Cool tools, apps, and fun
sites to play with.
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| Monday, 25 January
2010 07:48 |
 2itch is a local
search engine with a unique twist: Its goal is to list businesses
that are open 24 hours a day, and show them on a Google Maps
interface. 2itch claims to have more than 4,000 U.S.-based, 24-hour
businesses listed. A search on my semi-remote zip code only brings
up a few truck stops along the highway in an hour or two in each
direction; the best coverage, understandably, is in a handful of
major cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and
Phoenix.
There’s...
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| Monday, 25 January
2010 07:39 |
 TasteKid
is more of a recommendation engine than a search engine. It covers
movies, music, and books, offering suggestions for things you might
like based on what you search for. The interface is gorgeous
(albeit a bit dark/goth), and the recommendations are generally
good. Search for U2, for example, and TasteKid suggests you try out
INXS, R.E.M., Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, and several other
artists — most of which fit what a typical U2 fan might
enjoy.
There are question marks...
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| Saturday, 23
January 2010 21:43 |
 Strange name for a Flickr image search engine, but
don’t let it keep you away. Compfight offers a handful of
customizations that help you drill down into Flickr’s enormous pool
of user-uploaded photos.
You can search the full text of a photo page (title, description,
and tags), or if that’s producing too many matches, you can just
search tags. You can search for photos that allow Creative Commons
commercial usage. You can search for photos that are original to
Flickr. You can also...
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| Saturday, 23
January 2010 21:18 |
Here’s the most visual search tool I’ve ever seen: Spezify. The
best way I can describe it is a sort of visual meta search engine.
It pulls in results from Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and
even eBay and Amazon to create a fairly stunning search results
page.
This is serious eye candy. There’s a settings page where you can
choose the sources and types of content (images, text, video) you
want included. But to be frank, the focus on visuals means the
search results have...
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