Tiny bytes of tech
Got a PowerPoint presentation you are preparing for? If so, you might want to keep an extra tab open with SlideFinder. It’s a new site that is basically a search engine for PowerPoint slides! Type in anything and you’ll find hundreds of free slides you can download. You can also search for slides in over 23 languages. Neat!
Google and Microsoft are on a spree lately in terms of search engine news and features. In answer to cool and interesting new features in Bing, Google is showing that they will not be out-done!
Google Swirl is new labs feature that groups similar images into a fun-looking swirl of images. So if you search for Washington, you’ll get images of the white house, the Washington Monument, etc. Click on one of those and a swirl of related images will pop into view!
Do you have pictures on your local computer, on Picasa, Flickr and other photo sharing sites? If so, you might find it hard to search through all your pictures at once. That’s where Ginipic can help. It’s an awesome image search app that lets you search for images from your local picture collection, from photo sharing sites, and even from image search engines like Bing, Google, and Yahoo!
Google is pretty much always adding new features or optimizing their already awesome search engine. In November, added a couple of notable new changes. First, you can get help finding a place to get flu shots by checking out their Flu Shot Finder.
Secondly, they introduced a new feature whereby you can lock your SafeSearch settings, which means you’ll have to enter your password to change the setting again. Mostly useful if you have kids.
Thirdly, the search results for movie showtimes has now been enhanced so that the movie poster is included along with a more comprehensive summary of the movie.
Lastly, they’ve added a bunch of World Bank data to the search engine, which means you can now find cool facts like life expectancy, birth rates, and electricity use by country! You can also compare countries too!
SEO Analyzer is a neat desktop app that lets you do some quick SEO analysis for your website. The tool currently provides information such as the Page Rank for the input URL, all backlinks to the input site URL, determines whether the backlink uses rel=”nofollow” or not, gets the Page Rank for the back linking websites and gets your ranking on Google, Yahoo and Bing for desired keywords.
SEO Analyzer via NirmalTV
Google SafeSearch is a feature that you can use to block out explicit results from your regular Google search results and image search results. It’s useful if you have kids and want to make sure nothing bad comes up in the search results.
Now you can lock the setting, so that it can only be changed if the person enters the account password. To lock SafeSearch, click on Settings, then Search Settings on the Google home page and then click on Lock SafeSearch under SafeSearch Filtering.
Looking for a good place to download some free fonts to use in Photoshop or install on Windows? There are tons of websites for finding good fonts and here is an excellent list of 15 free sites for searching and downloading fonts.
Search PDF Books online is a search engine for finding free PDF ebooks online. It has indexed well over 255 millions ebooks, so you can find an eBook on just about any topic. When you perform a search, the right hand sidebar also lists out related manuals, top PDF eBooks, and recent eBooks downloads.
There are a ton of sites out there that help you search Twitter for popular links or find the most popular topics currently on twitter. Microsoft has joined the search Twitter game with Bing Twitter. Using Bing Twitter, you can quickly see the hottest topics on Twitter and also the links being shared for each hot topic.
When you click on a topic, you get a real-time view of all tweets with that tag plus any user tweets about each link. Cool!