30 Best Eco Sites on the Web

‘Going Green’ has never been so popular so it is hardly surprising that there are so many bloggers writing about being Eco Friendly. Modernechohomes.com presents this list of 30 eco friendly sites.

Freshwater Ecoregions Of the World


Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, (FEOW) provides a new global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. Covering virtually all freshwater habitats on Earth, this first-ever ecoregion map, together with associated species data, is a useful tool for underpinning global and regional conservation planning efforts, particularly to identify outstanding and imperiled freshwater systems; for serving as a logical framework for large-scale conservation strategies; and for providing a global-scale knowledge base for increasing freshwater biogeographic literacy.

Yotify

Working a lot like a more powerful version of Google Alerts Yotify allows you to deploy Scouts to alert you if keyword variables change or appear across the web. You can use Yotify to alert you to items for sale on the internet, price changes, news items, event ticket availability, etc.

Unigo: Find, Review, and Explore America's Colleges

Unigo is a free, student-generated guide to North American colleges. Unlike the official college catalogs and large printed guides to colleges this one is created by students themselves not the colleges' PR departments.

Read This To Me

"ReadThisToMe is a free reading service for blind and low-vision people, powered by volunteers and Internet collaboration."

ReadThisToMe allows blind and low-vision people (clients) to have printed documents read to them over the phone. All a person needs is a phone line and a fax machine (no computer is required.)

vozMe - From Text to Speech

vozMe is a free service that will convert any text to MP3. Choose male or female voice.

Google 10th Birthday Site

Google 10th birthday site includes an interactive timeline which shows the growth and development of Google.

20 Best Websites to Download Free eBooks

The Kongkiat.com blog lists these free ebook websites.

Plant Information Online

Plant Information Online offers a collection of databases of interest to plant and gardening enthusiasts and students, as well as professional botanists, horticulturists, and researchers. Some of the databases have been available in print (various titles) since 1979 and online through paid subscription since 1997. The whole site is now available free to the general public.

GoodGuide

GoodGuide provides the world's largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home.

Find Safe, Healthy & Green Products that protect you and your family.
Search or Browse over 60,000 Personal Care & Household Chemical Products, and see what’s really beneath the label.
Get Expert Advice & Recommendations on products and quickly learn the impacts of what you buy.
Find better products, and make purchasing decisions based on what’s important to you.
Create a personalized Shopping List with the products that are right for you & your family.

Teach2000: Free Flashcard Software

A private teacher to help you memorize a foreign language, topography or even the history of Italy by date. Improve your school results with this free trainer.

ArtWeaver

ArtWeaver is a free application that works a lot like Photoshop to let you edit and enhance photos and other image files.

ChaCha: Free Mobile Answer Service

ChaCha is like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free! ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device - from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones - to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes.

The Large Hadron Collider Goes Online Tomorrow

CERN will be providing a live webcast of the Large Hadron Collider's "First Beam" maiden voyage on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The first injection of the beam into the machine will be between 9:00 and 10:00 a. m. (Between 2:00 and 3:00 AM CST).

See a video about the LHC. If all this sounds like too much maybe the LHC rap will help.

Google to Bring Newspaper Archives Online

Today, [Google] is launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.

New Flexible eBook Reader Announced

Plastic Logic announces the 2009 debut of its new flexible eBook reader.

"The Plastic Logic reader supports a full range of business document formats, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and Adobe PDFs, as well as newspapers, periodicals and books. It has an easy gesture-based user interface and powerful software tools that will help business users to organize and manage their information. Users can connect to their information either wired or wirelessly and store thousands of documents on the device. The reader incorporates E Ink technology for great readability and features low power consumption and long battery life. The Plastic Logic reader is scheduled to ship in the first half of 2009." -- Plastic Logic web site

Video of flexible display refreshing while being flexed.

Telephone Privacy

LetsCall.Me is a free service that accepts calls anonymously without revealing your phone number.

101 Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Google

A great collection of tips for searching with Google.

Google Debuts It's New Browser:

Google Chrome

Google's entry into the world of internet browsers has begun with it's introduction of Google Chrome (beta) yesterday.

Download the browser at: http://www.google.com/chrome

Read the Google Chrome comic book introduction at: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/