Useful Online Tools

Below is a list of a few online tools that I use frequently, and thought it might be useful for you too:

1- Online English-Persian dictionary: Very simple and fast, translates full or partial words both ways, although the Persian-to-English part is a little bit tricky. It was developed before Unicode became so popular, so it offers 8 different ways to display Persian text (unicode is obviously the best).

2- The A9 search engine: This is Google's rival set up by Amazon. If you don't find what you want on Google, give A9 a try. Make sure to see item 3 in this post.

3- Vivisimo meta search engine: Vivisimo collects and organises the outputs of several other search engines, so it is actually the best place to start your search.

4- The World Clock: Find out what time it is all over the planet; useful when you want to call your friends and relatives in remote places such as Australia, US or Canada.

5- Birthday Alarm: Never forget the birthday of your friends, especially the important ones ;-)

6- QT Movie Trailers: The best source for Movie trailers. You'll love this if you have broadband connection.

7- How to tie a Tie: Four different ways to make your tie knot, useful for grad balls, royal ceremonies (!), job, PhD, or bank interviews!

8- Wikipedia Encyclopedia: a free and comprehensive encyclopedia. with rich contents in many languages including Persian. The interesting thing is that you can participate in the content creation for this encyclopedia.

9- S1Play: If you live in Scotland, this is the best web site to find out about cinema time tables, music venues, theatres, restaurants, etc.

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