Google Basic Boolean

The AND:

Google's Boolean default is AND; that means if you enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of them.

Google always assumes there is an and between any keywords. So, if you enter



Google will search for web pages containing both the word hacker and the word cracker.

The OR

Google will search for all the words. If you want to specify that either word is acceptable, you put an OR between each item.

If you would prefer to be searching for one word or another, enter OR in capital letters.


Google will search for web pages containing either the word world or the word series.

Exact Phrase

Putting quote marks around keywords will allow you to search for an exact phrase. If you enter for example:


Google will only search for web pages containing the entire phrase the sun rises in the east.

Google automatically excludes most single letters, single digits and common words such as “how,” “to” and “where.”
These exclusions allow Google to return search results quicker and Google will
always display which words were excluded just above the search results. If you want Google to include a common word, put the “+” symbol in front of it.


If you want to specify that a query item must not appear in your results, use a - (minus sign or dash).

hacker cracker -"computer security"

This will search for pages that contain both the words "hacker" and "cracker" but not the phrase "computer security"

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TwistedPixel – The Cool Visualization plugin

Are you one of those guys who like to have cool visualization depicting your musical flairs ? Winamp,Windows media Player,media monkey...whatever the player be,they today are equipped with visualizations .However if you are bored with the default visualizations,then you can try the TwistedPixel visualization plugin.Twisted pixel supports major media players today and has some of the coolest effects you have ever seen. It is highly customizable,programmable and light on resources. In short,Its a must have for any music lover !!!

Requirements

• TwistedPixel requires MCE, WMP, MediaMonkey or WinAMP to play.
• A 3D compatible Video Card.
• DirectX 8.x or greater can be downloaded from Microsoft.
• The visualization has been tested on Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000 and Windows XP -- to the best of my knowledge there has been no testing on a Windows 98 or Me; with the appropriate hardware and DirectX drivers there should be no issue with these operating systems.

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Internet Explorer acclerator for twitter

One of the main advantages of Firefox over Internet Explorer is the large number of extensions that exist for the Mozilla browser. Not only is the number of Firefox plugins to exceed that number for Internet Explorer, but also to IE add-ons tend to be fairly useless (there are a few exceptions to this rule, of course).

IE accelerators allows you to select some text and search for it, map it or send it by email or to your blog. There is another “jewel” that can make life easier for users of IE. Among them is Accelerator to Twitter, an accelerator for IE8 that allows us to quickly tweet by selecting any text. Select some text on a web page, right click and it will post the text and the URL of the page to Twitter.

Download Accelerator for Twitter

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Rip Videos from sharing sites like YouTube

Video sharing sites like youtube, video Google, metacafe, iFilm, Putfilm, break are many popular those days. Many of these sites are web based that means no download option. So you would like to download these videos other than watching them online.

There are many software for implement this even some of them are free of charge. But there are many defectives also.

• Normally these software very slow.

• Most of them are advertising based.

Not reliable. (not like paid software freeware can deliver some malicious files eg: browser hijackers )



Keepvid is web based software for downloading videos form many video sharing sites it is not limited to 3, 4 sites keepvid is going more beyond from that. But most people thought it just stand only for Youtube. What keepvid does is searching pages for videos so it is not limited to youtube. You can enter any web page that has embedded video.

For the demonstration purpose I’m going to show you about downloading metacafe video. But as I said this is not limited to metacafe or even youtube. You can just try any site that has online video players.

• First you need to copy the url of any metacafe video.

(Ex: "http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2318765/crazy_plane_ride/" )

• Open Keepvid.com

• Paste the URL in the url bar in the opening page

• Click download

• This will bring you video download links, some of these videos are available high quality and low quality formats. You choose high quality if available.
  

If you use download manager then you can download these video through it. NO more slow downloads.

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Watch Videos right in Gmail chat

No one else thought about this. But how many times you share YouTube links with your friends while chatting. One of the problem is you will go to a different tab or window and you might forget the chat or you might feel too lazy to go to the link.

All this problems been fix by simple hack. Now you can see a preview of the Video in Gmail chat. Do I need to say more? Enjoy the new simple but effective feature and another reason why you should chat in Gmail.

Via [Gmailblog]

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