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When it comes to medical issues, the best way to find out what is wrong is to go to a doctor. However, there is most certainly some value in getting a general idea of what could be wrong before you pay a trip to your local physician, using apps or the Internet. Of course, no app or website can replace the knowledge and skills of a doctor, and that is something you most certainly need to keep in mind before using an app like the one I am going to talk about today.
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Wolfram Alpha. For anyone that has never used it or heard of it, it sounds like the name of one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For people familiar with it, it's like having access to that magical hand-held device Dr. Sam Beckett had in the popular TV show Quantum Leap, that was linked to the computer known as Ziggy. In fact, it's almost identical to Ziggy. In the show, Ziggy was ultra-specific to the point of being too literal at times.
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Talking to a doctor is one of the most unnerving experiences, a patient or a patient’s family has to endure. It is compounded by the lack of knowledge on how to go forward. Thanks to medical reference websites and mobile applications, the chasm between medical jargon and layman’s understanding can be reduced. The free WebMD iOS app should be an essential app you should be carrying 24x7 on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
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We all have a daily routine of some sort but there are many things that we all do, whether it is checking the weather, managing our finances or making our next meal. I’ve scoured the web to find some of the best websites to help you do these day-to-day tasks. After some research and great results I’ve narrowed down the list to what I think are the best websites in various categories of what we do almost every day.
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Quickly search for and watch any sentence spoken on American TV news since 2009. It's the latest offering from The Internet Archive, and it simply needs to be seen in order to be believed. CNN, Fox New,s and MSNBC's broadcast schedule in its entirety is backed up here, as is every major network's nightly news programs and news magazines. Just type a term and if it shows up in the closed captioning records, you'll see a video instantly.
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You might think that 140 characters just doesn’t cut it when you have to pick a word apart, and get to its meaning and usage. But let’s leave some room for surprises because Twitter and the Twitter dictionaries bring real-timeliness into learning new words. Here are a few usual and a few unusual dictionaries on Twitter. Follow them and wax lexical.
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Quickly check whether a political statement is fact, fiction or something in between. Fact checking sites won't give you all the answers or tell you what to think, but they they can help you sort out what is and isn't true – and that's important. Occasionally American election seasons can become mean-spirited, with both sides saying things that are veritably untrue.
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Today, when it appears on top of nearly every Google result, we take it from granted. We occasionally try to bring it down a notch or three over the veracity of the facts stated there. But its presence and use in the pantheon of great bookmarked sites is assured. But this article is not about singing hosannas to the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia. It is a guide to how you can take Wikipedia offline by downloading pages.
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Google is the ultimate search engine and it is supposed to answer everything like the Grand Oracle. But what if you just don’t have the question with you? Or a smidgen of a clue about it? In those foggy states of mental fugue, it helps to have a more structured source for information. There’s actually no reason for us to suffer more than necessary because information is all around us. We just have to search-refer-and grab the thread. When I am stuck, one of the resources I use to pummel the writer’s block is Wapedia.
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Sharing knowledge is just another side to the great classless spirit that finds space on the web. We have seen earlier how crowdsourcing web services have tapped the power of collective wisdom for the betterment of all. So, why not tap into some fresh new crowdsourcing sites that help us share knowledge?
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Rap music isn't all just what you hear on the radio or thumping from the teenager's car beside you at your nearest intersection. It's a pretty popular opinion that the radio rap genre is very dumbed down and easy to understand. I'd agree with that. Rap is sort of where pop music was in the late '90s. Understanding that much, you're cutting yourself short if you shrug hip-hop music aside as immature and boring.
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Fact checking has its origin in the early 20th century, when magazines began to verify statements made in non-fictional texts prior to publication. This practice increases credibility and trustworthiness of articles and documents. Today, fact checking is often associated with political journalism, but can of course be used in any field, including your homework.
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When you come to the United States, it can be a difficult transition. Whether you are coming to the US to visit, to work, to go to school or to live, it helps a great deal if you are prepared. Thankfully, there are a bunch of US government websites that are made to help you get ready for a visit to the US.
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General knowledge is an important part of everyone's education, and it isn't something that you stop learning when you leave school. It's a lifelong lesson into the people, places, and things that have got us here today. The Internet has provided a new repository of sources to gain general knowledge from. But where do you look first?
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At first, the releases coming out of Wikileaks were shocking and exciting. They brought us news of civilian casualties in Iraq, and they brought us embarrassing diplomatic cables. Here let's take a little stroll down memory lane and examine some of the silliest WikiLeaks bans that took place throughout 2009 and 2010.
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