Everyday, more reading materials are published, including printed materials and content-based websites. Picking what to read and what not to read is important so you don't waste time on junk text. Besides, reading speed is also very important. I had always been reading at average reading speed of around 200 wpm until I bumped into Scott H Young's articles Double Your Reading Rate and Speed Reading Follow-Up. Apparently what I had been doing very wrong when I read was trying to subvocalize every word in the text...

Many people, especially ladies who care about fashion trends most likely have run into a situation where they saw a celebrity wearing a cool accessory, but had a hard time to find it (or at least to find something similar) in any store. If you are one of them, you probably have tried online shopping to spot the item, although convenient, the hunting process could be boring and tedious. Ryan Inc's new Likeness search technology comes in to rescue you from browsing tens or hundreds of pages of online catalogs.

If you just upgraded to Windows Vista, there's a big chance that some of the softwares you used on Windows XP do not work on Vista anymore, well, at least not for now. While browsing through the list of compatible software on Vista, I noticed that my favorite security suite -- ZASS (Zone Alarm Security Suite) isn't on the list...

After I formatted my hard disk drive last August I lost some free fonts which I didn't backup, including the Bauhaus font which I used for aigoo.net's text-based logo. I had to look it up while renovating that site last month. After trying some font identifiers returned by Google's search result, I found Identifont very impressive...

I wonder when is Google gonna decide to bring their experimental search user interface at SearchMash over to Google Search, or make SearchMash out of beta. Like other Google sites, SearchMash is powered by AJAX user interface which gives pleasant user experience. If the current Google Search is a one stop search engine site, then SearchMash is a one stop search engine page. It neatly integrates web search, image search, blog search, video search, and even Wikipedia look up into one page...

Discussion boards have been one of the most popular ways to exchange opinions on serious topics, to seek for the answer you need in a community, and to help others by giving your answers for what you are knowledgeable in. However, it could be tiring to go through a long thread which you are involved in after a long day at work. To spice things up, Chinswing offers a platform for audio-based discussions, allowing users to spit out their thoughts with their own voice instead of a chain of letters...

I had totally forgotten about GetMooh until I saw an article about it earlier today at LiewCF.com. Basically Getmooh is a free automated call back service designed by Antonia Caffrey, with a good intention to help you escape a variety of situations by calling you automatically on your phone at a pre-scheduled time and playing you a recording of your choice. The nearest time you could schedule a Getmooh call is 15 minutes from present time.