MetaGeek | Home of Wi-Spy and inSSIDer Great Alternatives Search Engines That Are Unknown to Many Other than the big four: Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, how many search engines do you know? One? Two? Five? Or Ten? Most people don’t realize that there are LOTS more search engines than just Google, and a great proportion of them are targeting great niches and providing useful information (and features) that you can’t find in the big players. Below I have compiled a list of some of the great alternative search engines. Video search: Blinkx Blinkx is one of the more successful video search engine. Sound search: FindSounds If you are looking for a particular sound files to embed in your site, you won’t have any luck with Google. Meta Search: Clusty Meta search engines are those that search and display results from a variety of search engines. Clusty is one such meta-search engine that combine its search results from various sources. Visual cluster search: Kartoo For those who prefer to see more visual details, Kartoo displays your search result in the form of a image cluster.
SOPA Emergency IP list: | CodeBangers So if these bastards in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 imgur.com 173.231.140.219 google.com 74.125.157.99 youtube.com 74.125.65.91 yahoo.com 98.137.149.56 hotmail.com 65.55.72.135 bing.com 65.55.175.254 digg.com 64.191.203.30 theonion.com 97.107.137.164 hush.com 65.39.178.43 gamespot.com 216.239.113.172 ign.com 69.10.25.46 cracked.com 98.124.248.77 sidereel.com 144.198.29.112 github.com 207.97.227.239 # Torrent sites thepiratebay.org 194.71.107.15 mininova.com 80.94.76.5 btjunkie.com 93.158.65.211 demonoid.com 62.149.24.66 demonoid.me 62.149.24.67 # Social networking facebook.com 69.171.224.11 twitter.com 199.59.149.230 tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 livejournal.com 209.200.154.225 dreamwidth.org 69.174.244.50
101 Free Admin Tools We know administrators love tools that make life easier – especially when they’re free! So here are 101 of them! System and network analysis 1. Using this MMC snap-in you can quickly visualize the user and group permissions of a local or remote folder or drive in a hierarchical format to help identify problems. 2. Wi-Fi Inspector is a powerful Wi-Fi management and troubleshooting tool that allows you to locate and verify Wi-Fi devices, detect rogue Access Points, troubleshoot connections, and search for Wi-Fi networks. 3. Whois performs a lookup of the registration information of a given IP address or domain name. 4. ShareEnum allows you to scan and view the security settings of file shares on your network. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well. Thank you for all your helpful contributions! In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order: ManyBooks – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader – Thanks Tony Bryan & abben BookCrossing – Where real books are released into the wild to be found by others – Thanks EngtechLibraryElf – The perfect companion to a public library system – Thanks EngtechScribd – Open library to publish and discover documents online – Thanks CincauHangus Word Public Library – 400,000 PDF ebooks for download – Thanks EllenFree Tech Books – Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes) – Thanks EllenBookins – Swap real books with other readers – Thanks Jimbob WellToldTales – Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter) – Thanks Kevin C. Google+
PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives Howtos, Rants, and Reviews Facebook reviled their new profile and look yesterday and I think people are really going to like it. The problem is it's going to take a couple weeks for the changes to make it the general public. If you are as impatient as I am then you don't want to wait for it roll out slowly over the next couple weeks. Well you don't have to you can enable it now. No one other than other developers will be able to see it, everyone else will just see your old profile. In order to get the new profile look and timeline feature you have to be a developer, which isn't that big of deal really. I'm not going to explain it all in writing because I have a video that shows you how to do it and a picture is worth a thousand words am I right? At Facebook's F8 conference today they have revealed what the new profile will look like. The Timeline is really a place for you to curate your profile and show what's important to you. For more information on the changes coming to Facebook see the F8 video. YoYo.com
Old Versions of Windows Software - OldVersion.com The 50 Best Ways to Disable Built-in Windows Features You Don’t Want Over the years, we’ve written about loads of ways to disable features, tweak things that don’t work the way you want, and remove other things entirely. Here’s the list of the 50 best ways to do just that. Just in case you missed some of our recent roundup articles, here’s a couple of roundups of our very best articles for you to check out: If you’ve already been through those, keep reading for how to disable loads of Windows features you might not want. Disable Context Menu Items After you start installing a bunch of software, you’ll notice your context menu starts filling up with more and more items, becoming bloated, slow, and even more annoying—it starts taking up the whole screen. You’ll probably notice that the first article is an in-depth guide to help you get rid of just about any item, whereas the rest are more specific for some of the more annoying items. How to Disable Caps Lock Key in Windows 7 or Vista How to Disable Caps Lock Key in Windows 7 or Vista
Easter Eggs - Eeggs.com Bootdisk.Com Random stuff from Patrick Crispen Security & Hacking Blog 18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet Video is the future. Periscope has taken the world by storm, and YouTube has launched a subscription service. Even Spotify and Facebook are getting in on the act. We’re not here to ask why you’d want to download any of that video content – the reasons are too numerous. We just want to show you how to do it. So, without further ado, here are 18 free ways to download (almost) any video off the internet. App-Specific Tools Let’s begin with some service-specific web apps that specialize in a single website before moving onto generic video downloaders later in the article. 1. We’ll kick things off with YouTubeInMP4. 2. SaveFrom is another YouTube downloader, but one with a difference. For example: Would become: 3. The final YouTube downloader on the list is arguably the simplest. It works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer. 4. 5. Yes, Vine is no longer accepting new entries. 6. 7. 8. 9. KeepVid supports 28 sites.