DE Tools of the Trade : web research

ALEXA: What’s Hot On The Web.

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:22:38 GMT

Greetings, ALEXA is a web site that keeps track of what’s hot or trending on the web. Call today’s offering my “silly Saturday” contribution. The site is ALEXA and it claims to track those web pages which are “hot” or most popular. The list is update...(read more)

HOOEEY WEBPRINT: Free Offline Browser

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:00:15 GMT

Greetings, HOOEEY WEBPRINT is free, downloadable offline browser. HOOEEY WEBPRINT is an downloadable application known as an “offline browser” that is built with Adobe Air so there are versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. An offline browser is a...(read more)

GLEANWHOIS: Free, Online Tool To Find The Owner Of A Web Site

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:00:25 GMT

Greetings, GLEANWHOIS is a free online tool which assists users in determining who owns a particular web site.Today’s site is from the same folks who created the Boolify search tool which, (IMHO) is one of the best search interfaces on the web, especially...(read more)

MEMONIC: Free Web Based Tool For Saving And Organizing Information

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:11:58 GMT

Greetings, MEMONIC is a free, web based tool for collecting, organizing, storing and sharing information. There are lots of personal information management programs available via the web. My current favourite is Evernote but that may change because I’m...(read more)

ICYTE: Free Web Based Bookmarking Service And More

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:03:56 GMT

Greetings ICYTE is a free web service which allows the user to save part or all of a web page as well as a link. Bookmarking web pages is not an efficient way to do research on the web. The hundreds of bookmarks which fill my bookmark folder are proof...(read more)

LAVVA: New Search Engine With A Social Component

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:56:59 GMT

Greetings, LAVVA is a new web search engine with a social component added. This new search engine recently appeared on the web and is still in beta. It’s niche or specialty is the integration of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace. This allows...(read more)

PC Magazine’s Top 100 Web Sites for 2009

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:55:12 GMT

Greetings, PC Magazine recently released it’s top 100 web sites for 2009. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about a list of things. That could be because lists tends to be a year-end staple for most publications/organizations. Bucking the trend, PC...(read more)