Download Free Tutorials

FreeTutorialFor.me will search out and download free tutorials in PDF format on all sorts of subjects.

Use at your own risk, of course.

Iconfinder for Free icons

Iconfinder lets you search through more than 100,000 icons for specific ones.

Some of the results are creative variations on what you wanted, which can be interesting.

MyStickies, Sticky Notes for the Web

MyStickies, Sticky Notes for the Web “allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web. Along with the ability to put sticky notes on webpages mystickies offers a powerful interface to browse, search, sort, edit and generally have a wonderfull time with your sticky notes from any computer that has internet access.”

“A part of the MyStickies service is an account area where you can go to quickly view all the notes you have placed. You can modify the text of the notes from there or delete old notes no longer needed. The account allows you to review your notes, go back to the sites you have “stickied,” and otherwise manage your notes.”

“MyStickies also gives each account an unlimited number of Sticky Pages. These are blank pages except for a title which you choose, which you may place your notes on. They are a scratch pad for you to organize thoughts, keep to-do lists, or write reminders to yourself.”

Enhance Windows Search with the Free Microsoft Filter Pack

Enhance Windows Search with the Free Microsoft Filter Pack.

If you’re using the new Windows Search function in Vista or later (or you’ve gotten it for XP), this will let you cover more types of Windows files.

bingandgoogle.com – Faceoff!

Wondering if you should use Google or Bing for searching? Why not try both and compare the results!

bingandgoogle.com shows side-by-side results from each search entered.

10 ways to get the most out of Bing

TechRepublic has 10 ways to get the most out of Bing, Microsoft’s new “decision engine” search.

Follow That Page web monitor

Follow That Page – web monitor: we send you an email when your favorite page has changed.

A free service.

Plagium: Online Plagiarism Tracker

MakeUseOf has a post on Plagium which is an Online Plagiarism Tracker.

Worried that your work is being used without giving you proper credit?  Enter a block of text into Plagium to check for its use anywhere on the web.

Wakoopa – Discover software & games

Wakoopa helps you Discover software & games.  Free and pay software used and reviewed by users.

Vunky Search for Photoshop tutorials

Vunky Search is a search engine for Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

If you want to use Photoshop effectively, use Vunky Search to find tutorials on how to improve.

Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content

MakeUseOf has a post on Yotify.com so you can Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In.

Yotify.com is “an innovative web content tracking service that can monitor a bunch of different websites for anything you want. It allows you to define keywords (”Scouts”) for items you want to watch (monitor) and then track them on a number of popular web sources, organized in various categories. These sources in turn are bundles of popular websites clubbed together.”

“The concept is very similar to Google Alerts. The difference is that Yotify also allows you to narrow down your sources, unlike Google Alert.”

Vattoz: Music Search Engine

MakeUseOf has a post on Vattoz: Music Search Engine with a Playlist Support.

Vattoz “searches for songs based on artist name or the song name and displays the results in a clean interface where you have two options – play the song or add to playlist.

The playlist is a box which could be dragged and dropped anywhere on the web page and maintains the list of your favorite songs and plays them. The site uses cookies to remember your playlist. You can also share your playlist with friends.”

You Can Speed Up Your Search Function in Windows XP.

Internet Fixes advises XP owners that You Can Speed Up Your Search Function in Windows XP..

You just need to download the new, free Windows Desktop Search for XP, the one that comes with Vista.

Good tip!

Big.com: The Most Readable Results on the Web

Big.com: The Most Readable Results on the Web is a search engine which displays in large fonts, for low vision users.

Twitter Search Engines

MakeUseOf has an article on TweetScan.

Enter your query and see if anyone experienced anything similar. Due to Twitter’s huge popularity you have a high chance spotting someone who has reported the issue before you. Apart from that, TweetScan can also monitor the keywords you select and automatically email you search results on a daily basis.

Finding drivers

Smart Computing has an article (January 2009) on resources for finding that latest or hard-to-find driver for your hardware.

Along with the manufacturers’ sites and the operating system’s maker, you might try:

• DriverAgent.com, which has a scan for good and bad drivers, but requires payment if you get the updated driver through them.  Uses a scan you download to your computer.
• DriverSearch.com is a search engine specifically for drivers.
• WinDrivers.com requires a free Internet.com account and covers a wide variety of drivers.

Photology finds images in huge image libraries

freewaregenius has a post on Photology: automagically finds images in huge image libraries

“Description: Photology is a free image management program designed to navigate large image libraries and find images without the need for tagging or for organizing by folder structure. Instead, Photology scans all images and applies a number of innovative filters such as faces, color, location, time of day, exposure, etc. to find results.”

Windows XP SP2, Vista.  Freeware.

BareSite: Browse Faster on Slow Internet or Phones

MakeUseOf.com has a post on BareSite for a bare basic web site experience.

“If you frequently browse web from dial-up, mobile phone or any other device with a slow internet connection then make sure to check out BareSite. This handy little website strips all unnecessary attributes from the webpages and leaves only the main content. No installation or download needed, simply go to BareSite.com and enter the URL of a website you want to access.”

Keep Office 2007 Documents Readily Available

Mysticgeek has a post on how toKeep Your Office 2007 Documents Readily Available the Easy Way .

“How many times have you been looking or a Word of Excel document and what should be an quick retrieval takes several minutes? Sure, you can always search, but for frequently used documents that’s not the best solution.

Today we will look at an easy way to keep your most important documents readily available within Office 2007. This trick works with Word, Excel and PowerPoint just the same… there’s a push pin icon next to each item in the recent documents list.”

“Everything” desktop search for NTFS drives

freewaregenius has a post on“Everything”: small, lightning fast desktop search for NTFS drives

“Description: “Everything” is a free, lightning fast file and folder name search program that offers right-click context menu integration. It works with NTFS filesystem hard drives only because it does not scan your hard drive but rather uses the Master File Table of the NTFS volume to build its database.  If your hard drive(s) is NTFS formatted and if you are looking for a super-fast program for searching file and folder names that beats the pants off of Windows’ default search function, this program may be it. It may be, in fact, the fastest desktop search program (for files and folder names) that I have ever seen.”

NTFS is normally found on Windows XP and Vista systems.