Net Sieve

People Search and Public Record Toolbar Version 1.0 of our popular free people search and public record menu for Firefox contains dozens of the web’s most popular and powerful free people search and public record sites.
(Note - ignore the comments and mud-slinging on this page. Someone has it in for this developer. I’ve had the tool on for about a week now and haven’t had a single issue. It’s a great resource.)

This Firefox extension is a handy menu tool for investigators, reporters, legal professionals, real estate agents, online researchers
and anyone interested in doing their own basic people searches and public record lookups as well as background research.

Find past friends, relatives, classmates, coworkers, military buddies or do background research on people and businesses.

This useful extension offers you the following free people and public record searches at the click of a mouse –

- Free People Searches: White Pages, 411, DA Plus, Zaba Search, Zoom Info, Google, International Phone Directories, Google Image Search and
Riya photo search.

- Reverse Phone Numbers: White Pages, DA Plus, Google, Land Line or Cell Phone? Search, Reverse Payphone and Do Not Call List.

- Reverse Addresses: White Pages, DA Plus, Google, Mail Drop Search and Whois Lookup.

- Area Code, Zip Code and International Calling Code Searches.

- Yellow Pages & Local Searches: White Pages Yellow, DA Plus Yellow, Google Local and Yahoo Local.

- Public Record Searches: Skipease Public Record Directory, Search Systems Public Record Directory, Social Security Number Searches, NETRonline Property Records, Zillow Property Values, Trulia Real Estate Search, Yahoo Real Estate and NACO US County Information.

- Criminal Searches: Inmate Locators and National Sex Offender Registry.

- Maps & Satellites: Google Maps, Map Quest, Yahoo Maps, Google Earth, Terra Server.

- Government Phone Directories: US Blue Pages, Canada GEDS.

- US Government Search Engines: FirstGov and Google Government Search.

- News & Blog Searches: Google News, Yahoo News, Technorati, IceRocket and Google Blog Search.

- Business & Finance: Alibaba, Business.com, Thomas Registry, Google Finance, Yahoo Finance.

- Jobs & Classifieds: Indeed Meta Job Search, Simply Hired Meta Job Search, Dice Jobs, Hot Jobs, Monster Jobs, Craigslist Classifieds.

- Social Network Sites: Facebook, Friendster, MySpace, Tribe, Xanga.

I’m a freeware junkie. I admit it. I’ll download stuff I never use just ’cause it’s so clever. And free.

But I’ve had no luck when it comes to freeware for creating PDFs. It’s all crap as far as I can tell. And if it’s not crap, it’s worse than crap.

Pdf995 has got to be the suck of the vacuum. I downloaded this - and all the milllion components it needs to “work properly” and all it did was muck up my system. I can’t get its stupid macros off my stupid Word. (Or am I just stupid?) I uninstalled Pdf995 about 35 seconds after it failed to do anything useful and now I get an error message every time I open Word because the macros aren’t there but the crap won’t delete from my toolbar. Months later and I’m still finding Pdf995 files in random places.

I give this worse than a thumbs-down. One finger up.

Crazy Shoemoney Man… I had to laugh/share/poke fun at his list of My Top 10 Worst Ideas To Make Money. In a way, I don’t feel so stupid. In another way, I feel more stupid because some of my ideas aren’t even this good.

Best quote from the comments: “I used to hate you, just because I was jealous of your money making schemes, but all that has changed after reading this post.”

HA!

CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured from the options menu. View a short introduction movie at www.customizegoogle.com

And the tip to end all tips - or at least this 12-step program:

1. Starting small is starting smart

Many Internet entrepreneurs take a look at the technology available in cyberspace and think they need to have it all to be competitive. Besides adding to the cost of site development, all the Java scripts, animations, marquee messages, and other bells and whistles can actually push customers away.Starting small is starting smart - focus your time and money on promoting your products and fulfilling orders. Build a strong customer base with a fundamentally strong site with clear descriptions, logical instructions, and focused intent. Make your pages quick to load and easy to follow - you want visitors to notice your product, not your programming.

Later, when you feel you have a strong base of operation and you know more about who your customers are, you can add special features geared to their interests.