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Archive for September, 2007

Airline Flight Searching Fast and Easy

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

update 4/17/2007: Farecast is now owned by Microsoft.
Find the cheapest airfare for your next vacation or trip back home quickly and easily using the Kayak.com and Farecast.com flight search engines.
Search for flights on Farecast.com you’ll get the current airfare from multiple airlines and travel agencies sorted from lowest to highest. You can quickly and easily [...]

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Online Documents = Easy Collaboration!

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

They guys at “The Common Craft Show” use pen and paper to explain things in “plain english” and they do a great job! You don’t have to be technical to understand their videos and keep up with what’s going on out there on the Web these days.
Their latest video (Google Docs in Plain English) explains [...]

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New Search Feature

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I’ve recently added a new feature to the ComputersConfuseMe Blog. I’ve created a powerful technology search engine (Advanced Search) with highly focused search results using Google’s Custom Search Engine tool and AJAX technologies. I call “Advanced Search” because not only provides search results for this blog but it also displays results from hand selected technology [...]

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Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.1

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Fending off spyware is an extremely important part of maintaining your computers top performance and helping to protect your personal information. The term spyware refers to software that’s installed on your computer without your consent and is used to track your activities. The information gathered by spyware is typically used to display targeted advertisements (those [...]

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Car Salesman Secrets Revealed

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

A friend of mine pointed me to this article on the Edmunds.com website. “Confessions of a Car Salesman” goes behind the scenes as an undercover car salesman to reveal the tricks of the trade. For instance … did you know when the salesman goes in an office to talk with the sales manager they could [...]

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