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TorrentFetcher Searches For Torrents From Your Desktop
6:00AM Whitson Gordon | Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. More »
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has already made one upgrade to its real estate search since introducing it in July, and now there’s another why-didn’t-they-do-that before? option: searching for property by adding the words “real estate” to a map search. More »
Google Real Estate Adds Obvious Search Option
10:30AM Angus Kidman | Google Maps has already made one upgrade to its real estate search since introducing it in July, and now there’s another why-didn’t-they-do-that before? option: searching for property by adding the words “real estate” to a map search. More »
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1:00PM Angus Kidman | Worried about some of the content your kids might run into while searching the Internet? Customise Google’s SafeSearch options to keep them away from potentially undesirable material. More »
Customising Google’s SafeSearch Options
1:00PM Angus Kidman | Worried about some of the content your kids might run into while searching the Internet? Customise Google’s SafeSearch options to keep them away from potentially undesirable material. More »
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httpTorrents Downloads Torrents Via Your Browser
8:30AM Whitson Gordon | BitTorrent is extremely useful for lots of downloading and file-sharing, but if a less tech-inclined friend of yours doesn’t understand BitTorrent or you can’t install a BitTorrent client, new website httpTorrents lets you download files of popular torrents directly via HTTP. More »
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Google’s Caffeine Search Architecture May Be Going Primetime
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Reader Brian came across a new notice from Google this morning, in place of the Caffeine search architecture upgrade that Google’s been letting users test out. It indicates that Google is starting to take its improved search database fully online. More »
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4:00PM Angus Kidman | Mostly use Google to search but occasionally want to check somewhere else? A simple user script can make that happen. More »
Google Homepage Reloaded Script Lets You Search Other Sites
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Mostly use Google to search but occasionally want to check somewhere else? A simple user script can make that happen. More »
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Find And Get Rid Of Old Files With An Advanced Explorer Search
3:45AM Adam Pash | There are tools that let you visualise your hard drive usage to get rid of big files you don’t need, but if you just want to hunt down the files you haven’t used in ages, this quick search query can help. More »
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Google Adds Thumbnailed Results With Page Previews
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re looking for a particular web page rather than a particular result, Google has added “Page Previews” to the left-hand search options sidebar to make that feat much easier. More »
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10:00AM Angus Kidman | Throwing a party but don’t want to spend a fortune on alcohol? Boozle lets you search by location to find the cheapest provider of a given beer, spirit or premix in your area. More »
Boozle Hunts Down Cheap Drinks In Your Area
10:00AM Angus Kidman | Throwing a party but don’t want to spend a fortune on alcohol? Boozle lets you search by location to find the cheapest provider of a given beer, spirit or premix in your area. More »
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