Zotero-One of the best open source application
Zotero continues to gather acolades as it enters 2 years. The editors of PC magazine have chosen Zotero as one of the years best free software applications second year in a row. For those who have little clue about this amazing utility,probably it’s the right time to know more about this nifty open source extension for mozilla driven browsers like Firefox and Flock.
Zotero is an extension which is extensively used by researchers around the world. What it can do is take information accumlation and storage to next level. From managing your citations to bibliograpy, it easily beats out most of the proprietary softwares like end note. Being a community driven project it enjoys great support. All the features of Web 2.0 like tags and snapshots are integrated in this extension. Personally this happens to be one of my favourite extensions.
Some Action
After some sleepless nights and days of hard work (of course shedding some bucks), I managed to register a couple of domains. I haven’t thought of any plans of how and what this site will feature. But I am sure with time I am going to figure it out. As a start off though let me tell you a small secret (might not be for most of the people).
Let’s say you are looking for some proprietary software that you’ve been dying to use. How do you go about searching it? First let me tell you that for most of the fast downloads (assuming you have a fast internet connection) you must consider buying a rapidshare.com account. Trust me it’s worth it. I’d suggest a 3 months pack to start off.
Now that you have an account and let’s say you are searching for Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate edition (x86). Try something like this:
“vista ultimate” rapidshare.com site:blogspot.com
What did I do here? First, I made sure that vista ultimate is a phrase by putting it into quotes. Next, I made sure that the query also has rapidshare.com (what’s the fun of having an account with rapidshare, if you are not downloading from there). Last, I made sure that my search is restricted to blogspot.com. Reason for this is coz most of the corporate firewalls (like proventia) don’t block blogspot.com explicitly and you find less of web crap (I am carefully using modifier less) when you are searching on blogspot.com.
As an FYI, site: is called as a query modifier.