If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you know that Twitter is one of the biggest sensations in the Web 2.0 world. For those who don’t know, Twitter (a service available at Twitter.com) is a simple microblogging service that allows users to make posts (called tweets) of up to 140 characters that answer the question “What are you doing now?” Users can follow people they find interesting and have followers of their own. In this way, information can be published to a small following or disseminated far and wide.

A quick glance at any single Twitter account reveals that users typically produce tweets on a wide variety of subject matter, from the everyday (for example, “I’m having a sandwich”) to the more sublime. Often, there are embedded links to images, media files, and blog postings. These URLs are frequently obfuscated by services like TinyURL, mostly to keep the total character length of the post at or under 140 characters.

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Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.

• OCW is not an MIT education.
• OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.
• OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.
• Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.

MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) has now shared MIT course materials with more than 50 million visitors worldwide, indicating how OCW has grown from a bold idea into a global movement that is reshaping the role of the university in the digital age.

Launched in 2002, OCW is MIT’s ambitious program to share course materials — including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams — from virtually all of the Institute’s classes, freely and openly on the Web. Through the main MIT OpenCourseWare site and through translation affiliate sites, OCW materials have been accessed by an estimated 50 million individuals from more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The OCW site alone has been visited by more than 30 million individuals, who have viewed more than 350 million pages. Affiliates have translated more than 600 of OCW’s 1,800 courses into languages including Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai and Persian.

See more here: http://ocw.mit.edu

Find free web site designer tutorials for creating your CSS. This site is loaded with free tutorials covering everything from photoshop to flash to php to javascipt and of course CSS.

You can find this cool resource here:

http://www.rnel.net/tutorials/CSS

Free photoshop tutorials on video covering a large variety of subjects. This section of the site is a comprehensive Photoshop Toolbox reference. Click on a tool to view its video-manual. Important!
*To play the movies you need Flash Player 6 or later

You can find this tool for photoshop here: SimplePhotoshop.com

PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files. They have over 285,000,000 free ebooks ready for download. You can also upload your own free pdf ebooks for extra exposure for your business.

You can find and download a tons of e-books but please respect the publisher and the author for their creations if their books copyrighted.

Use this free business tools here:

PDF Search Engine

Zimplit is the easiest CMS ever made!

Zimplit is the easiest CMS (Content Management System) ever made.
Zimplit is extremely lightweight, simple and customizable. It’s easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface. Zimplit consists of only one core engine file. And of course – it’s FREE.

We made Zimplit for normal people, not for IT gurus, and we really hope that it will make your web creation easy and fun

About the Company:

Zimplit was made by Krabi & Mask, one of the oldest design agencies in
Estonia. Krabi & Mask focus on digital media projects – web solutions and print design. Krabi was established in 1998, in order to bring a number of designers together to cooperate in one field and under one trademark. In the beginning the main fields were web design, print, and also book design. Soon Krabi grew, some programmers were taken on board, and the field of operation became much wider.

You can use this cool free design tool here:

ZIMPLIT

3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free!

Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). Post them in your blog or anywhere else.

I’ve used this myself and it’s so cool!

You can visit this free tool here:

http://3d-pack.com/

Bubble.us

What is it?

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

Why use bubbl.us?

Because you can:

• Create colorful mind maps online
• Share and work with friends
• Embed your mind map in your blog or website
• Email and print your mind map
• Save your mind map as an image

And it’s FREE!

You can find this cute useful business tool here

http://www.bubbl.us/

The Color Wizard is a color matching application for anyone who wants to create designs with great looking colors.

Matching Colors

The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.

It returns a set of hue, saturation and tint/shade variations of your color, as well as suggests color schemets to you, based on your color’s complementary color, split complementary colors, analogous colors and other variations. The color wizard also has a randomize function that lets you generate color schemes you might not have thought of on your own.

The first version of the Color Wizard was completed back in 2000 as an ASP application. With version 3, it has been converted to a flash based application.

Random Color Schemes

Spin the color wheel and get a selection of three random colors. The color wheel randomizes among some 16 million colors. And since each spin produces three different colors, that gives endless combinations. (or 2 to the power of 70 or so, which is a very large number). Enough to keep anyone busy for a while.

You can use this cool free color tool here: http://www.colorsontheweb.com/

Rebecca