“Give these Search Tweaks a try. This site has sixteen tools for enhancing Google search in four categories — Query Builders, News-Related Search, Time-Related Search, and Search Utilities. Some tools, like Back that Ask Up, make existing Google features easier to use. Others, like Marion’s Monocle, add search functionality. Hold your mouse over each menu… Continue Reading
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“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost. Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project… Continue Reading
Why It’s So Hard to Search Your Email
The Atlantic [read free]: “Searching your email can sometimes feel basically impossible. Typing in a mix of search terms goes only so far. At some point, it almost feels personal, like the software is purposefully not showing you a conversation you absolutely remember having…An email inbox can’t quite be searched in the same way, because… Continue Reading
How to Get a Satellite View of Your House Using Google Earth
MakeUseOf – Want to go beyond Google Earth’s satellite view of our Earth? “Google Earth (and Google Maps) is the easiest way to get a satellite view of your house and neighborhood. This enables anyone to go to any part of the world, get instant geographic information for that area, and even see your house… Continue Reading
Your Browser Has a Hidden Setting That Will Speed Up the Web
Gizmodo: “A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There’s actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too: Hardware acceleration. While… Continue Reading
Google’s Antitrust Loss to Epic Could Preview Its Legal Fate in 2024
The New York Times: “Google’s loss was swift after a monthlong antitrust trial in a San Francisco federal court. A little more than three hours after a jury had begun deliberating on Monday, they returned with their verdict. There were 11 antitrust claims that Epic Games, the maker of the hit videogame Fortnite, had brought… Continue Reading
How to Search on Pinterest Without Logging In
MakeUseOf: “Pinterest will force a login on its landing page. But interestingly, you can access its “Explore” page without signing in. This page features trending and most-liked content across Pinterest’s numerous categories. Here, you can even access the search bar and look up pins. Here’s how to get to Pinterest’s Explore page: Search for Pinterest… Continue Reading
Saving the News from Big Tech
Saving the News from Big Tech, Cory Doctorow, Special Advisor/EFF, June, 2023: “Media is in crisis: newsrooms all over the world are shuttering and the very profession of journalism is under sustained ideological and physical assault. Freedom of the press is a hollow doctrine if the only news media is written or published by independently… Continue Reading
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023
“Despite negative headlines and growing concerns about social media’s impact on youth, teens continue to use these platforms at high rates – with some describing their social media use as “almost constant,” according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens. The survey – conducted Sept. 26-Oct. 23, 2023, among 1,453 13- to… Continue Reading
SecondHandSongs
“SecondHandSongs is building the most comprehensive source of cover song information, by means of a database of originals, cover songs, sampled songs and sampling songs.. This advanced database stores the data in a reusable and maintainable way, and which is interconnected to many other online databases. What is a performance? A performance is a version… Continue Reading
How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google
ZDNet – The best online data removal services. Erasing yourself from the internet isn’t an easy or quick process, but these services can assist you. Google – Find and remove personal contact info in Google Search results. “When you use “Results about you,” you can find out if your personal contact info, like your home… Continue Reading
Cut the noise. Get real answers from real people
“GigaBrain scans billions of discussions on reddit and other online communities to find the most useful posts and comments for you.” Continue Reading
