So tomorrow is the big day…April Fools! I know I know, you haven’t had anytime to shop around for that perfect trick for your friend, but that’s okay because I’ve got you covered. :)

I was hunting around for some great April Fools software today when I came across RJL Software. They actually have a small section of the site dedicated purely to April Fools Day pranks that you can play on your friends.

Anti-plagiarism site Turnitin is being sued by students for violating copyrights on 6 papers submitted to the service. Turnitin is in use by more than 6,000 universities and school systems to compare papers that students write with articles and papers from the Internet. The goal of the service is to catch students who plagiarize, but there was one detail that two students decided to target.

When teachers upload

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Despite the large number of fonts that come with operating systems, sometimes there’s a need for something different or out of the ordinary. One of the best sites I’ve come across for those times is called Urban Fonts. 

One of my favorite things about Urban Fonts is that all of their free fonts are categorized into one section.  Some of the font sites I’ve come across previously throw some really cool

Amazon (only in the United States) is currently offering the Kaspersky Antivirus for free (actually $-0.01) after you mail in two rebates that are each worth $25. I know, rebates are a pain but it might just be worth it knowing that you are using one of the highest rated antivirus applications available. Amazon also offers free shipping on this item and you’ll actually be receiving a

Microsoft recently added birds eye coverage of cities around the World to their Virtual Earth service.  More than 3.8 TB of information was added, and my home-town Chicago is one of them with great shots of Wrigley Field, Soldier Field (pictured below), and other great landmarks. (They’ve also created a collection of Landmarks in Chicago to help you get started with your tour).

You’ll also find great bird’s eye views

YouTube recently started a new site called TestTube that is there to demonstrate some of the new things that their developers have been working on. As of right now there are two things on TestTube that are just waiting for you to play with: AudioSwap and Streams.

AudioSwap (pictured above) is an awesome idea because we have all sat down and

Firefox is known for having its inline spell checker that underlines misspelled words as you type them. I truly believe that this feature in Firefox has helped the Internet as a whole become more readable by reducing the number of misspellings in even the simplest things, like comments.

Mozilla does provide multiple languages for their dictionaries, but Opera also gets some of its own Ajaxy goodness with a script that