October 4, 2007
Contributed by makeuseof guest-writer Adam Hirsch Considering that I am in Real Estate I only figured it would be appropriate to share the knowledge that I’ve acquired over the past 4 years. I am in real estate in New York City, so a lot of the tools I use are very specified to New York, [...]
September 22, 2007
If you were to interview a broad cross-section of internet users and ask them about Google services, probably most of them would enthusiastically talk about Gmail or Google Reader. At the very least, they would mention Google’s superior search engine. But how many people do you think would discuss being able to set up customised [...]
May 30, 2007
‘HowTo’s (HowTos, HowTo’s, or whatever you prefer to call them) are excellent problems solvers: they provide quick, easy-to-follow and non-overwhelming solutions to one or another problem that pop-up during daily routines. People love them, especially when they’re free, regardless whether it’s a step-by-step guide or a couple of minutes long video. Good news, the amount [...]
May 11, 2007
(1) yoName Extremely simple to use and rather fast profile search tool. Lets you search by (1) email ID, (3) username or (3) by First, Last or Full name on all major Social Networking websites except for Facebook (MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Windows Live Spaces, Digg, Match, Xanga, YouTube ). What’s cool about it is, how [...]
January 17, 2007
I have created a bunch of topic specific search engines using Rollyo, mostly for my own searching needs, although I am quite sure that you will also find them extremely useful. These are custom engines for finding free software, firefox extensions, wordpress plugins, portable applications, ipod tools etc…, including my favorite TV show search (which [...]
December 14, 2006
Retrevo Shopping for electronics items online can be quite exhausting process especially if you’re not sure what is it exactly that you want. Jumping from one site to another, comparing products, checking out reviews, user comments and so on is only fun upto certain point. When there is nothing to guide you it’s just too [...]
November 4, 2006
Cha Cha Listen up! you’ll definitely like this one. ChaCha is experimental search engine with an amazing twist that many people should find useful, time saving end even entertaining. While major search engines like Google can do a good job for simple search, the moment search terms become more complicated or include spammer-loved words like [...]
November 3, 2006
Technorati Guess what? To my surprise today I discovered that big portion of our readers find their way to makeuseof from many different places other then blog search engines. So, I assumed that good portion of you may be unfamiliar with these wonderful tools and hence want to shortly introduce them here. I have choosen [...]
October 5, 2006
Rollyo is an intresting service that lets users create personal search engines. Site provides easy to use tools that can be used to create customized search engine in a matter of seconds. The idea is to create search engine which will search for information only on the websites selected by user. To create personal engine [...]
September 22, 2006
Need an instant medical advice? Healthline is the fastest way to get it. It’s a medical search engine and a very good one combining collective knowledge of over 1,100 doctors with advanced search technology. Once you are on the Healthline it is highly probable that one relevant search will be enough to locate information you [...]
