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The past week has been about going underground and then coming up to see the Earth in a new way. Well, it's just what our two top posts for the past week talked about. We also talked a lot about a few other things. Like - What Is The Best Laptop Brand in our latest MakeUseOf Poll. We are still taking votes. If you have been following our regular Movers and Shakers section, you will know that we list the Top Ten most downloaded apps from a particular category. The past week was for portable applications that you can carry around in a Flash drive. Quite a few useful ones in that list and you can get them from CNET. Now, let's move on to the posts. Let's check out what has been happening the past week at MakeUseOf.com. | |
| The 5 Best Posts From Last Week | |
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| The Invisible Web refers to the part of the WWW that's not indexed by general search engines like Google. The 10 search engines mentioned here will be our deep diving vessel for the Invisible Web. Some of these search engines tap into knowledge resources like libraries and special purpose databases.  Search engines for the Invisible web is definitely for the guy who loves to dig deep for information. Read: Full Article | |
Google Maps itself is a cool application. To those familiar with Labs features for Gmail, this experimental plus fun part of Google won't come as a surprise. With these Google Maps labs features you can do all sorts of things with Google Maps features from Drag 'n' Zoom to Rotatable Maps to Smart Zoom. 
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| The recession is officially over. But hey, nothing beats being prepared. A great way to quickly compile a resume and not forget any details are online tools. This article covers the top 3 websites to create a CV or build a free resume online.  Also, catch the links at the bottom of the post directing you to two resources for the nitty-gritty of resume preparation. Read: Full Article | |
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| FeelHome makes it possible to access your entire hard drive from anywhere you have access to a browser. You can download and upload any document, from or to any place on your drive. All of this, without having to configure your router or firewall.  The best feature is that this free program can be installed on Linux, Mac or a Windows computer. Read: Full Article | |
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Second Life is not just an entertaining virtual reality game. It is proving to be a great teaching tool too. Over 5000 educators use Second Life to teach including professors from Harvard Law.  These five tools enhance collaboration and role-playing and help to extend Second Life. In the process, teaching and learning both become fun. Read: Full Article | |
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| The 5 Others That Deserve a Click | |
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