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ICT-WEB Alert

July 2012

  1. Focus On the Digital Age

    Focus On the Digital Age gives an overview of ICT use in the UK, showing the extent to which people, education, business and government have taken up the new technology and how ICT is changing working and business practices. It also looks at how the UK compares with other countries and describes some of the problems associated with the digital age.


  2. i-spark.org

    A community of engineers and scientists.


  3. OpenCourseWare Finder

    Find open educational resources. The OCW Finder currently shows results from: MIT OCW, Utah State University OCW, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW, Tufts University OCW, Foothill De-Anza SOFIA, and Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative.


  4. Personal wikis

    Personal wikis allow people to richly link information on their desktop or mobile computing devices the same way a community wiki links information across the internet. Thus people who like the wiki philosophy of organizing information may find personal wikis useful.


  5. Pronetos

    “We provide an intuitively designed, real-time, web based community platform that facilitates mass collaboration and democratizes content for global distribution among academics with the ability to archive and search that content.”


  6. RedOrbit.com

    RedOrbit.com is an internet destination for space, science, health, and technology enthusiasts.


  7. Science Learning Centres

    Science Learning Centres are a national network for professional development in science teaching. The Centres support teachers in enhancing their professional skills by learning more about contemporary scientific ideas and in experimenting with effective teaching approaches and gaining experience of modern scientific techniques.


  8. Scitopia.org

    Search over 3 million documents, plus patents and government data from fifteen societies spanning 150 years of sci-tech scholarship.


  9. RSS Locator

  10. Scintilla

    Scintilla keeps you up to date with papers, news and science weblogs


  11. Scientific Computing World: Education

  12. mail2web.com

    While the biggest email providers allow you to check your emails wherever you are in the world, those who have email accounts with smaller ISPs needn't worry: they also have that option, using third-party sites that offer web-based POP3 access. Mail2web.com is one of the most reliable.


  13. meebo.com

    Are you keen on instant messaging, but frustrated that Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL all require you to have different bits of software running in order to keep in touch with people? meebo.com rolls all these services and more into one application that runs inside a browser window and that you can use on public computers.


  14. fring.com

    If you use VOIP applications - such as Skype, and MSN - to chat to people using your computer, fring.com offers a client you can install on your mobile phone; this allows you to talk to people around the world via your handset for free or at substantially reduced rates.


  15. howstuffworks

    Covers everything from creating a home office to how mortgages work, along with solving such quandaries as whether antibacterial soap is any better than regular soap. Also lists essential gadgets and how to get the most from your digital camera. Plus fascinating, but less practical topics, such as how Black Hawk helicopters work.


  16. planningportal

    Find out what's being built in your area, learn about planning permission applications and see what plans your local council has up its sleeve. Search by postcode, area or place of interest in England and Wales.


  17. AthenaWeb

    Launched in the spring of 2005, AthenaWeb is a video portal and workspace for European audiovisual communication professionals in the areas of science and scientific information.


  18. BlogScholar

    Academic blogging portal.


  19. Creation Design Consultancy

    Creation is a Bristol based agency specialising in graphic design, advertising and websites. As well as these three core services we can also provide marketing, photography, print management, media buying and copywriting.


  20. OMICRON Filter Design : Electronic Filter Design Software - fast and accurate!

    OMICRON FilterDesign specializes in filter design software and consulting to assist engineers in developing electronic filters quickly ,easily and with accuracy. These designs are based upon the mathematical algorithms presented by Friedrich Kaufman in his book entitled "Synthese von Reaktanzfiltern"


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