I once asked myself from where do people take all those PowerPoint slideshows i keep getting into my mailbox and of course i thought that they just “google” stuff. What else, right?

Somebody  thought about making a search engine dedicated to PowerPoint slideshows ( that has nothing to do with Google) -  SlideFinder.

I tested it with a search for “statistics 2009″, and i got back  some really great and relevant results.

There’s probably more to say about it, but i am having another blogger’s block, so i’ll leave you to it.

Visit SlideFinder.

2) DocMazy.com – .PDF, .PTT, .DOC, .TXT, .XLS

3) Ebook Datasheet PDF Search

4) DocsStock.com – .PDF, .PTT, DOC, XLS

5) Scribed.com- .PDF, .PTT, DOC, XLS

6) Fliiby.com – all file types

Launched in private Alpha stage today, PhotoFinder is a face recognition application for Facebook build by an Israeli company – Face.com – intended to help you scan and find pictures that you or your friends have uploaded and haven’t been tagged yet.

If you’re like Arrington from Techcrunch.com or Robert Scoble ( famous with thousands of pictures that is), you probably have no idea how many untagged pictures of you have been uploaded to Facebook, so you’re probably curious to see them, to remember the events you’ve attended and people you’ve met.

And is not only the number of the pics you might want to find out about, but also maybe some embarrassing ones from parties.

In my opinion, this app is the perfect one to get a hold of your images spread all over Facebook.

When i first heard about this application i was a little bit worried, but this app respects your privacy and only the pictures that are being uploaded to the public can be found. I tested it, so i can vouch for it.

The guys from Techcrunch.com have a very extensive explanation about this application and the company that build it, a quite interesting article which i really recommend you read it here.

They also had some invitations to this app but i bet they are off by now. But you know what? I have 20 invitations for you if you care to join. Take that Techcrunch!

Get your invitation here.

If you can’t get your invitation, please let me know and i’ll bribe someone there to give me another 20.

Clicky Web Analytics 2.0 is one of those very impressive real time statistics tracker, with a very simple and clean interface intended for bloggers or owners of small web sites.

There’s a lot that Clicky can do, compared to other online statistics trackers.

• Gives you a very detailed insight about your visitors.

IP address, web browser, operating system, geo-location, language, and
screen resolution, as well as every action they made on your web site
(page views, file downloads, and outbound links).

• Custom Data Tracking

Track custom data on a per session basis for your visitors.(see web site for more)

• Api

Allows you to extract a wide range of data from your web site traffic
to analyze, store, manipulate, or display within your own web site or
application…etc

• Outbound links tracking
• File download tracking
• Stats via RSS
• Spy view

..and so much more.

See here the full features of Clicky.

To see what it really has to offer, hit their front page and scroll down. There’s a comparison chart too.

For the WordPress users, there is also a plugin – Clicky Wordpress plugin.

The Basic account details : Free, up to 3 sites, up to 1,000 average daily page views per site. Limited feature set.

Now, i have an account on Clicky myself, and i am really impressed by it.

If you care to know your visitors and what they want, then i recommend you get a Clicky account.

Enjoy it!

Technorati Tags: Statistics, Blog statistics, Worpress plugins, Stats trackers

See my badge on the sidebar.

Basically you have two options:

1 – Track the number of links to the Page on which the badge is placed .

2 – Select the size of badge you would like to place on your web site.

If you want this badge for your web site, follow this link : Yahoo Site Explorer and select one of the two options and then pick up the code and paste it into your page of choice.

Part 3 – Update January 30

• Cooliris Previews 2.1 – A simple and powerful way of navigating through Google search results and Google image searches!

• FaviconizeTab 0.9.7.2 – The width of the specified tab becomes small up to the size of favicon.

• McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.1 – A McAfee SiteAdvisor Firefox Extension for safe searching and browsing

• PermaTabs 1.4.0 – Create permanent tabs that don’t close, and stick around between sessions

• SEOpen 0.8 – Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization.

• Tab Effect 1.1 – Tab Effect
  

Part 2

• Adblock Plus – block unwanted adds
• Answers – search the web,find definitions
• blueorganizer – personalize and organize and more…
• Clipmarks – saveto your faves. only small parts of a web page that interest you
• Colorful Tabs – enhance your tab browsing
• Compact Menu – organize your menu options on the menu bar
• DictionarySearch – search definitions
• Dr.Web anti-virus link checker – check links for viruses
• Google Toolbar for Firefox
• Greasemonkey – install scripts
• Jeteye – bookmarking tool
• MR Tech Local Install – manage extensions
• Nightly Tester Tools – make extensions compatible
• NoScript – extra protection for your Firefox
• Search Engine Ordering – order/remove search engines
• SearchStatus – see how other web sites are doing in search engines
• SecurePassword Generator- generate secure passwords for your accounts
• StumbleUpon – stumble through the web with this cool tool

Part 1

• Adblock – block adds
• Adblock Filterset.G Updater blocks adds/set up filters
• AJAX Yahoo! Mail [Viamatic WebMail++] 0.6
• All Customized Links 1.1 - add unlimitted customized URLs to your right-click menu
• All-In-One Sidebar 0.6.4 - switch between sidebars, view downloads, extensions,
• Clear Private Data… (Add-Ons) 0.2 - clear your tracks
• coComment! for Firefox 0.9 - add your comments to your cocomment account
• del.icio.us Complete 0.6.3.2 - easy and fast access to your del.icio.us bookmarks
• DownThemAll! – download manager
• Gmail Manager 0.4.3.6 - access your mail
• Hyperwords(tm) 1.3.3 - searches, references, email, blogging, translation,etc
• Make Link - make links codes for forums,blogs…
• Performancing – blog from Firefox
• Stealther 0.95 - surf without a trace
• SwitchProxy Tool 1.4 - switch between proxy (to be used with Tor)
• Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5 - make your tab browsing even better
• VideoDownloader – download videos
• Web Developer 1.0.2 -no description nedded
• Yahoo Toolbar

A new web site has been launched and it is called Blogg-Buzz, a web site similar to Digg.com, except no one will be banning bloggers who’ll be promoting their own stories.

This web site is exclusively for bloggers, so feel free to go there and promote your blog.

If you regularly visit Digg.com, you probably know by now that if you promote your own story, it’ll marked as spam and your web site will even be banned.

Example : JohnChow.com and PaulStamatiou.com .

Nothing like that will be happening here, unless you’re really spamming.

Now you’ve got an alternative to get your blog known.

The two people who worked on it, John and Shiva and few others who contributed to it for the past month will be happy to see you there and I am one of those people.

Hope to see you there.

For more info, visit John’s blog or simply go to Blogg-Buzz

Sweet!

Here is the first tip.

Use short URL for your blog instead of a long one. You’ll do better in search engines.

As you know, yesterday I changed the settings on my permanent links from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to a custom structure url + /%postname%/ .

The reason I did it was simple. I want my web site to do better in search engines and the long url didn’t do any good. In fact it is too long for a search engine.

When submitting to search engines, do it once. Don’t get greedy by submitting your web site too many times. Befriend with the search engines and they’ll befriend you too.

If you didn’t use Seo Studio (Lite version) for your blog submission, then do it now or… you can use the Tecnixindo Submitter .

You probably know this one by now….Use specific words on your entry’s titles and do the same with the tags.

Example : Instead of “Freeware” use “Best freeware” or “Best freeware downloads”.

Tag links in your blog’s entries. For example, using Live Writer makes it easy. If you want you can “tag” a link or set it to “nofollow”.

When linking, try to include your most important keywords or keywords phrases into that link’s title.

Last but not least … Keep it clean!

Well, that’s it for now. If I think of anything else, I will post it up.

Snap.com has just released their own version of Image Search.

Just like its normal search ( example: Best Freeware) , when the image results are displayed, you don’t have to click on them directly. You can use your mouse scroll button to roll over the images and they’ll be displayed on the right side.

See a Snap image result example here : Library images.

Try your search on Snap.com.