Wordle is a free word cloud generator. It will generate your word cloud (see image) automatically from a specified URL or you can choose to insert your own words. The advance option also allows you to choose the weight of each word and how they should appear. There are many customization features, such as fonts, layout, colors and more. The image generated by Wordle is yours to keep and you can use it for anything you want. A great alternative for the free tag cloud generator if you are looking for just images.

An excerpt from Wordle's homepage describes the free word cloud generator as follows:

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Go ahead and give it a try. Let me know if you find this useful and what other things besides generating word cloud images can you do with it. Oh, did I mention that the Free Word Cloud Generator is free.

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Quintura Kids is the first visual and intuitive search engine for children with content filter and safe browsing. Not often do we see sites that make an effort to make it a safer place for our surfers to navigate the web. Although Quintura has been launched since August of 2006, it has not been until recently that it started to gain more in popularity.

Let's here what the Quintura for Kids developers have to say:
"Designed specifically for kids, this new experience demonstrates Quintura’s continued commitment to change the way people search and find information on the Web. Based on the same cutting edge Neural Network technology used on Quintura.com, Quintura for Kids utilizes the Quintura cloud, which allows kids to find what they are looking for faster and easier than ever before.

Quintura for Kids brings a unique experience to an increasingly important group of Internet users. The intuitive nature of the cloud allows kids to develop and refine their search by clicking on keywords that appear in the cloud. The interface also allows for relevant searches around a set of rotating icons on the site.

Besides, Quintura for Kids filters undesirable "adult" content, so parents and teachers do not need to worry for their children. The service is reported to be successfully used in many english-speaking schools."

There you have it. Introduce this interesting search engine for kids to your young siblings as I am sure they will love it. Mine did :)

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If are looking for a free ebook reader that works on iPad, PC, Mac, iPhone or BlackBerry, then look no further. Barnes & Noble is giving away ebook readers for free. All you need is to register and download your own working copy and there is no purchase required.

Do You Like Classic eBooks?
Each week from July 16, 2010 - September 14, 2010, Barnes & Noble will make a limited selection of Barnes & Noble Classics eBooks available at no charge. If you want to take advantage of this offer, then I suggest you to head over there and sign-up for an account. Once again there is no purchase required and remember that this offer is for a limited time only, subject to change or discontinuation without notice.

Thought you guys might be interested. Happy reading :)

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