In case you have been under a rock for the last five years, Apple's Ipod has been a phenomenal success, so much so that it's spawned it's owned cultures and styles. Apple's latest release, the Iphone, looks set to do much the same thing, as it's a cellphone which gives you full internet abilities and lets you carry your whole music and movie collection around and watch it on the go. One of the best reasons to own an Iphone, is so that you may download some of the cool software that's emerging for it.
At this time, Apple have restricted the Iphone and don't allow any third party manufacturers to develop software for it. Many people fail to see the point of this restriction, and even though the device is relatively new, and hackers have already been able to bypass security on the unit and get into the firmware. This means that users are no longer stuck with the cell networks that Apple have forced onto them-Apple aren't too pleased however, and have issued statements declaring that such hacking will violate the terms and conditions of the user's guarantee.
It is reported that Apple are soon to be releasing a security update for the Iphone, which will of course be mandatory, and will once again attempt to block the use of other cell networks. Whether the hackers will again be able to break into the firmware after this update is anybody's guess. The other major aspect to be updated, it is thought, is to give the Iphone direct access to the Itunes media download store, which as it stands cannot be done directly through the phone itself. Apple was accused of dropping the ball in a major way when the Iphone went live and people discovered for all it's technology, it was unable to download music directly to the phone itself, something other cellphones have been capable of for the last couple of years at least.
Apple have recently committed themselves to ongoing updates and development of the Iphone software, which will be obtainable free of charge for all users. Whether this is truly a goodwill gesture as they seem to claim or just an attempt to repeatedly block the hackers remains to be seen.
Iphones really are starting to be the new craze, taking over from the Ipod. If you want to be able to listen to music, use your cellphone, browse the web and watch movies, what more could you want?
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Deleting A File Doesn't Mean It's Deleted Forever So How Do You Securely Erase Data From A Computer?
It is a common misconception of PC users that once they have dropped a file into the recycle bin and emptied it that that is it, the file is gone for good.
Wrong!
All that happens when you erase a file by either deleting it or putting it into the trash, is that Windows has been told not to recognize the file so you do not see it when you open a folder or your desktop. In fact, it is not erased at all, the data is still there on your hard drive and it will remain there until the information is over written by some other file or data. Knowing where to look will also lead a snooper to those places in the Windows operating system that a casual user would not normally know about or think to look such as temporary documents or temporary internet files and the cache.
The issue is how do we get rid of files and information that allows you to have a degree of confidence and security that the data has been erased forever?
This becomes particularly acute when you are looking at recycling or trashing an old computer as many people are currently doing with the Windows Vista upgrading that is happening at the moment. Handing over a PC to the local school, charity or selling it on becomes fraught if you have data lurking their that can easily be recovered by a free file recovery program downloaded from the hundreds freely available on the internet. Imagine your credit card information, banking passwords or personal information such as family photographs being recovered in a matter of seconds from your machine?
Your first stop is the internet and simply putting file recovery freeware as a search string in your search engine will throw up a lot of utilities that you can feely use. PCInspector is a good example but there are many more, and here is an overview of the features you can expect. PCInspector will recover deleted files of a wide variety and not just Windows files such as Word, PowerPoint or Excel. You can recover html, xhtml, gif, avi, mp3 files and many more.
Moving onto the commercially available software, Stompsoft have a good range of file recovery software as well as an extremely good file erase package that has been certified to meet the US Department of Defense sanitation standard for data erasure. Typically, the commercial software tends to retail at around the $20-$30 mark but if you are serious about your PC security this is a small price to pay. Commercial software does tend to offer more features than freeware and to be frank, the support you get with commercial software does tend to make the price worthwhile as in many cases you will be looking to use a file delete utility prior to ridding yourself of the PC. Once the machine has gone you are not going to get the chance to go back and repeat a file erase utility in this instance so you need to get it right the first time.
Wrong!
All that happens when you erase a file by either deleting it or putting it into the trash, is that Windows has been told not to recognize the file so you do not see it when you open a folder or your desktop. In fact, it is not erased at all, the data is still there on your hard drive and it will remain there until the information is over written by some other file or data. Knowing where to look will also lead a snooper to those places in the Windows operating system that a casual user would not normally know about or think to look such as temporary documents or temporary internet files and the cache.
The issue is how do we get rid of files and information that allows you to have a degree of confidence and security that the data has been erased forever?
This becomes particularly acute when you are looking at recycling or trashing an old computer as many people are currently doing with the Windows Vista upgrading that is happening at the moment. Handing over a PC to the local school, charity or selling it on becomes fraught if you have data lurking their that can easily be recovered by a free file recovery program downloaded from the hundreds freely available on the internet. Imagine your credit card information, banking passwords or personal information such as family photographs being recovered in a matter of seconds from your machine?
Your first stop is the internet and simply putting file recovery freeware as a search string in your search engine will throw up a lot of utilities that you can feely use. PCInspector is a good example but there are many more, and here is an overview of the features you can expect. PCInspector will recover deleted files of a wide variety and not just Windows files such as Word, PowerPoint or Excel. You can recover html, xhtml, gif, avi, mp3 files and many more.
Moving onto the commercially available software, Stompsoft have a good range of file recovery software as well as an extremely good file erase package that has been certified to meet the US Department of Defense sanitation standard for data erasure. Typically, the commercial software tends to retail at around the $20-$30 mark but if you are serious about your PC security this is a small price to pay. Commercial software does tend to offer more features than freeware and to be frank, the support you get with commercial software does tend to make the price worthwhile as in many cases you will be looking to use a file delete utility prior to ridding yourself of the PC. Once the machine has gone you are not going to get the chance to go back and repeat a file erase utility in this instance so you need to get it right the first time.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
How To Make Money Online For Free To Avoid Scams!
Looking for ways to make money online is not difficult. There are countless of opportunities in the internet. What is difficult is to land with a legitimate money making opportunity that does not risk your hard earned money to scammers. It is therefore important to learn how to make money online for free to avoid scams.
You must carefully search the internet to bring you to money making opportunities that are free to join. You will also notice, when doing your careful evaluation and paying attention to the fine prints, that most sites that are legitimate are free. When you join these free sites, you will see that you are not risking your money. The only risk perhaps is the time you spent for joining.
Here are some of the free money making opportunities you may want to further explore online:
'¢ Freelance Writing. You do not have to be a prolific writer to start making money online. You just need to have basic writing skills which you can hone over time through constant writing. You can write for specific companies, or you can write for submission to article directories.
'¢ Affiliate Marketing. Good programs do not require any sign-up fee. Legitimate sites that offer affiliations are free to join. You can choose from among the many products and services what you would like to promote and make money from.
'¢ Consultancy services. If you happen to be an expert in a certain niche, you can make money out of your expertise by offering consultancy services. You just have to increase your online presence to let the internet population know that your online business exists.
The above are three of the more practical ways to start making money online. You have to exercise some caution and further learn about how to make money online for free to avoid scams. Here are some basic things to guard against to protect you from the claws of the scammers.
'¢ Throw away the notion that you can easily and immediately get rich online. This said, stay away from offers that will make you rich in such a short time with practically doing nothing. They will not bring you any good, just scam.
'¢ Be wary of sites that will require you to pay to access their services or the money making opportunity. Legitimate sites are almost 90% free to join. Do not waste your time and your money for such offers.
'¢ Avoid sites that do not give detailed information about their offer. Do not be blinded by flashy visuals or animated graphics that will only lure you into signing-up and accepting their offer in exchange of your money.
'¢ Eliminate from your list sites without contact information or unverified information. These are just nothing but scams. Always check the contact information to make sure of its validity. Legitimate sites will always have their contact details posted.
When you know how to make money online for free, it will be easier for you to decide which money making activities and opportunities you will pursue to earn and make money. You also have a guaranteed protection from scams.
You must carefully search the internet to bring you to money making opportunities that are free to join. You will also notice, when doing your careful evaluation and paying attention to the fine prints, that most sites that are legitimate are free. When you join these free sites, you will see that you are not risking your money. The only risk perhaps is the time you spent for joining.
Here are some of the free money making opportunities you may want to further explore online:
'¢ Freelance Writing. You do not have to be a prolific writer to start making money online. You just need to have basic writing skills which you can hone over time through constant writing. You can write for specific companies, or you can write for submission to article directories.
'¢ Affiliate Marketing. Good programs do not require any sign-up fee. Legitimate sites that offer affiliations are free to join. You can choose from among the many products and services what you would like to promote and make money from.
'¢ Consultancy services. If you happen to be an expert in a certain niche, you can make money out of your expertise by offering consultancy services. You just have to increase your online presence to let the internet population know that your online business exists.
The above are three of the more practical ways to start making money online. You have to exercise some caution and further learn about how to make money online for free to avoid scams. Here are some basic things to guard against to protect you from the claws of the scammers.
'¢ Throw away the notion that you can easily and immediately get rich online. This said, stay away from offers that will make you rich in such a short time with practically doing nothing. They will not bring you any good, just scam.
'¢ Be wary of sites that will require you to pay to access their services or the money making opportunity. Legitimate sites are almost 90% free to join. Do not waste your time and your money for such offers.
'¢ Avoid sites that do not give detailed information about their offer. Do not be blinded by flashy visuals or animated graphics that will only lure you into signing-up and accepting their offer in exchange of your money.
'¢ Eliminate from your list sites without contact information or unverified information. These are just nothing but scams. Always check the contact information to make sure of its validity. Legitimate sites will always have their contact details posted.
When you know how to make money online for free, it will be easier for you to decide which money making activities and opportunities you will pursue to earn and make money. You also have a guaranteed protection from scams.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Work At Home Jobs: The Top Questions And Answers
It's natural for a new work at home job seeker to have tons of questions before they begin their search, and also often during their search. There are scams scattered everywhere you look on the Internet and one has to be extra cautious.
Perhaps a job seeker has already been scammed and wants to be reassured they won't be a victim again? Or maybe they just need to know exactly where to start? The answers to the below questions and the following tips will help.
Q - Do I have to have experience in order to work at home?
A - For work at home in general, one does have to have basic Internet navigation skills and basic typing skills. For a lot of the telecommute jobs that are available, one does have to have certain skill sets. However, it depends on which company you are applying for as to what skills you need to get the job. For each job listed, it usually states "specifics of experience needed" and often times will require a resume from you. A few of the companies will train you on the job and if so, it will be stated on the company's website. Also some of the companies will require you to train on site for so many months of said company before you are allowed to work at home.
Q - Can I make enough money to pay my bills from working at home?
A - Yes, it certainly is possible. For telecommute jobs, it all depends on what company you apply for. The pay varies for each job/company. For best results and if possible, try to work for more than one company to help secure your income.
Q - Does a telecommute company require any fees to get started working?
A - The only fees that should be required are for specific software in order to do the work, a headset for customer service, a foot pedal for transcription work, and for some companies, a background check. If a company requires any other fees than the ones listed above such as start up or registration fees...these are scams. Always do your research.
Q - What types of jobs are offered in telecommuting?
A - There are many jobs available for you to choose from including:
* Customer Service
* Data Entry
* Admin Assistant
* Freelance Writing
* Blogging
* General and Medical Transcription
* Coding
* Web Design
* Tutoring
* Graphic Design
Q - How does one research a job lead to find out if they are a scam or not?
A - Below are the number one signs of a scam:
1) Registration fees
2) No contact information
3) Statement saying you will make $xxx amount of dollars in a short time
4) Free hosted website
Below are some sites for you to search out certain online scams:
fraud.org/
scambusters.com/
consumeraffairs.com/scam_alerts/scam_alerts.htm
econsumer.gov/english/
search.bbb.org/
ripoffreport.com
Important Tip: You can also type in the name of the company with the word "scam" behind it in the home page of google.com to find out scams
Q - How many hours do you have to work when working from home?
A - For telecommute jobs, it depends on what company you apply for and how many hours they require. The ball is in your court, you can work for as many hours as you wish and for how many companies as you wish. Just make for sure you are not over-booking yourself. Always consider your family's needs as well.
Q - Where is the best place to find a telecommute job?
A - You can find jobs through many different sources. You can find a lot of them on message boards and Twitter, along with the other social media sites.
You can find them on job boards such as:
careerbuilder.com
monster.com
indeed.com
craigslist.org
genuinejobs.com
You can also find them by doing a search on google.com
Q - Will I need a resume to find an online job?
A - Yes. Almost all legitimate telecommute companies will require a resume from you. They want to know if you have the skills required to do the specific job. Also it is best to include a cover letter along with your resume.
The important thing to remember when searching for an online job is, have patience. Most often, you won't find a job overnight. Keep applying consistently to the job leads that you think you are qualified for.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro - A Compact Shadow Of The X10
The recently concluded 2010 Mobile world had Sony Ericsson showcasing its latest Android smart phones starting with the miniaturized XPERIA X10 handsets. One of them, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro , sports a QWERTY slider form factor that should live up to its "pro" designation albeit with a diminished feature seat we've known from the delayed X10.
Miniature Features
Nothing best exemplifies what a Mini is than the watered-down features of its Android derivatives.
- Your 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon used in the X10 is now just 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 running the same Android Cupcake version with the UX user interface. Sony could have done its markets a favour by using the later Android 2.0/2.1 É Clair.
- Imaging resolution gets axed from a defining 8 Mega pixel camera to a plebeian 5 megapixel snapper with no image stabilization and touchfocus features on the X10. You still get autofocus, LED flash, geo tagging and video light. Its press release it is silent on the video recording details but it can't possibly be of the same WVGA resolution as that in the X10.
- That's because you only get a QVGA 2.55-inch display, down from the X10's glorious 4-inch Wide-VGA display. At least you now get 16 million colors against the 64k colors on the X10, a gravity accelerometer and scratch resistant surface.
- Phone memory almost disappears from a generous 1GB to just 128 MB in the Mini Pro but you still have microSD expandability of up to 16 GB.
Apart from those grossly diminished X10 features, the Mini Pro shares many other hardware and software goodies with the X10.
- It's the same quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on the 2G Network and a 3G with dual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA. Data connectivity gets WiFi 82.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP and microUSB 2,0. There's a built-in A-GPS, stereo FM receiver with RDS, Bluetooth A2DP and 3.5mm headphone jack for either wireless or wired headset listening.
- On the software front, the Mini Pro has Timescape that aggregates all your communications and SNS updates on Facebook and Twitter in one location as well as Mediascape that draws together all your handset media content and those from the PlayNow music store and YouTube.
Conclusion
Sony Ericsson may have started a product strategy trend to affix the "pro" to create models with QWERTY sliders. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro is just the first with the Vivaz Pro as second. Admittedly, its unabashed pretense to being a pro with a simple "pro" appended to the X10 Mini name is more of a caricature with a next to useless QWERTY keyboard.
Good of Sony to retain the virtual on screen QWERTY using a stylus for a faster keying of data. But admittedly, even a diminished X10 feature set makes the Minis a capable smartphone by any definition. It should attract a younger crowd who prefer smaller and more pocket-friendly. Expect this to arrive in April, crossing your fingers.
A Brief History Of World Cup Football
One of the most popular events in football is the FIFA World cup tournament .This event is held every four years in a different location, much like the Olympics. In fact, there is some research that contends that the world cup is just as meaningful and creates just as much worldwide interest as the Olympics do. Teams from around the world compete through special games that determine who will qualify for
the tournament.
The World Cup has created such a sense of national pride that there have even been wars between countries held off until the teams knew whether or not they qualified for the tournament. For fans, football represents far more than a simple game. It is a way to show their national pride - and prove their country's dominance through sport.
The Golden Nike
In the early 1930s, the football World Cup was run by Jules Rimet from France. These pre-FIFA games awarded a magnificent statue to the winners of the tournament, the Golden Nike. The sculpture featured Nike of Samothrace, also known as Winged Victory, and was a visual indication that the winners were the world champions of football. Each winning team was allowed to keep the Golden Nike for four years - and if a team ever won three times they would be allowed to keep the statue forever. In 1970 Brazil was able to achieve this coveted goal, thought the award was stolen in 1983 and has yet to be recovered.
FIFA Steps In
In 1971 FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, took over the operation of the World Cuptournament. With the new organizers, a new award was created - the FIFA Cup. This trophy depicts winning players holding a golden globe above their heads in victory. Each team that wins the World Cup has the privilege of keeping the statue for four years, after which they have to pass it on to the next world championship team. Replica World Cups are made for each winning country to keep forever, though the original is passed from team to team. Winners of the FIFA World Cup also benefit financially, taking home large cash awards as well as the more symbolic trophy.
In 1971 FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, took over the operation of the World Cuptournament. With the new organizers, a new award was created - the FIFA Cup. This trophy depicts winning players holding a golden globe above their heads in victory. Each team that wins the World Cup has the privilege of keeping the statue for four years, after which they have to pass it on to the next world championship team. Replica World Cups are made for each winning country to keep forever, though the original is passed from team to team. Winners of the FIFA World Cup also benefit financially, taking home large cash awards as well as the more symbolic trophy.
Truly a Worldwide Phenomenon
The World Cup is one of the most international tournaments played in the world today. It truly is a collection of football teams that represent several diverse nations, from Korea to England to Uruguay. The same country rarely wins the tournament two years in a row. In fact, the chances of a single country dominating the World Cuptournament for any length of time are very slim. In the nine tournaments played between 1930 and 1970, the winners were Uruguay, Italy, France, Brazil, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, and Mexico.
The World Cup is one of the most international tournaments played in the world today. It truly is a collection of football teams that represent several diverse nations, from Korea to England to Uruguay. The same country rarely wins the tournament two years in a row. In fact, the chances of a single country dominating the World Cuptournament for any length of time are very slim. In the nine tournaments played between 1930 and 1970, the winners were Uruguay, Italy, France, Brazil, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, and Mexico.
The World Cup has always been a symbol of pride for the competing nations, and fans can become a little outrageous about the games. The popularity of football hasn't waned over the decades, and the game is probably more now than it ever has been.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
The Top 5 Dating Mistakes Men Make - And How To Avoid Them
When you consider dating a woman, more than likely you consider dinner and a movie, right?
Going out and doing stuff with the girl. Getting to know her, and all that jazz.
Well, what if I told you that you had the completely WRONG idea about dating?
Most men understand dating a woman, as a concept for a sensual ulterior motive; however, this is not always the case.
Let's go over some of the most common mistakes guys make when "dating" a girl...
Mistake #1: Dates are only to make a good impression.
Many man feel they have to prove themselves while on a date, so the woman is attracted to them. Many may take a woman out to expensive places while showing her a good time; while they go on to build himself up as important by bragging.
Mistake #2: You can buy the love of a woman.
This is not a good idea, since you cannot spend enough money on a woman to encourage them to keep dating you. The majority of women today could care less how much you might spend on a date with them.
Mistake #3: Activities Mean Nothing!
Going out and doing things with someone does not mean as much as you think it might. Simply going to on dates does not encourage a womans interest for you. You cannot create romantic interest by just spending time together.
Mistake #4: Men become boring!
A date with no spark of chemistry is boring. Although many men become nervous while on dates, they often interrupt themselves by becoming boring. They often talk about their routines while displaying little to none of their distinct personality. This is going through the motions with hopes of not messing things up.
Mistake #5: Guys follow a pattern of failure.
Some men have a preconceived ideal of dating, how they think things should happen, and then they rigidly follow that perception. They may go out on a dinner date, while they ask her all the same questions as their other dates. This eliminates all the spontaneous fun of interacting with the woman.
What does it mean to go on dates with a woman?
The answer is simple; dating is a means of encouraging and building comfort, attraction and emotional connections.
It does not matter how much you spend or where you may go, what does matter is how you build your connection with a woman, while encouraging her feelings for you.
This is the key to why many men can go on a cheap date with a woman, while sweeping her off her feet, while other men may overspend on creative dating and get absolutely nowhere with the woman.
Your entire focus while dating a girl should be "how can I become more emotionally connected to this girl?"
Talk about your shared interests. Talk about your passions. Try and figure out what her hopes and dreams are.
Learn to rephrase your questions, rather than wanting to know where she works, ask her some interesting and fun questions, such as If you could do anything you wish, what would you wish to do?
Most importantly: HAVE FUN!
You might want to tell her a joke, even if it is not the best, just so you can both enjoy a good chuckle. Take care to guide the conversation towards the things she finds interesting, this helps you find out who she is. Be curious.
But most importantly, don't shy away from sex!
Although many men shy away from approaching the subject of relationships while on a date, you should build the intensity of attraction by building toward that.
Relax and be a bit wicked by flirting and joking with your date about romance women enjoy this as well. Therefore, if you do not, you have no means of building the attraction of the woman you date onto a higher level.
How to Make Easy Money Online With YouTube
We all know about You tube, you can find videos and upload video of just about everything. But there is something many people don't know...and if you are big into posting videos on YouTube this is great news for you. Did you know that YouTube pays out money to people that have a lot of views on videos that they post. That's right! You can earn easy money online by posting videos on YouTube, and here are some simple steps on how to get started!
Step 1:
If you are new to YouTube and like the idea of posting great video to earn revenue with YouTube the first thing you need is a FREE YouTube account. Simply login to YouTube and sign up, they will ask for basic information including a user name and password.
Step 2:
Once you have your account you need to become familiar with how to upload videos, title videos, and market your videos with relevant keywords, category selection and content. So if you have a nice for making a certain type of video and have lots of them to share this could end up being a great source of online income for you. Many of YouTube's most successful partners are young adults and youth. And they are earning big money!
Step 3:
After you have uploaded a variety of video you can now go to YouTube's homepage and click on the link that says partnerships under programs. From here you can apply to become a partner, this is where some people get frustrated and confused. To become a partner with YouTube you must apply, once you apply YouTube will review your account. YouTube will look at your total number of videos, how often you submit videos and how many views your videos have received. All of these factors in to weather or not you approved for partnership. So I would suggest building up a nice "portfolio" of video that have success in views before you apply.
Step 4:
Once your a partner YouTube then allows you to get commission off of ads that are seen by your videos. So lets say someone watches your YouTube video and noticed an ad to the side of your video. If they click on that ad YouTube shares earning from that ad click with there partners. For some people on YouTube this has generated a lot of money.
Step 1:
If you are new to YouTube and like the idea of posting great video to earn revenue with YouTube the first thing you need is a FREE YouTube account. Simply login to YouTube and sign up, they will ask for basic information including a user name and password.
Step 2:
Once you have your account you need to become familiar with how to upload videos, title videos, and market your videos with relevant keywords, category selection and content. So if you have a nice for making a certain type of video and have lots of them to share this could end up being a great source of online income for you. Many of YouTube's most successful partners are young adults and youth. And they are earning big money!
Step 3:
After you have uploaded a variety of video you can now go to YouTube's homepage and click on the link that says partnerships under programs. From here you can apply to become a partner, this is where some people get frustrated and confused. To become a partner with YouTube you must apply, once you apply YouTube will review your account. YouTube will look at your total number of videos, how often you submit videos and how many views your videos have received. All of these factors in to weather or not you approved for partnership. So I would suggest building up a nice "portfolio" of video that have success in views before you apply.
Step 4:
Once your a partner YouTube then allows you to get commission off of ads that are seen by your videos. So lets say someone watches your YouTube video and noticed an ad to the side of your video. If they click on that ad YouTube shares earning from that ad click with there partners. For some people on YouTube this has generated a lot of money.
How To Trace A Cell Phone Number From My Phone
Did you know that anyone can have access to your cell phone number along with where exactly you live, who your parents are, who your kids are, and even get directions straight to your home? If you didn't, its time to wake up and smell the coffee because people are searching for you everyday of the year.
Just like you, you want to be able to trace a phone so you know who the person that just called you is. Well, this is very easy to do and with these three easy steps, you can find out exactly who is behind the call.
The firs thing that you are going to want to do is find a reliable cell phone reverse look up These are directories that are filled with numbers upon numbers. While not all directories will be up to date, such as the free ones, a few will keep them updated on a regular basis.
After you have found a reliable lookup directory, you know have to punch in the telephone number. Be sure to put in the exact information and when you are finished, push the get results button.
You will now see a number along with who the person that called you, their current address, parents, relatives, and additional information you may need.
As you can see, it is very easy to lookup anyones number. So if you take the time to find a reliable and updated directory, you can find pretty much anyone, at anytime during the day or during the night.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
How To Bake A Chocolate Cake
The mention of chocolate cake brings water in everyone's mouth. This article will help you bake a chocolate cake on your own. Here are easy and simple steps to bale a chocolate cake.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 1 cup Hershey's cocoa
- 2 ½ cups brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 ¾ cups sifted all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup softened butter
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
Icing:
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa
- 2 cups powdered icing sugar
- 1/2 cup or a stick of unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Procedure
Step 1:
First, pre-heat the oven to a temperature of 177 degrees Celsius or 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step 2:
Grease two round layer pans of nine inch and set aside.
Step 3:
Mix the cup of Hershey's cocoa with 2 cups of boiling water until it becomes smooth and let it cool.
Step 4:
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a plastic bowl.
Step 5:
Cream the butter slowly. When the butter gets softened and starts to cream, slowly add sugar and keep creaming the butter until it appears fluffy and light.
Step 6:Now, eggs have to be added one at a time when the butter is done and it has to be slowly mixed. Then vanilla is to be added.
Step 7:
Add cocoa mixture fourths to the butter. Then add the mixture of dry ingredients. Keep adding in alternates until the last mixture which should be the dry ingredients.
Step 8:
The batter is to be now placed in the pans to half or less the depth of the pan.
Step 9:
It has to be baked in a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit for nearly 25 to 30 minutes, check if is baked completely. It can be done with a toothpick pierced into the center of the cake. If it comes out clean then it means the cake is already baked.
Step 10:
Now, take out the pans from the oven and let them cool for ten minutes on a wire rack.
Icing Procedure
Step 1:
First, place the sugar in the bowl and then slowly add other ingredients.
Step 2:
Slow mixer speed will keep the sugar in the bowl. Slowly increase the speed.
Step 3:
If the frosting looks very thick, then milk can be added slowly to make it thinner. Thick frosting will be difficult to apply on the cake.
Step 4:
Use a spatula to top the cake with the icing. It can also be directly piped on.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 1 cup Hershey's cocoa
- 2 ½ cups brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 ¾ cups sifted all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup softened butter
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
Icing:
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa
- 2 cups powdered icing sugar
- 1/2 cup or a stick of unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Procedure
Step 1:
First, pre-heat the oven to a temperature of 177 degrees Celsius or 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step 2:
Grease two round layer pans of nine inch and set aside.
Step 3:
Mix the cup of Hershey's cocoa with 2 cups of boiling water until it becomes smooth and let it cool.
Step 4:
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a plastic bowl.
Step 5:
Cream the butter slowly. When the butter gets softened and starts to cream, slowly add sugar and keep creaming the butter until it appears fluffy and light.
Step 6:Now, eggs have to be added one at a time when the butter is done and it has to be slowly mixed. Then vanilla is to be added.
Step 7:
Add cocoa mixture fourths to the butter. Then add the mixture of dry ingredients. Keep adding in alternates until the last mixture which should be the dry ingredients.
Step 8:
The batter is to be now placed in the pans to half or less the depth of the pan.
Step 9:
It has to be baked in a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit for nearly 25 to 30 minutes, check if is baked completely. It can be done with a toothpick pierced into the center of the cake. If it comes out clean then it means the cake is already baked.
Step 10:
Now, take out the pans from the oven and let them cool for ten minutes on a wire rack.
Icing Procedure
Step 1:
First, place the sugar in the bowl and then slowly add other ingredients.
Step 2:
Slow mixer speed will keep the sugar in the bowl. Slowly increase the speed.
Step 3:
If the frosting looks very thick, then milk can be added slowly to make it thinner. Thick frosting will be difficult to apply on the cake.
Step 4:
Use a spatula to top the cake with the icing. It can also be directly piped on.
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Search engines
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Type
Search Engine Description
All-Purpose
Search
Engines
Google - The world's most popular search engine.
Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into the burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never.
Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen Netratings report.
AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory. From 1996 powered Yahoo! Search, since 2003 - Yahoo technology powers AltaVista.
Cuil: Cuil is a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched in July, 2008 and claims to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as many pages as Google and ten times that of MS.
Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms.
Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's search engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly!
HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN.
AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently.
Galaxy: More of a directory than a search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory. Part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin
search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now official.
Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search) Microsoft's web search engine, designed to compete with Google and Yahoo!. Included as part of the Internet Explorer web browser.
Lycos: Initial focus was broadband entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal and the 13th largest online property according to Media Metrix.
GigaBlast was developed by an ex-programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and infix notation. A unique search engine, it indexes over 10 billion web pages.
Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known more for providing website traffic information. Search was provided by Google, then Live Search, now in-house applicaitons run their own search.
Accounting
IFAC.com
IFAC.com: For resources and information on Ifrs and Accounting.
Bit Torrent
Btjunkie: An advanced BitTorrent search engine. It uses a web crawler (similar to Google) to search for torrent files from other torrent sites and store them in its database. It has over 1,800,000 active torrents.
Demonoid: A BitTorrent tracker set up by a person known only as Deimos. The website indexed torrents uploaded by its members. Taken offline after legal threats to its Hosting Company by CRIA.
FlixFlux: From its website, "The ultimate torrent site for films, combining bittorrent search results with film information, making it easy to find new film releases."
isoHunt, a comprehensive BitTorrent search engine, P2P file search and community. Over 930,000 torrents in its database and 16 million peers from indexed torrents. Avg: 40 million searches per month.
Mininova: Successor to Suprnova.org - a search engine and directory of torrent files. Anonymous uploads, no IP address logging of users, no porn. over 550,000 torrents in the database, over 4 Billion downloads.
The Pirate Bay (aka "TPB"): Based in Sweden where torrent trackers are not illegal. No content is filtered or removed as long as it is clearly labeled.
TorrentSpy: Tracks externally hosted torrent files and provides a forum to comment on them. Integrates Digg-like user-driven content site ShoutWire's feed into its front page.
Torrentz: Tracks nearly 7 million torrents in a searchable portal.
Blog
Amatomu: The South African Blogosphere, sorted. Amatomu searches blogs with a distinct focus on South Africa.
Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Sold to Ask.com in 2005.
Blogperfect
Blogperfect: Google Powered Blog Search
BlogScope: Search & analysis tool for the blogosphere being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto. Itcurrently tracks over 23.5 million blogs with 275.6million posts.
IceRocket: An Internet search engine for searching blogs.
Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web.
Technorati catalogs over 112 million weblogs. Known as a kind of gauge for blog popularity as epitomized by its byline of "What's percolating in blogs now". A supporter and contributor to open source software.
Books
FreeBookSearch.net - Comprehensive book searching portal with more than 30 search engines in its archive, the site searches hundreds of digital libraries and also scours the net for hidden books.
Google Book Search The power of Google to find books. Google's entry will not let you see full text if the copyright is still active in your jurisdiction.
Business
Alibaba.com - Claims to be the world's largest database of suppliers. Based in China, it is a marketplace of export and import, offers search, company directory, catalog, trade leads and more.
Bankersalmanac.com provides intelligent reference data solutions to the banking industry for payments, due diligence, risk assessment and financial research.
business.com: contains more than 400,000 listings within about 65,000 categories. Search results are preceded by four types of paid links.
Hoovers: A Dun & Bradstreet Company, maintains a database of over 23 million companies. Some information is provided free, other information is available to paid subscribers. Good for company stock information.
Kompass: 2.3M companies in 70 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive names. A guide for worldwide sourcing.
Lexis Nexis: LexisNexis claims to be the "world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information". Searchable archive of newspapers, public records & more.
ThomasNet: Powered by the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (The Big Green Books published since 1898).Catalogs over 650,000 American companies in 67,000 categories.
Email
eMail-Search.org Email-Search.org: A mini-portal with a number of tools for searching email addresses. Find current, former email addresses, extract them from the web.
Nicado: Free to register, Search email addresses. The Nicado search engine allows registered users to search the Nicado database using an email address or telephone number.
TEK search engine is an email-based search engine developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The search engine enables users to search the Web using only email. It is intended to be used by people with low internet connectivity.
Enterprise
AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution for mobile telephones. AskMeNow offers a consumer mobile search utilizing proprietary technology & natural language based interaction.
Autonomy: IDOL Server (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), K2 Enterprise (Formerly Verity), Ultraseek
Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation. Dieselpoint provides advanced full-text search with data navigation capability. It gives users highly relevant results not possible with either traditional search engines or SQL databases.
dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web. dtSearch provides simple to use but very powerful tools which create and maintain full text indexes of documents and data. Terabytes of text can be searched.
Endeca's search and information access solutions help enterprises find, analyze, and understand information. This is the Guided Navigation experience.
Exalead: exalead one: Enterprise. Exalead - Internet search engine, image search engine, video search engine ... WebImagesWikipediaVideoMore » · Advanced search. 8 billion pages indexed to date.
Expert System Sp. A. (Cogito) is a pioneer in developing semantic technologies to understand and manage unstructured information. Expert System's semantic approach enables rapid classification of information.
Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)
Funnelback is an Internet and Enterprise search engine company offering a suite of search solutions, hosted solution for the web and a fully customisable enterprise solution for searching behind the firewall.
Google Search Appliance: Make it as easy for employees to find information inside your organization as it is to find information on google.com. Deploy a Google Search Appliance.
Microsoft's SharePoint Search Services: Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft, based on MS Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architecture with Windows Search.
Northern Light Northern Light Search: Search articles from over 800 online news feeds and over 1,000 industry authority blogs.
Open Text (Hummingbird): Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software solutions supporting +/- 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide.
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets.
SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification (TREX) finds information in both structured and unstructured data. TREX provides SAP applications with services for searching and classifying large collections of documents.
TeraText Suite: Most data resides in semi-structured, primarily textual documents, not in structured, organizational repositories. Teratext is designed for text-rich data repositories.
Vivisimo Clustering Engine developed by scientists based upon a mathematical algorithm and deep linguistic knowledge to find relationships between search terms and bring them to light. (Web search: Clusty)
ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform for government and corporates does capturing, archiving, searching, security, and context-specific content-management.
Forum
Omgili (Oh My God, I Love It!): Find out what people are saying. Personal experiences, solutions to problems, ideas and opinions.
Games
Cheatsearch.org: Finds Game Cheats from all over the web. Searches all of the most popular cheat sites and forums to find cheats for any game.
Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business directory search.
Wazap is a vertical search engine, video game database and social networking site that distributes gaming news, rankings, cheats, downloads and reviews.
Human
Search
ChaCha Search is a search engine that pays human "guides" to answer questions for users. This is a technique known as social searching.
Eurekster is a New Zealand company, with an office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis (search+wicki).
Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human search engine) - the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines by tracking and building hand-crafted results for searches.
Rollyo is a Yahoo!-powered search engine which allows users to register accounts and create search engines that only retrieve results from the websites and blogs they want to include in their search results.
Trexy: Search trails are the click pathways you create while searching and finding information on 4,000+ search engines. Record and share your "search trails". Easier searching of the "deep web".
Wink: Wink People Search: Over 333,304,647 people on social networks and across the Web. Find people using name search, location, school, work, interests, and more.
International
Accoona: A search engine that uses artificial intelligence. In addition to traditional searches, it allows business profile searches, and its signature "SuperTarget" feature. Partnered with China Daily, a large Chinese portal.
Alleba: Philippines search engine and highly organized directory of Filipino websites.
Ansearch: Australia/NZ/UK/US. Ansearch Ltd is involved in various online media activities, including the Ansearch.com.au search engine and the Soush online media network
Araby: Middle East - Arabic language search engine owned by the Maktoob Group, which owns the world's largest online Arab community; Maktoob.com. (Arabic only)
Baidu: China - The Google of China, Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market.
Daum: Korea - Daum is a popular web portal in South Korea which offers many Internet services including search, a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and news.
Guruji.com: India - an Indian Internet search engine that is focused on providing better search results to Indian consumers, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian context.
goo: Japan - an Internet search engine and web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese language websites. goo is operated by the Japanese telecomm giant NTT.
Miner.hu: Hungary - a vertical search engine for searching blogs, videos and other Hungarian content on the internet. Miner.hu indexes about 129.000 blogs.
Najdi.si Najdi.si: Slovenia - a Slovenian search engine and web portal created by Interseek. It's the most visited website in Slovenia. It uses a technology created by Interseek written entirely in Java
Naver: Korea - The undisputed number 1 search engine in Korea with over 16 million visitors and 1 billion page views per day.
Onet: Poland - Polish language web portal and search.
Onkosh: Middle East - Arabic language search.
Rambler: Russia -offers proprietary web search (Rambler Search), e-mail, rating and directory, media, ecommerce and other services to the Russian-speaking websurfer.
Rediff: India - India's leading internet portal for news, mail, messenger, entertainment, business, mobile, ecommerce, shopping, auctions, search, sports and more.
SAPO: Portugal - Portuguese language search based in Portugal and focused on Portugal.
Search.ch: Switzerland - a search engine and web portal for Switzerland. Founded in 1995 as a regional search engine, later many other services were added: phonebook, SMS service. Acquired by the Swiss Post.
Sesam: Norway, Sweden - Based in Norway and focused on Norway and Sweden.
Walla!: Israel - Search the web in Hebrew with an Israel focus.
Yandex: Russia - Yandex (Russian: Я́ндекс) is a Russian search engine and one of the largest Russian Web portals.Yandex was launched in 1997.
Job
Bixee (India): Comprehensive jobsearch for India.
Career Builder: The career builder website.
Craig's List: is a centralized network of online communities, with free classified ads (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories) and forums.
CV Fox: A search engine that is designed to hunt down and retrieve resumes (CV's) from all over the Internet. Free to use, has become a popular tool with professional recruiters.
Dice.com is the #1 technology job board. For technology experts in areas such as Information Technology (IT), software, high tech, security, biotech, and more. Recently purchased eFinancialCareers.com.
Eluta.ca (Canada) - High-paying jobs in Canada directly from employers' websites. Seach new full-time jobs at 71000+ employers across Canada.
Hot Jobs (Yahoo): Find a job, post your resume, research careers at featured companies, compare salaries and get career advice on Yahoo! HotJobs.
Incruit (Korea): Incruit claims to be the first Korean match making site between job seekers and companies and claims the first Korean Internet résumé database (June 1. 1998).
Indeed.com: A job 'meta-search' that scours job boards, newspapers and multiple sources with one search interface.
Jobs.pl (Poland): Run by an American/Polish team of MBA's, Poland's leading job portal. Partially owned by European Media Group "Orkla Press" from Scandinavia.
JobsDB (Asia/Pacific): An Asia/Pacific focused job and recruitment site with databases dedicated to each country in the Asia/Pacific region.
JobPilot (Owned by Monster): A European job site now owned by Monster.com. Focused on European jobs with branches in a number of European countries.
Jobserve: UK based job search focused originally on IT Contracting work, but now covering multiple areas. Resume database, large number of job postings.
Monster.com: The world's largest resume database and online job search.
Naukri.com (India): An India-focused job search engine.
Recruit.net: A job search engine that allows you to search jobs worldwide.
SimplyHired.com - Job search engine. Search over 5 million job listings and thousands of jobs sites to find a job you love.
StepStone (Europe): European online recruitment site based in Scandinavia with operations and subsidiaries througout Europe.
TheLadders.com (USA) Job search for professional jobs in the most comprehensive source of $100K+ jobs on the internet.
Legal
Canadian Law List: List of Canadian lawyers.
Lawyers.com: Another LexisNexis company
FindLaw: Search FindLaw's database of 1,000,000 lawyers to find attorneys in your area. All Topics in FindLaw are geared for the Public, by Subject Area.
The Lawyers' List: Search for lawyers all across the United States.
LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only.
Martindale.com® Martindale.com and LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
QuicklawTM LexisNexis owned portal for searching for lawyers and things legal (Canada)
Maps
Géoportail: French Geographic portal. French language only.
Google Maps: Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States as well as other countries. Can also search by keyword such as type of business.
MapQuest (AOL) was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons & became an independent company in 1994. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by America Online, Inc.
Michelin (Via Michelin): The European map specialists' webpage includes standard map features with good European coverage.
Windows Live Maps: Enter an address, click enter... be sure to check out "Bird's Eye View". You can see a close-up aerial view of nearly any US Address and many foreign ones. Amazing.
Yahoo Maps: Maps, directions, reverse-directions satellite view but no 'bird's-eye-view'.
Medical
Bioinformatic Harvester: From the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Bioinformatic Harvester crawls and crosslinks dozens of bioinformatic sites and serves 10's of thousands of pages daily.
Entrez (Pubmed): The life sciences search engine.
EB-Eye - EMBL-EBI's (European Bioinformatics Institute): Open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Very fast access to the EBI's data resources.
Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business directory search.
GoPubMed: Knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology - Searching sorted - Social network and folsonomy for sciences.
Healia: The health search engine. From the site, "The high quality and personalized health search engine".
KMLE (King's Medical Library Engine): Full American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary comprehensive resource including tens of thousands of audio pronunciations and abbreviation guides.
MeshPubMed MeSH - Medical Subject Headings (GoPubMed): Knowledge-based.
SearchMedica: Professional Medical Search
WebMD: A source for health information, a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, and a place to store personal medical information.The leading US Health portal, it scores over 40 million hits per month.
MetaSearch
Brainboost Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a question in natural language, get an answer.
Clusty: The clustering search engine powered by Vivisimo.
Dogpile: Brings together searches from the top search engines including Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more.
Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms.
HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN.
Info.com: Metasearch bringing together results from the top search engines.
ixquick: Eliminate Big Brother! The Ixquick metasearch engine permanently deletes all personal search details gleaned from its users. Based in the Netherlands, results come from 11 search engines.
Kayak: Metasearch for travel - search 140 travel sites all at once for the best deals and buy tickets and make reservations direct.
Krozilo is a virtual web browser, similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes, and Microsoft Live. Krozilo uses AJAX and DHTML, so does not require installation.
Mamma: "The Mother of All Search Engines" - was one of the web's first metasearch engines (1996). Now owned by Copernic Inc. of Montreal, Canada, Mamma.com is a tier 2 search engine.
MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines.
MetaLib is a federated search system developed by Ex Libris. MetaLib conducts simultaneous searches in multiple resources such as library catalogs, journal articles, newspapers and the web.
Mobissimo.com is a travel meta-search website. Like other travel meta-search websites, Mobissimo does not sell directly to the consumer but consolidates travel offerings for a referral fee.
Myriad Search: Ad-free search lets users select results from Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! Select search depth and place bias on the search results from the major search engines.
Sidestep: Searches over 200 travel-relates websites for airfares & the best deals on airfare. Find cheap airfares, discount hotels, car rentals and cruise deals to popular travel destinations worldwide.
Surfwax offers a variety of tools for finding, saving, and sharing information on the Internet, including Nextaris, the law-article research site LawKT, the SurfWax meta-search and SurfWax Scholar services.
Turbo10.com is a metasearch engine which uncovers information in the Invisible Web. Turbo10 can access information from 800 online databases and searches 10 databases simultaneously.
WebCrawler was used to build the first publicly-available full-text index of a subset of the Web. WebCrawler® brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Ask and other popular search engines.
MultiMedia
YouTube: Owned by Google, the web's largest media site. This search will search through the videos of YouTube only.
blinkx: Over 18 million hours of video . Search it all. Blinkx is a multi-media metasearch engine searching the media files of sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, GoogleVideo, MySpace and more.
FreeBookSearch.net: The famous book searching portal also searches for audiobooks. This same search will also find MP3 files.
FindSounds FindSounds: Search engine to find any kind of sound file: WAV, MP3, AIFF, AU - search by sample rate and quality... a great place to find those sound effects.
MetaCafe: Search videos hosted by MetaCafe. If you are a producer of videos, you can get paid for videos - the more viewers, the more cash.
Musgle: Music Search (mp3, wav, etc.): Based upon a JavaScript that automatically inserts a clever boolean search string into Google to return catalogs of hidden MP3 and Music files.
PBS provides resources to air its standard programming & also provides its audience with multiple online archives of specific video programs. All video archives can be searched for any spoken word pronounced in them.
Picsearch: Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures.
Podscope: "Introducing: the first search engine that can find podcasts according to the words spoken during them!". Finds audio and video files based upon actual content!
SpeechBot was a search engine for audio & video. It was created by HP Research, but unfortunately, is now offline.
Singing Fish: An audio and video search engine, now AOL media search.
StrimOO: Video search engine. Find videos on Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more with one search.
TVEyes: TVEyes makes Radio & TV searchable by keyword, phrase or topic - just as you would use a search engine for text. TVEyes is the first company to deliver real-time TV and Radio search.
Veveo / VTap: a video search platform for mobile phones. Vtap is an offering from Veveo and it currently works on Apple Iphones as well as Microsoft Mobile-powered phones.
Web-Cam-Search.com: Search and hack nearly a million webcams for free on the net. This search uses Boolean scripting to uncover cams - public & supposedly 'private'. :-)
News
Google News: News by Google. Search and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously.
MagPortal: Find individual articles from many freely accessible magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine. You can mark articles or find similar articles with several useful tools.
NewsLookup.com: Search thousands of news sites by source region and media type. News headlines updated continuously.
LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only.
Topix is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic and geography. It was created by the founders of the Open Directory Project. Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and Gannett own 75% of Topix.net.
Yahoo News: Use Yahoo! News to find breaking news, current events, the latest headlines, news photos, analysis & opinion on top stories, world, business, politics...
Open
Source
DataparkSearch DataparkSearch Engine is a full-featured open source web-based search engine released under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.
::egothor Egothor is an Open Source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It can be configured as a standalone engine, metasearcher, peer-to-peer HUB, etc.
gonzui: gonzui is a source code search engine for accelerating open source software development - a source code search engine that covers vast quantities of open source codes available on the Internet.
Grub started back in 2000 with a simple concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. Their website claims, "We want to help fix search."
ht://Dig is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. ht://Dig is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or web site.
The iSearch PHP search engine allows you to build a searchable database for your web site. Visitors can search for key words and a list of any pages that match is returned to them.
Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Full-text search & cross-platform. Apache Lucene is an open source project available for free download.
The Lemur Toolkit is a open-source toolkit designed to facilitate research in language modeling and information retrieval. Lemur supports a wide range of industrial and research language applications.
mnoGoSearch: Web search engine software.
Namazu Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use. Not only does it work as a small or medium scale Web search engine, but also as a personal search. (Namazu means "Catfish" in Japanese.)
Nutch is an effort to build an open source search engine based on Lucene Java for the search and index component. The fetcher ("robot" or "web crawler") has been written from scratch solely for this project.
OpenFTS: OpenSource Full Text Search is an advanced PostgreSQL-based search engine that provides online indexing of data and relevance ranking for database searching.
Sciencenet Sciencenet: For scientific knowledge based on YaCy Technology. Current search engines are based on popularity and/or sponsored links. This makes it difficult for scientists/students/teachers. Sciencenet is the solution.
Sphinx is a free software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL and PostgreSQL natively. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2.
SWISH-E SWISH-Enhanced (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced) is a fast, powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use system for indexing collections of Web pages or other text files.
Terrier is software for the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines.A modular platform for the rapid development of large-scale Information Retrieval applications.
Wikia Search: Jimmy Wales and Wikia aim to create a an open source Internet search engine, to which the community can contribute.
Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It's written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# and Ruby (so far!)
YaCy is a scalable personal web crawler and web search engine. One YaCy installation can store more than 10 million documents, but in a community of search peers YaCy can provide a search index of unlimited size.
Zettair Zettair is a compact and fast text search engine designed and written by the Search Engine Group at RMIT University. It was formerly known as Lucy.
People
AnyWho.com - Part of AT&T, mostly a telephone directory and reverse phone number directory.
Ex.plode.us: Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use.
Finding-People.com Finding-People.com: Finding-People.com is the best place to start a people search, as they have a huge number of tools all in one place to find whomever you seek.
InfoSpace: From their webpage, "The yellow pages and white pages directory from InfoSpace is the most convenient way to find people and businesses."
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site used for professional networking. As of March 2008, it had more than 20 million registered users. An easy way to search for business people or professionals.
Spock advertises itself as, "The world's most accurate people search. Sign up to find people you know."
Wink is a free people search engine that helps you find people at social networks, blogs, and across the Web.
ZABASEARCH Zabasearch: Honestly free people search. All US postal addresses & telephone numbers revealed free. 3-times more listings than white pages phone directory.
ZoomInfo: Founded in 1999, ZoomInfo is a Web-based service that extracts information about people and companies from millions of published resources.
Question
&
Answer
About.com. The majority of their results come from their own site. Used to be miningco.com.
Answers.com Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers.
Ask Jeeves was designed to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language. Ask.com was the first such commercial question-answering search engine for the Web.
AskMeNow: Questions answered from your mobile telephone. From their site, "We thought it would be cool if we could get simple answers from our phone anytime, anywhere — so we built AskMeNow."
AskWiki Beta is a preliminary integration of a semantic search engine that seeks to provide specific answers to questions using information from Wikipedia articles.
BrainBoost Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a question in natural language, get an answer.
eHow is an online knowledge resource with more than 140000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on "how to do just about everything"
Lexxealpha Lexxe processes natural language queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases or short questions.
Lycos iQ is a community driven "human search" site by Lycos Europe GmbH. Users on iQ can post questions and answers in a similar manner to sites such as Yahoo Answers, Google Answers and Wondir.com.
Powerset is betting on the wisdom of the crowds with a new online community site called Powerset Labs. The company hopes the site will get people to help build and
Windows Live QnA Windows Live QnA: Ask any question and get answers from people in the know. Try it. Real answers. A little late to a crowded market, but Windows is there now too.
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! that allows users to ask questions of other users and answer other users' questions. Over 60 million users.
Real Estate
ForSaleByOwner.com: Search homes being sold by their owners without the intermediation of realtors - save on commission.
Home.co.uk Home.co.uk: Comprehensive Property Search for UK houses for sale, estate agents, house prices and guides on buying and selling property and mortgages advice.
Inman News: Real Estate News search.
Properazzi.com is an online real estate search engine. Launched in March of 2007 by Yannick Laclau, it allows users to search and view property listings for Europe.
Realtor.com: The official site of the National Association of Realtors. Search listed properties all across America.
Rightmove: Find property online, search a wide range of property for sale in various areas in the UK, London and Overseas with Rightmove.
Trulia: Find property online, agents can list their properties free, a robust real estate portal for homebuyers and sellers.
Zillow provides free real estate information including homes for sale, comparable homes, historical sales, home valuation tools and more.
School
The College Search Engine.com: Searches the webistes of colleges and universities worldwide, not just the USA. If it is on a university website somewhere, this search engine will find it.
Skoolz.org: Search colleges and universities. Use this search to search only the websites of colleges - to find courses, information, professors, curricula, etc.
Google University Search allows you to search a specific site - one school at a time. The list of schools is comprehensive. Skoolz searches them all at once, Google University Search allows them to be searched one at a time.
Scientific
Scirus: The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. Over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count. Search journals, scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents, more...
Shopping
Google Product Search: (Formerly Froogle) use Google to search for the best deals on products when you are shopping.
Kelkoo: A Yahoo! company. Also powers Yahoo!Shopping in several countries.
MSN Shopping: Comparison shopping made easy: Offering 33,155,627 products from over 8,000 stores — all in one place — and over 470 pages of shopping advice to help you make the right choices.
MySimon: Price Comparison Shopping
Nextag Comparison Shopping. Product directory and search. Shows popular searches - what others are searching for.
PriceGrabber.com: "Comparison Shopping beyond compare" Comparison shopping and search engine.
PriceRunner: Price Comparison website and search engine
RetailMeNot: From the people who brought you "BugMeNot", check here before you buy for discount coupons and promo codes. Why pay retail when you can find coupons at RetailMeNot?
Shopping.com: A shopping directory and search owned by eBay.
Shopwiki: Shopping directory and search cataloguing some 241,416,304 products, and counting...
Shopzilla (Owned by Bizrate) helps shoppers find, compare and buy anything, sold by virtually anyone, anywhere. 20 million unique visitors according to ComScore. BizRate reviews stores and products.
TheFind.com is a discovery shopping search engine as opposed to a comparison search. The search database includes over 150 Million products from over 500,000 online stores.
Source Code
Google Codesearch: Searches public source code using a variety of parameters.
JavaScriptSearch.org searches for javascripts, ajax, DHTML and JavaScript snippets from all over the web. The fastest way to find a JavaScript. Useful for web developers and webmasters.
JExamples analyzes the source code of Java open source projects such as Ant, Tomcat and Batik and loads them into a java examples database for easy searching. Enter the name of a Java API Class and click Search.
Koders Searces some 766,893,913 lines of open source code. Securely searches private source code. Create and share a custom code index that is easily searched from Visual Studio, Eclipse or any browser.
Krugle Code Search Engine can turn your company's code and related development assets into a searchable, shareable asset.
PHP Classes Repository: Find the PHP class you need at PHP Classes. The leading PHP site for coders. Everything PHP!
Usenet
Google Groups: Formerly Deja News, Google Groups lets you post on usenet forums without using a mail client via their easy-to-use web interface.
Visual
Search
Engines
Grokker visual Meta Search Engine lets you choose which sites to search and presents the results in multiple views - outline view, map view.
Kartoo visual Meta Search Engine searches multiple search engines and presents its results in a visual map.
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