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HowStuffWorks: The perfect site for the endlessly curious,

Instructables: Learn how to make anything from a corsage to a catapult.

5min features videos from users who are experts on a particular subject. 

http://lifehacker.com/

eHow

MSN Video

OCWFinder Finds Free Open Course ware for Education

Chop YouTube Videos
How to Make a YouTube video
PowerPoint to YouTube with Windows Movie Maker





FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages.

Dictionary.com / Thesaurus.com:

when you need to know what fresh entrants into the lexicon mean. www.wordspy.com 


Livemocha: Livemocha (in beta) is a new, free approach to learning new languages,

Treehugger: Here you can find a lot of information on how to live greener every day.

At FixYa: a team of experts and a large group of users address comm 

Lynda.com: To learn how to use new software 

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 VideoJug: VideoJug mixes user generated clips with professionally made content. Videos are accompanied by a text version, and you can download clips to your iPod or PSP. This UK-based site is receiving a lot of hype from the British press.

5min: 5min is a “videopedia” with a large amount of content. What we like: it offers unique features like slow-motion and zooming, especially useful for learning new skills.
ViewDo: similar to VideoJug, ViewDo provides tagging, comments, video embeds, and RSS feeds for each expert. The contributors are ranked based on their expertise.

Expert Village: Expert Village is trying to win on volume, with thousands of videos posted by experts.

TeacherTube: TeacherTube is YouTube for education, with courses for maths, data processing and literature. The site is organized by “channels” and “groups” (college, university, sciences, technology, Maths…). Features include blog embeds, favorites, tagging and commenting.

Vidipedia: Vidipedia wants to be the Wikipedia of the videos. It provides info on personalities, historical events and other content you’d expect to find in an encyclopedia. You can leave comments, download or embed videos elsewhere.

YouTube: Don’t forget YouTube itself: the YouTube category “How To and DIY provides a massive number of how-to videos and inspiration for projects. In fact, it could crush the others simply because of YouTube’s massive userbase.


WonderHowTo   your guide to free how to videos on the Web.

Howcast - Cool how-to videos and guides from cutting-edge ...

 TechNet "How Do I?" Videos

MSN Video: "Soapbox User Videos"

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Massive List of ‘HowTo’ Sites + ‘HowTo’ Search Engine | MakeUseOf.com

watch the slow motion videos and listen to the instructors as they share their secrets and demystify the guitar parts you love.

 10 Great Sites for Local Content and Mobile Devices »

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http://www.whitepages.com/tools

 Search Systems: Public-records sites do the legwork of collecting all kinds of public records from all over the country, and then sell access to them via the Internet. Search Systems, one of the oldest and most reliable of these companies,

NETRonline (www.netronline.com): For a somewhat more hands-on ap­­proach to accessing public records, NETRonline's free public records portal is a very useful tool, with direct links to the actual county and state databases that contain the data.

 Criminal Searches: Do you really know the people in your neighborhood? Do some of them have criminal histories, including sex-related offenses, violent crimes, and theft (or just traffic offenses, as the site also details)? Criminal Searches provides their mug shots and even plots their addresses on a map, for free.

FriendFeed helps you discover and discuss interesting stuff that your friends and family find on the web. 

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