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I am preparing a blog post for my library's in which I am going to review several websites that I consider "useful" for our patrons in improving the quality of their lives or help them keep a little more money in their pocketbooks.
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posted by cinemafiend
on Feb 22, 2013 -
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Hello crafty-folks! It's 2012 & once again I have realized that I have not learned to knit in time to give everyone handmade scarves for the holidays. So what new awesome projects can you suggest for holiday gift-giving?
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posted by Ys
on Nov 7, 2012 -
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I bought bottles of orange blossom water and rose water at the grocery store. What can I do with them?
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posted by lizbunny
on Sep 9, 2012 -
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A non-English colleague's non-English son is off to the University of Warwick in England tomorrow! What not-obvious but super-useful UK websites will help him take full advantage of his new-found freedom (and maybe even save him some money)?
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posted by mdonley
on Sep 30, 2010 -
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What is something useful that I can do through the internet that I'm probably not already doing?
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posted by karminai
on Aug 20, 2010 -
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My roommate is going to be in Tanzania for 6 months to work with a local NGO. I would like to give him something small he can take with him before he leaves in January. What useful item will he be without access to then that I can give to him now?
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posted by bradly
on Dec 25, 2009 -
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Parents: what are your favorite newish tools of the trade? I'm helping to research a magazine article, trying to identify really great products new to the market in the past 18 months or so that make parents' lives easier. What recent discoveries have you made?
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posted by Camofrog
on Jul 29, 2008 -
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Say you wanted to print a small chart of eternally and universally useful reference information on the back of your business card, so recipients would have a good incentive to carry it with them and refer to it often. What information would you choose?
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posted by mthomps00
on Feb 15, 2008 -
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What are good "pocket-sized" reference books to carry in your bag/pack/purse, with the best ratio of useful information to page count and size?
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posted by mrbill
on Jan 1, 2008 -
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I would like to automatically generate hypertext links from a list of text. Ideally this would mean pasting a series of comma separated words into some online tool and having the system turn each word into a relevant google/wikipedia link... Does anyone know any sites/tools that will do this?
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posted by 0bvious
on May 4, 2007 -
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Where can I find other webpages like
this one ? What blogs present other nice items (in terms of usability).
posted by vincentm
on Jan 20, 2006 -
9 answers