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Friday, January 8, 2010

This Week's Best Tech Tips from MakeUseOf.com AND a Free Giveaway!


This week's pick of posts show a slight partiality for things that have to do with search. When that's what we do most on the web, we thought of giving you the mother lode with The Complete Guidebook To Web Searching. This PDF eBook is a compilation of some of the best resources that are about search. Believe us; searching the web is not all about Google.

PLUS, we have a FREE GIVEAWAY this week too but more about it near the foot of the newsletter. Let us share what we have been giving away always - a few of the most read posts from last week.

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The 5 Best Posts From Last Week

The Top 5 Google Alternatives and Why You Should Use Them

If you want to read about some Google alternatives, check out the five selections. One returns specific results without the trims, one is a great meta-search engine and some display the result better than Google.


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UnGoogled: A Week of Discovering Alternatives for Google's Services


It's comforting to know that there are alternatives if Google decides to shut shop. Try the alternative web services out and see if you find them better than Google's. The post features Zoho Mail, Mixin, Kartoo, Scribblar, BlogBridge, EyeOS, Map24, PicFindr, Free-Translator and JustPaste.It. 

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3 Polite Ways to End Online Relationships without Getting Stalked


What's a social article doing at MakeUseof.com? Thanks to the web and technology, we can get away from a relationship without getting our ears chewed off. Though a relationship isn't a power button, this post gives a few hints on how we can try to turn if off without the side effects.

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3 Coolest Ways A Geek Can Get Girls To Notice Him On Facebook



If relationships end, they also begin somewhere. These days it's on social media. Facebook is just one and this post gives pointers on how a geek can be a cool dude.





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Easily & Securely Manage Your Passwords Online With Mitto

Are you a longtime user of the popular LassPass, a password management service? Mitto is a viable alternative. No installations...you can visit and use Mitto from any browser on any platform you'd like. Passwords are encrypted with 1024-bit RSA or 256-bit AES algorithms.

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The 5 Others That Deserve a Click

You might find these five posts useful too - 


This Week's FREE Giveaway!

This week we are bringing to your notice an offer from Easeus who are giving away the fully functional EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 for a free download.

EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6, is an advanced Data Recovery Software to do Format Recovery, Partition Recovery, and Recover Deleted Files emptied from the Recycle Bin or restore data lost due to software crash or a system malfunction.

The software normally retails for $69.95. So grab the free download as it is for a limited time only.

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