Friday, May 18, 2012

Old cowboy's advice

Keep your fences high, pig-tight and bull-strong
Life is simpler when you plow around the stump
A bumble bee id considerably faster than a John Deere tractor
Meanness dont' jes' happen overnight
Don't corner something that would normally run from you
If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance
The best sermons are lived, not preached.
Sometimes you get, sometimes you get got

zombies tbw








Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Best Free Online Document Viewer and Sharing


Best Free Online Document Viewer and Sharing
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    Scribd, a great tool to upload and view documents of various formats in full screen, mark them private and accessible by a specific URL, share them with millions of readers, or embed the viewer into a website or blog.
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    SlideShare, search and download Powerpoint presentations from the web, or upload and share your slides, word or pdf documents publicly or privately. You can also view slides in full screen, or read transcripts and outlines.
Best Free Online Document Collaboration
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    Crocodoc, a convenient tool to collaborate on PDFs, Word and Powerpoint documents. You can highlight, add or strike out text, and add a note to a document shared by an URL. Adding password protection is limited to paid-for accounts.
Best Free Online Document Optimizer
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    PocoDoc shrinks the Office files for you while retaining the original file formats in Word, Excel or PowerPoint. In some cases, the service claims that a compression of up to 95% can be achieved. (Review)

Best Free Online PDF Tools


Best Free Online PDF Tools
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    7-PDF Web Portal converts a wide range of documents into PDFs. You can set a page range and image compression for the conversion. Just choose a file to upload, click Convert to PDF button and a PDF file is downloaded automatically for you. (Review)
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    PDFescape, a PDF editor with form filler and designer. You can add text, links and sticky notes, whiteout contents, draw shapes, add form fields or fill up forms. Maximum file size 2 MB or 50 pages per file for free accounts. (Review)
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    PDFHammer a PDF editor to visually rearrange, reorder and delete pages, merge PDFs, set PDF metadata or protect PDF files with a password. Easy to use—just upload, edit and save the files back to your computer.
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    ILovePDF, a nice tool to merge or split pdf files easily. You can merge up to 10 PDF files in one, extract or split pages in a PDF, subject to a maximum file size of 8 MB.
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    Nitro PDF offers free online conversion from PDF to Word/Excel via PDF-to-Word Converter and PDF-to-Excel Converter. Both are helpful and easy to use—choose the file you need, click the Convert button and check your inbox for the converted files. See also Free File Converter.
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    Web2PDF lets you convert any webpage into a PDF document and save it to your computer with various options such as setting paper size. Simply paste the URL and click the button, or you can drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar so you don’t have to revisit the website. (ReviewSee also PrintWhatYouLike.
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    CodeBox's PDF to Flash Page Flip converts your pdf file into a flash file with a smooth turn-page animation effect—upload a pdf up to 10 MB and receive a zip file containing html and swf files for viewing in a browser or a flash player. (Review)
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    DigiSigner, a useful tool to digitally sign your PDF files and verify signatures, and you can assure that the important PDF documents are not tampered with. (Review)

Best Free Online Office Suite


Best Free Online Office Suite
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    Google Docs offers a suite of Web-based productivity applications including documents, presentation, spreadsheet and form in a simple folder within a file organizational system. It allows for users to easily create, share and edit files in real time online, or upload an existing file into the system. (Review)
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    Zoho Docs unites Writer, Sheet and Show and supports most file types with 1 GB of free storage. Sporting a useful toolbar menu for editing, it also features tabs for easy access to multiple documents, with various collaboration options available. (Review)
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    Office Web Apps "offers free online versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft OneNote. Even better they are giving users 25 GB of free online storage to store their documents on Microsoft’s SkyDrive service." (Review 1,Review 2See also Windows Live SkyDrive.

to be woked


Nitro PDF converts online conversion from PDF to Word/Excel via PDF-to-Word Converter.

7-PDF Web Portal converts a wide range of documents into PDFs. You can set a page range and image compression for the conversion. Just choose a file to upload, click Convert to PDF button and a PDF file is downloaded automatically for you ILovePDF, a nice tool to merge or split pdf files easily. You can merge up to 10 PDF files in one, extract or split pages in a PDF, subject to a maximum file size of 8 MB.

PDFescape, a PDF editor with form filler and designer. You can add text, links and sticky notes, whiteout contents, draw shapes, add form fields or fill up forms. Maximum file size 2 MB or 50 pages per file for free accounts. PDFHammer a PDF editor to visually rearrange, reorder and delete pages, merge PDFs, set PDF metadata or protect PDF files with a password. Easy to use—just upload, edit and save the files back to your computer.
Web2PDF lets you convert any webpage into a PDF document and save it to your computer with various options such as setting paper size. Simply paste the URL and click the button, or you can drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar so you don’t have to revisit the website. (CodeBox's PDF to Flash Page Flip converts your pdf file into a flash file with a smooth turn-page animation effect—upload a pdf up to 10 MB and receive a zip file containing html and swf files for viewing in a browser or a flash player. 
DigiSigner, a useful tool to digitally sign your PDF files and verify signatures, and you can assure that the important PDF documents are not tampered with

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Free courses:Religion and Sociology

Religion
  • Faith and Globalization – YouTube – Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
  • Historical Jesus – iTunes – Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
  • Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) – Download Course – Christine Hayes, Yale.
  • Introduction to New Testament History and Literature –YouTube – iTunes – Download Course – Professor Dale B. Martin, Yale
  • Jerusalem: The Holy City from Ancient Canaan t0 Modern Israel – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Robert Cargill, UCLA
  • Jews and Christians Throughout History - iTunes Video - Web Video – Rabbi Michael Signer, Notre Dame
  • Science, Magic and Religion: From Antiquity to Present –iTunes – YouTube - UCLA
Sociology
  • Foundations of Modern Social Theory – iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Iván Szelényi, Yale
  • Global Sociology YouTube – Professor Michael Burawoy, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Sociology – Web Site – Harvey Molotch, NYU
  • The Sociology of Race Relations – iTunes – Gianpaolo Baiocchi, UMASS Amherst

Tuesday, May 8, 2012