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October 30, 2005

Del.icio.us system: tags

Delicious has some system tags for you to use. These are automatically applied to any files of the matching type. They are really just shortcuts to be able to search for more than one filetype at once.

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October 24, 2005

How to View del.icio.us Bookmarks by Filetype

You can use special tags to restrict bookmarks to certain file extensions, for example pdf or mov.
To do this, search for the tag "system:filetype:pdf", or enter the URL:
http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:pdf
You can filter these by more tags too:
http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:pdf+php

October 21, 2005

Find free images for your website

About.com has plublished a top ten of websites where you can get royalty free images for use on your blog (or other personal website). The top one of which is Stock.XCHNG. Followed in second place by Flickr, which allows you to browse other people's photos which are licensed under creative commons licenses (which give you permission to re-use the images in certain conditions, such as not-for-profit use).

Source: Top 10 Places to Find Free Images For Your Blogs [About.com]

October 19, 2005

Do you have to register to access a website?

Is there a long and tedious form which you don't want to fill out, or do you not want to give them your email address? Here's a few tips for those situations.

BugMeNot
The website www.bugmenot.com allows users to submit and retrieve logins for various websites which require you to sign up. If you go there and type in the address of a website, then BugMeNot will tell you if somone has submitted a working login and password for that site which you can then use, avoiding registration completely. To supplement the web site, there is a Firefox extension to open BugMeNot in a popup window and check the site you're browsing.

If BugMeNot doesn't have a working password for the site, there are some ways you can protect your privacy when registering.

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