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Something new that was added to Google Maps that is pretty slick – satellite images. If you’ve used the Google Maps and have not seen this, it is a choice on the upper right side of the maps. You can choose either “maps” or “satellite”. Some areas (like Chicago) you can zoom in all the way and get a pretty good view.
Try mapping to your home address, then select “satellite”. It’s pretty cool.
Or, try Googling for your phone number, then select “Google Maps”, then “satellite”.
A pretty interesting tool for the web researcher is the Wikipedia. Set up as a comprehensive (and then some) encyclopedia in wiki format, you can find information on just about any topic, encyclopedic or otherwise. However, since it is a wiki, accuracy is not guaranteed. (If you’ve never heard of a wiki, that’s ok, not a lot of people have. A wiki is a web document (or series of documents) that are editable by the users at large.)
Also as part of the Wikipedia project, there are some other useful tools, including Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikinews. However, because of its open nature, vandalism and inaccuracy are problems in Wikipedia. You may also wish to read with an open mind, as there is no guarantee that a particular author will have the same political, religious, or philosophical slant as you.
The abundance of site themes is another reason for the continued popularity of WordPress. If you are design impaired, there are freely downloadable themes available that you can easily manage through the WordPress admin. (In English, for the not so technically inclined: You can change the entire look and feel of your blog with a single click.)
Good places full of free themes:
Also, Urban Girhaffe has a good set of tutorials for working on your own theme. He begins by dissecting “Kubrick”, a popular WordPress theme that ships with the default WordPress installation, stripping it of its style and using that as a framework to build your own theme.
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