6 Archaeology Tools Indiana Jones Could Have Used

Entire generations were inspired by Indiana Jones to join the field of archaeology. They were quick to learn, however, that real-life excavating and ground surveying doesn't involve bullwhips. Here are six tools that the good doctor should have used instead.

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Advanced Optical Solutions For Scientists

Scientists need to be equipped with the latest equipment that's optimized for doing research and development. Precision is critical in any lab setting, and that's why the right type of instruments must be used for taking measurements and other investigations.

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Basecamp: The Only Project Management Tool You'll Ever Need

Yet another product of 37Signals I featured on L-I aside from Rework, Basecamp is a project management tool that lets you create a project, to-do lists under that project, invite people to the project, assign a specific to-do to a person, and set deadlines. I have tried and tested Basecamp's 45-day free trial. On this post I will be listing why you should give it a shot and what other features they could include to improve the user experience with the product.

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L-I's Picks of Wolfram|Alpha Widgets For the Info Geeks

Last September, I posted about Wolfram|Alpha here on L-I. I've originally created a separate page for the W|A widgets (prev. the Tools page) but since Blogger only lets you create 10 static pages, I have to remove it to give space to other pages which are more important to the blog. As I promised, here they are - L-I's Picks of Wolfram|Alpha Widgets.

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Linux MultiMedia Studio: The Free Digital Audio Workstation

Whether you are in a band, a musical score composer, or simply a music-lover hobbyist aspiring to create music on your own, nothing beats a free software like Linux MultiMedia Studio. It is free and rich with features you thought to be only available on expensive audio-editing/mixing softwares. 

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Chrometa: It's Time to Evaluate your Activities

Another day has passed and the moon's already smiling at you. What have you accomplished today? You spent hours in front of your pc and who knows what you did? Well, Chrometa knows. *grin* Chrometa, a software built from the Java framework, will do all the job for you. It tracks all the programs you used and the time you spent with them.

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Scratch: Programming in Puzzle Pieces, Even Kids Can Program!

Do you find your kids spending hours on playing games? You may want to introduce them to Scratch. They can create their own games and animations, recreate others', and share them to other kids - all without having to write lines of codes. Scratch is a programming language where you program by dragging and dropping code pieces together, like those in a jigsaw puzzle.

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doc2PDF: A free and versatile document-to-PDF converter

Hey readers! This is a quick blog post about this online converter tool that had helped me for years. This is a feature post about doc2PDF, a free online tool that lets you convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .docx) to PDF (.pdf) documents. I also used this to convert OpenOffice (.odt) documents to PDFs. As I say, it's versatile. Since doc2PDF has been a great help, I want to return the favor by featuring them here at L-I.

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WolframAlpha: Redefining The World of Computing Data

The first time I heard about Wolfram|Alpha, I thought it was like Google, simply another search engine. But when I start using it, I realized that it's far different from Google, Bing or Ask. It's way different. So I read their about page and saw their description of this engine:

"It's a computational knowledge engine that generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links."

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Desktop clutter? Fence it!

Stardock FencesTM (or simply FencesTM) is a software created by Stardock Corporation that is used to organize your desktop. Using FencesTM, you can group your desktop icons, label that group, and hide all of them at once. 

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