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Google + Firefox = Free Music

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:01:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.

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Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Posted by James Yeang
October 17, 2006

Firefox, Google, lifehacks, music, smart+keywords, Useful Tips

There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.

All you need to do is:

Create a bookmark in Firefox
Use the URLs in this text file as the bookmark location in your Firefox bookmarks (like in the pic above)
Assign a keyword to it - eg. music
Type the keyword (eg. music) followed by the search term (eg. beatles) directly into the address bar (NOT the search box). For example… type in music beatles , and Google will search open directories for Beatles music files that you can download.

You can modify the code in the text file to change file extensions, which opens a whole window for you. For example, you can even change it to PDF and DOC to look to e-books, or AVI and MPG to look for movies.

By the way, I’m assuming you already own the media you will be downloading :)

Bonus Tips:

The feature above only works for Firefox. If you’re NOT on Firefox yet, try it now
If you want to create basic smart keywords to search any web page, here’s how.
Here’s a useful advanced features cheat sheet from Google
If you don’t find the files on Google, you can try the best bittorrent search engine ever.

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Tags: internet, music, digital, good idea, google, firefox

40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:03:10 GMT

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If you’re a long time makeuseof reader, at one point or another you may have seen several of these websites before. We have covered lots of lists and round-ups but this one is quite different: it lists undiscovered webservices that are original, rather unique, unusual, useful, free, and must-be bookmarked type. You won’t find any collaboration, storage or ToDo service here. Enjoy!

1. BugMeNot - instantly get disposable login details for any popular website that forces you to register.

2. DailyLit - read your favorite books by email (on your PC, mobile, etc.).

3. FranceRadio - neat MP3 Search Engine that lets you Find, Play and Download favorite MP3s for FREE.

4. Google SMS - provides mobile users with a quick access (via SMS) to a wide range of practical information and tools (i.e. business listings (pizzerias, shops, etc.), weather, movie listings, driving directions, currency converter and lots more.

Tags: computers

Exploring Google's Hidden Features

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:48:00 GMT

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Exploring Google's Hidden Features

Article Description

Google is a great search engine, but it's also more than that. Google has tons of hidden features, some of which are quite fun and most of which are extremely useful— if you know about them. How do you discover all these hidden features within the Google site? Read on to learn more.

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Google Is a Calculator

When you can’t be troubled to reach over and pick up the handheld calculator sitting on your desk, you can use Google as a high-tech web-based calculator. All you have to do is enter your equation or formula into the standard Google search box, and then click the Google Search button. The result of the calculation is displayed on the search results page; it’s that simple.

You can use the standard algebraic operators to construct your calculations—+, -, x, and / for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, accordingly. For example, to add 2 plus 3, enter 2 + 3 and press Enter. To divide 10 by 2, enter 10 / 2, and so on.

And Google’s calculator isn’t limited to basic addition and multiplication. It can also handle more advanced calculations, trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic functions, and logarithmic functions. Just enter the proper formula into the search box, and wait for Google to display the answer.

Tags: google, technology, internet, cool, tip, feature

Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:12:09 GMT

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When you use a search engine on the Internet and can't find what you're looking for, what do you do? Maybe you're seeking to learn something, which means you're probably going to keep trying until you find it. Or give up in frustration. Don't give up that easily. There's information out there that is actually not indexed in the big search engines. Such Web pages are part of what's called the Dark, Deep, Hidden or Invisible Web. Those pages that are actually indexed are known by some as the surface Web. Fortunately, the invisible Web is getting easier to search, with tools beyond the standard big three search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

Background of the Invisible Web

9 Reasons a Web Page is Invisible

10 Ways to Make Invisible Content Visible

How to Access and Search for Invisible Content

15 Invisible Web Search Tools

Deep Web Search Engine — Clusty.

Art — Musie du Louvre.

Books Online — The Online Books Page.

Business — Explorit Now!.

Consumer — US Consumer Products Safety Commission Recalled Products.

Economic and Job Data — FreeLunc.com — A searchable directory of free economic data.

Finance and Investing — Bankrate.com.

General Research — GPO's Catalog of US Government Publications.

Government Data — Copyright Records (LOCIS).

International — International Data Base (IDB).

Law and Politics — THOMAS (Library of Congress).

Library of Congress — Library of Congress.

Medical and Health — PubMed.

Science — ScienceResearch.com.

Transportation — FAA Flight Delay Information.

Tags: search, web

Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:11:51 GMT

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Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

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All you need to do is:

Create a bookmark in Firefox
Use the URLs in this text file as the bookmark location in your Firefox bookmarks (like in the pic above)
Assign a keyword to it - eg. music
Type the keyword (eg. music) followed by the search term (eg. beatles) directly into the address bar (NOT the search box). For example… type in music beatles , and Google will search open directories for Beatles music files that you can download.

By the way, I’m assuming you already own the media you will be downloading :)

Bonus Tips:

The feature above only works for Firefox. If you’re NOT on Firefox yet, try it now

If you want to create basic smart keywords to search any web page, here’s how.

Here’s a useful advanced features cheat sheet from Google

If you don’t find the files on Google, you can try the best bittorrent search engine ever.

Firefox, Google, lifehacks, music, smart+keywords, Useful Tips

Tags: firefox, google, lifehacks, music, smart+keywords, useful tips

Know where to search, No where to hide

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:34:13 GMT

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Know Where to Search, No Where to Hide

We all have our favorite search engines tips, and use Google, MSN, and Yahoo! – but there are times when these search engines don't have the information you're looking for, so you'll need to venture down the road to know where!

STANDARD SEARCH

About – Comminity Help Search

Accoona – artificial intelligence for “better” searches

AddAll – book search

AltaVista

Answers – searches for answers (aka Guru)

AOL

Ask Jeeves

BookFinder – Book Search

Brainboost – searches for answers using “natural” language

dmoz – Open Directory Project (ODP)

Exalead – still in Beta

Excite

Kazazz! – Combines Search Engine and Social Networking

Lycos

Microsoft Search Result Clustering – still a research project, uses "clustering" to group results.

Snap

METASEARCH - Metasearch engines gather information from many other search engines and provide consolidated search results. Most metasearch engines combine the results from: Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, & Yahoo! and more.

Clusty – uses "clustering" to group results

Dog Pile

gada.be – My new favorite

Gigablast

Kartoo

MyriadSearch

QKsearch

Walhello

WebCrawler

GENERAL RESEARCH

Apple’s Advanced Computation Group

AT&T Labs – Research

Google Tools and some not ready for prime time.

IBM Research

Intel Technology & Research

Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs)

Macromedia Labs

Microsoft Research and Sandbox Prototypes.

Sony-Kihara Research Center

Sun Research

Xerox – Palo Alto Research Center

Yahoo! Research

ACADEMIC & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

ArXiv – Scientific Journal Archive

CiteSeer – Scientific Literature Library

Google Scholar Search

Scirus – Scientific Information

SmealSearch – Academic Business Literature

NEWS

All Headline News

FeedsFarm

Plazoo – still in Beta

BLOGS

Bloglines

Feedster

Google Blog Search

Pubsub

NEW! Talk Digger

Technorati

NOTE: I didn’t include many search engines like A9, AllTheWeb, Teoma etc because they have too close ties to commercial entities!

Tags: search, tips, links

Great Google Search Tips

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:33:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Useful tips if you're into researching anything. More on site

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Google Search Tips 2005

Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches.

A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations ["like this"] as well as a minus in-between words, [like-this].

You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for [house] but you want to find “home” too, search for [~house]. To get to know which synonyms the Google database stores for individual words, simply use the minus operator to exclude synonym after synonym (they will always show as bold in the SERPs, the search engine result pages). Like this: [~house -house -home -housing -floor].

Google has a lesser known “numrange” operator which can be helpful. Using e.g. [2000..2005] (that’s two dots inbetween two numbers) will find 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on until 2005.

Google has some exciting back-end AI to allow you to find just the facts upong entering simple questions or phrases like [when was Einstein born?] or [einstein birthday] (the answer to both of these queries is “Albert Einstein – Date of Birth: 14 March 1879”). This feature was introduced April this year and is called Google Q&A. (See some of the various working Q&A sample queries to get a feeling for what’s possible.)

Sometimes, Google warns you about its results, especially when they might seem like promoting hate sites (of course, only someone misunderstanding how Google works could think it’s them promoting hate sites). Enter [jew], and you will see a Google-sponsored link titled “Offensive Search Results” leading to this explanation.

For some of the more popular “Googlebombed” results, like when you enter [failure] and the first hit is the biography of George W. Bush, Google displays explanatory ads titled “Why these results?”.

Tags: google, research

20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:46:44 GMT

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But instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page after page of results, there are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient.

Backlinks. The "link:" operator will find pages that link to a specific URL. You can use this not only for a main URL but even to a specific page. Not all links to an URL are listed, however.

Numrange. This little-known feature searches for a range of numbers. For example, ["best books 2002..2007] will return lists of best books for each of the years from 2002 to 2007 (note the two periods between the two numbers).

Calculator. One of the handiest uses of Google, type in a quick calculation in the search box and get an answer. It's faster than calling up your computer's calculator in most cases. Use the +, -, *, / symbols and parentheses to do a simple equation.

Definitions. Use the "define:" operator to get a quick definition. [define:dumb] will give you a whole host of definitions from different sources, with links.

Advanced search

Tags: google, search engine, optimization

Free Stock Photos

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:09:27 GMT

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Free Stock Photos

Stock photos are an essential part of web and graphic design. There are tons of stock photos agencies that offer high quality photos, however, the price is not always affordable especially when working on a tight budget or sometimes with no budget at all. The solution in this case is finding free stock photos something that isn’t always easy, in order to make this process easier I have compiled a list with sites that offer free stock photos. Enjoy

Stock Exchange (highly recommended)
Morguefile (highly recommended)
Image After
Free Photos Bank
OpenPhoto
BigFoto
USDA
NASA
NOAA
NPS
Earth from Space
FWS1
FWS2
Picture Station
Geek Philosopher
Free Images
Pixel Perfect Digital
FreeFoto
Image Base
Cepolina
Amazing Textures
Texture Warehouse
PDPhoto
Image Blowout
Piotrpix
Mandragora
Fotogenica
Mayang
Free Photo Station
Cromavista
Afflict
Creativity 103
The Photo Repository
Aarin Free Photo
Stockvault
Designpacks
Unprofound
Four Bees
Insect Images
Free media Goo
Burning Well
A digital Dreamer
Freestockphotos.com
Freewebpics
Lightmatter
Majestic Imagery
Triparalbum
Demny Onink
Twice Pix
AboutPixel
Woophy
Pixelquelle
Litetek
PIX
tOfz
Fontplay
Orangetrash
ArtFavor
ImageTemple
LogoDesignweb
Fotodatebank
Bajstock
Pixelbag
NWYH Stock Images (Thanks Richard)
PhotoCase (Thanks Ingo)
NPS Digital Image Index (Thanks Jersu)
Gimp-Savy (Thanks Jared)
DeviantArt

Finally don’t forget to visit
Yotophoto Free photos search engine
and Flickr (be sure to check the licence before using any of the photos).
If you know of any others stock photo resources reave a comment and I will add them to the list.

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Free Music: 22 Websites to Get the Music You Love

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:08:32 GMT

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BeeMP3.com

a mp3 search engine

Blip

a quick way to tell your friends what song you’re into

Critical Metrics

a database of highly recommended songs

Deezer

offers, free of charge and legally, all kinds of music

Free Albums Galore

a full-album “mp3 blog”

Free Music Zilla

a tool specialized for social music downloading

GrooveShark Lite

find and listen to any song

Hype Machine

tracks a variety of MP3 blogs

Imeem

a wide range of media

Internet Audio Archive

over a hundred thousand free digital recordings

Jango

create a custom radio station

Last.fm

the most popular custom radio site

Musicovery

choose which songs to play based on things like mood, genre

Music Search Online

mp3 search

MuxTape

create and share mp3 mixtapes

Pandora

great for finding new music

SeeqPod

media search engine

SpiralFrog

over 700,000 songs for you to download

Skreemr

for locating mp3 files

Slacker

a custom radio station site

Songerize

simplified interface for the SeeqPod music search engine

Songza

a music search engine with the ability to create playlists

Tags: music, mp3, radio, search

Life Beyond Google: Eight Great Alternative Search Engines

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:24:22 GMT

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Everyzing is one of my favorite sites for searching for audio- and video-based information found on the web. It actually indexes the words spoken in podcasts and videocasts, and then it displays excerpts as text

SearchEngineColossus is great for doing targeted searches in any language using the actual engine that locals use.

Answers.com. Answers.com lets you type in a question and then sifts through your search results to find the answer to your question.

SearchGov is a great way to search for government institutions and offices, and divisions within them.

If you remember a string of text from a book, you can often find it in context at SearcheBooks.

IncyWincy crawls the Invisible Web. It’s especially good at executing searches within targeted search engines on the web and letting you know exactly which rock it’s finding promising results under

FindArticles. The site houses over 10 million articles

Tags: web search, search engines

Introducing the FULL TEXT Clipmarks Search Engine

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:12:22 GMT

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Clipmarks

Scours the deep sea of information called Clipmarks

Tags: clipmarks, ideas for clipmarks, technology, google, web 2.0

10 most popular Torrent 2006

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:42:16 GMT

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Mininova is simple to use and biggest torrent listing sites. The site started in January 2005 as a successor SuprNova, It is a directory and search engine for all kinds of torrent files. Visitors of mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. The word ‘mininova’ ranked 9 on Google’s list of most queried terms in 2006. Mininova is our top picks for this year.

TorrentSpy is a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. It hosts torrent and provides a forum to comment on them, as well as a graphical portrayal of how healthy the torrents are. Torrentspy was as popular as Mininova and made it to 2nd place.

The Pirate Bay (often abbreviated TPB) is an Internet site that bills itself as the world's largest BitTorrent tracker, and also serves as an index for torrent files that it tracks. Due to BitTorrent's ability to handle extremely large files, it is popular for sharing large music sets, movies and software as well as Linux distribution discs.

Torrentz is a popular Torrent indexing and Torrent search engine. It does not help to track your torrents. The torrent search engine is more advance as it allows you to search for files within the torrents. If you’re looking for unique stuff you should prefer this site.

TorrentBox is your best source for the greatest torrents. TorrentBox also lets users to track their torrents. TorrentBox also features a forum, directory and simple search engine for torrents.

isoHunt is a popular BitTorrent index. isoHunt is one of the most popular search engines for BitTorrent links. The website has been sued for copyright infringement recently. Isohunt has a large collection of varied content.

Tags: torrent

13 Most Unusual Search Engines You Should Remember

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:13:08 GMT

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You already have regular visits to usual search engines every day like Google, Msn, Yahoo, Altavista, Excite.

There are too many other search engines available to help you to search better but with a different way as compare to the routine searching.

I have selected 13 most unusual search engines for you to introduce.

Every search engine listed here has some different way of searching or unusual presentation.

Deligio search, discover and share your favorite software / freeware / shareware with tags and social bookmarking

Searchme Visual Search

Yoozila

Ebook Search - Pdf Search Engine

Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

FindSounds

Tag Galaxy

Topicle Search Community

Consumer Electronics Reviews, Product Manuals, Guides and Deals: Retrevo

Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search

Sputtr Multi-Search Engine

Scour - Search Socially

News and information on Wikio

Tags: search engines

What is Clipmarks?

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:42:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I just read this description of clipmarks by pokkets and literally got the chills. I believe one of the odd things about clipmarks is that it is very misunderstood by the general web population. Unfortunately, I think that is mostly a product of me being unable to properly explain it. So, when i see a description that so totally nails it, i get such a rush of excitement.

Thanks pokkets!

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Clipmarks is like a news 'paper', that is written by the readers. Better than being told what the news is. It is like an organic search engine, powered by imagination, curiosity, and the need for awareness, rather than an algorithm. It is amazing how interesting someone can become, when we find they agree with us. Other clips can make clear some of the things, (facts particularly). that we have believed in error. With clear references.
Then there are hundreds of clips that can give your mind a break or a laugh. If you are going to see the world the more angles the better.

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Google + Firefox = Free Music

Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark

Exploring Google's Hidden Features

Exploring Google's Hidden Features

Contents

Article Description

Related Book

Google Is a Calculator

Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web

Background of the Invisible Web

9 Reasons a Web Page is Invisible

10 Ways to Make Invisible Content Visible

How to Access and Search for Invisible Content

15 Invisible Web Search Tools

Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Google + Firefox = Free Music Downloads

Know where to search, No where to hide

Know Where to Search, No Where to Hide

Great Google Search Tips

Google Search Tips 2005

20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches

Free Stock Photos

Free Stock Photos

Free Music: 22 Websites to Get the Music You Love

Life Beyond Google: Eight Great Alternative Search Engines

Introducing the FULL TEXT Clipmarks Search Engine

10 most popular Torrent 2006

13 Most Unusual Search Engines You Should Remember

What is Clipmarks?