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Let Me Google That For You
Feb 17th
Hey folks,
Have you ever been completely annoyed by people asking you questions that they could have totally answered on their own.
Most people don’t realize that a well formed web query is just as good as asking the right person the right question at the right time. Google, for most people, is just that person. Some of the more complicated queries actually do warrant your newb friends to ask you for a good set of query terms, even using the more advanced search modifiers.
But most of the questions I have to field during my day to day are questions that could have been easily answered, had the person asking put some thought or effort into it. Questions such as “what’s the url for ask the admin?”
We all know that’s a stupid question. Ask The Admin prides itself on being very search engine friendly, especially when looking for the site itself!
Enter Let Me Google That For You, or more easily LMGTFY.com. This nifty little service allows you to perform the search for your friend or colleague who just cant form the words together themselves. But instead of giving your dear friend a fish, so to speak, your actually giving your friend a fishing pole. Your basically telling them, “You could have googled this yourself, look how simple it could have been for you. You could have completely avoided bothering me during my busy day.”
So, to answer the question above “What’s the url for Ask The Admin?”
browsing over to http://lmgtfy.com/?q=asktheadmin.com yields a serach page resembling googles.
Except now, when you search , it provides you a tinyurl, which you can send back to your inquisitive friend rather than the url of the actual search result.
Click to see sample results here
Nifty right?
-enjoy
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Exclusive Download: SaveMydata2.0. Make reformating easier on yourself.
Mar 27th
I previously wrote an AskTheAdmin article about a tool I created called SaveMyData. This tool uses several utilities to export your important data (Passwords, Serial numbers etc..) to text files. Saving you the tedious time it takes to do this stuff manually.
Well AtA… I finally made SaveMyData2.0 !! It adds some cool new features:
- Outlook AutoComplete addresses (in text file and a data file for import later on..)
- Office Templates (it is nice to save those custom letterhead word templates you’ve made..)
- Outlook Signatures
- Windows Activation Files (use it after format to bypass activation)
- Windows Network Connections (VPN, Dialups, PPPoE connections)
- Wireless preferred networks profiles (Backup and restore after format)
- After you run the tool it creates a Backup folder in the root of your drive and save all the files inside it.
Some antivirus programs report that some of the utilites in use are “password stealing tools” so it is advised to temporarily disable it for proper running of the backup process. Think about it for a minute if this worries you – wouldn’t you want to know if someone ELSE was running this on your machine? Thought so :)
For Vista users: You should run the tool as an administrator. I haven’t tested it otherwise.
download from www.yaronmaor.net or directly from here.
if you have any suggestions for extra features or find any bugs – Let me know in the comments :)
Cheers,
Yaron Maor
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