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Doing a phone number reverse-trace with Google
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Being a guy who values his personal privacy, I don't like to answer phone calls from numbers I don't recognise (thank the Lord for caller-ID!). I normally let the caller talk on the answering machine and if I decide to talk to them, I will pick up. But often, I get calls from people who don't leave messages (mostly sales people) and in these cases, I double-check who the caller was by entering the phone number into Google which will then tell you who it was.

This only works though if the phone number is listed on a website somewhere. For example, I entered a Frankfurt phone number this morning and discovered it was my insurance company because the number was listed on their website. If the person that is calling you has made sure their number doesn't appear on any websites, then Google probably won't find any trace of it (unless the caller is in the phone book, in which case you may strike lucky as Google also indexes all the phone book listings).

Just enter the phone number with a "-" after the dialling code so 123-456-7890. If your caller's number appears anywhere on the web, Google will find it and you can see who is calling. With a bit of luck, you may get the person's address and other phone numbers, but at the very least you should get their name and the name of their company (if any).


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posted by Mark @ 4:58 PM   0 comments
Google Reader finally gets a search function
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Google has FINALLY added a search feature to their RSS reader, thank God. In the greatest of ironies, the company that claims to be the world leader in search engines didn't have a search function for their own RSS application! They have it in regular search and they have it in Gmail, but until today, Reader didn't have one at all.

Cool. Now I can finally uninstall a few Greasemonkey scripts for Reader as Google has also now installed the ability to collapse the sidebar!

Google Reader, I am now your lifelong fan (just as I was considering moving back to My Yahoo)

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posted by Mark @ 6:06 PM   0 comments
Search box for Google Reader
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Power users of Google Reader rejoice! Someone has finally grown tired of waiting for Google to get its act together and has written a Greasemonkey script putting a search box in Google Reader.

Of course to have Greasemonkey, you need to have the Firefox browser. Then just download the script and refresh your Reader page.

I wonder what millenium Google will finally bring out their own official search engine for Reader?



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posted by Mark @ 8:07 PM   0 comments
Auctionbytes search plug-in for Firefox
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Just over a year since I promised to do it, I have finally written the Auctionbytes search plug-in for the Firefox browser. I plan to submit the plugin to "Mycroft" which is Mozilla's central website for search plug-ins. But I have also put the plug-in on my website for people to download.

Just right-click on the following link and save to your hard-drive :

http://camelotonline.net/creations/auctionbytessearchplugin.zip

Unzip the folder then place both small files in the "search plugins" folder of your Mozilla Firefox browser which is located either in a hard-drive folder called "Program Files" or "Programmes". Then re-start Firefox and drop down the menu of search engines in your top right hand corner. Auctionbytes should now be there.

Firefox users can use the plug-in to directly search the Auctionbytes archives. I have tested it thoroughly and it seems to work perfectly.

My first search plug-in! My ego is swelling to gigantic proportions right now. I am not a natural at this kind of thing - in fact it has taken almost a year of cursing and tempers to get this far. But I am hoping that now I have managed to do number one that the next ones will be much faster. I have the template so now I can alter it for other websites.

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