Spreeder.com is free online speed reading software designed to improve your reading speed and comprehension.
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Wiggio collaboration site
Wiggio takes things like listservs, text messages, voice mail, conference calls, online document sharing, calendars of events and meetings, group chats, polling and more, and aggregates it all into one place. The most practical use for this I see is in group projects. No matter what you study in college, everyone eventually has to do some kind of group project. These are usually torture as everyone in the group has different majors, class loads, jobs, schedules, interest levels in the subject, and other obstacles to a successful project.
Gmail – Switch to Gmail
Now you can import your mail and not just your contacts.
Adobe reader 10
New Version of Adobe Acrobat READER has long overdue highlight and comment functions.
http://acrobat.solutions.adobe.com/content/areaderx_ipm2_en
read it later
Bookmarks are great but items soon get buried in favorites. Here is a great idea to cope.
http://readitlaterlist.com/iphone/
I will use this along with Evernote.com
Academics could compile a list of journal articles to read and tag them. It is sometimes hard to remember which articles we have or have not read without a system.
Android mobile translate with speaking function
software and websites for learning languages
3D body browser to understand medicine, basic biology and sports
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
Distributed computing fractal image screensaver
Distributed computing fractal image screensaver
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/12/video-electric-sheep/