Hack 81
Google Like a Pro

"Google's single, one-line input box conceals a host of functionality that can narrow your results to exactly what you need."

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• Google School
• Top 20 Search Engine Helpers

Hack 82
Subscribe to Web Sites with RSS

"Like a magazine subscription that automatically brings each new issue to your door, you can subscribe to web site feeds that push information to your door."

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• RSS for newbies
• 35 (more) things you can do with RSS
• Intro to RSS
• Create email subscriptions with Bloglines

Hack 83
Add Engines to Your Browser's Search Box (New in 2nd Edition!)

"In Hack 45, you learned how to search the Web in three keystrokes using this search box. By default, Firefox now comes with Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons installed. But you can add several more useful engines for quick results without visiting individual pages first to run your search."

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• Useful search plugins for Firefox and IE7

Hack 84
Quick Search from the URL Bar

"Another keyboard-driven method for searching the web is what Firefox calls Quick Searches—customizable, keyword-based searches from the Firefox address bar."

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• Fifteen Firefox Quick Searches
• Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking

Hack 85
Extend Your Web Browser

"The best feature of popular open-source web browser Firefox is its openness: the browser was built so that anyone can write a feature-adding extension for it."

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• Hack Attack: Firefox extension packs
• 15 Firefox extensions with download links
• Firefox extensions

Hack 86
Supercharge Your Firefox Downloads with DownThemAll! (New in 2nd Edition!)

"When it comes to heavy-duty download jobs, Firefox's default Downloads manager just doesn't cut the mustard. If you need closer control of multiple, large downloads, you need the DownThemAll! Firefox extension."

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• Supercharge your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll

Hack 87
Get Ten Must-Have Bookmarklets

"Bookmarklets can enhance web pages, add special functionality, and make your browsing experience a lot more efficient by offering one-click access to useful tools."

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• Ten Must-Have Bookmarklets

Hack 88
Find Reusable Media Online (New in 2nd Edition!)

"You're designing a new brochure, PowerPoint presentation, web site, or flyer and you need the right image to use with it fast. Put your hands in the air and step away from the cheesy clip art, now. Thanks to organizations such as Creative Commons, licenses such as the GNU Free Documentation License, and the public domain, there are tons of photos, songs, movies, and documents freely available for you to download and republish without fear of the copyright police."

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• Six ways to find reusable media

Hack 89
Get Your Data on a Map

"This hack points you to several of the best mashups that can help you adjust your commute home from work for traffic, decide where to live, help you find a nearby used car for sale, and figure out how far your jog across the bridge this morning really was."

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• Google Maps
• Top ten (non-Google) map innovations

Hack 90
Set Multiple Sites as Your Homepage

"You can set several web pages as your homepage in tabbed browsers (like Firefox and Internet Explorer 7) and also bookmark and open sets of tabs."

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• How to set up multiple homepages in Firefox

Hack 91
Access Unavailable Web Sites via Google

"Web sites go offline. They move, occasionally suffer from temporary unavailability or errors, or become slow to respond because of technical difficulties or a period of high user demand. In those cases, when you need the information right away, you need a mirror of that web site's content."

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• Google School: View Google's copy of a web page

Hack 92
Take Your Browser Configuration with You

"Now that you've tricked out your copy of Firefox with extensions, bookmarklets, sets of bookmarks, and Quick Searches, the last thing you want to do is have to set it all up again at another computer. If you get a new computer, or want to transport your settings at home to the office, a handy utility called MozBackup can help."

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• Ask Lifehacker: Moving Firefox to a new computer

Hack 93
Find Out About a Web Site

"When you find information on the web at a site you've never seen before, it's difficult to assess how trustworthy that source is. Although ultimately the decision is yours, there are several services that provide information about other web sites that can help you decide."

Hack 94
Have a Say in What Google Says About You

"Someone out there's trying to find information about you right now, whether it's a potential employer, date, or a long lost friend. What happens when she Googles you?"

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• Have a say in what Google says about you

Hack 95
Capture Web Clippings with Google Notebook

"Collecting bookmarks just isn't enough when you're doing serious web research. Web pages disappear, or the information you need is just one paragraph halfway down the page, or you want to annotate a page with your own notes for later reference."

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• Clip and collect the web with Google Notebook

Hack 96
Clear your Web Browsing Tracks

"Your web browser saves a lot of information about where you go and what you do online while you're surfing the web."