To put it simply, it measures things like how many teens (12-18) have a Facebook profile, or how many adults between 18-35 have a broadband connection, who buy more online: women or men, what percentage of patients check for health on Internet, the actual number of adults playing video games and so on.

It’s one of the biggest free public research sources whose findings and reports are heavily cited by most mainstream publications and technology blogs all accross the web. All of their content is available online or downloadable in PDF format for free from their site, for personal non-commercial use. Users can browse reports by type and by publication year.

They have their own experts for different technology topics (social networking, broadband, web 2.0) whom you can contact by email, to ask questions or inquire about posted reports.

Features:

• Non-profit free public research source for technology trends in US.
• Focuses on how internet affects people lives.
• View all the content (reports, statistics, presentations) for free online or download in PDF format. For personal use only.
• Contact experts on different technology topics.
• Browse reports by type (presentation, dataset, commentary, media mention) and by publication year.

Check out Pew Internet & American Life Project @ www.pewinternet.org

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It already has more 150,000 photos covering over 4300 encyclopedia pages. Each page includes a short text description from Wikipedia and links to related photo galleries. Anyone can share their pictures in related topic pages, nominate relevant photos and vote on the best images within each topic.

Features:

• Collaborative photo wikipedia.
• Over 140,000 photos covering more than 4300 encyclopedia pages.
• Browse photos by different topics and categories.
• Nominate relevant photos in each topic.
• Vote on best images.
• Share your own photos in relevant categories.

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EntityCode is a quick reference guide to most used HTML symbol codes. Each symbol is followed by the HTML code and a brief description. See symbols used commonly or browse through the symbols related to Currency, Math or Directional symbols.

Main Features:

• Quick html symbol reference guide.
• Lists most used Greek, technical, directional and mathematical symbols.
• A brief description for each symbol explains how it is used.

Check out EntityCodes @ EntityCode.com

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Just type in the name of the process you’re wondering about, and TaskList should present you with a description of the file, where it came from, and some general information about how safe it is. Though it may not be 100% accurate, it’s still a very reliable source to see what a process does. A word of caution though: TaskList does seem to link to a program called Easy SpyRemover, which is a known rogue software. So, just use TaskList as a resource and use a tool other than Easy SpyRemover to get rid of a virus if you find one.

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Features:

• Helps you to find out what processes in task manager mean.
• Search over 18,000 tasks and processes.
• Find tasks alphabetically.
• Also use the TaskList Attachment list to search a number of e-mail attachments.
• View description of process as well as recommendations on what actions to take.
• Keep your computer safe and virus free.

Check out TaskList @ www.tasklist.org

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Translate text to and from Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek,Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Features:

• Translate text online between 36 languages.
• Clean and easy to use interface.
• No registration needed.
• Other online translation tools: Frengly, Google Translate, Live Translator and Mobile Dictionary.

Check out NiceTranslator @ www.nicetranslator.com

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Features:

• Find default password for your router.
• Free. No registration needed.
• Similar websites: CIRT.net

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• Search programs, browse by category, filter by phone type.
• Rate and leave review.
• Option for developers to add their software.
• See latest and featured apps.

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If you ever need a default password for a system or software try searching for it on CIRT. It can be a username and password for your linksys or netgear router, mobile phone, PC or laptop BIOS, printer etc.

The site lists over 1700 passwords for products from nearly 400 manufacturers. If you can’t find the password here I’d recommend calling the tech support.

Check out Default Password List @ www.cirt.net/passwords

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Go to http://m.mikebrittain.com on you mobile browser, select the languages you want to translate from and to and then type in the word or phrase and click “GO”. Almost instantly you will be presented with the translation.

Features:

• Quickly translate words and phrases directly from your mobile phone.
• Works from any web enabled mobile phone (incl. iPhone) and browsers.
• Languages: English, Russian, French, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese.
• No sign up or installation required.

Mobile Translator is web-based software and in order to use it from your device you need to have a data plan. If you don’t have a data plan but desperately need a mobile translation application than try Trippo. This small translation application claims to work on Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola, Samsung, LG … phones.

Go to MobileTranslator @ http://m.mikebrittain.com/tr/

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Features

• View and Search Wikipedia articles.
• Removes all the clutter and leaves only main text content.
• ‘Random’ Link: Jump to a random artcile.

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