Comments (0) A working reverse dictionary is one of the most useful sites out there. We’ve all had those moments when we know there’s a word for some concept, but we don’t know what it is. We need something more than a thesaurus, because we don’t know an equivalent word. Onelook.com‘s reverse dictionary helps. You can even enter wildcards, if you know what part of the word looks like.
In one of the stranger websites I have been to recently, you can answer that question that has always been bothering you – if I dig a very deep hole, where will I end up ? Go here and you can select anywhere on the map (you can zoom in and drag that map around to get to where you want to dig) and it will show you exactly where you would end up. Now isn’t that what you have always wanted ?!?
I love this – if you are a fan of Star Wars (which, incidentally, I’m not), you can now see it in your browser window. Go to http://www.asciimation.co.nz/index.php# and you can see a rather different version – in ASCII (that’s those pictures made up of letters and numbers – very ’80′s).
You may not sit through the whole thing, but you have to admit – it’s very clever.
Google have been playing around with some new features. Instead of doing this in their ‘live’ environment, they have created a new environment called SearchMash without any of the logos, etc. It is definitely Google-maintained, though. There are one or two interesting features:
All in all, this looks quite interesting. I think we might be seeing some of this functionality in Google sometime soon, hopefully.
This is a novel concept – the idea of chatting with a complete stranger at random. You can leave whenever you like and never have to reveal anything about yourself. Sometimes a complete stranger might be just who you need to talk to ! Can’t guarantee you will find intellectual conversation, but worth a try.
My first suggestion for a site (thanks, Linda !) – VideoJug is a great site with ‘how to’ videos on just about everything that you could possibly think of. They have categories for food, drink, health, beauty, DIY, House & Garden, pets and leisure. The entries range from ‘How to perform the perfect golf swing’ to ‘How to unblock a toilet’ to (my personal favourite) ‘How to get out of a car without showing your knickers’ ! Surely something for everyone at this site.
Now this I think is an idea that has potential – GroupLoop is website for any group of people who want to share ideas, share files, share calendars, have group discussions, etc. It seems to be very simple, but done very effectively. This could benefit all sorts of people and is well worth a look.
Sizeasy (not a great name) is a website that visually lets you compare the size of something with familiar objects (a pack of cards, a wine bottle, etc). It’s a great idea and works really well. You get front view, side view, top view and best of all a 3D view. Simple and very effective.
I have recently come across an application called Browster which I can safely say will revolutionalise the way that you surf. What it does is provide a small icon next to links when you hover your mouse over them. When you then mouse over the icon it will pop up that link in a hovering window. You can follow links in the window and scroll up and down, but when you mouse away from that window it disappears. You can go through a page of links in seconds without having to open up new windows (or tabs if you use Firefox) each time – saving you so much time and effort.
I think it is fantastic – give it a go. The one version works with both IE and Firefox (sorry, no Opera or Safari right now).
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