Category Archives: Thursday: From the Hip

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A Simple Genealogy Site

By Sherman | Published: February 24th
Every since I got my “sea legs” as a web developer I’ve dreamed of designing a simple but comprehensive website to help create family trees.  I can stop; Geni.com does it beautifully. Whether you’re a when-you-can genealogist (like me) or a die-hard family hunter, geni.com is a simple tool worth a hard look,
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A really simple home page

By Sherman | Published: February 17th
I love when I see stuff on the web that does just what I want it to do. Fav4.org does. Choose the four websites you want it to display (from a list of 20 or so), set it as your internet homepage, and you have a super-simple place to start your web browsing. Beautiful!
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A great way to search for recipes

By Sherman | Published: January 22nd
I don’t cook, but if I did I’d consider using Bing to plan my next meal.  When you search for a food item (skirt steak) you get an option to view recipes from delish.com, MyRecipes.com, epicurious.com and others  right in the search results. You can read more about Bing’s new recipe feature here, or visit the [...]
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A great smartphone comparison

By Sherman | Published: January 6th
You’ve probably heard a lot of talk about Smartphones (think of “The Works” pizza).  Google recently released a new one – the Nexus One – adding to your shopping choices.  If your like me, there’s only one option, but for anyone looking to shop around BillShrink.com has made your initial comparison easier.  This isn’t [...]
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What time is it

By Sherman | Published: December 22nd
If you’re like me you have friends and family all over the country.  I want to wish them a happy holiday on Friday morning but I don’t want to interrupt dinner (or wake them up too early). A quck check to WhatTimeisitThere.info is all I need – it tells me what time it is in New [...]
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Growl

By Sherman | Published: December 10th
If you’re like me there are a lot of things happening on your computer that you may or may not want to know about… You get an email and just want to glance at the sender and subject. You started downloading something and want to know when it’s done. Your random song mix changed and you want to [...]
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It can help you find (almost) anything

By Sherman | Published: November 4th
Sometimes you just want to find a website fast: American Airlines, new york subway map, or whatever. You could Google it but there's an even faster way...
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Find a mailbox

By Sherman | Published: October 8th
Need a hand finding the nearest mailbox?
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Google Reader

By Sherman | Published: October 1st
Do you like reading news and blog sites but don’t have the time to click through them all every day?  Give Google Reader a try! I’ve wanted to write about Google Reader for quite some time – it’s one of my favorite tools and I use it constantly -  but I could never come up with [...]
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