Every now and again I use StumbleUpon to see what kind of unique sites I can find, and last week I found a rather nifty one called Keyboardr. It's a search engine that distinguishes itself by not actually having (or needing) a search button. Results are show to you in real-time as you type.

Off to the side of the page you'll also see the top result from ...

Web Browser Wednesday

According to Alexa Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site in the world only to follow behind companies like Google and Yahoo. Seeing that they receive millions of visitors each day it should come as no surprise that people would use the tools at hand to make their own customized layouts and designs for the site.

Below we've listed out our top 10 Wikipedia themes that are ...

Ever since Apple's App Store launched, we have been waiting for a free app to view Wikipedia articles. Up until today, the only Wikipedia application for the iPhone that we knew of was called iWik, but you had to pay for it. Today Wikipanion launches, it's nearly perfect, and it's free.

Wikipanion auto completes as you type which means that you may not have to type out the full search term of what you are ...

It looks as though Mahalo is opening up a bit more and taking advantage of all of the knowledge and writing talent that is out there. A recent change now allows all registered users to contribute to the site by creating and editing pages. Previously, only chosen, paid editors were given the right to do this. In the year or so since they've launched, they have ...

Time Saving Tuesday

It's crazy to think about how unpopular encyclopedias have become thanks to the various references found online, and the same thing is happening to dictionaries. These days word processors (and other apps) are integrating dictionaries so that they are even more useful to the end user. The next logical step for dictionaries is a system-wide integration, which gives the user access to definitions from within any application.

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Back when Wikipedia first launched (formally) on January 15, 2001, it grew faster than anyone even imagined. By the end of the first year, people around the world had contributed to over 20,000 articles that were written in 18 different languages. Both the number of articles and the number of languages were impressive. By the end of 2003, just two years after Wikipedia first launched, there were articles written in over 46 different languages. ...

Good thing they make those belated birthday cards for people like us who on occasion, forget to celebrate a birthday on the actual date! Yesterday was a big day for Wikipedia, it was the day that they turned 7 years old. If you do a quick search on Wikipedia for Wikipedia (of course they have a page!), you'll find that they ...