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Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and Annotation, Social Information Network!

ImageOx

Free Photo sharing & Image Hosting with ImageOX

..ImageOx provides free image sharing/hosting with a number for EXCLUSIVE features such as instant autorun CD Flash presentation, image galleries (albums), image slideshows, instant folder creation (image series), personal profiles and image management area with free user registration..

PDF File support now available in Google Docs

Google Docs now has added support for PDF Files. I you select
Upload a File option, you will notice the following towards the bottom right hand position:

"PDF Files (up to 10 MB from your computer, 2 MB from the web)"

The uploaded PDF file is shown as image. You can print it or share it. So, editing is not available yet.

English - Hindi Dictionary for Java enabled Mobile Phones

English - Hindi Dictionary is a freely downloadable J2ME application. It can be installed on a Java enabled mobile phone. May be helpful for visitors to India and as well for those who would like to learn English.

Google AJAX Feed API

Google AJAX Feed API - Dynamic Feed Control Wizard - allows to embed a Dynamic Feed Control on web page.

Netvibes is giving away its technology

Netvibes that enables meshups of widgets, RSS Feeds, emails, instant messengers etc. at one place is now giving away its technology from Netvibes.org site.

ThoughtMesh

.."ThoughtMesh is an unusual model for publishing and discovering scholarly papers online. It gives readers a tag-based navigation system that uses keywords to connect excerpts of essays published on different Web sites"..

My first encounter with Google Health

Google Health is now a reality. On visiting it, I landed on an agreement page. Apart from other usual terms and conditions, I had to agree to authorize Google to share my health information in my profile. However, it appears that I can choose with whom it could be shared.

This could even contain sensitive information relating to the following:

* HIV or AIDS
* Mental illness or any mental health condition
* Alcohol or substance abuse
* Sexually transmitted diseases
* Pregnancy
* Abortion or other family planning
* Genetic tests or genetic diseases

This authorization also covers any record that a doctor or other health care provider may supply to Google Health. The good thing is that I can withdraw this authorization by deleting my profile or using options available in Google Health.

Health profile could be created by entering information relating to Drug interactions, Age, sex, height, Medical Conditions, Medications, Allergies, Procedures, Test results, Immunizations etc. Health profile can be populated from very user-friendly search tool or from alphabetic listings. Diseases can be added from alphabetical list. The items in the list are with “reference” links. The “reference” here means special pages with brief but excellent description of the disease. These contain information on symptoms, treatment, prognosis, tests, prevention, complications, when to consult a doctor etc. These pages are supplemented with what Google is best at. These are search results from Google Scholar, related groups and search trends. These pages are illustrated with diagrams and pictures.

One can even import medical records from independent service providers offering personal health services. It has the following in the listing. Very likely, this is going to expand in future.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cleveland Clinic MyChart
Longs Drug Stores
Medco
MinuteClinic from CVS Caremark
Quest Diagnostics
RxAmerica
Walgreens Pharmacy

One can also explore health services for medical records. The following are listed at present:

Cleveland Clinic MyConsult
ePillBox.info
Heart Attack Risk Calculator
HxTI VaccineView
iHealth, powered by Medem
Lifestar
LIVESTRONG.COM Health Center
MediConnect Global
MyCareTeam MCT-Diabetes
MyDailyApple

One can also find a doctor and add to medical contacts. It also has tools to alert and send you notices like drug interactions depending upon information in the profile.

My overall impression is that it could become very useful tool for keeping better personal medical histories and records. As expected, presently it can be fully exploited by people residing in U.S. Hopefully more and more service providers from other countries would be associating with Google Health.

Yet another URL Shortening Service

Came across yet another URL Shortening Service - Xrl.in - Really Tiny Links. It also provides "Bookmarklet" link to shortened the URL of the current page in your browser. For this, you can also download an extension for your Firefox. It promises to come with a facility to manage your shortened links.

Snipr still remains my favorite service for shortening long URLs. It let you to select your own suffix text (if available) and title to the URL being shortened.

More link shortening services

Found two more link shortening services - http://lin.cr and http://www.moourl.com/.

Lin.cr appears to be more attractive in the sense that its own URL is short and sweet.

Page2RSS - Create RSS feed for any web page

Page2RSS is one of the services available for monitoring non-RSS enabled web sites. Such services monitor requested sites. Once a change is noticed, a RSS feed is generated and delivered to subscribers.

Hindi included in Google Translate

Google Translate has now included Hindi in its list of languages. So now you can translate 'English to Hindi' or 'Hindi to English'. See also few useful tools available with Google Translate. You can read English sites in Hindi or Make your own site avalable in Hindi or English. The translated text for Hindi would be in Devnagri.

But don't start celebrating yet! Translated text does not follow the grammar or syntax of Hindi. For example "My name is Sukhdev Singh" would be translated as "मेरा नाम है सुखदेव सिंह", when it should be "मेरा नाम सुखदेव सिंह है". You can suggest Google the right translation by clicking on "Suggest a better translation". It may improve translation quality in future by learning from suggestions.

List of Free Tools for Learning

Nice post listing free tools and sites that can be used for learning:

ZaidLearn: A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem?

"..every learning problem (or issue) we have today, there is probably a free tool or site out there that enables us to solve it.."

Open Science Directory

Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library. About 13000 scientific journals are listed in this directory. It contains open access journals and journals in the special programs like Hinari, Agora,
OARE etc. Some other
programs like INASP-PERI and eJDS will also be added in the near future.

Test Speed of your Broadband Internet Connection

Looking for a way to test speed of your Internet Broadband connection. Try Speedtest.net. It will tell both uploading and downloading speed of your connection.

Predictive Input System for English and Indian Languagues

Found a wonderful site lipik.in [via]. It is a service that helps you to save your typing time. It would be especially useful if you are trying to write in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil or Kannada. It is an online predictive input system that anticipates your intention and tries to complete the words for you as you type. It shows you a on-screen keyboard with a suggestions panel.

If you are a registered user, it learns your writing style and suggests you better. You can store your documents online as well as search Internet from words in your documents.

yBook - a freeware ebook reader

yBook - a freeware ebook reader software provides provides a 'paper book' experience on the computer screen: like it shows two pages side-by-side instead of just one page in the middle of the screen.

html2wiki

html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup

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