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Cool Tools

Posted by Bill on December 14, 2007

Army knife   For great stuff, check out Kevin Kelley’s Cool Tools.

 tool  Brought to you by your friendly PIAVA tool guy,

Bill Lowrance

President PIAVA

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Swell Tips For You!

Posted by Bill on December 14, 2007

Cell   Follow up to the GPS post and knowing where you are, what about where you go?

Using your cell phone to call 411 is a strange experience depending upon your carrier.  Check out GOOGLE 411.  It is swell, but primarily for business look-ups.  Google 411, and it is free. 

From Google:

Search for businesses by name or category. Can’t stand typing? GOOG-411 will understand your voice and find the business you’re looking for. Search by name (“Giovanni’s pizza”) or category (“Pizza”).

Connect to the business directly, free of charge. No need to write down a note or memorize long phone numbers. GOOG-411 connects you, free of charge.

Bill Lowrance

President PIAVA

president@piava.org

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Find Government Contracts

Posted by Bill on December 14, 2007

contract   FederalSpending.gov has been re-launched as USAspending.gov hopefully to ease searches of government contracts and spending.  I wrote a post back in November on FederalSpending.gov as the site to search federal contracts. 

Search to identify the new site, US Spending,   who beat you out of those federal contracts. Get easy access to the spending.

Bill Lowrance

President PIAVA

president@piava.org

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Do You Know Where You Are? A Quick Post

Posted by Bill on December 14, 2007

GPS   Every investigator needs to know where they are no matter where they go:

 See good review of GPS units: NY Times Review

Bill Lowrance

President PIAVA

president@piava.org

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