So you are looking for something. It might be a photo. It might be a video. It might be information, a new t-shirt, or a source for your English essay. You, of course, go to Google first. You type in your search, let’s say ‘Dogs in Tuxes’, and hit enter. Boom- you’ve got three million…Continue Reading
Are you running a small business that relies on driving routes to efficiently deliver products and services to your customers? If you’re looking for an inexpensive method to optimize routes you may want to take a look at the RouteSavvy App for Bing Maps. This free app allows you to add addresses to a route…Continue Reading
When Microsoft set out to make a better search engine, not only did they improve the overall search experience, but they also made it easier for you to accomplish tasks without having to scan search results to find what you are looking for. Take restaurant searches, most of the time when you are searching for…Continue Reading
We have showed you how to enable safe searches for Google’s products, but in the next couple of weeks, we will focus children’s safety online on Microsoft’s extensive list of products. This first guide will show you how to enable SafeSearch filters for users who use Bing as their search engine. Like Google and other…Continue Reading
In a recent blog post by the Bing team they published a document containing information about Bing’s query language. In it I found a couple of useful query syntaxes that will improve your ability to use Bing for search. I’ve only listed 6 out of 38 parameters and you’ll soon see why I chose these…Continue Reading
This morning I received an email from one of my readers alerting me about the amount of personal information aggregated by Spokeo.com, a people-related search engine that claims it’s, “Not your grandma’s phonebook.” Naturally I looked up the website and performed a search on myself, I figured I’d find some of the stuff posted on…Continue Reading
It is amazing how much we presume others to know, specially when it comes to computer or internet related topics. I came across a post from Seth Godin’s blog on the Best new way to make an internal sale whose featured video completely reinforced my belief that blogs like Gil’s Method are needed to help…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
