Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Become a web genius


I don't often do this, but I feel compelled to recommend something to you. Last week I bought an ebook online called 'The web genius handbook'. I found out about it because I'd already purchased a product from it's author last year (a piece of software called 'Search automator', which is a kind of very powerful search engine tool, and is also pretty good) and had signed up to his mailing list.

Basically the web genius handbook is a PDF ebook with nothing else but tips for little-known tricks and tools to use online. I use the Internet a LOT, but I didn't know most of these tips, and a lot of them I'm going to put into practice and should be very useful to me.

Recently I happened to be in Oxford street and went into the big 'Borders' bookshop to look at some computer books (I ended up buying the 'missing manual' for Powerpoint - 'The missing manual' is a pretty good computer/tech. book series), and I decided to look through the 'Internet guide' type books, and, I must say, they were all pretty bad. Not one of them was as good as the Web Genius Handbook.

Some of the topics it covers are:

Communications tools
Understanding and using RSS
Making full use of Google's range of free services (I didn't know about many of these tips)
Productivity tools
Search tools
Mapping tools
Etc

Take a look: The web genius handbook

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