Here’s a really cool Firefox tip that was just passed along to me. You can instantly search for any text on a web page by hitting the forward slash and typing that...
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Cool Firefox tip - Instant on-page text search
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Search the Guardian from a NetBeans Platform Application without Coding At All
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By default, the Quick Search feature is hidden in NetBeans Platform applications. Below, I show how to enable it in the layer.xml file and also how to enable the web...
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Google Diggs it, but should we?
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We all love Digg, right? It’s pure online democracy, letting us choose what constitutes news in the world today. It creates an alternative to the big story sources...
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Quick Search API Sample
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I noticed in recent builds that the appearance of the new 6.5 Quick Search feature has improved recently. It looks a lot better and provides more functionality. First,...
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SearchMonkey In Paris!
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Photo credit Sophie Major Search Monkey arrived in Paris with the sound of flying toy monkeys screeching as they flew through the La Cantine café. The festive,...
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YouTube Adds Google Maps
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You have been able to search for YouTube videos whilst in Google Maps for a while now but until now YouTube has not had its own geographical search feature. This means...
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TweetDeck.com - Another Desktop Twitter Client
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Shared by Robert Scoble I'm using this and like it. I'm going to try it against several of the other popular ones and see which one survives. I stopped using clients...
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The Quick & Dirty Guide to Personal Wikis
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Personal wikis were a big fad for productivity geeks for a while, but that seems to have toned down a lot through 2008. Wikis are still incredibly useful, and can make...
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Things i like in Ganymede
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Another great release from Eclipse this year with 23 simultaneous projects. I was little bit confused as to 23 vs 24 projects; these two numbers are hovering in different...
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Some Google Maps Friday Fun
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The VactioneersThis is the third in a series of five short films by The Vactioneers about the role that Google now plays in all of our lives. In this part The Vactioneers...
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Fruitfultime Task Manager 2 Review
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Many of us struggle with keeping our lives in proper order. It is nothing new, and there are many ways in which to attempt to prioritize one’s tasks and manage...
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14 July, 2008 - Phase One P65+ Preview
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Phase One P65+ Preview The world of high-end medium format digital backs is a rarefied one. But with the introduction today of the Phase One P65+ the air just got a lot...
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A Practical Use for Twitter
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Twitter is all the rage with business folks these days, (if you’re a social media butterfly it’s been the rage for you for about a year and a half) but is it...
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Linking Google News with Picasa Web Albums
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The Google News Blog has announced a feature request form that allows Google News users to vote on possible new features for inclusion in Google News. Amongst the...
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Search Techmeme from FeedDemon
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Now that Techmeme (finally!) has a search feature, I figured I'd create a search definition which enables searching Techmeme from within FeedDemon. Here's how to use...
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Coming Soon to a Website Near You
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My short film TWELVE WAYS TO SAY "I'M SORRY" is now airing from time to time on Movieola.ca. In celebration of Canada Day, Movieola is proud to present 24-hours of...
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Improving qualitative metrics: adding comparisons
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You’ve clarified the purpose to your scale, specifying what question you want people to answer, but there’s still an unanswered question floating around. ...
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Google Creates News Archive, Branches into Audio
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Search giant Google, Inc. announced that it has added 200 years' worth of newspaper archives to its Google News search feature. The Google News Archives Search feature...
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Together 2.0 Released
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Together 2.0 is now available. Together is the new name for KIT (Keep It Together), a file organization application for storing, previewing, editing and searching all...