Google Search Tips

Basic Examples

This Search Finds Pages Containing...

(1) biking Italy - the words biking and Italy

(2) recycle steel OR iron -  information on recycling steel or recycling iron

(3) "I have a dream" - the exact phrase I have a dream

(4) salsa –dance - the word salsa but NOT the word dance

(5) Louis +I France - information about Louis the First (I), weeding out other kings of France

(6) castle ~glossary - glossaries about castles, as well as dictonaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc.

(7)  fortune-telling - all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase, or hyphenated

(8) define:imbroglio - definitions of the word imbroglio from the Web

 

Calculator

Operators Meaning Type Into Search Box (& Results)

(1)  + – * /  basic arithmetic       12 + 34 - 56 * 7 / 8

(2)  % of   percentage of                45% of 39

(3) ^ or **  raise to a power   2^5 or 2**5

(4) old units in new units  convert units

               300 Euros in USD130lbs    in kg, or 31 in hex

 

Restrict Search

(1) city1 city2       Book flights.          

sfo bos  (Book flights from San Francisco (SFO)  to Boston (BOS).

(2) site:           Search only one website or domain. Halloween site:www.census.gov
(Search for information on Halloween gathered by the US Census Bureau.)

(3) [#]..[#]       Search within a range of numbers.
Dave Barry pirate 2002..2006
(Search for Dave Barry articles mentioning pirates written in these years.)

(4) filetype:   (or ext:)     Find documents of the specified type.
Form 1098-T IRS filetype:pdf
(Find the US tax form 1098-T in PDF format.)

(5)  link:   Find linked pages, i.e., show pages that point to the URL.
link:warriorlibrarian.com
(Find pages that link to Warrior Librarian's website.)

 

Specialized Information Queries

(1) book  (or books)   Search full-text of books.
book Ender's Game
(Show book-related information. Note: No colon needed after book.)

(2) define, what is, what are  Show a definition for a word or phrase.
define monopsony, what is podcast
(Show a definition for the words monopsony and podcast. Note: No colon after define, what is, or what are.)

(3) define:  Provide definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms from the Web.
define:kerning
(Find definitions for kerning from the Web.)

(4) phonebook:   Show all phonebook listings.
phonebook: Disney CA
(Search for Disney's phone numbers in California - CA.)

(5) rphonebook:   Show residential phonebook listings.
rphonebook: bill jones NY
(Search for the phone number of every Bill Jones in New York State - NY.)

(6) movie:  Find reviews and showtimes.
movie: traffic
(Search for information about this movie, including reviews, showtimes, etc.)

(7) stocks:  Given ticker symbols, show stock information
stocks: goog
(Find Google's current stock price.)

(8) weather  Given a location (US zip code or city), show the weather
weather Seattle WA, weather 81612
(Show the current weather and forecast. Note: No colon after weather.)

 

Alternative Query Types

(1) cache:  Display Google's cached version of a web page.
cache:www.irs.gov
(Show Google's cached version of the US Internal Revenue Service home page.)

(2) info: (or id:)  Find info about a page.
info:www.theonion.com
(Find information about The Onion website.)

(3) related:  List web pages that are similar or related to the URL.
related:www.healthfinder.gov
(Find websites related to the Healthfinder website.)

 

Restrict Search to Sites where Query Words Appear

(1) allinanchor:
All query words must appear in anchor text of links to the page.
allinanchor:useful parenting sites
(Search for pages that are called useful parenting sites by others.)

(2) inanchor:  Terms must appear in anchor text of links to the page.
restaurants Portland inanchor:kid-friendly
(Search for pages on Portland restaurants for which links to the page say they are "kid friendly.")

(3) allintext:  All query words must appear in the text of the page.
allintext:ingredients cilantro chicken lime
(Search for recipes with these three ingredients.)

(4) intext: The terms must appear in the text of the page.
Dan Shugar intext:Powerlight
(Find pages mentioning Dan Shugar where his company, Powerlight, is included in the text of the page, i.e., less likely to be from the corporate website.)

(5) allintitle: All query words must appear in the title of the page.
allintitle: Google Advanced Operators
(Search for pages with titles containing "Google," "Advanced,", and "Operators".)

(6) intitle: The terms must appear in the title of the page.
movies comedy intitle:top ten
(Search for pages with the words movie and comedy that include top ten in the title of the page.)

(7) allinurl:  All query words must appear in the URL.
allinurl:pez faq
(Search for pages containing the words pez & faq in the URL.)

(8) inurl:  The terms must appear in the URL of the page.
pharmaceutical inurl:investor
(Search for pages in which the URL contains the word investor.)

 

Restrict Search to Google Groups

(1) author:  Find Groups messages from the specified author.
flying author:Hamish author:Reid
(Search for Hamish Reid's articles on flying.)

(2) group:  Find Groups messages from the specified newsgroup.
ivan doig group:rec.arts.books
(Search for postings about Ivan Doig in the group rec.arts.books.)

(3) insubject:  Find Groups messages containing crazy quilts in the subject.
insubject:"crazy quilts"
(Find articles containing crazy quilts in the subject line.)

 

Restrict Search to Google News

(1) location:
Find News articles from sources located in the specified location.
queen location:uk
(Find British news articles on the Queen.)

(2) source: Find News articles from specified sources.
peace source:ha_aretz
(Show articles on peace from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.)

 

Restrict Search to Froogle

(1) store:
Find Froogle products from the specified store.
jeans store:gap
(Find Gap jeans.) 

 

Thanks  www.GoogleGuide.com

Create Your Own Torrent

Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something. I have “a lot of” friends who know how to download torrents, but when they need to send me their latest 200MB vacation picture collection, they ask me to “get on msn”.

It’s not that I have anything against msn (although the file transfer sucks), but why don’t just use BitTorrent? Especially if you want to send something to more than one person, or if you want to share high quality HDTV files, because then you can share the bandwidth.

So how do you do this? Well it’s very simple. Open your favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:

file > create torrent

That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in the tracker info and tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to client but it all comes down to the same thing.

1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories

3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some good trackers you can use:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)

2. Select the files and or directories

3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.

4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)

2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT

4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”

5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”

6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

Happy sharing. Note that you don’t need to upload the torrent to a website or a tracker. This means you control who gets the file and who doesn’t, and it won’t be visible to others!.

Online YouTube Downloaders

YouTube has now become one of the most viewed websites online as it features a 24/7 broadcast of videos and shows. However unless you have a very fast DSL or Cable connection you are likely to encounter some streaming lag which ruins the taste of watching videos.

Here is an alternative for you. I have compiled a list of the most used Online Youtube Downloaders on the web which let you download YouTube videos instantly. All are free and require no sign up. Just shoot, download and watch. Enjoy.

Best Online YouTube Downloaders:

1. JaviMoya is one of the oldest and most used YouTube Downloaders found on the web. Also offers a firefox extension to download YouTube videos on the fly.
2. Video YouTube is an online YouTube service brought to you by Sizlopedia. Instantly download your YouTube videos and enjoy technology articles on the blog.
3. YouTubeX lets you Download as well as Share YouTube videos easily Online. You can also find the popular YouTube videos on this site.
4. YouTubeVideosDownload features a simple layout and easy to use interface. Just enter your YouTube video link and get download url.
5. VideoDownloader has got a clean interface. Fetches download url using ajax just in seconds.
6. KeepVid is one of the most popular Video downloading sites. Allows you to download Video from a lot of sites including YouTube.
7. DownloadYouTubeVideos does not only allow you to download YouTube videos but also tell you about the Most Downloaded YouTube videos.
8. TechCrunch is the biggest Tech blog on planet. Even it has a YouTube Downloader.
9. KissYouTube is a YouTube Video Downloading service that brings innovation. Just add 'Kiss' before your Video Url and Fly away.
10. TopYouTubeVideos is another easy to use YouTube Video Downloader. Insert your video URL and just download the video to your PC.
11. Qooqle Video Download is another ajax based YouTube video Downloader that makes it easy for you to download YouTube Videos.
12. Oyoom YouTube is a not so old but very creative site that offers YouTube Video Downloading Service for free.
13. Easy YouTube Video Download is one of the most used YouTube Video Downloading Services Online.
14. VidsPedia offers another YouTube Video Downloading Tool For You. Also you can browse the most popular celebrity videos according to tags.
15. SaveTube Intends to make your YouTube Video Downloading Experience easy and Fast.
16. VideoDL helps you Download videos from YouTube as well Google Video on the go.
17. Vixy allows you to download YouTube videos to your PC as well to your iPOD or PSP thus giving you an enriched experience.
18. DownloadandSaveYoutubeVideos is a new but promising online service which features YouTube Video Downloading Service.
19. Zamzar stands out in the list as it is the only unique service to allow YouTube Video File Conversion Online.Media Convert is another service which is similar to Zamzar

Well thats the whole list I could render for you. Will be adding more as soon as I find. Keep Enjoying and Happy YouTub'ing.

Installing Wordpress on local

An essential for any aspiring theme developer is a local install of WordPress. There are plenty of benefits to doing so and
there are also pitfalls if you don’t. I will tell you about the pitfalls in a second, but before that, I want to tell you 5 great
reasons why you should use a local install as your sandbox as opposed to installing a live version on some subdomain of
yours:

1. Works exactly like the real deal; plugins and all
2. No need to mess with FTP programs
3. Develop anywhere (no connection needed)
4. Make sure your theme is compatible with latest version of WordPress
5. Code in secret, then release with a bang

I can personally attest that the last reason is a good one. While working on the current theme for this website, I accidentally pinged Technorati, which notified a bunch of people of my latest work. When this site finally got released, it was more of a  fizzle instead of a bang. Anyhow, let’s get on to the tutorial.

1.Install WordPress Locally

Download and Extract XAMPP Lite
1. Go to http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646
2. Download XAMPP Lite.exe (the .exe is a smaller, faster download)
3. Move the download to the root of your C drive C:\
4. Run the .exe and the directory will be installed

Startup Apache and MySQL
1. Open the xampplite folder
2. Double click setup_xampp.bat
3. After the program tells you to have fun, press any key on your keyboard
4. Now double click on xampp-control.exe
5. Now start the Apache and MySQL services

6.If everything worked, you will Running next to those 2 services

2.  Create a New Database

1. In your browser of choice, navigate to http://localhost/xampp/splash.php
2. Click on your language
3. On the left hand side, under Tools, click phpMyAdmin
4. On that page, you will see the MySQL heading, like in the screenshot below

5. Call the database wordpress and select utf8 unicode ci from the drop down menu
6. Click Create

3.  Install WordPress

1. Download and extract WordPress to your desktop
2. In the extracted folder, open the file wp-config-sample.php in a text editor
Edit the file to look like this:

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'root'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', ''); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value &s

3.  Save the file as wp-config.php 
4. Now open up the Xammplite folder on your C drive and then open the htdocs folder 
5. Copy the whole Wordpress folder here 
6. Finally, use your browser and navigate to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

ENJOY YOUR LOCAL WORDPRESS INSTALL

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