Tech Tips

October 2004

Contact Elected Officials

by Barbara J. Feldman October 25, 2004

Want to contact your elected officials? FirstGov’s Contact Elected Officials is a one-page directory for all your state and federal government officials including the White House, U.S. senators, U.S. representatives, state governors, and state legislators. Use it to let your elected officials know where you stand on important issues.

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Google SMS

by Barbara J. Feldman October 19, 2004

Google SMS (Short Message Service) gives short answers to text queries from your mobile phone. Just send your search as a text message and get retail locations, phone book listings, or dictionary definitions in response. For example texting “Starbucks 92014″ to 46-645 (GOOGL on most phones) returns two locations of the ubiquitous coffee house within [...]

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Soople

by Barbara J. Feldman October 12, 2004

Soople is an easy-to-use front-end to many of Google’s advance search features. For example, searching multiple cooking sites for an artichoke recipe is as simple as typing in “artichoke” and selecting “cooking” from the drop-down menu. The actual Google syntax for this search is “artichoke site:allrecipes.com | site:epicurious.com | site:foodtv.com | site:kraftfoods.com | site:cooks.com | [...]

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Birthday Look Up

by Barbara J. Feldman October 5, 2004

Can’t remember a birthday? Here are two a sites where you can look it up: Free Birthday Database and Any Birthday. Each service asks for different information (such as a middle initial, approximate age, or zip code) so you’ll need to know a bit about the person in order to distinguish them from others with [...]

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