How to find confidential reports with Google
Chris pointed out this Boing Boing posting.. If you search Google for the Confidential “do not distribute” you will find all sorts of things that maybe shouldn’t be on the Internet.
Category «Internet Tips»
Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search
From SearchEngineWatch.com: News and history junkies take heart: Google’s new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine. “The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded,” said Anurag Acharya, Google …
Google Writely open to everyone
A little over a month ago I posted about how to get an invitation to Google Writely. It turns out now you don’t need to do that. The official Google Writely Blog posted about this yesterday: This week, we have finished inviting everyone who’s been patiently on the waiting list, and have reopened registration to …
Goggles – The Google Maps Flight Simulator
Goggles is a Google Maps flight simulater you play in your browser. There are a bunch of predefined locations or you can use your own location (through a bit of work). Here is a link to fly over Niagara Falls. Hint: Head east until you reach the river then turn south. http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html?loc=tqsqttsrsssttqssq
50 Coolest Websites
From Time Magazine: How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates—some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year’s choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, …
Google Notebook
I remember hearing about this when it first came out, but I never tried it until yesterday. Google has a neat service called Google Notebook. They describe it this way: Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and …
Hot Apps: JAJAH For Phone-To-Phone VoIP
Regular reader Pat sent along this article from Small Business Pipeline: Throw away your long-distance telephone bills and computer headsets. Well, almost. I’ve looked at computer telephony services in recent years, and the just-released update from upstart JAJAH is my personal choice. It’s incredibly easy to use: enter phone numbers for you and your destination, …
Writely – The Web Word Processor
Back in March Google purchased Writely, an web-based word processor. When I first heard about it I went to the website and filled out the form to be notified when I could register. I still haven’t heard anything yet. But Chris learned that if you have a Writely account and then add someone as a …
The PDF of 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google
From Google Blogoscoped: The full PDF of my book, 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google, is now available on 55fun.com. As the book is Creative Commons licensed, you are encouraged to copy, read, share, remix, convert, quote, browse, and print the PDF to your liking. If you do create conversions, e.g. an HTML version, …
RssReader
I’ve been having problems with Newsgator lately. Once I’ve had it running for a few hours, it seems to stop retrieving posts. There are some posts that I can’t subscribe to as well, even though I know others who can and they use Newsgator. So I decided to look for an alternative. The one and …