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Recycling Electronics for Free
Wow! Just noticed this great post about free electronics recycling on Lifehacker. From the blog post: "The program, which allows you to discard your used electronics in an... Read More
Type(s): Tip, Web Service
Tags: recycling electronics free USPS

A Real Flight Tracker
A few weeks ago, I was preparing to leave a dinner party to pick up my sister at the airport, when Artur Bergman suggested I check Flight Aware rather than the airline website... Read More
Type(s): Tip, Web Service, Web Site
Tags: flight tracking track flight+tracking airline airport

Bug Me Not
I found out about this great web service on Erin McKean's Dress a Day blog. It basically generates usernames and passwords to use to get into free "registration required" webs... Read More
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: registration email

Freecycle.org
Makers (and regular folk): May I direct your attention to a website I recently discovered!! Freecycle.org, where you can give for free and get for free....Yes that's right... Read More
Type(s): Web Service
Tags: freecycle

Octopart
Enter the part number, or simply its title or use, and Octopart returns the best-matched specific components, their prices and availability from several suppliers, and links t... Read More
Comments: 2
Type(s): Web Service
Tags: instructables octopart search+engine parts components

Lulu
Lulu is a print-on-demand system that you can use to make, publish, and sell your own books. I used lulu.com to create a book for my nieces and nephew and was really happy wi... Read More
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: lulu book self+publishing

Google Calculator
One of the most useful tools I've found for Makers is Google's built-in calculator. It knows about all kinds of units and is as simple as typing in plain English. For examp... Read More
Comments: 1
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: google calculator

Food Expiration Dates
A couple months ago, I finally got fed up with not knowing how long things last in the refrigerator, and spent several days compiling the web's largest (so far as I know) repo... Read More
Type(s): Tip, Web Service, Web Site
Tags: expiration+dates

Worthy Wordie
Another great site for word lovers, Wordie.org is sort of "like Flickr, but without the photos." Instead of uploading photos, you add in words. Your favorite words. Your least... Read More
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: words wordie lists tags users

Magnatunes
I think of Magnatune as the standard bearer for open music. They: [1] Always share half of their proceeds with the artists they distribute. [2] Provide you with multiple... Read More
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: music+download mp3 open+source

Spam I Ain't
The anti-virus industry is dominated by a selected elite, like Symantec and McAfee, and to some extent by the pseudo-elite like BitDefender and Sophos. They are major market-s... Read More
Comments: 1
Type(s): Software, Web Service
Tags: spam "anti-virus" kaspersky

Rentometer
This is the type of site that shows why maps mashups are so popular; when the right data is displayed on a map it just comes to life. Rentometer will let you know if you are p... Read More
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: rent meter calculator website

Bloglines.com
As the number of online news sources grows, keeping current becomes difficult. An RSS client helps organize the mess. But if you want to read your feeds anywhere, you h... Read More
Comments: 2
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: rss

McMaster-Carr Online Catalog
McMaster-Carr is a hardware supply outfit that sells a bewildering variety of tools, equipment, and raw materials — plastics, metal stock, cable and wire, and rope —... Read More
Comments: 1
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: catalog hardware supply

Pixel Papers
I've stopped buying newspapers. I read them on a Palm Vx running AvantGo. This old grayscale palmtop's screen has extremely good contrast and it's reflective. That means that ... Read More
Type(s): Electronics/Gadget, Web Service
Tags: newspaper palm

Delicious Library
Here's how this beautifully designed personal library database works: grab a book, scan the URL with your iSight or type the ISBN, and watch the book pop up on a virtual shelf... Read More
Type(s): Web Service
Tags: personal library

NINJAM
Not only does NINJAM enable musicians to play together online, it even saves the jams as Creative Commons-licensed recordings. But the breakthrough is the way it overcomes the... Read More
Type(s): Web Service, Web Site
Tags: collaborative music

eBird Online Database
Backyard scientists have kept lists of the birds they’ve seen for centuries. These lists of have been useful to scientists who are able to correlate the observed changes ... Read More
Type(s): Travel and Outdoors, Web Service, Web Site
Tags: birding