March 31st, 2008
3:18 pm
by Jaemi Kehoe
Links
, , aggregator, directory, MoMB, monitoring, phone, search, telephone, tools, tracking, Web2.0
These are my links for March 24th through March 31st:
March 12th, 2008
8:42 am
by Jaemi Kehoe
Links
, , , bargains, bittorrent, coupons, Databases, Deals, directories, invisibleweb, invisible_web, law, legal, library, reference, research, search, searchengine, SearchEngines, searching, Shop, shopping, torrent, torrents
These are my links for March 4th through March 12th:
February 15th, 2008
2:19 pm
by Jaemi Kehoe
Links
, , business, collaboration, community, directory, dns, domain, hosting, information, ip, lookup, mashups, MoMB, phone, planner, reverse, review, search, searchengine, searching, social, tools, travel, tripplanner, Web2.0, webhosting, webservices, yellowpages
These are my links for February 11th through February 15th:
February 8th, 2008
4:06 pm
by Jaemi Kehoe
Links
, article, blogging, CMS, collaboration, collection, collections, community, contacts, document_management, networking, productivity, proofing, social, webdev, wishlist, wordpress
These are my links for February 8th from 10:34 to 11:41:
February 6th, 2008
6:31 pm
by Jaemi Kehoe
Links
, accessibility, addressbook, admin, analytics, anonymous, antispam, backup, beta, calendar, collection, community, contacts, development, disposable, disposable_email, diy, email, firefox, free, freeware, gmail, how-to, howto, import, instructional, learning, lifehacks, mbox, mobile, monitoring, mozilla, phone, privacy, Security, SEO, software, storage, sync, sysadmin, TechCrunch, test, thunderbird, tutorials, uploader, utilities, video, videos, Web2.0, webdesign, webservice
These are my links for February 6th from 13:13 to 14:37:
- test everything — 100+ tools in one! -
- numbr:: Auto expiring. FREE anonymous phone numbers for online safety. -
- MintEmail.com - Disposable/Temporary Email Address - MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address. Your new temporary email address has been already saved to your clipboard (no need to press Ctrl+C). All incoming emails will be displayed on this page.
- Anywr | Dynamic contacts address book and calendar from anywhere -
- Net Tools - Net Tools is a comprehensive set of host monitoring, network scanning, security, administration tools and much more, all with a highly intuitive user interface. It's an ideal tool for those who work in the network security, administration, training, inter
- MailStore - E-mail Archiving Made Simple - MailStore Home enables you to backup all your e-mail messages from multiple applications into one persistent and safe archive. Lightning-fast search, one-click backup, powerful export - all information from your emails is at your fingertips anytime.
- MozBackup - Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird - MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.
- FON Gmail Uploader -
- Bloove: manage mobile phone via web - Main - Web-based mobile phone management. Edit your contacts, make calls and work with SMS using your favorite browser. SMS backup for Symbian phones. Basic features are free forever.
- Howcast -
- Wonder How To - The Video Guide For a Curious World -
February 6th, 2008
1:14 pm
by Jaemi Kehoe
Links
, addressbook, blogs, bookmarking, burning, calendar, calendars, cd, clipboard, community, contacts, deployment, dvd, extensions, files, firefox, free, freeware, generator, google, googlelabs, lifehacks, MoMB, notes, notetaking, OpenSource, organization, printing, productivity, proxy, rails, resources, rubyonrails, search, server, sharing, SocialBookmarking, socialnetwork, socialsoftware, software, transfer, utilities, vino, Web2.0, webapp, webapps, webservice, windows, wine, writing
These are my links for February 6th from 12:02 to 13:02:
It’s been way too long since I’ve been able to post to this blog, and disaster just seems intent on not letting up, so for now I’m going to tell you how to find out what I’ve stumbled upon lately: check out my search bookmarks at del.icio.us
Otavo is a new take on search/social bookmarking, which recently entered public beta. I’ve had an account for awhile now, and though I’ve not gotten to use it as much as I’d have liked, I can say that I really like the concept.
They call it an intention engine. You tell it what you want to do (your Quest), and other users respond to you with links to things they might help you reach your goal, or with comments related to your goal/need/want. Users can also join in your quest, if it’s something that also happens to interest them. And you can, of course, answer other people.
I’ve liked my interactions with it. It’s kind of neat to get “personalized” attention. Sometimes you just don’t want to Google it, or it’s not a straight-out search. Or a reviews site seems unwieldy. What have you.
I think it’s a really interesting way to bring people together, and to create a community based on assisting one another. It will be interesting to see where it goes. Collaboration, research, link storage, answers and more all wrapped up in one.
Definitely something to keep your eye on.
Jeeves has retired, and I think it’s a good thing. While I used to love Ask.com–because who doesn’t like asking a question and getting an answer?–in recent years I turned more and more to Google, unless I was looking for Bands or song lyrics. But with its crisp new look, and slick set of features, I think Ask could become a major contender in the Search Engine wars.
Of course, there are so many of them out there that I got overwhelmed trying to bookmark them all for future reviewing, that there may be no one winner. Probably one for general preferred use, but as the amount of things on the net grows, I think there will become specialties. The podcast searches, the torrent engines. World of Warcraft has its own engines. And so on.
Google rarely fails me–and yet when I needed information on how to migrate from NT4 to a Windows Server 2003 domain, I found everything I could have wanted to know about upgrading…and nothing about what I was actually trying to do. Why? Google’s first responses were all from Microsoft. And you’d think that’s where I’d find my answer, right? But no.
And at the time, I didn’t really think to try other engines. Eventually I got help from an MCSE friend who found the info I was needing. But tonight, I figured it would be a good search to test Ask with. And it prevailed. The first page of links are full of “Migrate,” rather than ugrade, or merely NT4 and 2003.
Similarly, an Image search for “Gir” (a crazy robot from Invader Zim who you can’t help but love), reveals much different results than I got when I ran the same search on Google a month or so ago to see if I could find anything. It also gives me options to search by the series’ author, related characters, by type of image (gir icons, gir wallpapers), in a clean and orderly fashion.
News-wise, I get better results from Google’s main page searching web 2.0 than from Ask’s news page with “web 2.0″ in quotes, but if I do the same web search in both engines, the results seem very similar.
A map search of the library’s address brings up a nice clear map of our street and cross streets, and is the first map I’ve seen to pointedly let me know that Main St is also Rt-207.
A “Pizza, 10990″ search under “Local” brings up a list of enough pizza joints neighboring my town to actually surprise me. I don’t know if I’d head to Jersey for pizza, especially when I could just head down the street, but it’s still good to know I’m entirely surrounded with options.
A Weather search will show you your current temp, conditions, and a high/low, and then give you options for further detailed weather-related searching.
Shopping results are powered by PriveGrabber, which is usually my first stop for comparisons. Desktop will give you an option to Search Computer/Emails–though this will only work if you have their software installed–and to download the Ask Desktop Search application. And Bloglines, as you might guess, will bounce you over to the Bloglines site, where you can then search or signup as you please. A web 2.0 search here brings up many of the blogs whose feeds I read daily. I hear a lot about Bloglines, in fact, but am more of a desktop client reader, as I started with my feeds in Thunderbird, then moved to Rss Bandit, and finally FeedDemon. Though I have a NewsgatorOnline account now that they’ve acquired FeedDemon, I rarely use it. While I enjoy the synchronization options, I don’t like the web interface.
Clicking “Edit” on the Search options list will give you the option to reorder it to your liking, while clicking “Next” will to a second row of options, such as Movies, Unit Conversion, and Mobile content.
Suffice it to say, Ask definitely has a lot of options, and more ready power than it used to, and that’s just the Adult side. The Ask Kids page is an entity of its own, and I plan to explore it at a later date.
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