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Learn how to customize safari's search toolbar and change the built-in search engine.

Internet cookies: Are they safe? For the most part, yes. Can they be deleted? Sure, but your favorite sites will no longer "remember" you and some services out and out won't work. Are they dangerous? Some are. Are they yummy? Not so much.

Facebook has announced that Facebook Chat will support AIM as well as XMPP or Jabber support, which means that any one will be able to use almost any IM client.

Who needs a dictionary when you've got Google? Using this handy trick you can search for the definition of any word, find the correct spelling and even learn how to use the word in context. Here's how to use Google as a dictionary.

When you are using Google to do a normal search, the results will offer everything that contains your search term. To combat information overload, there may be times when you'd like to just search the titles of web pages to find what you're looking for. Whether you know it or not it's possible to do just that.

CNET's Tom Merritt counts down the top 5 add ons to Trick out your Firefox browser.

Perhaps you want to call a friend in another country, but you aren't sure what time it is there. Well, that's not a problem because Google can tell you the time anywhere in the world. It's quick and easy to find the time in different timezones. Here's how.

The old Gopher protocol is not dead. In fact, it even has Twitter! Here's how to access it.

How to use crazedlist.org to search multiple regional Craigslist websites.

If you're on Twitter you might be curious about your Twitter network as a whole. Who talks to who? What things are being talked about most today? There are dozens of sites around the Web that can give you unique ways to look at your Twitter network and Twitter itself.

Google Trends allows you see the global search traffic around the world thus acting as an insight into the hive mind of all users. Ashley Ringrose has fun with some of the data he's compiled. (Ignite Sydney 5, 7/15/10) Footage and Sound provided by Hunting With Pixels http://www.huntingwithpixels.com.au/

Tom Merritt says that if you're making a switch, you can get your old email in your new inbox without having to pay.

Like other web browsers, Opera comes with a default home page. Odds are you're going to want to change it. Opera gives you quite a few options when it comes to a Home page. You can use things from saved sessions, the last session, a blank page, and more.

Your computer most likely has an IP address that it uses on your local network. Often it's assigned by your router. This is an internal IP address. You also have an external IP address that is the address that's available to the world when you surf the Internet. Just as it's easy for you to trace your IP address with the tools below, it's also easy for someone else to trace an IP address to find out where it's coming from.