Short answer: Way more than you think. Our own Eli Pariser laid it all out in this eye-opening TED talk, and got a standing ovation for his trouble. His book on the topic, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You, is out this week — help make it a hit on Indiebound, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon.
The sites mentioned here, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can easily learn by heart thus saving you a trip to Google. 01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. 02. ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops. 03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes . 04. unfurlr.come – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short URL. 05. qClock – find the local time of a city using a Google Map . 06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard. 07. postpost.com – a better search engine for twitter. 08. lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc. 09. iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of...
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