Ray Matthews over at RSS in Government discovered an interesting application of RSS technology: lost and found items. Over in the United Kingdom, Bumblebee Auctions offers items up for auction as part of the UK Police Property Disposal program. Just subscribe to one of the RSS feeds, and receive immediate notification when new items
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Pinpointing your search
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Gary Price is guest-writing over at SearchDay with the article A Better Search Tool For Finding Needles in Haystacks. He’s talking about the new NeedleSearch toolbar, a new utility that allows you to create your own search toolbar for any search engine on the Internet. Way cool — the problem is, it only works…
RSS site of the day
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Posted in RSS
Yet another great use of RSS — PubSub monitors over 100,000 weblogs , and generates RSS feeds based on your search preferences. Once you subscribe, just enter a search string, and PubSub will send you an e-mail whenever those terms appear somewhere on a weblog. If you’re more ambitious, you can receive the results in…
Power searching for the news
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Posted in Search Engines, Software
A few years ago RocketInfo used to be one of the only news search tools in town, until the company decided to concentrate on pursuing the corporate news search market. Since last year, RocketInfo has been back, offering products on a number of platforms. One tool that I have not tried is the RocketInfo Desktop,…
RSS feed of the day
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Posted in RSS
I have used My Yahoo! as my portal for some time now. I think Yahoo’s product is far and away the best of the entry portals — it features a large number of different resources, which you can customize in any number of ways.
Now comes word that Yahoo! is introducing RSS headlines for users…
New music releases, delivered to your desktop
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Posted in RSS
Since I got my iPod last November, I have been a regular visitor to the iTunes Music Store — every Tuesday is “New Music Tuesday,” and dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of new albums and songs are made available for download.
If it’s a pain to remember to visit iTunes every week, and if you have…
A cleaner keyboard
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Posted in Gadgets, Technology
Remember the January 4 issue of the newsletter where I discussed how to clean your keyboard? It turns out a keyboard and mouse can harbor more bacteria than a toilet seat.
That’s why Fellowes has introduced an anti-bacterial keyboard — a substance injected into the plastic that forms the keyboard creates an environment where
The Year in Spam
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Posted in Email
The spam problem continues to worsen, and it looks like it’s going to get worse before it gets better. PC World presents the 2003 Spam Awards, with the top spam trends, tricks, and tips that have surfaced in the past year.
Here’s proof that the spam problem is not getting any better — Congress…
Ultimate E-mail security
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Posted in Email
This is an old story, but I thought it was pretty interesting. It seems that the North Korean government is launching an e-mail service that “guarantees the privacy of correspondence.” While I have no idea whether this service works or not, the article mentions that most North Koreans really do have the ultimate in e-mail…
That evil spammer could be you
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Email
Over the past few months, you may have received a bounced e-mail that says your e-mail to a certain person was rejected — and you didn’t send that e-mail in the first place? In that case, the spam didn’t come from your computer — but from another infected computer that had your e-mail address. Experts…