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Thinking about learning Mandaring Chinese? Why pay hundreds of dollars for Rosetta Stone when there’s an amazing free alternative? Try nciku, a website that helps you learn Mandarin Chinese. Look up words in the dictionary, learn a phrase, practice characters or try out the photo flash cards. It’s all here, and it’s all free.

Want to preserve a webpage for future posterity? BackupURL archives webpages for future reference.

You’ve got an MP3, but it’s not the right length. There’s no audio editing application on your either. Cut MP3 slices and dices MP3s into snippets of your choosing online.

Kohive is definitely the slickest collaboration tool we’ve seen. It creates “hives”, which are communal desktops shared between multiple users, where you can do just about everything you normally do on your local desktop.

Craigslist leaves much to be desired in terms of functionality. In the meantime, you can use SearchTempest to browse Craigslist easily.

Allocating your investments is not an easy task. Plantly is a risk aware investment tool to help you invest wisely. Right now it is a private beta.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and if you’re having a hard time describing something, draw it with Woobius.

PDF Crowd can instantly convert webpages or HTML code into PDF files. It also has a developers’ API.