RipOff Report is a web community where annoyed consumers can file ripoff reports against ‘evil’ companies. The Report RipOff can be a powerful weapon to get a company to make things right; once you’ve filed your report, the site advises you forward it to the company and let them know about it. If they respond [...]
WhatIsThatFile is a useful reference for all sort of “unknown” files on your windows computer. Got suspicious file ? Look it up on WhatIsThatFile. It does not cover all of the files, but still worth a try. Just enter a filename and see if it’s a regular Windows file or a dangerous trojan, malware or [...]
Web based pronunciation dictionary that can help you with the pronunciation. Type in any English word (or saying) and listen to how it should be pronounced. Mouse over the search results to hear them pronounced. Each word is individually pre-recorded and no form of synthetic speech is used. Offers both American and British versions. More [...]
Snopes tags itself as an ‘Urban Legends Reference Pages’, and that’s exactly what it is: thousands of entertaining stories, urban legends, myths, old wife’s tales, odd news stories, gossip, rumors and so on. “We are following the more expansive popular (if inaccurate) use of “urban legend” as a term that embraces not only urban legends [...]
VisuWords is a web-based visual dictionary and thesaurus tool. Search for words to look up their meanings and associations with other words in a visual interface. Feature Overview Visualize word definitions and derivations in an interactive colorful dashboard. See how it’s connected to other words (sinonym, antonym, derivation, etc.). Use mouse wheel to zoom in [...]
LingoZ is a user-powered dictionary and community dedicated to build the largest user-contributed dictionary on the web. Every LingoZ user can add his/her definitions and let other users vote on it. Highest voted definitions remain referred as the “official” definitions until some other definition scores a higher number of votes. You can think of it [...]
When you are working on a research project, you consult various sources online and on textbooks. Considering the amount of literature you are dealing with, anything that saves time is surely appreciated. Here to provide you with a list of such time-saving tools is a website called Schoolr. Schoolr is a free to use website [...]