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Archive for the ‘How To’ Category

May 16th, 2008

Making Custom Icons for Google Toolbar

I’m a big fan of Google and one of the products of theirs that I use regularly is the Google Toolbar. I’ve started customizing it more than just accepting the standard set of icons that they recommend, but I’ve run into a bit of a snag.
As you can see from the image above, I’ve […]

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May 14th, 2008

How to Spot Fishing Messages and Spoofs

This may be a little basic for some of our readers, but I thought I’d take a minute and talk about some Internet security for a minute. As this site is dedicated to uncovering great stuff on the Internet, we’re also aware that there’s plenty of opportunities to uncover some less than stellar sites and […]

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April 25th, 2008

Back to Biology 101 - Virtual Dissection Lab

I had originally planned on being a high school biology teacher when I was pursuing my college education. I loved everything about biology, it was the chemistry that bugged me.
Remember your grade school biology class the first time you got to dissect a frog? My fondest memory is that we knocked the frog out […]

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April 14th, 2008

Subscribing to a Non-iTunes Podcast

Does anyone know if there’s any way to subscribe to a podcast with iTunes when the podcast doesn’t exist in the iTunes store?
Can I manually subscribe to a URL of the XML feed somehow?
If anyone out there knows the answer to this question, please let me know quick before I forget what podcast I’m trying […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 19th, 2008

Gmail Disposable E-mail Addresses

A friend of mine just sent me a link to this article about how you can take advantage of a feature of Gmail to create your own disposable e-mail addresses with your Gmail address.
If you have a Gmail address you can use ” . “’s and ” + “’s to make temporary e-mail addresses […]

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March 5th, 2008

Online Stopwatch

It’s not much to look at but this Online Stop Watch does exactly what it needs to do for you if you need to track some time of events.
As you can see, the site let’s you register individual lap times down to the one-thousandth of a second.
If you go to the additional tools available […]

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January 8th, 2008

25 Skills Every Man Should Know

Answer these questions:
1.) Are you a man?
If you answered yes to the question above, you should be able to answer yes to the following questions as well:
Do you know how to…

… patch a radiator hose?
… protect your computer?
… rescue a capsized boater?
… frame a wall?
… retouch digital photos?
… back up a trailer?
… build a […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

January 2nd, 2008

MC Hammers Launches New DanceJam Website

It’s been a little while, okay a decade, since we’ve seen MC Hammer in much more than a Nationwide, “Life comes at you fast” advertisement.
Now Hammer’s busting a new move in the world wide web and the Internet. He’s launching DanceJam.com along with Geoffrey Arone (co-founder of Flock) and Anthony Young.
Given that the most […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

January 1st, 2008

Top 10 Posts of 2007 on Uncover the Internet

As we move forward into 2008, let’s take a look at some of the most popular posts on Uncover the Internet for 2007.

#10 Capturing Video from the Internet
#9 Hill-Billy Clinton
#8 Sing365 - Find the Lyrics to the Songs You Sing
#7 Welcome to the Land of Regift by Panasonic […]

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December 13th, 2007

PC Magazine’s Best of the Internet - December Issue

The sites featured by PC Magazine in this month’s issue of their magazine were the following:

www.iwantsandy.comThis site lets you have your own virtual, digital assistant that can help you with reminders, to do lists and appointments
www.10questions.comTickle your political itch with this site that lets you post your questions for the political candidates […]

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