How do I search all of Craigslist?

My partner, Danny is just starting to learn how to use a computer.  He is learning how to use email and how to surf the internet for things he is interested in.  I’m showing him the ropes. 

This morning he wanted to search for campers (ours was recently totaled.  For more information, click here) on Craigslist, but he wanted to search for campers on all of Craigslist.  He asked me how he could do this.  Well, I must confess, I don’t use Craigslist very much, and so I didn’t know how to do this. 

I went out to Craigslist (CL) and looked around and didn’t find a way to do this (that doesn’t mean there isn’t a way, I just didn’t find it this morning), that was obvious to me. 

So, I did what I usually do in a situation like this, I performed a Google Search. I found a way to search all of CL in a matter of seconds using Google’s Search Engine.  I love Google. Here is the link I found, in case you are interested:  http://www.dime-co.com/business/How-to-Search-All-of-Craigslist-at-Once.shtml. 

It really wasn’t that hard.  I’ll outline the steps for you here. 

• First, open up a browser window (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc..).
• Type in “Google.com” in the address bar.  Google’s home page should appear.

• Now you will need to type the following into the Google search box:

site:craigslist.org “replace this text with your search keywords”.

• For my example, I decided to search all of CL for “Honda Cars”.  Here is what I type into the Google Search box:

site:craigslist.org “Honda Cars”.

• Press the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. 
• Next, I was presented with a list of links to Honda cars on Craigslist. 

Pretty cool. 

For more details on how you can search for something on all of Craigslist, you can perform your own Google Search and/or check out the link I found, by visiting this site:  http://www.dime-co.com/business/How-to-Search-All-of-Craigslist-at-Once.shtml. 

Enjoy!

Windows 7 Cool New Feature, Snap

I’m working on a SharePoint project.  Part of this project involved migrating SharePoint 2007 Publishing web sites over to SharePoint 2010 Publishing web sites.  After the migration program was run, we needed to perform a comparison between the SharePoint 2007 sites and the newly created SharePoint 2010 sites. 

To help make this process less tedious and to make the comparison easier, I tried the new Snap feature that is part of Windows 7.  This worked great and was a big help with the comparison process.  I love this cool new feature. 

Snap is easy to use.  To see a video on how to use snap, visit this link:  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Arrange-windows-side-by-side-on-the-desktop-using-Snap. 

Let me know how you use snap to help get your projects done or how you may use it just for fun. 

Enjoy!

I’m Published–How Cool

I’m snowed in this morning.  It is truly beautiful, but very cold.  I’m sitting in my living room near the woodstove, so I stay toasty warm.  I love it! 

I work as an consultant at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville.  I’m a SharePoint Specialist.  I’m working on SharePoint publishing sites.  I’m doing custom branding, creating sites, adding new content, and creating training material.  In regards to training material, I recently got published for some training material that I help to create and update.  How cool. 

I really enjoy working at UT and working with SharePoint 2010.  Working on this SharePoint project has been filled with lots learning, creativity, some frustration at times, exciting at other times, but mostly fun.  I’m enjoying my experience at UT. 

Enjoy!