Tech Tips

September 2004

Harry Potter New in RSS Format

by Barbara J. Feldman September 28, 2004

For Harry Potter fans that need a daily dose of Potter news, several sites are now offering their HP headlines in RSS. The RSS format makes it easy to keep up with Harry Potter, without having to individually visit many sites. Here are three Harry Potter news feeds in RSS format: The Leaky Cauldron, Harry [...]

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Four Things Yahoo Can Do

by Barbara J. Feldman September 21, 2004

Although Google.com is often considered the killer search engine, there are a number of search tricks that Yahoo.com can perform that Google can’t. For example, in Yahoo you can narrow your search results to XML/RSS feeds via a file type selector on the Advanced Search page. For more Yahoo tips, read best-selling author Tara Calashain’s [...]

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Alt-F4

by Barbara J. Feldman September 14, 2004

Mischievous websites and spyware programs often open program windows that do not include the usual X button to close them. Rather than being tricked into clicking in the program window, Windows users can use Alt-F4 to close the current window. The Alt-F4 trick can also be used to close errant programs that are not responding [...]

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Google Sets

by Barbara J. Feldman September 7, 2004

Google Sets is an online tool from Google Labs that creates lists of similar items from a small starter list. For example, enter “bluebird, eagle, sparrow, lark, hawk” and get a list of fifteen (or more) birds. Although its uses are limited only by your imagination, students and writers can use Google Sets to spur [...]

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