Features:

• Easily create class schedules online.
• Print generated schedules.
• Create as many schedules as you like.
• Free and doesn’t require email or registration.

Check out Schedulegenerator @ www.sealandserpent.org/schedgen/schedulegenerator (by Alex Ainsberg)

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• RotaBoard: Online Schedule Maker
• PrintFreeGraphPaper: Generate and Print Graph Paper
• MyAwardMaker: Free Custom Certificate Templates
• GraphPaper: Make Your Own Graph Paper Online
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Like Google Analytics for college applications, AcceptEdge also allows you to track and follow competition among universities using real-time admissions data. This way, you will know where you stand amongst other students hoping to get admitted to the same college.

Features:

• Find schools based on city size, campus setting, school size, academic focus, acceptance rates, and more.
• Admission statistics for every college and university in the United States.
• College predictor gives probabilities (0%-100%) of getting accepted in your choice schools.
• Suggested list of schools that you might be interested in based on your academic and social profile.
• AcceptEdge’s Edge Scores gives you a quick look on your chances of admission into your favorite college.
• Similar sites: Courseopedia.

Check out AcceptEdge @ www.acceptedge.com

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• Plagium: Online Plagiarism Tracker
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Doing these calculations manually takes quite some time. If you want to quickly perform these and other matrix operations, check out Online Matrix Calculator. Simply enter your matrix into the text area below (numbers separated by spaces), check operations you want to perform and click “Calculate”.

Features:

• Online matrix calculator for Math students.
• Perform matrix operations including finding determinant, trace, rank, inverse, matrix multiplication and other operations.
• Enter matrix elements separated by spaces and click “Calculate”.
• Free, online, no registration.

Check out Online Matrix Calculator @ www.bluebit.gr/matrix-calculator/

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• Impact Calculator: What Happens when Meteorite Hits the Earth?
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The errand runners are required to go through a background check. The site’s services are currently only available in Boston, U.S. but it will soon expand to other cities.

Features

• Outsource your everyday household chores.
• Currently available only in Boston but will expand to other cities soon.
• Services given by background-checked errand runners.
• Buy credits on the site to pay the runners.
• Communicate with the runners via email or SMS.
• Similar websites:  DoStuffForMoney.

Check out RunMyErrand @ www.runmyerrand.com [via Lifehacker] (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• DoStuffForMoney: Offer Someone Money to Get Your Job Done
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• wePapers: Student Paper Database to Find & Share Notes
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When you search for books it returns all available options (new, used, ebook, rental) and presents them on one table. You can then scroll through cheapest book prices and select a book type and a bookstore from where you want to purchase it.

In addition to that the site offers you a way to cash in on your used college textbooks using their college textbook buyback price comparison search.

Features:

• New, used, ebook and rental text book price comparison site.
• Searches over 30 online bookstores including Amazon, eBooks.com, Powell’s, Buy.com, Walmart, Book Closeouts and more.
• Textbook buyback price search also provided.
• Search for books using ISBN, title, author or keywords.
• Browse books by subject
• Compare prices for multiple ISBNs.
• Similar websites: EbookPrice.

Check out DirectTextbook @ www.directtextbook.com

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• Chegg: Online Book Renting Site
• BookLookr: Book Price Comparison Engine
• Wowbrary: Get Alerts on New Book Arrivals From Your Library
• SocialBib : Swap TextBooks Online
• CompareMyFiles: Compare Two Text Files Online

Registered users not only have an option to read essays online but save favorite items in their account and even download them. The site adheres to strict plagiarism guidelines and despite the fact that listed essays are free to access and use, members agree to give proper reference and credits to the source.

Note: When searching on the website make sure to set it to search essays only on AllFreeEssays.com. While there is also an option to search on PeerPapers.com that service is not free and requires a subscription fee.

Features:

• Database of more than 50,000 free student written essays, term papers and reports.
• Browse essays by topic categories, search with keywords and view popular papers.
• Sign up and donate one essay to get full access to content on the site.
• For free essays, search only from AllFreeEssays.com.

Check out AllFreeEssays @ www.allfreeessays.com

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Users may also browse flashcards shared by others by a subject or search using relevant keywords. Furthermore, flashcards can be saved to favorites for later reference.

Features:

• Create and share interactive flash cards for studying.
• Share your flashcard sets with others.
• Browse flashcards created by others, by subjects or search with keywords.
• Over 75,000 public flashcard sets.
• View printer-friendly HTML version of your flashcard sets or export them to your iPod.
• Free, sign up to get started.
• Similar tools: CoboCards, Cramberry and FlashCardDB.

Check out Flash Card Machine @ www.flashcardmachine.com

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It uses open-source technology and courseware and incorporates peer-to-peer teaching methods where students form online study groups and help each other with homework assignments and exam preparation. To apply you must have a high-school diploma and sufficient level of English.

Students only pay $15-50 fee for enrollment and $10-100 for exams, with students from poorer countries paying lower fees. However, for 2009 Fall semester all fees have been waived.  For those strapped for cash, or looking to restart their lives, this may be a good option. Worth checking out.

Features:

• First ever non-profit free online university
• Incorporates online peer-to-peer learning methods and social networking features
• Fees: $15-50 for enrollment and $10-100 for exams, with students from poorer countries paying lower fees
• All fees are waived for 2009 Fall semester
• Minimum requirements: high-school diploma and sufficient level of English
• Apply and get enrolled online

Check out University Of The People @ www.uopeople.org

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• Courseopedia: US College Course Directory

Features:

• Free science ebooks (textbooks, lecture notes) in different subjects.
• Read ebooks online or download them in PDF format.
• All listed texts are offered legally on the site and have been authorized by their respective authors and publishers.
• Similar sites: Project Gutenberg, Wowio and eBooksDB. Also check out earlier MakeUseOf article on The Best 6 Sites to Get Free Ebooks.

Check out ScienceBooksOnline @ www.sciencebooksonline.info

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• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool

Here’s how it works for a student.

1. He/She creates a 3-D model of dorm using this tool.
2. Then select the products He/She would like to have in his room.
3. Collaborate with his/her roommates and discuss the design.
4. Finally, when the design is finalized, the items can be added to cart and shipped directly to the university.

The orders are handled by Amazon.com. This tool also benefits parents. There is a special option called “care packages” which allows parents to send gifts/care packages to their children. These packages can be shipped directly from the store to the university.

If you liked this tool you can also check 3 Web Apps to Decorate and Plan your House.

Visit DesignYourDorm @ www.designyourdorm.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• SmallBluePrinter: House Plan Creator
• ProjectDragonfly: Design 3D Floor Plans Online
• IKEA SpaceMaker: Visual Room Designer Online
• Buildy: Create A Floor Plan Of Your House
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To search, simply enter a keyword (e.g. marketing, Carpenter, Chinese ) or zip code and hit “Search”, Courseopedia will then list all available courses related to your query offered by different colleges. Clicking on a particular course listing brings more detailed information.

Additionally, if you represent a college/university or offer your own private courses, you can sign up for free online and submit your offerings on the site.

Features:

• Search college courses in one place.
• Browse results by class name, program, school and relevant career.
• Submit and publicize your own courses and classes.
• Lists a 30,000 courses available in  State of California.
• More us cities will be added soon.

Check out Courseopedia @ www.courseopedia.com

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You can practice words by filling out the sentence completion questions and learn the correct word pronunciations by playing the MP3 files. Words have been compiled from the actual word sets used in ISEE, ACT, GRE and other standardized tests that feature vocabulary sections.

System tracks progress of your overall vocabulary, skips the words you know and suggests words that are most challenging for you based on your learning curve. The service is free, and you need to sign up to get started.

Features:

• Interactive vocabulary builder.
• Learn new words by their usage in daily news.
• Words are taken from actual word sets used in GRE, ISEE, ACT, SAT and other standardized tests.
• System tracks progress of every word and suggests the most challenging words based on your learning curve.
• Practice new words by filling out sentence completion quizzes.
• Download printouts, MP3s and podcasts to learn words while you are offline.
• Similar website: WordAhead.

Check out VocabSushi @ www.vocabsushi.com

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• WordAhead: Video Vocabulary Site
• WordSpy: Dictionary of New Words
• WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information
• Wordnik: Comprehensive Word Search Tool
• Webopedia: Dictionary Of Internet Terms And Their Meanings

Moreover, the site lets you apply other cool photo effects such as adding a postage stamp frame, speech bubbles, water reflections and other cool photo effects. All the effects are free and doesn’t require registration.

Features:

• Create a free wanted dead or alive posters online.
• Upload your picture, modify caption and reward lines and download the image to your computer.
• Apply other photo effects on your pictures including speech bubbles, water reflections, postage stamp frame and others.
• Similar tools: FunPhotoBox.

Check out Tuxpi @ www.tuxpi.com/effect/wanted

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• YearbookYourself: Give your Photos 1950s, 60s, 70s …. look
• Word Mosaic: Make Cool Word Mosaic Images
• WetFloorMaker: Add Reflection To Image
• Watermark-images: Batch Watermark Images Online
• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker

Features:

• Lets you offer money to get your job done.
• Make an offer and pay when the job done with paypal.
• Send offer via email or Facebook.
• Free and fun.

Check out DoStuffForMoney @ www.paypal-dostuffformoney.com (via webware)

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• wePapers: Student Paper Database to Find & Share Notes
• WebElements: Online Copy Of The Periodic Table Of Elements

Users may browse information on each element by a specific scope (history, uses, crystal structures, isotopes etc). Elements can be also easily compared with each other based on various criteria.

Features:

• Online copy of periodic table of elements for high school students or Chemistry majors.
• Browse the information on elements by a specific scope (History, Uses, Crystal structures, Isotopes etc) by selecting tabs above.
• Download periodic table in PDF format.
• Similar website: PTable.com.

Check out WebElements @ www.webelements.com

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• WatchKnow: 1000s of Educational Videos

To check your content for plagiarism online, simply paste a block of text inside provided form (or submit its online URL) and then click on the “Track plagiarisms”. Wait until Plagium scans through webpages on the Internet and brings a list of websites containing the identical text.

The site doesn’t require users to register in order to use the plagiarism tracker. However, as a bonus regsitered users are able setup alerts for certain text and receive a weekly email plagiarism reports.

Features:

• Free online plagiarism checker for checking whether content from a website or research paper has been used anywhere else.
• Able to handle checks with large blocks of text.
• Supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.
• Setup alerts and get weekly email reports (registered users only).
• Similar websites: The Plagiarism Checker and Copyscape.

Check out Plagium @ www.plagium.com

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• The Plagiarism Checker: Check Papers For Plagiarism

Features:

• Collection of free to download award certificate templates.
• Browse templates by categories view most popular and latest ones.
• Download as many certificates as you like.
• Free and no registration.

Check out MyAwardMaker @ www.myawardmaker.com

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• ScheduleGenerator: Class Schedule Maker
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• GraphPaper: Make Your Own Graph Paper Online
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You can view events for all your classes at once or for each class separately. Along with the web access website can be used from a mobile phone at http://m.trackclass.com and iPhone at http://iphone.trackclass.com.

Dashboard

Calendar

Features:

• Organize your school life online.
• Keep track of your studies – classes, assignments, exams in one place.
• View events for your classes at once and separately for each class on a Calendar.
• Receive reminders for upcoming events (quizzes, exams, assignment deadlines) by email or sms.
• Access your calendar events from any application that supports iCalendar format (Google Calendar, Outlook, Thunderbird etc.).
• View average grade performance for each class.
• Upload files.
• Mobile and iPhone versions are available.
• Free, sign up to get started.

If you’re a student make sure you also check out 10 Online Learning Tools for Students.

Check out TrackClass @ www.trackclass.com

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• Courseopedia: US College Course Directory

Features:

• Generate and download custom graph paper online.
• Customize document size, minimum border, grid line weight, grid spacing and color.
• Set document units to inches or centimeters.
• Click “Download PDF” to download the graph paper on to your computer.
• Similar tools: PrintFreeGraphPaper, PDFpad and Printable Paper.

Check out GraphPaper @ www.incompetech.com/graphpaper

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Click on the element to pull its photos, videos or read its Wikipedia entry. Dynamically highlight elements by their boiling temperatures, search elements by name, view properties of each element (valence, boiling point, hardness, conductivy, radius etc.), view its orbitals or its isotopes and more.

Additionally, users can choose to show/hide certain aspects of the table like electrons, element names and atomic weights. The table can be also viewed in wide mode.

Other features:

• Click on the element to pull its photos, videos or Wikipedia entry.
• Automatically highlight elements by their boiling temperatures.
• Search elements on the table.
• View elements’ interactive orbitals.
• Download the Table in PDF format or as an image file.

Check out Periodic Table of Elements @ www.ptable.com

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The application is useful not only for med. students, teachers, but everyone who wants to learn more about the human body. The models were developed by experts with decades of experience in the fields of medical illustration and biomedical visualization.

(Note: You need to install the Unity Web Player browser plugin from the website before you can run the app)

Check out the demo below for additional details:

Features:

• Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model.
• Over 400,000 registered users.
• Detailed models of all body systems and all major organs.
• 1700 anatomical structures.
• Dynamic search capability.
• Easy-to-use, 3D controls.
• Compatible with all popular web browsers

Check out Visible Body @ www.visiblebody.com

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• MBAvid: Free MBA Video Lectures

Browse video lectures by business categories (e.g. Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Sales & Negotiation), view recent and most popular videos, search videos by keywords and leave comments. Videos are pulled from YouTube and uploaded by site members. Sign up to upload your own videos.

Features:

• Free educational mba video lectures online.
• Lists video lectures from prominent business leaders and thinkers like Milton Friedman, Carly Fiorina, Guy Kawasaki etc.
• Browse lectures by category (e.g. Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Sales & Negotiation), search videos by keywords, view recent and most popular videos.
• Free resource. Sign up to upload videos.
• Similar website: AcademicEarth.

Check out MBAvid @ www.mbavid.com

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Once you receive your weekly email you can view the latest movies, DVD, books divided by categories and week’s Top Choices from the library. Click on items to get more detailed info from the library’s website.

Here’s how a weekly email looks like:

Features:

• Subscribe to receive free weekly email updates on newly arrived books, dvd’s, movies and music.
• Serves libraries in major US cities, covering over 34 million in population.
• Find libraries near you by entering your Zip code.
• Sign up to as many libraries as you want.
• Browse items by type: Book, DVDs, Movies, Music and by categories. View week’s Top Choices.
• Free. Sign up with your email to receive weekly updates

Check out Wowbrary @ www.wowbrary.com

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• Chegg: Online Book Renting Site
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• wePapers: Student Paper Database to Find & Share Notes

Firstly, you can search through site’s database for university records and make educated guess when it comes to choosing your professor and classes. Also you can check out number of grades given by every professor for different courses at various campuses and then easily compare these grade histories with the courses you are about to enroll.

Pick-A-Prof  also offers free book exchanges where there is no middleman, no markup or fee included. You can search for online bookstores along with books students post for sale.

Furthermore there is a powerful schedule planner and Facebook app which lets you see which class sections your friends are signing up for.

Features:

• Choose your professor and classes wisely.
• Allows you to compare grade histories.
• Shows virtual snapshots for classes.
• Registration will also enable you to post your own reviews.
• Exchange books and sell books.
• Facebook integration.
• Powerful schedule planner.
• US only

Check out Pick-A-Prof @ www.pickaprof.com

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To create a flashcard, simply enter front and back text into provided fields, the question being as front and the correct answer as back text.  Once cards are finished you can run a quiz and test your self, one of the cool things is that cards that you fail to answer correctly will be shown more frequently, thus, you get more practice on that particular card.

Features:

• Create flashcards online.
• Create as many cards as you want.
• Share your cards with other Cramberry users.
• User friendly and clutter free interface.
• Similar websites: FlashCardDB and Popling.

Check out Cramberry @ www.cramberry.net (via downloadsquad.com)

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Using Chegg coolege students can rent a textbook for a fraction of the purchase price. In most cases the the rental price is 65-85% lower than the list price. When your semester is over and you need to return the book simply print out a UPS prepaid shipping label through the site, tape it on the box and send it to Chegg.

For every book you rent they plant a tree. You can also buy from, sell and rent books to Chegg either for cash or store credit .

How it works:

1. Search by ISBN, title or author of the book
2. Rent it.
3. Receive it in a prepaid shipping box.
4. Return the book when your semester ends, or extend it.

Features:

• Rent books online and save money.
• Free return shipping.
• Fast delivery: 3-7 days for Priority Shipping, 7-10 days for Standard Shipping.
• For every book you rent, buy or sell – a tree is planted by Chegg.
• Extend rented book after your semester is over.
• Available only in US.
• Also see another book service called BookMooch that lets you exchange books with others.

Check out Chegg @ www.chegg.com

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The application focuses on passive learning and lets you get familiar with vocabulary without too much effort. It shows you a flash card every few minutes (you decide how often) through an unobtrusive notification window. If you aren’t busy, click the notification to answer the question on the flash card.
Otheriwse you may gnore it and it will disappear shortly after. 

Once you have answered the card, click ‘Hide’ to put the application away until it’s time to pop again. This way you can passively learn just about anything. It works in particularly well for learning languages online.

The site also provides you over 10.000 flash cards from various topics like: Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Chemistry, Geography and more.

Users may also make their own flash card sets on any desired topic.

For more info watch the demo video below:

Check out Popling @ www.popling.net

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• FlashCardDB – Online Flash Card Maker
• Flash Card Machine: Create & Share Study Flash Cards

There is no registration needed for searching and watching videos, however if you register you would be ale add videos to your favorites, rate and leave comments.

Features:

• Watch video lectures online free.
• Video lectures from top US colleges like Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
• Search lectures and browse them by subject, university and popularity.
• Rate and leave comments.

You might be also interested in our earlier article, Two Websites to Watch Talks by Great Thinkers and Doers.

Check out AcademicEarth @ www.academicearth.org

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Students can add items to their cart, specify the quantity, and put additional comments for each item. The site also lets students to add credit card details on their account so they don’t have to enter their information all the time. The working hours, phone numbers, minimum amount for delivery  can also be quickly viewed.

Features:

• Order food online from campus restaurants.
• See if a restaurant is currently open and taking delivery orders.
• Add comments and special instructions for your order.
• Save your payment information for future use.
• See weekly and daily specials and get discounts for ordering online.
• Option to order for a future day and for large groups.
• Browse restaurants by type of cuisine or specific features.
• Available in US only.

If you’re new to MakeUseOf.com you might be also interested in a couple of posts that were written specifically for students. These are:

- 10+ Web Tools To Save Your Butt In School
- 10 Online Learning Tools for Students

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The process is straightforward simply go to the site, select both files and click on “Compare Files” button. The application will compare files side by side and show you lines where they are different.

Features:

• Comparing two text files online.
• Compare as many files as you want.
• No registration needed.
• Dead simple to use

CompareMyFiles @ www.comparemyfiles.com

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• wePapers: Student Paper Database to Find & Share Notes

Furthermore students can easily upload and manage personal papers, exams, courses and track their ongoing studies from one place online.

Feature overview:

• Search and find study notes online.
• Browse content by category, relevance, paper type, and  language.
• Communicate with others using built in messaging system.
• Interact with others, ask questions and work together.
• Manage all your papers, exams, courses in one place.
• Upload your papers in a variety of formats.
• Easily tag, categorize and personalize each paper.

Check out wePapers @ www.wepapers.com

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Features:

• Online plagiarism checker.
• Check as many papers as you like.
• There is no registration required.

Check out The Plagiarism Checker @ The Plagiarism Checker

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- convert years to weeks, days, hours, seconds etc.
- convert miles to kilometers, meters, feet, yards etc.
….

To convert something, simply select the right category and then select the unit you’d like to convert from and the corresponding unit you’d like to convert to. Next enter the unit value. Almost simultaneously you will see results of your convention.

Moroever, you also get a link to each of your conversions so you can return to them at anytime later. There is also an “Advanced Mode” where you can see your source unit converted to every possible possible unit out there. Very useful.

Features:

• Quickly convert measurement units online.
• Supports conversion between unites in 15 different categories (Time, Length etc.)
• Get a direct link for each conversion to return to it later or share it with others.
• Check out “Advanced Mode” if you’re not sure which unit you want to convert to.
• No sign up or registration needed.
• Similar measurement converters: ConvertWorld and YouConvertIt.

Check out ConvertCenter @ www.convertcenter.com (via appscout.com)

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Features:

• List your homework questions and get answers.
• Make money by answering questions listed by others.
• Covers rich choice of topics.

StudentOfFortune now covers over 34 categories and 450 topics. Therefore, you can ask pretty much anythig here.

Because the website is still rather unknown it may take a while unil someone answers your questions. So If your question is rather general then I’d recommend checking one of the Q&A websites instead.

Check out StudentOfFortune @ www.studentoffortune.com

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Features:

• Create and share mind maps online.
• Save ready mindmaps in your Ekpenso account.
• Make mindmaps public or share them only with selected group of people.
• Export maps to XML or PDF files.
• Instantly create a duplicate for any map.
• Offline mode: Edit mindmaps offline (requires Google Gears or Adobe Air).
• Mindmap tools: Add nodes and text, change font, background color, undo feature, zoom in/out, etc.
• Login with your OpenID account (What Is OpenID ?).

Another really good mindmapper is Text2MindMap. It can automatically generate maps from nested text lists. Very fast and convenient.

Check out Ekpenso @ www.ekpenso.com

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How it works: Choose one of listed graph paper templates, indicate preferred paper size and measuring units, choose your paper type, and ‘Print’ it.

Extras

• Customize your own graph paper online and print it out.
• Graph paper types: Engneering, Polar, Cartesian, Isometric, Logarithmis, Hexagonal, Probability and Smith Chart.
• Free and doesn’t require any registration.
• To preview ready to print paper you need to have Adobe Reader.
• Tips: You can print graphs on transparency film for sharp graph paper overheads, or waterproof paper for field data-collecting.

Check out PrintFreeGraphPaper @ [www.printfreegraphpaper.com]

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BibMe – Feature List:

• Search for a book (title, author or ISBN), magazine, newspaper, website, journal or film.
• Choose between different bibliography formats: MLA, APA, and Chicago.
• Reference entry modes: Autofill mode or Manual mode.
• Get list of related sources that you can include in your bibliography.
• Download ready bibliography as a Microsoft Word document.
• Save and keep up to 10 bibliographies in your BibMe account.
• Citation guide: View rules and guidelines for different citation styles.
• BibMe database leveraged from following services: Books (Amazon Books), Magazines (LookSmart FindArticles), Newspapers (Yahoo! News), Journals (CiteULike Academic Papers), Films (Amazon DVD and VHS).
• Got more questions ? See BibMe help page.

Check out BibMe @ www.bibme.org

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• Create and store flash cards in your account.
• Search or browse flash cards created by others (by tags / recently created / recently studied).
• Organize flash cards using tags.
• Study Room: study flash cards in random mode, keep track of correct/incorrect answers, etc.

Check out FlashCardDB @ www.flashcarddb.com

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Feature Overview

• Unlimited file size: Make file as big as you want.
• Can generate over 20 file types: doc, txt, zip, img, xls, pdf, jpg, bmp, gif, htm, rtf, sip, eps, mpg, mp3 and more.
• Destructed files 100% compatible both with Mac and PC.

Check out File Destructor 2.0 @ www.xnet.se/fd/

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RotaBoard.com: “Organising your employees working schedules shouldn’t be a burden. That’s why we’ve created Rotaboard”

• Create, manage, print and track personal and employee working schedules.
• Send notifications and share schedules with staff members.
• Add and Manage as many employees as you need.
• Intuitive drag and drop user interface.
• Create standard, recurring or custom (Holidays, Training, Overtime etc) employee shift types.
• View your staff’s weekly payable hours at a glance
• Still no clue? Check out bunch of full size RotaBoard screenshots here.

Check out RotaBoard @ www.rotaboard.com

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