Searchme at searchme.com [in BETA] is an intriguing new attempt to make web research more like how we look for information in (gasp!) print resources. Its search results page is insanely intuitive, highly visual and yet easy for us text-oriented folks to use. Solely in terms of user-friendliness, Searchme is one of the best search engines I’ve seen. It also does a surprisingly good job at clustering results, and it has a nice feature for easily sharing web pages with others. Note that this site is in public beta, meaning that it is not in its final version, and some features and functions may change without notice. And it has indexed “merely” one billion pages, so it’s working with a significantly smaller index than, say, Google, which hit the one-billion-page mark way back in 2000.
Screen capture tip: Regular Desktop Windows - If you need to screen capture a regular window on your screen, dialog boxes, Windows Explorer, DOS command prompt window, Google Maps or even splash screens - use the PNG format. The advantage with PNG is that it preserves all the colors and yield a much sharper output when compared with JPG. See the SCREEN CAPTURES, below, for a comparison between JPEG and PNG quality.
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The .png file is the one to the right. If you take the time to enlarge these...I did to 200%...it's obvious which of the image types is cleaner, superior, has less artifacts and noise, and the color is more defined.
Both images were screen grabs from our BLOG, using SnagIT and then saved to the respective file types. -tp.
