Knot knowledge

Problem: I used to know how to tie a lot of knots when I was in scouts. Is there a good site to refresh my skills?

Solution: From scouting and climbing knots to boating and fishing knots, here is a site that doesn’t just tell you how to tie them—it shows you. Animated Knots by Grog (www.animatedknots.com) has step-by-step instructions with images. Whether you used to be a knot pro or know nothing about knots, this site untangles the mess of trying to tie two things together.

The right amount of paint

Problem: The last time I painted a room in our home, I overbought the paint and ended up with extra gallons. I want to use the remainder to paint another room, but I’m afraid there isn’t quite enough left. How can I figure out the right amount?

Solution: The Interior Paint Calculator is what you need. It’s one of a number of handy online tools on the Easy2DIY site (www.easy2diy.com). To find the paint calculator, go to Task and select Painting. Then click the How-To Tutorials tab and then the Interior Paint Calculator. Now that you’re here, it’s all a matter of simply filling in your room’s details (length, width, and height, as well as door and window info), and you’ll get a recommendation for the number of gallons/quarts for walls, ceiling, and trim.

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Wireless Router: neccessary information

Top 9 Laptop Computer Safety Tips

Safely using your laptop will help ensure that your laptop works properly and you don't get hurt. Improper use or not being aware of safety issues can cause your laptop irreparable damage. These safety tips should be added to your weekly laptop maintenance routine and will help you stay productive and safe no matter where you are working.

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2006 Best Video Aggregation Site

VideoSift is a video site based on community submissions and voting. The site currently caters mostly ot the taste of the geek-and-college crowd, but that should change with time

http://www.videosift.com/

2006 Best Online Task Manager

• Locate your tasks.
  • Use the map to see where your tasks are located in the real world. See what's nearby or on your way, and plan the best way to get things done.

• Manage tasks quickly and easily.
  • An intuitive interface makes managing tasks fun. Set due dates easily with next Friday or in 2 weeks. Extensive keyboard shortcuts make task management quicker than ever.

• Get reminded, anywhere.
  • Receive reminders via email, SMS, and instant messenger (AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Skype and Yahoo! are all supported).

• Plan your time.
  • See what's due today and tomorrow, and the things you've missed. Prioritize, estimate your time, and postpone with ease. Set tasks to repeat every week or after 2 months.

• Organize the way you want to.
  • Are you a list lover? Create as many lists as you need. Into tagging? Use the task cloud to easily see what you have to do. Want to store notes along with your tasks? You can do that too.
  
  
  http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
  

2006 Best Online Event Calendar

Upcoming.org is a social events calendar driven by people just like you!

Discover new events, share them with your friends, and add your own.

http://upcoming.org/

2006 Best Online Instant Messenger

meebo.com is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free!

2006 Best online Word Processor

"Zoho [Writer] packs most of the functions along the top of the document pane, with familiar graphical icons, such as a disk that you click to save a file. We like the bottom icons that display the document’s tags and sharing status. You can also keep multiple Zoho files open at the same time, which ThinkFree doesn’t allow. By default, Zoho Writer organizes your open documents within tabs."

Features

• Access from anywhere
  Access, edit, share documents from anywhere
• Create and edit documents your way
  Create, edit or re-format documents using our WYSIWYG editor
• Collaborative editing of documents
  Allow multiple users to work on a document simultaneously
• Load your existing documents
  Import Microsoft Word (DOC), OpenOffice text (ODT & SXW), HTML, RTF, JPG, GIF & PNG files
• Generate PDF/DOC/ODT
  Export documents created in Zoho Writer as PDF, DOC, ODT, SXW, RTF, HTML & text files
• Share, don't attach
  Share documents with your friends or publish them for public view
• Post to your blog
  Directly post documents to your blogs like WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and Live Journal
• No need for duplicates
  Have multiple versions of a document, not multiple copies
• Multilingual support
  Support for multiple languages, create documents in your native language

http://www.zohowriter.com/

Media Monkey 2.5.4

We’re going to climb out on a limb a
bit and spotlight the MediaMonkey. As
our digital music collections grow, we
want this software on our machines.
MediaMonkey is better than anything
we’ve used for browsing, mass tagging,
converting, and playing large libraries.
From the way it lets us search and tag files
to the way it segregates incomplete tags
and dupes for editing, this program
knows how music nuts work with their
collections. The Monkey’s interface is a
bit scruffy (for example, the player window
and some type can be exceedingly
small), but for burning, tagging, and
shuffling thousands of tracks and albums,
this primate swings.

Media Monkey 2.5.4
(Free [Standard], $19.95 [Gold];
www.mediamonkey.com)