Bing.com – 6 Tips on Using Microsoft’s new search engine

June 13th, 2009

bing

URL:

http://www.bing.com

What is Bing?

Bing is Microsoft’s new search engine.  Bing is an intuitive search engine that tries to assist you in better searching.  It does this by offering suggestive terms and providing you content preview of your search results to help you refine your search of content on the internet.

What you may not know about Bing

Bing has multiple search features to not only search for articles and news related content.  Bing features an extensive search for multimedia such as images and video.  Bing has a collection of search refining tools for images and video.  For instance, you can search images and filter out images of people only by head shots.  Or hover your mouse over video results to see a preview of the video.  Bing is putting up a strong effort towards Google and their domination of finding content for users on the internet.

Here’s a quick video on Bing:

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Twitter

Slideshare.net – How to get event powerpoint presentations for free

May 2nd, 2009

slideshare

URL:

http://www.slideshare.net

What is Slideshare?

Slideshare allows its users to upload, share and collaborate on powerpoint presentations and Microsoft Word documents.  Many times speakers at differente events and seminars put up their presentations on Slideshare to share with its viewers.  This means you can search thousands upon thousands of powerpoint presentations from many popular events and seminars held worldwide.

What you may not know about Slideshare

Not only can you find powerpoint slides and Word documents, you can favorite and tag them to quickly create your own library of presentations.  Furthermore, on the right side of the presentation is the option to view related presentations to further your learning.  So stop using Google and Wikipedia as your only news source and start being more intuitive on your content learning.  Download powerpoint presentations on your topics and continue to broaden your knowledge presented by others.

Here’s a quick video on Slideshare:

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Twitter

Wikipedia.org – How to get news fast on your favorite topics

April 29th, 2009

wikipedia

URL:

http://www.wikipedia.org

What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia.  This means that all of the content on Wikipedia is written and updated by it’s users.  Virtually anyone can add/remove/change content on Wikipedia.   Having this kind of power with collaborative content.  The contents of Wikipedia is very large and continously expanding, quickly.  You can find virtually anything about nearly any topic on Wikipedia.

What you may not know about Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a feature for logged in users called My Watchlist.  This allows you to monitor different pages on any subjest you want.  Since content about different topics on Wikipedia is updated so frequently and fast, its possible to use Wikipedia as a news source.  So by adding your favorite topics to your Watchlist and monitoring the changes, you can get the newest knowledge about a topic your interested in, directly from the authors of Wikipedia, millions.

Here’s a quick video of Wikipedia:

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Twitter

RecipeMatcher.com – How to find recipes for ingredients you already have

April 5th, 2009

recipematcher

URL:

http://www.recipematcher.com

What is RecipeMatcher?

RecipeMatcher is a recipe website based off of the idea of revese recipe lookup.  What this mean is you first create a pantry of ingredients that you have in your home and then find recipes of things you can make without grocery shopping.  Even if you wanted to make something that you may not have all the ingredients, you’ll be quickly given the missing ingredients to add to your grocery list.

What you may not know about RecipeMatcher

RecipeMatcher gives you the option to add your own recipes to their library as well as favorite the ones you like the most.  This allows you to create a recipe book of your own that you can quickly go to to see what you can make from your current pantry. It also allows you to expand on the recipe library giving the community of RecipeMatcher users more options with their iPantry.

Here’s a quick video on RecipeMatcher:

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Twitter

AmieStreet.com – How to download free music or cheaper than iTunes

April 2nd, 2009

amiestreet

URL:

http://www.amiestreet.com

What is AmieStreet?

AmieStreet is a website to discover new music.  If you’re one for being ahead of the curve on discovering new music, you get rewarded.  For less popular songs, downloads are really cheap or even free!  So discover new music quickly and don’t pay for them to legitimately download the MP3’s.  As songs become more popular the price of the song goes up.  Regardless its very easy that you’ll be able to purchase songs less than those of iTunes.

What you may not know about AmieStreet

AmieStreet has a great recommendation engine.  Easily import your iTunes library, Pandora playlist or Last.FM account and quickly discover new music based off of the music you are already listening too. So here’s a jumpstart to finding new music and download cheap and free MP3’s.

Here’s a video of AmieStreet:

Share and Enjoy:
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • NewsVine
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Live
  • LinkedIn
  • MySpace
  • Twitter

Technorati Profile