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The Best Ways To Tweak Your Search When Google Doesn't Give You What You Want Mac: Macs have plenty of hidden files. For the most part you don’t really need to see them there, but when you’re cleaning up old folders or USB drives, it’s handy to see those hidden files and get rid of them. ShowOrHide is a simple app that gives you an easy access toggle to show hidden files when you need to.
Chrome: Even when you organise your bookmarks neatly into folders and subfolders, if you’ve got a ton of bookmarks, they can be hard to access quickly — and easy to forget about. Stashmarks solves this problem by indexing your bookmarks and making them searchable.
Have you ever found yourself wondering if a YouTube celebrity lives near you? Or are you planning a trip to a new city and want to get a glimpse of some the sights recorded by real people and not a commercial? Videos Near Me is a simple web app search engine that collects geo-tagged videos based on location.
If you prefer a search engine other than Google, Bing or Yahoo, you can add it to Safari on iOS with this jailbreak hack.
People search sites can be really useful to help you find people you used to know but fell out of touch with, but unfortunately most of them are for-profit entities that have no real skin in the game when it comes to making sure the information they publish is positive or accurate. If you’ve found data about yourself on these sites and would rather not have it public, Safe Shepherd is a web service that can handle the job for you.
Mac OS X’s Spotlight is a great tool for finding that file you lost or launching apps, but it can do a lot more than just find the occasional file. Here are some of the coolest Spotlight tips, features and shortcuts to make your Mac a time-saving, file-searching powerhouse.
iOS: Dolphin Browser may be our favourite web browser for Android, but the iOS version is no slouch either, and today the folks behind Dolphin updated it with the same voice search features that Android users have had for a while now.
I didn’t know that: until recently, Google ignored all punctuation symbols when indexing sites, which also meant they were ignored in searches. That has now changed, with seven common punctuation marks indexed by Google.
Chrome: YouTube is one of the most popular places to check out music, but if you’re flying blind looking for new artists, you’re stuck keeping multiple windows open while doing your research. To help provide some context for videos, Seevl is a Chrome extension that adds a sidebar to music videos with biographies, track notes, related artists and more.
