It looks difficult to beat google and yahoo search engines but still new search engines can prove to be quite useful. Exalead is one of them. To find just the results of the query entered by the user is really not enough for a search engine to be popular these days, it has to be simple, smooth, efficient and most importantly it should provide you with more options to choose from. So here is one that might just fulfill your needs.

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Formatting your USB flash drive to NTFS is just like a child’s play. Just follow the undergiven steps to perform the formatting.

1. Click Start menu.
2. Right click My Computer and select Manage.
3. Double click the Device Manager and find your USB drive under the “Disk Drives” heading.
4. Right click the drive and select Properties.
5. Click Policies tab and select the “Optimize for performance” option.
6. Click OK.
7. Open My Computer.
8. Select Format on the flash drive.
9. Choose NTFS in the File System dropdown box.
10. Device Formatting is completed.

Google search engine is lot more than just a search engine. It has numerous features that we can use for various purposes, like the most useful one “scientific calculator“. I have discussed some features like map view, time line view and tips for searching a particular filetype in google in my earlier post. Here are some other cool features.

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Many a times, we need to look for synonyms of words while writing something to make presentation of the text better. Though MS word or similar word processors have built in Thesaurus facility, but what if, you are writing something online like e-mail or a blog entry and you want to look for synonyms of some word. Then these online synonym look up tools come to your rescue.

Here are three useful synonym finder tools:

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Google is conducting a survey which allows you to suggest features for gmail and orkut. If you want to suggest something for orkut then you can go to the suggestion page where you can suggest some of the pre listed features, or you can go to the discussion page of orkut help group  where you can post your own ideas’. For suggestions regarding gmail you can go to gmail help center page where you can choose 5 features from a given list of features and if the feature you want is not on the list then you can go to the “i have a better idea section” at the bottom of the same page.

The title might sound scary to most of the readers but it seems like Yahoo, the world leader in providing free web based e-mail services has advanced its first step towards our fears.

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Visual Subst is a little nifty utility for windows that lets you convert your folders into virtual drives. By converting your most accessed folders to virtual drives, you will have a single click access to your favorite folders.

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It mostly happens in schools, offices that administrators have set up restrictions so that no one could access( surf ) the internet. But you can befool these restrictions with a very handy trick.

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Opera today released updated version of Opera Browser 9.51 with a few security and functional enhancements over its predecessor Opera 9.5. One of the required feature they have added is now when you save images from web pages, they won’t show up in File Transfer window.

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Freecorder toolbar, a product from Applian Technologies is a cool  toolbar that makes your surfing experience better. Just like other popular toolbars( Google, Yahoo toolbars), it provides the web searching capability to the browser but in addition to this it provides much more that would make you smile.

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