Twitter Search for Power Users
For Twitter power users, the single-tasked Twitter Search (http://twitter.com/search/ ) may not be enough of a good thing. TweetGrid allows you to define a custom grid of Twitter search results, such...
View ArticleHow to Aggregate Multiple RSS Feeds
Yahoo! Pipes is a sophisticated composition tool for manipulating RSS feeds. With it, you can filter, sort, translate and geocode your RSS feeds into perfection. For the simpler task of just...
View ArticleHow to Create a Google Reader Feed Bundle
The bundles feature of Google Reader is a really simple way to create OPML files for sharing with even your most- technology challenged friends. An OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an xml...
View ArticleHow to Find Legal Online Movies
Speedcine is an index of about 13,000 full-length movies you can legally watch online. Some of the sites it links to offer free movies, such as Hulu and Fancast , while others charge, such as Amazon’s...
View Article5 Image Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of
Google Image Search is perhaps the best know image search engine. But MakeUseOf reveals five others worth knowing about, including Cyclo.ps, a meta-search engine that lets you search up to eight stock...
View ArticleTop 5 Online Book Review Sites
Online book reviews are available at many sites. But which ones do readers like most? Lifehacker polled their audience to come up with a list of Five Best Book Recommendation Services. In no particular...
View ArticleGet Answers with Aardvark
Aardvark is a crowdsourcing platform for asking and answering questions, that was recently acquired by Google. When a question is received, Aardvark finds the perfect person to answer it by looking...
View ArticleDoes Google Know What You Love?
What do you love? Google thinks it knows, and has launched a new search service by the same name. Searching for “cats” for example, will display results in a visual table format from multiple Google...
View ArticleHow Search Engines Work
Here’s a quick overview on how search engines work, from Kids Discover. Click here to download this image in PDF, or click on the infographic below to see it in full size.
View ArticleHow Google Tracks the Flu
Google Flu Trends tracks flu season internationally and down to the city. To drill down on the data, just click the map for your country, then your state. The city data is available on its own tab....
View Article3 Free Web Citation Tools
A bibliographic citation should supply sufficient details so that the item (book, movie, website, etc.) is uniquely identified. The most common citation styles are MLA (for the humanities), and APA...
View ArticleIs Wikipedia Objective?
Can a crowd edited resource like Wikipedia be as objective as a professionally edited resource such as the Encyclopedia Britannica? Two professors recently set out to do just that, and found that the...
View ArticleHow to Turn on Safe Search for Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
Safe search is a kid-friendly search filter that tells the search engines to remove explicit adult results. While they may let some content through that you find objectionable, they are a very good...
View ArticleTwo Truths and a Lie: How to Fact Check the Internet
Two Truths and a Lie is a parlor game where each participant tells two truths and one lie about themselves, and then everyone in the group gets to guess which tidbit is the lie. On the Internet,...
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