Tag: LOOKUP

It sometimes happens that a certain word eludes me. I know it exists, I even know what it sounds like or how it begins or ends -- but for the life of me, I can't recall what the exact word is. For situations like these, Tip of My Tongue can come in very handy. To find the word "download," I only had to tell it that it starts and ends with D, has W somewhere in the middle, and means ...

Inline Search & Lookup is a neat quick-reference Chrome extension. You highlight a word and Alt-click it (or hit Alt-W), and a small popup window is instantly shown, containing the search results for the selected word in any of a number of resources that you've selected. The extension comes with support for a large number of search engines, dictionaries, and reference websites, but you can ...

I don't have to look up Windows error codes often. You know the ones I mean -- they're those lovely hexadecimal heads-ups that sometimes pop up when a program acts up? When I do, however, it would be nice to have a simpler way to do it than sifting through Google or MSDN search results. ErrMsg is a free, portable utility which makes decoding those messages about as simple as it can get. Launch ...

Hopefully when 2006 is over in a couple weeks people will stop putting the word "Ajax" in their web apps' names. I love the things Ajax makes possible, but as a marketing tool it's no longer useful, folks. Regardless, Ajax DNS is a pretty handy tool. If you enter an IP address or hostname it will do a DNS lookup, WHOIS lookup, ARIN IP lookup, HTTP header check, spam blacklist check, ping, or DNS ...

I like ninjas. That being said, I don't really associate ninjas with dictionaries. However, Ninjawords aims to change that. Or something. Ninjawords is a simple Ajax dictionary that aspires to be like a ninja: smart, accurate, and really fast. Type in your word, smack the enter key, and you definition pops up. That's it! Yes, a very simple tool, and a pretty obvious use of Ajax at that, but I ...

GoogleFill's author poses the following scenario: Say you make some new business contacts and punch their numbers into your cell phone, then get home and sync it up with your address book. Now you've got a bunch of numbers, but none of their other information. GoogleFill attempts to solve this by running a reverse phone number search on all of those new contacts and, if it finds a match, it'll ...