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Also in this tech tips update:

I spy . . . webmail
Enhancing OS X
Version 10, Really!
Core cult
Googleeyed

Ebaylistings makes keeping your eye out for something on eBay an absolute breeze. It generates RSS (a syndication format popular with news sites and weblogs) feeds for items matching the criteria of your choice. Along with specifying the search terms you want to monitor, you can also specify minimum/maximum prices, categories and seller IDs. It is then just a matter of subscribing to the feed in the RSS reader of your choice and waiting for a match to appear.
www.ebaylistings.net

I spy . . . webmail
While everybody is making a fuss about Gmail, Google's recently announced 1 GB webmail service, a much smaller and lesser known company has beaten them to the punch. Spymac is offering free 1 GB webmail accounts, and despite the name, you don't even have to be a Mac user.
www.spymac.com

Enhancing OS X
Not being a Mac user, and not having found any very helpful descriptions, I'm not completely sure exactly what Quicksilver is. However, judging from the response it is generating, it's certainly worth downloading if you're an OS X user. It duplicates the functionality of tools such as LaunchBar and Dragthing, performing the function of application launcher among other things and it's free.
http://blacktree.com/apps/quicksilver/

Version 10, Really!
Version 10 of RealPlayer has been launched. The main improvement with the new version is support for a wider range of formats, including Windows Media, MPEG4, MP3 AAC, and the Real formats, of course. Also welcome is the greater prominence given to the link to the free version of the software (top right corner, beneath the blue question mark).
www.real.com

Core cult
On the topic of the Mac, Cult of the Mac is a great new weblog from the Wired crew, dedicated to all things Apple.
http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/

Googleeyed
It is rare that a Geocities site gets mentioned here but the following site deserves it. It provides answers to frequently asked questions about Google, as posted to the Usenet newsgroup, google.public.support.general.
www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/

Posted by thinkum at April 23, 2004 04:54 PM