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Feeds I Read

Fun With Google
Still typing boring search phrases in your Google box? Time to kick it up a notch. (Sorry, Emeril, I couldn't resist.)

Google tips. JD's New Media Musings writes about Google search tricks:

Or combine: "california" filetype:xls site:gov intitle:state to get spreadsheets from .gov sites that contain the word California and have the word "state" in the title.

Here is a different example from the previous US-centered one: linux filetype:html site:fi intitle:kirjasto. This searches Linux-articles in HTML in Finland, with the word kirjasto (= library) in the title. [Universal Rule]

 

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The Kindness Of Strangers
More tools for Radio UserLand. As a part-time programmer, I am impressed by the breadth of free tools available from a devoted user community.

dataFileCleaner Tool released. With loads of help from Greg Haneck, we are releasing the dataFileCleaner Tool. It is a complilation of several scripts that comb through several of the databases intrisic to many of the core functions of Radio and remove errant entries that are prone to cause problems. dataFileCleaner contains my cleanAggregatorStories script and Greg Haneck's cleanWeblogsComEntries script as well as another script that we thought would be useful, at least based upon several recent things Lawrence did to help others. The scripts that run in this tool are safe. Greg and I have been running them for many weeks now. If the tool does anything you will see an item in the Events Log. Try it you'll like it. [Surgical Diversions]

 

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Got Photo?
Sweeeet. Go. Look. Drool.

Fantastic photographs....

Lofoten Photogalerie - armchair travel through this breathtaking gallery of photos from Norwegian Islands located within the Arctic Circle. The region offers awesome vistas in every season. Links courtesy of Mefioso Kogiak who has an interesting story on his site about how he found this gem. [MetaFilter] [Ye Olde Phart]

 

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Toyota On The Move

Toyota to sell only hybrid autos by 2012. Toyota, the world's third-largest automaker, plans to only manufacture gas-electric hybrid cars by 2012. The plan is to decrease the cost of manufacturing hybrid cars by increasing production. I'm sure Mother Nature is breathing a sigh of relief.... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]

 

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RSS Explorer Access To Computerworld Feeds
Nice demo of Dave's new RSS Explorer tool. Thanks, Dave.

Computerworld has ten new RSS feeds. If you're a Radio user, be sure to get the nifty RSS Explorer tool, and then click here to choose the Computerworld feeds you'd like to subscribe to. It's a pretty nerdy pub, but they can probably tell you what IBM is up to and Unix and wireless stuff, and Microsoft. [Scripting News]

 

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The Google Gods
"Data Recovery Group ... would typically come up around the fourth listing on Google's popular search engine last year. Then in January, when Google removed the company from its listings without explanation, Data Recovery saw a 30 percent drop in business."

News.Com: The Google Gods. [Scripting News]

 

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