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You thought you are typing fast? Test your speed using the tool right here. Speedtest is a flash site which will show you the meaningless words on the screen. Start to type in the field, and the counter on the left will start counting. If you typed correctly, the word will turned into green, or otherwise, it will turned into red.
Make sure the counter is counting, or otherwise you cannot get the result. When the counter decreased to zero, it will load the result automatically. If you found that the counter does not start, refresh the webpage a couple of times and it should work.
My typing speed is 69 wpm and I tested for 3 times. How about you?

Please, do not think this is a normal artistic image, it’s an awesome flash called Zoomquilt. After you have downloaded it succesfully, click and drag up to zoom it, draw down to zoom out. You will find that yourself fall into the endless flash tunnel.
It is a must try flash toy.

It is not easy to get up everyday. Alarm clock may not help sometimes. Do you ask your friends to help to make an wake up call every time? There is some online wake up call alarm service which are not free. MyWebAlarm is a new website service which it can make wake up call to the mobile phone for free.
Registration is not convenient. You need to send them an email first to get the login information. After login and set up all the alarms, you will receive the wake up call at the time. It will similar to a friend calling you for the alarm.
I didn’t try the system yet, so it is not sure whether it works 100% or not. You may try it and tell me more about it.

Take a look of the picture above, do you think it’s just a screen capture from Windows XP desktop. Not really. It’s a online flash website right here. Read at work is a site which provides several online powerpoint ebooks to read. I didn’t read the ebooks in detail, but I think the site is good to have some fun.

Looks like Adobe is going to be developing more applications for web. After the useful photo editing web 2.0 program Adobe Photoshop Express online, they are now introducing the Acrobat.com.
Acrobat.com is a online suite for people to communicate and work with each other. It has the Adobe Buzzword, which is a document editor lets you to save the documents online. It provides collaboration tools, and you can easily track changes with the “version history” feature included.
Adobe ConnectNow can integrate with WebCam and lets you to connect with others right in the browser. It also can help to share the screen, or provide a whiteboard for conference meeting.
To create a PDF, now upload it to Acrobat.com can help. It can create 5 for the most.
Acrobat.com also provides online file storage at 5GB. It is enough to store lots of stuff. It provides sharing tools, also. So sending files to friends and colleague will be easy.

AllVoices has create a 404 tool for people who want their voice to be heard. Go to their site and select a person. Then, enter the points and title in the field and create the humor. After you clicked the button, copy those HTML and create the customized 404 page. 404 error will not be boring anymore.
[via allvoices]

There are lots of fancy way to browse Twitter, and here is one of them. Tag Galaxy shows Flickr tags with the virtual space. Enter the tag or click the tag you want to browse, it will show you some eye-catching animation. When you clicked the tag few times, it will show you the related images. Really cool and awesome animation work for Flickr browsing.
[via Download Squad]

For people who owned Twitter, Facebook, Pownce, MySpace, etc social accounts, update the status is complicated. If you always login to the sperate account and update, this takes lots of time. Hellotxt is a site which centralize those social accounts, no more separate login session and lots of window tabs.
After registered an account in Hellotxt, choose the accout you want to use. Enter the relevant login information and save. Then, enter the message in the text field and click send message. The content will be automatically sent to the checked accounts. It’s fast and easy.
Hellotxt also have a mobile edition. Navigate mobile phone to “http://m.hellotxt.com” in order to update status easily.

When you search for “American Idol” on YouTube, how can you know which is the latest? Ok. There is a sort option, but it won’t be cool as this TimeTube. Type in the query in the search field, wait for a second, and the result will be listed with timeline. Navigate (scroll left and right) and find the one you want, you will be able to watch it immediately. Zoom in and out can adjust the scale of timeline (You can choose up to 100 years. Wow, have YouTube launched for 100 years?)
There are also list view, flipbook and map view, all are really cool, too. I tried it with foreign languages, and TimeTube can still list the result correctly.

Do you have lots of friends in Twitter? They may be connected somehow. TweetWheel helps you to check whether your friends know each other. It will be displayed with different colored lines. It looks like my Twitter friends do not really connected each other…
[via Twitterholics]

