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29th February 2000

MacDICT 1.3.5

“MacDICT lets you access a growing number of databases (currently 23), including Websters Dictionary, for free. Other databases include the US Gazetter, Free Online Dictionary of Computing, Roget’s Thesaurus, Infoplease Encyclopedia, and the list goes on…”

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29th February 2000

Radio Alphabet

“VFA-13 Shadow Riders present a handy glossary of the international radio alphabet used in aviation.” You know, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo…

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29th February 2000

Ask Slashdot: Who is the Best Registrar?

“I’ve been looking around at a couple of NSI’s new competitors (register.com, for example), and the information on their pages about services and pricing for them is underwhelming at best. I also haven’t been able to find any good comparisons on the Web. So, in the experience of the /. community, what is the best registrar to go through for my new Web site?”

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29th February 2000

Youdraw — Humanity at Human Proportions

“If you were to draw one ’stick’ person every second, 24 hours a day, it would take you 200 years to make six billion drawings. Six billion is such a big number no one can really imagine what it represents. The YouDraw exhibition will show 6 billion drawings of the world’s people together for the first time ever.”

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29th February 2000

Newspaper reporters defecting to dot-coms

“With the increase of online publications over the past few years, Web sites are hungry for content and for people who can produce it. Higher salaries and more freedom for creativity often prove irresistible to journalistic job-seekers. The result is that traditional print newspapers may be facing an uncertain future in the competition for editorial talent.”

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29th February 2000

HTMHell: Breeding better sites

“Elvis had a ghost brother, Aron — a twin who died in childbirth. Elvis grew up to be the king of rock and roll. Nobody knows what Aron Presley might have become. The Web is similarly populated with the ghosts of the unborn. For every site we visit, there are undoubtedly better-designed versions that the client rejected and we will never see. If there’s a rock and roll heaven, perhaps there’s one for unborn Web sites as well.”

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29th February 2000

AppCity

“Using [its] tools and years of application design experience, AppCity has launched a site offering the widest collection of free commercial-quality Web-hosted applications or Web Apps available on the Internet. The applications on the AppCity site are designed for consumers, businesses, and organizations that appreciate quality and speed and can benefit from an expansive library of hundreds of top quality Web Apps. AppCity users can actively request new applications and suggest enhancements to existing applications.”

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