Google has recently added a new experimental feature that can make search results much more personal and relevant. The new feature called Google Social Search integrates results from your social circle based on your connections, as Google sees them. Read on to learn how doing a social network search with Google Social Search works and [...]

Over the past few months, Google has integrated new search features into their flagship product ““ the search engine. As it is usually the case, they have added the new search options seamlessly, so that no one will get confused. In fact, I would be surprised if you haven’t noticed them. The new options help [...]

Have you ever felt envious of bloggers for having the platform to share whatever is on their mind? Well, nowadays there is no need to maintain a fully fledged blog in order to share cool things you find, interesting email you get and other things that require setting up a web page. You can easily create free [...]

More than ever, the internet has enabled us to work in global and distributed teams. Whether as part of our jobs, voluntary ventures, or joint blogs, working with people around the world has become part of life for many of us. Sometimes, it is so easy that we don’t even know where the people we’re working [...]

There is no doubt that Twitter is a great source for online content. Some might even argue that it has the potential to aggregate better content then an RSS reader – because the aggregation is done by people, rather than previously chosen feeds. Readtwit is a 3-step service that will seamlessly integrates this aggregation power [...]

Writing in a foreign language (in this case, English) can be quite difficult, and mistakes are easy to make. These range from misspelled and missing words to grammatical errors and incorrect sentences. Sometimes you can make a mistake and not even know about it! This post offers ESL tools and practices based on real life [...]

In this post we’re going to learn how to set up a little infrastructure to download great podcasts, just the kind you like. But first, let’s think for a moment why you should find and download podcasts. Personally, I prefer to read, rather than listen, when I’m next to a computer. But when I’m not, [...]

Twitter can serve as a tool for tracking and finding the most current, new and innovative content and tools on the web. With some 19% of all tweets containing links, how do you use Twitter to mine this great database to find the most interesting and useful things for yourself? Let’s go over some cool Twitter search tips and see how to set up queries that will [...]

Do you get tens of pages out, with some of the columns standing by themselves in an unknown page every time you print out an Excel worksheet? Tired of wasting paper time and time again? It’s time to get things straight. Let’s see how to print an Excel sheet the right way. [All the Excel tips shown [...]

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