Get Basic Search Results by Limiting Google to Specific Reading Level

Often we want our search results to be basic, less technical or simpler than what Google gives us. For example, when you search Google for some less popular term, Google throws business reports or technical documentations that are good but useless results. Though the result quality is high with in-depth information but they are of no use for basic and simple purpose.

Come Google’s Reading Level, an advance search tool to limit your search results based on complexity of content. Google actually paid to teachers to classify information for simplicity parameters and devised an algorithm to find and categorize web pages. You can find this tool in Advance Search options.
According to Google, you should use it when –

#. A junior high school teacher looking for content for her students.
#. Second-language learner might want web pages written at a basic reading level.
#. A scientist searching for the latest findings from the experts

In addition, you can use it :
#. When you just want an overview of the topic and cover some basics.
#. When you want to dig deep into the subject
#. When you are sick of same results and wants a different reading experience.
You can not only limit your results for basic level, but also filter results with advance reading level if you want to have an expertise on the topic.
How to Filter or Limit Your Google Search Results Based on Complexity of Content?
To use this tool, follow these simple steps –
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Google Apps Sending limits

Google has a number of sending limits in place to prevent abuse of our system, and to help fight spam. If one of your mail accounts reaches an abuse limit, the account will be temporarily unable to send mail.

Each Google Apps account can currently send to 500 external recipients per day. Google Apps for Business and Education users can send to 2000 external recipients per day. The email addresses can be distributed among the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields. Administrators can contact all user accounts within the domain by adding everyone in the domain to an email list.

Here are a few additional tips:

• Stagger mass communications over the course of two days. For example, send messages to the allotted number of recipients on day one, wait for 24 hours, and send messages to another group of recipients on day two.
• In all editions of Google Apps, an individual message can be sent to a maximum of 500 external recipients at one time.
• If you use an IMAP client (e.g., Apple Mail), you may only send a message to 100 people at a time. 

Google Apps Spam and abuse policy

When you sign up for a Google Apps acount, you agree not to use the account to send spam, distribute viruses, or otherwise abuse the service. All users on your domain are subject to these agreements, which are part of the Google Apps Acceptable Use Policy.

If Google identifies a Google Apps user who is violating these agreements, we reserve the right to immediately suspend the user. If the problem is domain-wide, we reserve the right to suspend the entire account and deny administrator access to all the Google Apps services. In such cases, we send a notification to the registered secondary email address for the domain administrator.

If you identify a Google Apps user who is violating these agreements, at your domain or another domain, you can report the abuse to Google by sending an email message to abuse@domain.com or postmaster@domain.com, where domain.com is the domain where the abuse occurs. Google monitors these addresses for every domain registered with Google Apps.

Since abuse and postmaster are reserved aliases, you cannot to use them as user names or aliases. You can, however, subscribe to them and receive all mail sent to these addresses. (Learn more)

CIDR RegEx shortcuts

POSIX RegEx shortcuts I found that made my life easier that I used with PostFix header maps for dealing with IP addresses

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/19 subnets
0-31
([12]?[0-9]|3[01])

32-63
(3[2-9]|[45][0-9]|6[0-3])


64-95

(6[4-9]|[78][0-9]|9[0-5])


96-127
(9[6-9]|1[01][0-9]|12[0-7])


128-159
(12[89]|1[3-5][0-9])


160-191
(1[6-8][0-9]|19[01])


192-223
(19[2-9]|2[01][0-9]|22[0-3])


224-255
(22[4-9]|2[34][0-9]|25[0-5])

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DriveImage XML

Excellent Freeware (there is a commercial version as well) tool to image or backup logical drives & partitions sector-by-sector.

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

Agent Ransack - Free File Searching Utility

Agent Ransack is an awesome File search freeware tool for MS OSes.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?type=agentransack&page=home

Freeware: Phantom CD & Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM

Writable optical discs like CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW and Blu-ray BD-RE have a life span of two to five years. They have a recording surface consisting of a layer of dye that can be modified by heat. The degradation process can result in the data "shifting" on the surface and thus becoming unreadable to the laser beam.

To avoid burning your discs every few years, copy the CD, DVD or Blu-ray discs to ISO or BIN/CUE disc images to your hard drive.

Hard drives have their limitations too. However, it is much easier and faster to copy dozens or even hundreds of disc image files to a new hard drive than to burn dozens of new CD's or DVD's. 

These two CD emulating software solutions are what I use on Windows machines:

1. Phantom CD
   Download it from the developer's site:
   http://www.phantombility.com/en/prod/phantomcd/download/
2. Microsoft's Virtual CDROM software can’t be found via a regular search on Microsoft Downloads. This is a free program (Unsupported by Microsoft PSS) for Windows XP, 2000 and 2003 that lets you create a virtual CD drive on your hard disk. Supported file formats are: .udf; .cdfs; .jo; .iso; .rock. It weighs only 60KB in size.

MS Virtual CD software Installation instructions (copied from the included Readme)

• Copy VCdRom.sys to your %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder.
• Execute VCdControlTool.exe
• Click “Driver control”
• If the “Install Driver” button is available, click it. Navigate to the %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder, select VCdRom.sys, and click Open.
• Click “Start”
• Click OK
• Click “Add Drive” to add a drive to the drive list. Ensure that the drive added is not a local drive. If it is, continue to click “Add Drive” until an unused drive letter is available.
• Select an unused drive letter from the drive list and click “Mount”.
• Navigate to the image file, select it, and click “OK”. UNC naming conventions should not be used, however mapped network drives should be OK.

Direct Download link:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6abd84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcontrolpanel_21.exe