I have been a rather reluctant user of Twitter because I could not find a tool that was easy enough to use. Twitter itself is so so, I wanted something easier. Along came TwitterFox which is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status messages on Twitter.
You get a small icon on the [...]
I like the way Google changes their logo to celebrate things. Today their logo is inspired by Chagall, it is his birthday.
I like Google start page, clean and neat with few distractions. A focused search tool.
GoEnglish.com Pocket English Idioms is a nice site and the site has an Idioms index. I like the way the site looks, take a look at Birds of a feather flock together or You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover.
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In a post at dailybits.com I found Definr, ‘definr - incredibly fast dictionary’. Definr is a neat and fast way to find out what words mean.
There is also a search extension to Firefox, that makes it even easier to use Definr.
I just got Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox and went to the useit.com website. The website looks bare and oldfashioned but it is packed with useful information.
The current Alertbox is titled Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous… and starts like this:
Summary:
AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they’re worth. They also [...]
I often use Google as an English-English dictionary, there is an easy way to search dictionaries. Simply type
define: thewordyoulookfor
then click and you get a list of text from dictionaries.
Are you tired of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? TinyURL can solve that for you. Just enter the URL in the text field, they will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and [...]
cRANKy™ is a new kid (?) on the block. It is a search engine targeted at the 50-plus community. The idea is that Cranky does not search the entire internet, only selected sites.
A cool thing is that the front page shows the ten most searched phrases, updated regularly. At this moment they are as follows:
1. [...]
Your browser leaks a lot of information that can be collected by servers. To find out more, go to Project IP and see for yourself.
