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Ajax DNS: Quick domain and IP tools

Ajax DNS
Hopefully when 2006 is over in a couple weeks people will stop putting the word "Ajax" in their web apps' names. I love the things Ajax makes possible, but as a marketing tool it's no longer useful, folks. Regardless, Ajax DNS is a pretty handy tool. If you enter an IP address or hostname it will do a DNS lookup, WHOIS lookup, ARIN IP lookup, HTTP header check, spam blacklist check, ping, or DNS traversal check, all from the same page. All of these tools have been available elsewhere for a long time--DNS Stuff comes to mind--but Ajax DNS has a nice "one box" approach for simple and fast lookups. If you find yourself doing these sorts of checks often, Ajax DNS might be worth bookmarking.

Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services

Ninjawords: "Fast like a ninja" dictionary

NinjawordsI like ninjas. That being said, I don't really associate ninjas with dictionaries. However, Ninjawords aims to change that. Or something. Ninjawords is a simple Ajax dictionary that aspires to be like a ninja: smart, accurate, and really fast. Type in your word, smack the enter key, and you definition pops up. That's it! Yes, a very simple tool, and a pretty obvious use of Ajax at that, but I enjoy Ninjawords' clean, uncluttered interface. It also has a couple extra features, like the ability to look up multiple words at once (just separate them with commas) and easy URL-based lookup (just type ninjawords.com/yourwordhere). It will also make spelling suggestions. While I still love the venerable Dictionary.com, Ninjawords is a great alternative, though I wouldn't want to meet it in a dark alley.

Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Freeware

GoogleFill fills your address book automatically

GoogleFillGoogleFill's author poses the following scenario: Say you make some new business contacts and punch their numbers into your cell phone, then get home and sync it up with your address book. Now you've got a bunch of numbers, but none of their other information. GoogleFill attempts to solve this by running a reverse phone number search on all of those new contacts and, if it finds a match, it'll grab their full names and addresses. All of this seems a little bit creepy, but whenever I have a missed call from a number I don't know, the first thing I do is run it through Google--all GoogleFill really does is automate that process. Unfortunately GoogleFill is Mac OS X-only, but the good news for those Mac users is it's completely free.

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