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If you don’t live in Cape Town, Joburg, Durban or one of the towns on the evening news’ weather map, it can be quite frustrating to figure out what weather to expect in your area. This is especially annoying if you live in a fairly sizable town which is not covered by our local weather websites. Or if it is, you often have to pay to find out what the weather in your area’s going to be!

Enter today’s “Everyday Awesomeness”: yr.no! Yr.no is a Norwegian website which has weather forecasts for 7 million locations around the world. It shows you detailed forecasts (morning, afternoon and evening) for today and the next two days after that. Alongside the forecasts is a map which shows the movement of cloud cover, change of temperature, wind direction, and precipitation.

I found my town and a few very unexpected ones, much to my delight. I almost found Pofadder (it has Pofadder Farm in another province) but it even has places like the Koue Bokkeveld. The forecasts seem pretty accurate too.

Give yr.no a spin and let us know what you think-does it have the town you were looking for?

The website of the week is Wallpaper Abyss. Wallpaper Abyss is a website where you can find over 29830 high quality wallpapers for your computer.

There are over 20 different categories and resolutions to choose from. The nice thing about Wallpaper Abyss is that if you choose a wallpaper, the website will crop it for you to match your screen size before you download it. So head over to Wallpaper Abyss and start downloading wallpapers.

The website of the week is Animoto. Animoto creates really cool photo
slideshows with your photos. All you have to do is select the photos
that you want in the slideshow and upload them. Just select the
slideshow style and music. Animoto is free but the slideshows are
limited to 30 seconds each. If you want to create longer slideshows, it costs $30 for a year.

So head over to Animoto.com and check it out.

The website of the week is keybr.com. Keybr is a website that basically helps you learn how to type much faster. It’s a flash based typing tutor that’s very easy to use – just go to Keybr and start typing. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. It’s also much better than other teaching typing software because it actually gives you readable words to type and not just random text.?

Even an experienced typer will have fun on this one, see how many words you can do a minute!

The website of the week is Tutvid.

Tutvid is a website full of Adobe tutorials: there are tutorials ranging from ‘How to make a website’ to ‘ How to make glossy buttons in Adobe Fireworks’. It’s very useful for if you want to make a basic website or learn how to edit photos in Adobe Photoshop, and best of all – it’s free! So go check Tutvid.com out and start learning how to work the Adobe programs.

Just click on ‘Tutorials’ in the navigation bar.

The website of the week is Copyscape. Copyscape is a website that allows you to check if somebody has used your content on their site without your permission.

There are tons of websites on the internet and it’s very easy for people to claim your content as their own. So head over to Copyscape.com, enter your website url and click on go. You will be given a list of results with links to sites that have content that’s the same as yours.

The website of the week is SpeedTest.net. SpeedTest.net is a website that allows you to test the speed of your internet connection. The website lets you test different upload and download speeds from different servers all over the world, you can also view the results in different units like megabytes, megabits, kilobits and kilobytes.

This website is very useful especially if you want to estimate how long it would take to download a file and also to make sure that you are getting the speed that you have paid for.

With all the new uncapped ADSL Internet options, SpeedTest is going to become incredibly popular; I’ve already seen lots of people dropping their tests into Twitter and the likes.