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makewords.comWould you like to find new web 2.0 style domain names really easily?

If you’d like a name like Google, or perhaps Squidoo.

Here’s a web site that locates domains based on your selection cirteria and then tells you which ones are still available. If you’d like to find a weird word that no-ones uses, but that you can pronounce to uses as your domain name, this is a great tool.

How To Do It

Go to makewords.com. To find an available domain name, put letters like “gle” (Google), or “doo”, (Squidoo), into the “Suffix to end with” box.

Using endings of “oogle” and “doo”, “ango”, “ooso” and “odo” I came up with the following domain names that were all available at the time of writing. There are other ways to generate names – I just like the idea of using pronouncable endings as a convenient way of forming new words,but you can choose to specify beginnings as well.

  • iozoogle.com
  • pundoo.com
  • pacando.com
  • wagando.com
  • verosso.com
  • superodo.com

You could of course use this tool to generate names for brandable names, startup companies or for new products. Probably a good idea to check they don’t mean something unsavoury in foreign languages though.

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Freecom External Drive – A Recommendation

by Liz Jamieson on February 20, 2009

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I bought my hard-drive on Amazon about a year ago, and today my friend Gill asked me if it was any good. I said “yes- it’s great”, so she went off and bought one.

My hard drive is a Toughdrive, and it’s been good for me. Mine is 250GB, but they do a 320GB one now.

It has a friendly blue light to keep you company at night, when working into the small hours, and being a toughdrive, you are supposed to be able to drop it. I haven’t of course, but it is a re-assuring feature.

This device has saved my life a few times. I diligently backup all the work I do every day onto it before giving up for the night. Come on, you know it makes sense.

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