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Free Research Help - CrossEngine.com

Posted on January 17th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Computing, GTD, Hack, Search Engine, Web Service.

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Free Handwriting Practice Paper

Posted on January 16th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Craft, Freeware, Hack, Journaling, Notetaking, Tutorial, Web Service.

Greetings Everyone - a loyal reader Dave was kind enough to send this tip for  to me to share with the rest of the readers. It is where to get a PDF of handwriting practice paper. It is designed for children but can be quite useful when you want to practice your new found love of cursive or italic handwriting. Note if your printer can do it print it 2 per sheet to allow you a smaller line for more adult sized writing ** Great Tip Dave  - THANKS**

The Paper is available here - just save out the PDF file to your computer and you will be good to go. (Sounds like a Taco Bell Commercial)

Now I didn't print this our for myself by upon inspection this paper is similar to that is included in the back of the write now book. I can see using this when I get a new fountain pen and just want to play with how the nib works and writes without scribbling in my journal.

Technorati Tags: Fountain+Pen, Fountain, pen, Ink, writing, free, worksheet, pdf, print, practice, help, guide, cursive, handwriting, writing

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Pen and Ink - Online Fountain Pen

Posted on January 13th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Communication, Craft, Journaling, Web Service.

Thought I had to share a site that I came across today. It is a site that you can use your mouse to write with a broad italic style nib for a calligraphy writing. It was just fun playing around with. I did the drawing below on a laptop with only a travel mouse. You can do much better if you have a pen tablet to really get that fountain pen feel. Funny thing is that the Fountain Pen looks like a stick. You do get two choices of ink colors a nice Black and a bright red. You do get to draw and write on a nice piece of parchment paper on the screen. There is no easy way to save what you draw - The only way I saw you can do it is to screen capture the whole screen and paste it into a graphic editor and crop down to what you want to save.

Sorry for not posting the link to Pen and Ink 

Technorati Tags: Fountain, Pen, Fountain+Pen, Online, Service, Art, Ink

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Price Protection - Via Price Protectr

Posted on January 10th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Communication, Hack, Money, Search Engine, Shopping, Web Service.

How many times have you seen the guarantee that you will get the lowest price around even if the price drops in the next 30 days you will get the money back. Well how often do you actually keep looking at the prices once you purchase the item. Well that is where Price Protectr Comes in handy. This is a free service that allows you to watch prices for the following companies:

Amazon, Backcountry.com, Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, Future Shop, Jenson USA, Office Max, Sears, or Target. 

I know I use quite a few of these to purchase items. I think I have only once checked the price afterwards to make sure the price didn't drop and that was by accident seeing it in a weekend sales catalog. I can see this being a very useful service and time saver. To use this service it only takes a few minutes to setup the alert then all you have to do afterwards is to check your email as you normally do. (Well I hope you check it regularly ) 

Thats it a quick and easy way to verify that you got the best price and make sure you take advantage of the best price for the upcoming month or so.

Thanks Price Protectr

Technorati Tags: price, protectr, amazon, best+buy, target, office+max, costco, circuit+city, sears, money, back, free, service, guarantee

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Free Crossword Help!

Posted on January 9th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Freeware, Game, Hack, Web Service.

I enjoy working on crossword puzzles - But honestly I am not always that good But I still don't resort to the answer key and would like to have some suggestions or hints. I just stumbled upon was "One Across - Search for Crossword Puzzle Answers"

Very Useful when you have a clue but honestly have no clue.

In their search engine you type in the clue given and then type in how many letters it is if the word is blank  or you can type in  ???ed?? for a 7 letter word with ED in the 4th and 5th locations.

Example: Clue is "Round"  and Pattern is "O????"  and the first letter starts with O

The Answer it gives back is

	ORBIT	similar to known clue (round)
	OVATE	similar to known clue (round)
	OXEYE	similar to known clue (round)

Technorati Tags: Crossword, Puzzle, Crossword+Puzzle, Search, Engine, Search+Engine, Help, Hints, Clue, Guide

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Cool Idea - The 20GB Time Capsule

Posted on January 5th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Communication, Email, Web Service.

Catching up on a few of my RSS Feeds and I came across this interesting idea where a person is going to gather up 20GB of various data and put it onto a hard drive to be stored and then looked at again in 30 Years. He is asking to keep the file length under 10mb (Plus the file can not be NSFW, Racist or Prejudiced) You can Send a JPG, GIF, OR, PDF. No EXE as who would be able to run them, No Podcasts, and No Videos. 

Well This got me to thinking - What would I contribute that would mean something to me today and worthy enough to be re-read and looked at in 30 years. I have a few Ideas - One is to do a PDF file documenting my family and friends through the photographs and information I currently have. I may even just do this as a larger JPG file and make it a collage. I think this would be a pretty cool thing. Otherwise I am stumped as what to submit.

Here is where I ask you the readers - What would you include in this timecapsule?

Please submit a comment below and lets get a few good ideas that I can send or any one else here. If you do submit something. Let us know that as well. Sorry, Just being nebby.

Technorati Tags: 20gb, hard, drive, hard+drive, time, capsule, time+capsule, digital, photo, pdf, art, document

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eBay.com and eBay Motors Fee Adjustments - Yes Higher Prices

Posted on January 4th, 2007 by Merlin.
Categories: Anything Else, Money, Web Service.

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