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Free Printable 2012 Calendars

This is about as simple as it gets - a straight forward calendar that you can print, month by month. So if you need to print a calendar, this will do it for you.

CouchSurfing

Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch At A Time The idea of sharing out your home to other people, either for free or a cost isn't new, but this is the first time that I've actually come across CouchSurfing. They say: "When you join CouchSurfing, you tap into our network of welcoming people worldwide. You can share your hospitality and experience your city through new eyes by offering travelers a place to stay on their journey. You can bypass the typical hotel experience by staying at the home of a local and learning about their culture. You can meet open-minded people in your home city by attending events. And you can meet up with new people, whether at home or while traveling, for inspiring experiences and new friendships."

Choose the place you want to go, check out the people who live close by and work something out. I don't think money changes hands, but I haven't joined in order to find out.

 

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Where In the World Have You Been All Your Life?

Where In the World Have You Been All Your Life?. Map of the world. Click on the places that you've been. They get coloured in. You then save it. Boast to the world how much of it you've seen.

Facto; random facts about yourself

There are some resources that I see on the net which I simply don't get, and Facto.me is one of them. You're probably familiar with Formspring.me which allows you to create an account and lets people ask you questions. I tried it for a while but found I was doing most of the asking and not much of the answering, so I gave up on it. Facto is designed so that you can write facts about yourself that other people wouldn't know. You can then let them see them. If you're desperate to see some odd facts about me you're welcome to look at my account. You can then rate the facts by ticking boxes such as 'boring', 'awesome', 'me too!' and so on.

Alternatively you can look at random facts about random people and rate those. In God's name why? Do you really care that John Doe in Oregon likes eating peas covered in horseradish? What possible difference will that make to your life? And from the other side, what difference is it going to make to the pea eating horseradish addicted Mr Doe that some random person he doesn't know and will never know thinks that's an awesome fact?

It's very popular at the moment however - since having an account for less than 12 hours I've had over 20 responses to my random facts. Do I care? Not in the slightest. However, - it's there if you want it.

The Baby Name Wizard

The Name Experts. Normally I'm not particularly interested in babies names, but this website has proved the exception to the rule. I've seen plenty of other baby name websites and the most that they seem to do is give you a definition of the name and that's about it. This resource however goes above and beyond anything I've seen before.

You can start with the baby name finder and search by style, letters, popularity, and more. For example I decided to try and find a baby name this started with the letter P and I chose contemporary style, but uncommon names.I got three suggestions; Pacen, Pax and Phibes. All rather odd, but to be fair they did exactly match my criteria.There is also a graft a name option and you can track the popularity of names over time. Moreover there is a map a name feature and you can see where your name is most popular, but unfortunately this seems to be limited to the United States.

There is a research a name function, and this provides a lot of useful and interesting information. There is a pronunciation key for the name, an option to find similar names, the origin of the name, there is also an option to provide your own opinion on a name using a sliding scale system.You can see any sibling names as well, which is to say that if you type in a name you can see common brother and sister names.You can also get a list of famous people who share the name you're interested in, global popularity of a name, and the US popularity of the name over time.

If you have any interest in names at all, and particularly if you're having a child and are looking around for names this is a superb resource.

online Egg Timer

Okay, I'm not exactly sure what you going to do with an online Egg Timer but whatever it is you can use up to 3 of them. You can choose up to 99 min and obviously seconds and when you have set your time or timers when they ring they will ring with a nice little telephone sound. It does what it says on the tin.

HelpAGuyOut

Get Advice from Women on Dating, Relationship, Love. You know all the questions and answers sites? This is one of those. If you're a bloke, you pay $2 to ask a question and a woman answers and she gets $1. (Nothing rude, lewd or... y'know.) Fine and dandy, but I can't see any way that they have to make sure it really IS a woman answering. Strange, but if you want to earn up to $25 a day (the limit you can answer), this may be an approach worth considering.

Password security

"How safe is my password?' is a question that I get asked a lot. I found a really nice site that checks this for you - How Secure is my password which tries to tell you. Just type in a password and see what it comes back with - it's pretty instant. Looks a little like this:

It's worth noting that the site isn't secure, so I wouldn't be inclined to put in an actual password that you use, so choose something similar and see what it comes back with. What's interesting is the speed with which it gives you a response, so it's easy to test stuff out. Let's take the most obvious example there is 'password'.

Letter by letter we get:

p = It would take 0.0000026 seconds for a desktop PC to crack your password

pa = It would take 0.0000676 seconds for a desktop PC to crack your password

pas = It would take 0.0017576 seconds for a desktop PC to crack your password

pass = This is one of the 500 most commonly used words. Your password would be cracked almost instantly

passw = It would take about a second for a desktop PC to crack your password

passwo = It would take about 30 seconds for a desktop PC to crack your password

passwor = It would take about 13 minutes for a desktop PC to crack your password

password = This is one of the 500 most commonly used words. Your password would be cracked almost instantly

So we're still not terribly safe with this. Adding to it makes a real difference though:

passworda = It would take about 6 days for a desktop PC to crack your password

passworda1 = It would take about 11 years for a desktop PC to crack your password

passwordA1 = It would take about 2,000 years for a desktop PC to crack your password

passwordA1! = It would take about a million years for a desktop PC to crack your password

passwordA1!? = t would take about a 100 million years for a desktop PC to crack your password

So, just a few extra characters, upper case and symbols moves us into fairly safe territory, and that's using a stupid password to begin with. Now, I wouldn't for a moment suggest using 'password' in any form at all, but take the point - a mix of upper/lower case and symbols makes a huge difference.

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RandomizeList

Scramble a List. Yeah, I thought the concept of creating a list and then scrambling it was a bit odd too. But it's a good idea - if you don't want to show favouritism for something perhaps. Not something you'll want much, but when you do, it'll be well handy.

Calendar 365

2010 Calendar. OK, this one is a bit odd. It's a calendar on a webpage. You can mouseover dates but you can't do anything with them. You can check out handy dates and moonphases, but only if you're American. Most useful thing I could see was the ability to calculate a period between two dates. Other than that, I'll stick to my wall year planner... it's more useful.