100+ Free Websites to find out about Anything and Everything

100+ Free Websites to find out about Anything and Everything:

This is an alphabetical list of websites where you can find out about anything and everything - whether it be a small fact or a large body on knowledge.

The websites cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.

The resources are suitable for learners of all ages: students as well as workplace learners and lifelong learners - as well as teachers, educators and trainers.

1. 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos
2. Alison - free global learning experience
3. About.com - Guidance, not guesswork. 750 experts to help you
4. About.U - Courses by email
5. Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
6. AllExperts - Ask any question! Allexperts.com is the oldest & largest free Q&A service on the Internet
7. Answerbag - Ask questions and share your knowledge with the world
8. Anything - Learn.Anything.Network
9. BBC Learning - a range of online-based courses that you can work through at your own pace
10. BrainHoney - a social learning environment where anyone can teach a lesson on any subject. Users can rank lessons and collaborate as they learn from each other.
11. BrainPop (US) and BrainPop (UK)- creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students
12. Campusbug - combines social networking, online education, and e-commerce into a simple and easy-to-use online experience.
13. 
    Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Institute (OLI) - OLI builds courses that are intended to enact instruction – or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning.
14. Connexions - A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
15. Course Hero - a Social Learning Network built to provide students and key learning partners like professors a platform to share, meet and collaborate while accelerating their comprehension of course-related theories and concepts
16. E-Books Directory - a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.
17. EdSurf - The online distance education learning resource for adult students
18. Education.Podcast.com - Education podcasts from universities, colleges, students, teachers -- everyone who uses podcasting to learn and to teach others
19. Encyclopdia.com - Verified facts, information, and biographies from trusted sources
20. eHow - How to do just about everything
21. Encarta - encyclpaedia, dictionaries, atlas, etc
22. Experience Project - a community of everyday people connecting anonymously through their shared life experiences & passions.
23. Expert Village - How to videos, free video clips and more
24. Flat Knowledge - Free online textbooks
25. Free and Affordable Distance Education - tutorials, courses, tests, test prep
26. Free.Ed.net - The world's largest, fastest growing, most highly regarded source of totally free education
27. FreeSkills - over 650 free tutorials
28. FindTutorials.com - free tutorials
29. GCF Learn Free - The freedom to learn, what you want, when you want
30. Google Video - videos on all topics
31. Graspr - The instructional video network
32. Gresham College Lecture Archive - recorded lectures from Gresham College
33. Hippcampus - Free one-stop educational resource
34. Howcast - How-to videos
35. How stuff works - Online reference tool
36. HowToDoThings - "a site that solves people’s problems"
37. How To books - read free online books
38. infoplease - All the knowledge you need
39. Instructables - Make, HowTo and DIY
40. iPL - The Internet Public Library
41. iTunes Podcasts - The iTunes Store offers more than 100,000 audio and video podcasts
42. iTunes U - Faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students, e.g Stangord, Trinity College Dublin, etc.
43. KnowledgeHound - The HowTo Hunter
44. LazyLibrary - Find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts. If it's over 200 pages, you won't even see it
45. Lectr.com - The knowledge sharing community
46. Learner.org - Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum
47. learners.org.uk - Online games and communities for adults and communities
48. Learn Everything - Expert guidance from real people searching for the best the Internet has to offer
49. LeanHub - the communities and experts to help you get ahead in education so you can get ahead in life!
50. Learning by screencast - Using screencasts to teach
51. Learningpage - provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more
52. LearnOutLoud - one-stop destination for audio and video learning (many free)
53. LearnThat - Free tutorials and free courses
54. LessonBItes - Provides lessons in bite sizes (like individual tracks of a CD) so you can learn what you want
55. Mahalo Answers - you can ask and answer questions on any topic
56. MindBites - Video instructional marketplace and publishing platform (Some free)
57. MindZeit - helping you develop through multimedia
58. MIT OpenCourseWare - Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
59. MonkeySee - HowTo videos
60. Mosio - a mobile community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people
61. Moving Image Archive - This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
62. Open2.net - the online learning portal from The Open University and the BBC.
63. OpenLearn - free access to Open University course materials.
64. Open Of Course - your education when you need it and how you need it. Free for you to use, edit and redistribute
65. Open Yale - provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
66. Podcast Alley - Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners.
67. PodcastDirectory - This education podcast database has been constructed and is maintained by David Noble
68. Questia - trusted online research
69. Questioon - a social utility enabling you to pose questions to Google or Real People.
70. Refdesk - Fact checker for the Internet
71. Reference.com - a multi-source encyclopedia search service
72. School of Everything - a community of people teaching and learning.
73. SchoolTube - provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations
74. Sclipo - helps you to teach and learn just about everything, from technology to languages or cooking, and connects you with people of common interests.
75. ShowMeNow - Packed with illustrated step-by-step tutorials, it is a witty, irreverent reference that teaches you life's most essential skills
76. Slideshare - presentation slidesets on many different topics
77. Sofia - an open content initiative that encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web.
78. SoYouWanna.com - teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school
79. Spenglr - a free online education and test preparation site for students and adults.
80. Squidoo - Ideas, recommendations and more
81. SuTree - learn virtually everything by watching how to videos from all over the web.
82. TeacherTube - educational videos
83. TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) - a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
84. Tufts Open Courseware - start of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online.
85. TV Lesson - How to videos
86. Twittez - a simple Twitter application that lets you get your answers from fellow Twitters, all you have to do is tweet with "does anyone know?" with your question
87. UMass Boston OCW - free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners world wide.
88. University of the People - is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution and will open its virtual doors in April 2009
89. Unnecessary Knowledge - for entertaining facts and information (which might or might not be true!)
90. Video Jug - Life explained. On film.
91. Vimeo - a thriving community of people who love to make and share video
92. U-Now - University of Nottingham’s formal open courseware initiative
93. University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare - provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world
94. Ustream - watch live broadcasts, explore networks ranging from music, talk shows, sports and politics and/or review our past broadcasts.
95. WannaLearn.com - Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented websites
96. Webcast/Courses - free courses from University of Berkeley at California
97. WikiAnswers - a wiki-based Q&A project powered by contributors from all walks of life. Anyone can ask, answer or edit questions, building a global Q&A database, covering all topics.
98. Wikieducator - Free eLearning content that anyone can edit and use
99. Wikipedia - collaborative encyclopaedia
100. WikiHow - The how-to manual that anyone can write or edit
101. Wikiversity - A community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities
102. WonderHowTo - hand-selects and curates the best instructional videos from over 1,700 websites
103. WordAhead - Watch vocabulary videos
104. Yahoo Answers - ask, answer and/or discover
105. YouTube - videos on everything under the sun
106. YouTube EDU - aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US.

Google improves image search, adds news timeline

Google improves image search, adds news timeline:



Google on Monday reintroduced Google Labs, its launch pad for new Web services, and committed itself to push the quirky Web innovations out the door more quickly.


"This is reviving the notion of launch early and launch often," said R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management.


As part of the Labs' second rollout, the company unveiled improvements to the way users search for images and a news timeline developed by Andy Hertzfeld, a programming legend who helped write the software for the first Apple Macintosh.


As an increasing number of digital images are posted to the Web, engineers have struggled to create meaningful ways to organize them so people can find the pictures they're looking for by
typing terms into a search engine like Google.


The problem, said Radhika Malpani, director of engineering, is that "a picture really is worth a thousand words." So if someone is trying to find a certain image of a rocky beach, it's not particularly helpful to type words like "beach on rock" into Google. The new image search tries to solve the problem by letting users click on a "similar images" link. If an initial search returns an image that's similar to the one a person has in mind, he or she can use the link to dive deeper into the Web.


The Google News Timeline tackles the problem of visually representing the past several hundred years of news events. The timeline draws on licensed sources like Time magazine covers and scanned newspapers, as well as baseball scores and Wikipedia articles available in the public domain to create a visual news timeline of everything from New York City architecture to Mexican history.


Information can be sorted by the day, week, month, year or decade and includes events dating back to the 15th century


Google Labs has been a stand-alone Web site since 2002, serving as a test bed for products like Google Street View, Google Translate and Picasa facial recognition. It was supposed to be a place to fine-tune interesting ideas that weren't quite ready for prime time. But the site received little traffic and didn't offer an easy way for users to provide feedback.


The new site, at http://www.googlelabs.com/, is built to foster a community, said Michael Cohen, a Google product manager. It encourages users not only to comment on ideas, but to vote products up or down, increasing or decreasing their chances of moving out of the beta testing phase and onto Google's main platform.


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Is Google considering spinning out YouTube?

Is Google considering spinning out YouTube?

A recent analyst report by Credit Suisse that YouTube could lose as much as $470 million in 2009 has prompted some insiders — and outsiders -- to try to stir up enthusiasm for a YouTube spin out. The loss is not insignificant, even for Google, which recorded $4.2 billion in net income in 2008. To put it in perspective, the estimated YouTube loss exceeds the $448 million Google spent on salaries and other administrative expenses for the first quarter of 2009. It also exceeds what Google spent on sales and marketing.

But in a conversation with reporters on Thursday, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the company is committed to YouTube. “We believe YouTube will eventually be a successful and profitable business and that it will take some time to do that. I don’t know how long it will.”

Schmidt also downplayed another option for reducing the expense of YouTube by downgrading video delivery to third-world countries where advertising revenue is insignfiicant. “I have not personally been in meetings where there were discussion on throttling bandwidth because of its costs,” Schmidt said. “In general we don’t link the two (bandwidth and cost). A typical example is India. A few years ago… we spent quite a bit of money to dramatically increase the connectivity to India even though it had no short-term or even near-term way to justify it economically. And I’m very proud of that. That’s how Google works. So I would discourage a linking between the two.”

Task Scheduler in windows 2008

Task Scheduler in windows 2008:

Windows 2008 has brought and introduced many new futures making the administration easy. Very first time in the windows history getting some of the necessary basic administration task is not complicated anymore. I am sure many of you always wanted to know or notified if there are changed been made on your Exchange server or domain controller. The way we have been finding these out so far if someone another domain admin breaks certain stuff and we get the notice after damage is done. Consider this is a big environment and many people have domain admin rights due to some unknown reason.

Anyway the shot story is windows 2008 is very smart and I am sure you will enjoy more you get to know it.

Problem:

Domain administrators logging on to Active directory domain controllers and Exchange servers and any other application server and they might be making changes. We have no way of knowing when they log in or if they are using service account to log in to do certain things which is not acceptable by corporate security policy.

Domain administrator user name: zz-JTucker is keep logging onto servers ( because he is domain admin (-:, ) and we don't want him to change things on our server or we want to know as soon as he logs on to one of our server.

Goal:

We would like to take smart approach and we want to know if either certain user / Group etc, logging on to critical windows 2008 servers.

We want to receive automatic e-mail being sent to us, when this event occurs and we want to run certain script to run at the same time based on our needs

Once we establish some basic configuration we can extend this based on our needs.

Scenario:

User names Mike (or a group) is one of the domain admins and we don't want Mike to log onto out servers. Or when Mike logs in we want to get notified.

We want to monitor some of activities or even event logs, such as, NTFRS issues, any SYSvol replication issues, any DNS issues, any other event logs it might be useful for you.

Solution:

Log into one of your windows 2008 server

• Click on start go to run

• Type, "taskschd.msc"

Expend, Task Scheduler, expend Microsoft, windows and , on the right pane we will click on new folder and name the folder as "AD Alert"

Now we have the folder and we will create schedule job. Click on Create task name it "AD-Alert user logged in"

When running the task, you may want to change this to user account going to be used for this purpose, I have creates user account in my domain and named it as "svc-Alert" for all scheduled task I will be creating going forward for all my needs.

Click on Triggers and click on new, click on begin task and pick "At logon" choose "Specific user or group and click on change user and pick the account for " zz-JTucker" ( John Tucker is domain administrator) and click on okay.

Click on actions, click new and actions menu pick send e-mail , from address Alert@smtp25.org to Alert@smtp25.org ( this is DL I created and I am member of this DL), fill out all required spaces, such as from to address and the relay server FQDN. Make sure you can open telnet from this server to the relay server and able to see 220.

Click okay the lst thing you want to do is make a right click and go to properties and select, "Hidden" for this task.

Now whenever the user " zz-JTacker" you will get an warning e-mail letting you know. You can also make a right click and select run to test the scheduled job.

"That's it hope soo you understood the above,For any more quires fell free to leave a comment..... . . . . ..."

Exchange server 2010

Exchange Server 2010 is the Best version of ALL:

I start blogging a lot about 2010 so much to talk,
all in once the best version of exchange in many aspects in my eyes. I am truly
loving Exchange2010 and can write one or more article per day , no
joke,because Exchange 2010 has so much to talk about.

The changes in database tables, the new structure or DB, makes it more efficient ***Faster*** and goodbye SIS (- : ,goodbye SG (storage groups), another 70 percent reduction introduced in Exchange 2010,( maybe even more) on top of improvement have been introduced in exchange 2007, JBOD. Finally off load the exchange off the SAN (huge savings to everyone) and first time in history fully redundant messaging experience with no third party or SAN solution right out the product itself.

The new power of Exchange start shining with DAG (data availability Group) will make your messaging environment fully redundant with two server, and fail over is handled by natively with the application. The user experience is blip most of the time.

Not to mention more is given with exchange, your compliant regulatory requirements, email archiving solution is also comes with the product. This is incredible value, better faster, and the most comprehensive version of messaging application with ***less*** complexity.

Well as I said so much to talk about 2010, I truly believe not upgrading to exchange 2010 will cause lost in revenue to the business and that is why exchange 2010 will be the best version and most powerful version ever in the MS messaging history.
I recommend download the public version and see the power with your own eyes, you will be amazed with all new futures and the power.

AMD Overdrive 3.02 Build 289

AMD Overdrive 3.02 Build 289:

The AMD OverDrive application was designed to be a utility the provides the ability to maximize the capability, flexibility, and adjustability of the AMD chipset products.It allows user to tune parameters to ensure system stability, optimize performance, and control cooling/acoustic characteristics. Our target is to provide an all-in-one utility which can deliver all-around stellar operation.

in This Release:

• NEW Features
• AMD Black Edition Memory Profiles
• Achieve optimum high speed DDR3 performance with pre-tuned memory profiles. Open up bandwidth and overclock your memory for even more performance.
• AMD Smart Profiles
• Tune performance when you run the applications you use most. Set optimum affinity and performance based on our default profiles or customize your own.
• Customizable AutoClock
• More options for experienced users to automatically tune their PC
• Fan Control
• Enhanced support for monitoring your PC and taking control
• Ready to use with Microsoft Windows 7

download:

http://rapidshare.com/files/231078303/AMD_Overdrive_3.02_Build_289_www.dl4all.com.rar

FOG Wallpapers High Quality

FOG Wallpapers High Quality:

Download:
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