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Great Online education tools

1. Moontoast
Moontoast allows you to find someone to actually teach you a skill via the Web, and gives you a place to share your knowledge with others looking to learn from you.Each person who offers his knowledge online is termed an “expert”, and experts have profile pages where they explain what it is they excel at, and how can they help others. They also set down their rates therein.The site also employs a handful of people, called Moontoast Explorers, who will be scouring the site for the best experts to display on the home page, which will also highlight the most iconic and altruistic experts. Explorers will also be tasked with satisfying user demands for specific expertise and encouraging talented professionals to start using the site.You can find everything from help parenting a child diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder to a life coach to help keep you motivated and organized, all available at certain times a day to sit down with you and work with you on your specific issue
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Top Streaming Audio Tools

1. Pulptunes
PulpTunes is an open source web server that enables you to access and play your iTunes library remotely from any computer on the network.  The music can then be accessed in any modern web browser including Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Opera.  After installing the software users will be provided with an IP address that will allow them to access their music from any web browser.

If you want to customize the app, you can dig into it a bit, but you don’t have to in order to get your stream working. Songs can be played directly in the web browser or downloaded with a right-click. All iTunes playlists and genres are available in the interface which makes it easier to locate albums or songs. PulpTunes supports MP3 and AAC files, so it can even handle your DRM-free downloads from the iTunes music store. Additionally, the app supports iTunes DJ, displays the cover art of your music as it plays, and even allows you to download the songs right from your library to your remote computer

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Amazing Color Scheme and Palette Generators

1. Checkmycolours.com

CheckMyColours.com by Giovanni Scala is a tool for checking foreground and background color combinations of all DOM elements and determining if they provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits. The site includes a number of tests that are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). That is why it seems to be a highly reliable tool for you to make an accurate colors’ management. Drop a URL into the box and press the check button, and you’ll receive an exhaustive analysis of page elements and their contrast ratio and brightness/color difference.

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