Search Twitter, download Twitter tools, and find Twitter users
Posted on October 12, 2008 at 5:38 am
Twitter is a very popular micro-blogging service that basically allows people to send and recieve short (140 character) updates to those who are following them. Lately, it’s become way more than just a way to know what your friends are up to, it’s used for everything from getting the latest news on a particular topic to finding a new job!
Depending on how many people you follow and how many people follow you, Twitter can be something very powerful for some people. However, you need to have the right friends and you need to have the right tools in order to make Twitter truly useful.
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Find answers to frequently asked questions using SnappyFingers
Posted on October 12, 2008 at 5:26 am
You have probably noticed that just about every website that sells a product or sells a service has some kind of FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section that tells you the basics about how the product/service works, troubleshooting tips, and possibly future updates/enhancements, etc.
Most of the time if we are looking for a specific answer, such as how long as does an iPhone battery last, we will just search that in Google. However, if you want more information about a particular product, such as various details about iPhone batteries, you’d have to perform several Google searches and click on a good number of links to collect information from various sites about iPod batteries.
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Verify source of an email address using Iconix eMail ID
Posted on October 11, 2008 at 5:53 am
Looking for a free email verification program to protect yourself against spam emails pretending to be from major companies like Paypal, Amazon, eBay, etc? Unfortunately, there are always malicious people out there trying to trick people into entering sensitive financial information into fake copies of major web sites.
I myself have gotten many emails from Paypal, Bank of America, CitiBank and several other companies stating that some information was out of date and I needed to click on a link to fill in the missing information! Most of these emails were exact copies of the real emails sent out by these companies.
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Find related websites or websites related to specific topics
Posted on October 11, 2008 at 5:33 am
Searching for career related websites? Or computer related websites? Or maybe education related websites? How about finding new sites related to games, science, or children? Everyone know who the big players are out there, but what about all of those smaller sites with valuable information also!?
Well it’s pretty tough to find websites that are related to each other right now other than simply performing a Google search for the topic you are interested in. However, there is one problem with this approach and that’s the fact that the sites that show up are being ranked by Google.
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Customize Google home page and search results using CustomizeGoogle
Posted on October 10, 2008 at 5:39 am
I have always loved Google’s incredibly empty and clean search page, it’s focused on just one thing: finding what you want. But I also wish I could customize some aspects of the site, such as adding links competing sites for normal search (Yahoo) and image search (Flickr, etc), make my searching anonymous, block out advertisements, etc. Earlier I wrote about you can customize your Google search preferences, but that’s simple stuff.
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View Adobe PDFs online for free using PDFMENOT
Posted on October 10, 2008 at 5:21 am
If you need an alternative way to opening PDF or viewing PDF files using Adobe Reader, then you might want to try a free online PDF viewer. Even cooler is the ability to view a PDF that is already stored online without having to download it.
PDFMENOT is a nifty little web service that allows you to view Adobe PDF or any other PDF online for free whether it is stored online or stored on your local computer. Check out PDFCreator if you are looking for a way to create PDFs for free.
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