To see how your property taxes stack up compared to others around the country, the Tax Foundation has a handy look-up tool click here.
In a measure that goes further than the voluntary terms agreed with the US Federal Trade Commission, Google has also promised to set up a tool for sites to remove up to 10 per cent of a site's content from vertical search.
Then Venezuela abruptly canceled a huge voting machine contract, but only after AVM had borrowed up to the hilt to tool up for the order.
Researchers are opening up the tool to everyone so they can get a peek at their own personal results.
Oregon Scientific has done just that with its SmartGlobe, which, though pitched as a learning device for kids, seems like a grown-up reference tool.
Developers of the BitTorrent file-sharing process have opened an experimental data-synchronising tool up to the public.
Social Media Management company Hootsuite is offering up a fascinating tool for political junkes: their 2012 Election Tracker.
If you get confused, and you will in the beginning, one swipe from the right side of the Start Screen brings up a search tool to help you track down files or applications.
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Also, the travel costs to tool up factories for a product can be exorbitant for a small startup, especially when it can sometimes mean that a company has to have a presence in the factory for up to several months to assure quality.
Developed by Two Steps Beyond, the app started out to help those on the road predict their mobile coverage, but has become a useful tool for many, and picked up critical acclaim along the way (with Wired voting it an essential tool in their 2011 App Guide).
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In practice, its a nifty, easy-to-use tool for freshening up the raw footage taken on mobile devices.
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That made a 100-megabyte Zip disk a useful tool for backing up data and sharing files with other people.
This tool also brings up search results from Google Drive, which is useful if people also use Google Docs.
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How often do you use Google Chat or Skype or some other video tool to catch up with loved ones?
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The price-to-sales ratio remains a useful tool in sizing up a stock.
Another great prep tool in gearing up to sell your home in 2012 is to study similar homes for sale on Trulia!
At the same time, a cautionary word is due: While the geographic commands are a useful tool for dividing up the Pentagon's work, the danger is that they are also the enemy of strategic thinking.
Among the ten applications listed include a dictaphone, a Twitter client, a Zagat restaurant guide and a tool to back up your Android, lest you lose any of your vital tweets or favorite sushi dishes.
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Together, engineers and factory workers came up with a specially designed tool that allows workers to pivot the two pieces as much as 2 millimeters in either direction to ensure a perfect fit every time.
Using Elliott Wave analysis as a tool, I came up with some interesting charts for your consideration.
He then used the scanning tool NMAP to dig up thousands of vulnerable machines visible on the Internet.
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One respondent submitted a superbly thought-out 20-step process made up in Visio, a software tool for making schematics.
Ron says what they came up with was "a working tool for drivers, with a whole series of aspects which made their working day more useful and effective".
For the younger group, one cause of discouragement is the earned-income tax credit (EITC), America's main anti-poverty tool, which tops up poorer people's pay and thus rewards work.
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"The internet is a great tool, it opens up all sorts of possibilities and we don't want to scare people about using it, " said Home Office Minister Hilary Benn.
Nothing here is truly groundbreaking, per se, but it's the first time that we've seen such a giant company take a meaningful swing at a product sector that has caught fire for myriad reasons. 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the inexpensive tablet, but if Intel has its druthers, you'll be shaking off the hype and picking up a full-fledged computing tool instead.
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Of course, a smartphone is useless as a travel tool unless you load it up with apps.
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For the past year, eBay has been testing a tool called Discover that serves up unexpected results through a sophisticated algorithm.
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Preva Mobile extends this same encouragement system to members away from the gym, making it a powerful tool for operators to drive up retention.
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