Tai Mingshen

Keyxl.com claims to have the largest online database of keyboard shortcuts in the world. It covers operating systems and applications on several platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, Linux and browser-based environments.

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Have you ever been confused by slang used in email, chat rooms, instant messaging or blog comments? You’re probably familiar with LOL (laughing out loud) and B4N (bye for now), but some of the acronyms can seem really obscure! NoSlang.com has created the Internet Slang Dictionary and Translator to help you out. The website also contains articles and links to more information about Internet slang, acronyms and  etiquette.

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Mango is providing free conversational foreign language courses in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, French, Greek, English for Spanish Speakers and English for Polish Speakers. There are about 100 lessons in each course, which you navigate through via an intuitive Flash-based interface. Written phases are clearly spoken and their pronunciation is explained word by word.

See my previous post on free language courses for links to some other good resources.

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You convert it is a web-based conversion tool for documents, images, audio and video. All you have to do is upload the file, provide your email address, then download the converted file using the link sent to you by email.

[Via Lifehacker]

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Webware.com has posted an excellent collection of real-time commercial flight trackers; Map Your Sweetie’s Progress with a Flight Tracker.

Here’s a summary of the links: FBOWeb, FlightStats, FlightView and FlightAware.

Another quick way to track the status of a flight is to type the flight number in a Google search…

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aM laboratory have developed the FL-909, a very cool online simulator of the Roland TR-909 drum machine.

[Via: The Red Ferret Journal]

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Are you worried that electronic surveillance is invading your privacy? The website Googlonymous thinks you should be and has posted CBNC’s documentary “Big Brother, Big Business”, providing an insight to this problem in the USA. You can also find the documentary on YouTube.

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WinMerge is an Open Source tool which compares and merges text files and directories on Win32 platforms. What makes this utility even more useful is the xdocdiff WinMerge plugin, which lets you compare and merge several binary formats, including MS Office, OpenOffice and PDF files.

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This is great fun! JamStudio.com lets you compose music online using a simple, intuitive Flash interface. The site provides over 40,000 free loops, featuring acoustic & electric guitars, basses, drums, pianos, synths and organs. Type in the chord progression, select the tempo, instrument tracks and instrument styles, then mix the volumes of each instrument. You can even create verse, bridge and chorus sequences.

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