List of Top Educational Websites

It is rightly said, "Technology is a neutral tool between good and evil." If you've decided to use it for good, you're doing absolutely the right thing. Millions of people, especially students, refer to the internet to get any type of help. Most of the people fail to find a website which can provide information only according to their needs. Wikipedia has always been our heart favourite. I've sorted a short list of some educational websites which can serve as the treasure of words just as you want and would let you think out of the box.

Videos

The following list contains the websites that can help you getting educated with infinite amount of videos:-

• TED: Ideas worth spreading**
• Khan Academy*
• AcademicEarth.org
• edX
• The New Boston
• Or you can browse through millions of videos on YouTube

Life Hacks

This is the list of resources which will teach you to do some amazing stuff in your daily life:-

• Zen Habits
• Lifehacker*
• The Art of Manliness
• Lifehack
• Psychology Today*

Mathematics

Maths lovers' paradise list comes here:-

• MathRun - game
• Project Euler
• WolframAlpha
• Mathway
• Desmos Graphing Calculator
• Symbolab

Cooking

Here comes the interesting part for cooking lovers (women perhaps). Let's see:-

• Cooking For Engineers
• how2heroes
• Cooklet
• UrduPoint Cooking (Urdu)

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Learning Languages

Learning foreign languages has always been my craze. Here are my picks for you:-

• Duolingo**
• Livemocha*
• Verbling
• busuu
• BBC Languages
• Memrise
• Oxford Dictionaries (Vocabulary)

Programming

Learn programming and create something really awesome whether a website or an app from here:-

• Codecademy*
• W3Schools*
• Code.org
• Learn Code The Hard Way
• Mozilla Developer Network**
• CodingBat
• LearnCode.academy**

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Books

If you love to read books, you're not alone. Get your favourite books from here:-

• Gutenberg
• LibriVox
• Bookboon
• Google Books
• Bartleby.com

Documentaries

• Top Documentary Films
• DocumentaryHeaven

Random Knowledge

If you are among the most of the people like to just wander through the internet to read whatever they come across just to improve their general knowledge, this is for you:

• Wikipedia**
• Encyclopedia Britannica*
• mental_floss
• Sporcle -  game
• F***ing Homepage
• snopes.com
• Everything Simplified
• The more you Know, the more you Grow (From our team)

DIY & How To's

Geeks' corner:-

• wikiHow**
• Howcast*
• Instructables
• WonderHowTo
• HowStuffWorks

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Courses

Some might like to attend a course to master a specific subject or a section of it. Following sites are for those:-

• Coursera*
• Udactiy
• Udemy
• edX

*: personal picks
**: favorites ♥

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How to: download videos from facebook without any software

Downloading media has always been a problem for those who like to have all the fun free. Some use Internet Download Manager but it creates some problems when you have to buy it after 30 days and some hacks don't go your way, either. Everyone likes to watch videos on Facebook and some download to watch later. World's top social network is on its way to become the second most popular network for sharing videos after YouTube.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can download Facebook videos without any software or third-party website simply by following these steps:

1. Open facebook.com and login to your profile.
2. Play the video of your choice by clicking on it.
   
   
3. When the video is playing, go to the URL(address) of the video and replace www with m. For example, if my video address is "https://www.facebook.com/raja.hasnain.570/videos/vb.100004950877781/380632628778430/?type=3&theater" I'll have to make it "https://m.facebook.com/raja.hasnain.570/videos/vb.100004950877781/380632628778430/?type=3&theater".
4. Hit Enter key and you'll be redirected to the mobile version of facebook.
5. While the video is playing, right-click on the video and click on "Save video as...", select the location from popup and your video will start downloading.
   

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This trick has been tested on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Keep sharing!

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10 Richest Websites

We have compiled a short list of websites making money more than any other website online with their estimated assets.

Google

Google.com is the largest search engine founded in 1998. Google provides many other services like Gmail, Blogger, YouTube and the most popular mobile OS, Android. Google is the richest website with total assets of $131 billion.

Amazon

Amazon is an American e-commerce website. The largest online store was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Now, Amazon.com is serving almost all the countries in the world and has assets of about $54 billion.

Yahoo!

The second largest search engine after Google, first appeared on the internet in 1995. Yahoo! is now the third richest web on the internet having total assets of $51 billion. Yahoo! is providing its users with email services, news, sports, health, finance etc.

eBay

eBay is a multinational corporation allowing company to customer and customer to customer sales online. The fourth richest website was launched in 1995 and it is now the second largest auction center with assets of $44 billion.

Facebook

World's largest social media network Facebook was founded by 5 programmers in 2004. Every internet user is well aware of Facebook. The social network of 1.44 billion monthly active users has assets about $42 billion becoming fifth in the list.

Alibaba

Another e-commerce company website makes its way to the top websites being operated. Jack Ma's Alibaba is a Chinese business-to-business, business-to-customer & customer-to-customer sales center. After launch in 1999, Alibaba has assets of $41 billion.

Priceline

Another American Company making its way to the top 10 is Priceline. Woking on Name Your Own Price, it helps its users conduct travel-related purchases with discount. Total assets of Priceline are reported to be around $17 billion.

Expedia, Inc.

A part of Microsoft was founded in 1996 as Expedia. Expedia is a platform of travel brands serving 60 countries. $10 billion.

NetFlix

NetFlix provides its users internet media streaming in North America and many countries in Europe. Online DVD market, NetFlix, was first opened in 1997 and now has $9 billion assets.

AOL

America Online, another American multinational company invests in brands, small businesses, and websites. Providing services to consumers, publishers and advertisers, AOL enjoys assets of  a little below $3 billion.
Note: All the above data is based on personal estimates, errors possible.

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