to have a true democracy, there has to be a free flow of easily available information. Unfortunately, many important perspectives, opinions and facts do not make it to our televisions or cinemas (you can watch movies in our media category if you want to know why)."

YouMail

About YouMail: "We created YouMail because we believe basic cell phone voicemail is, quite frankly, lame. We were annoyed by a bunch of stuff, like: * How come we could personalize every aspect of our cell phone - like ringtones - but couldn't change a greeting for a specific caller? * Why did we have to listen to ten voicemail just to get to the one that mattered? * How come if we accidentally deleted a voicemail, we could never get it back? * Why couldn't we easily share or permanently save important voicemails, like a friend's drunk dial or a relative's engagement call? * Why does your phone tell you that you have a voicemail, but not who left them, when or how important they are? * Why do we have to sit through useless instructions all the time? * Why can't we automatically hang up on people who we don't want to talk to anymore? * Why do we have to record greetings at all? We want to just choose cool ones like ringtones! We could go on. The bottom line is simple. YouMail is about reinventing voicemail and making it a fun, powerful personal experience that you'll absolutely love. "

Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops

Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
"This is a database of public domain sound effects and audio clips that have been tagged, categorized, and created by users. Previews play right when you click the button, and you can download them right away in multiple formats (MP3, AIFF, and WAV)." (from Crave)

Inventor's Handbook

Inventor's Handbook: "This handbook was created by the Lemelson-MIT Program to address the independent inventor's and aspiring entrepreneur's most frequently asked questions regarding United States patents. We hope that this handbook will provide some helpful information on the patenting and commercialization processes."

Fuser – Simplify your online life

Fuser – Simplify your online life: "Fuser is the coolest way to unify your mail from multiple accounts. View your mail and social networking messages in one convenient location. It's easy and secure."

Database of Historic Wallpaper

(via ResearchBuzz) Database of Historic Wallpaper: "The historic database is available at http://www.spnea.org/wallpaper/catalog/search.htm. You can leave all the search options (including year, country of origin, paper type, finish, pattern name, etc.) blank and you’ll get a list of all the samples. I did a search for handmade embossed wallpaper and got 25 results. Results are shown in a table which includes the sample’s accession number, year span (start and end), exact year (if available, and I didn’t see any that were available) and a thumbnail of the paper."

Library Hotel, New York City, Best Small Hotels

Library Hotel, New York City, Best Small Hotels

The Library Hotel in New York City is the first hotel ever to offer its guest over 6,000 volumes organized throughout the hotel by the Dewey Decimal System.* Each of the 10 guestrooms floors honors one of the 10 categories of the DDC and each of the 60 rooms is uniquely adorned with a collection of books and art exploring a distinctive topic within the category or floor it belongs to

Wyoming Libraries get sexy!

Wyoming Libraries

Copier translates languages on the fly

(via Crave)
Fuji Xerox has developed a prototype that can scan Japanese text and print it out in translated English, Chinese or Korean without changing the layout of the original page. "Fuji Xerox's secret lies in networking the unnamed copier to a dedicated translation server and combining this with algorithms that can distinguish between text, drawings and lines for maintaining page layouts," according to Digital Tokyo World.

End of the Line - Foreign Policy Photo Essay

End of the Line - Foreign Policy: "With one of the world's longest beaches, Chittagong is Bangladesh's biggest port. Half of the world's supertankers are disassembled here."

Spunk Library - Anarchy, anarchist, and alternative materials

Spunk Library - Anarchy, anarchist, and alternative materials: "The Spunk Library collects and distributes literature in electronic format, with an emphasis on anarchism and related issues. For a more complete description of what Spunk is about you can view the Spunk Manifesto."

Constitution Day

Constitution Day: "This guide outlines resources available in commemoration of Constitution Day, September 17th."

LazyLibrary - read less. get more.

LazyLibrary - read less. get more.: "Ever read a book that was a few hundred pages longer than it needed to be? Yeah, so have we. Fortunately, there are authors out there that would rather have a concise and effective book than a lengthy and diluted tome, and that's where we come in.Welcome to the LazyLibrary, where you can find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts. If it's over 200 pages, you won't even see it. Read all about anything, in less time, for (usually) less money."

Postful

Postful: "Most of us know people who can't receive e-mail. For me, it's my grandparents. For others it's a friend in the hospital or in the military. We'd like to write, but between stamps, envelopes, printing, and mailing, it doesn't get done. With Postful, it's as easy as sending an e-mail. You can even create unique e-mail addresses for frequent contacts so that you don't have to type in their mailing address each time!In business, you don't have time to deal with letters. We put a corporate mailroom in your e-mail client. Postful is smarter, faster and more cost-effective than stocking stamps, envelopes, and letterhead (not to mention wasting your time stuffing letters). Whether in a busy office or on the go, Postful will change the way you work."

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