January 26, 2012
Nowadays, we are all signed up for so many different services, it can be hard to keep track of them all. We all have Gmail, Google Apps, Twitter and so many more accounts. When you need to find something specific, it can be a real hassle. CloudMagic is a service that is designed to help you search Google Apps, Gmail and Twitter, all from one convenient place.
January 23, 2012
Search engines that are off the beaten track form a legion of their own. We saw a few when we listed 10 Offbeat & Alternative Search Engines You Might Not Have Heard Of. The search engine pile is far from dry; let’s check out a few funny and odd search engines that define the word – offbeat.
January 12, 2012
These days you don’t have to limit your search to just websites. Many other forms of content are easy to find, including images. No matter what you’re looking for, an image is (for better or worse) just one image search away. You may wonder, however, how image search works. How are images sorted and classified, making it possible to find tens or hundreds of relevant results?
December 26, 2011
It seems that there are a couple of services and Linux distributions (such as Linux Mint) that are switching over to Duck Duck Go as their default search engine. So why the heck are they doing this? Isn’t Google a mile ahead of every other search engine? Well, not exactly. Let’s see why and decide for ourselves.
December 21, 2011
It took me some time to wrap my head around Wolfram Alpha and the queries it uses to spout out those results. You have to dive deep into Wolfram Alpha to really exploit it to the hilt.So, if you read and write in English, come with me as we try to align a language and some computational logic to come up with data that could help us in our reading and writing.
December 12, 2011
Drag & DropZones is a cool Firefox add-on that takes the idea of drag n’ drop and extends it so we can search the web quicker with the help of multiple search engines. It does so with the help of an grid overlay to which you can drag and drop your search queries. Sounds interesting? Let’s install this featured Firefox extension and see how it helps us manage search engines better.
November 15, 2011
Food makes the world go round. Whether dining out a few times a week, exploring new recipes, or simply taking pictures of your food and sharing it with others (which is called foodtography), there are a lot of people out there who love enjoying a good meal. If you consider yourself a foodie, you probably take advantage of a few key apps to document everything you’ve eaten.
November 1, 2011
If you spend a decent amount of time on a computer, the chances are good you’re going to eventually send and receive a lot of important information. Now what happens when you need to look up one of those important pieces of information? Are you going to remember where it’s stored? Was it in an email, or a Facebook message? A tweet perhaps?
October 21, 2011
We are always searching for something. These days it’s probably less about our lives and more on the web. Well, if that’s so, then the browser extension called CloudMagic deserves at least a look-see and maybe an install. CloudMagic as the name implies, is all about the services on the cloud. The magic is that it is a super-fast way to search across multiple services.
September 16, 2011
Quite a few blogs and websites have them. Tag clouds are one of the simplest visualization tools available that can enhance access to buried articles on your website. The eye prefers to pan and scan rather than go vertically or horizontally in search of information. So, some web services have continued to take the help of tag clouds. Here are six web services that help you look for content using tag clouds.
