When Ed sent me this tip I was a little skeptical about how well a reverse dictionary would work but OneLook is absolutely amazing. The normal dictionary lookup is awesome itself and has definitely won my heart over, but then there is also the priceless "Reverse Dictionary."
I say priceless because we have all had those moments where you just can't think of that word and it is
Faviconize is one of those Firefox extensions that you would have never thought about needing but once you have it you'll fall in love with Firefox all over again. Well, maybe it isn't quite that good but I have put this to good use several times already.
The concept is really simple. Essentially the text in the tabs is "collapsible" which means you can save
This is one of the most interesting ways to do a search that I have ever seen. Ms. Dewey is a Flash-based service that has a real person constantly interjecting comments using decent set of pre-defined responses. It is powered by Windows Live Search but believe me you won't be using this for your primary search engine since you can only see 3 results at a time. While
John Haller from PortableApps.com just posted requesting some Beta testers for all kinds of software before it officially gets released. If you feel up to the job head on over to the forums and you'll find the following programs eagerly awaiting your tests:
- Gaim Portable 2 Beta 5
- Portable Apps Backup 1.0
- Firefox Portable 2.0
- ClamWin Portable 0.88.5
Tutorial Thursday
Back in July (my how the time flies) we demonstrated a way that would keep your Spam folder clear in Gmail. Every time Google labeled an email as "Spam" it would be sent straight to your trash. That is a good solution for some people but sometimes it is nice to go flip through the messages before you dump them to make sure you haven't missed the $1,000,000 you've inherited
A friend of mine, and also a trusty Hotmail user (no idea why), just noticed that his account got upgraded to 1GB of storage. I checked mine out as well and I've got it, too! Boy am I excited. I finally have enough room to store 3 to 4 days worth of spam that I receive at my Hotmail account!
It has been awhile since I checked into
CyberNotes
