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I just happened to stumble on a pretty interesting tool today.

I was trying to find a word for “People that are behind the times” for my previous blog post. I did a couple of searches in Google without avail and eventually started scouring for a tool that did a reverse lookup on a word. A tool where I would give the definition, and it would give me some words that matched that definition. What I discovered was Onelook.com’s Reverse Dictionary.

Reverse Dictionaries allow you to “Describe a concept” in order to find words that match that description.

Cool Stuff, especially for all of us non-harvard graduates.

What I find the most interesting though is all of the uses for this tool. It is actually a very smart search engine. You would be suprized the sort of answers you could get from asking a variety of questions. Here are some of potential applications that OneLook describes:

- Find a word, when you know its definition, [or a portion of the definition].
- Explore related concepts. Baseball, clouds, cities.
- Generate a list of words in some category. I.E. Large Birds, Green fruit, Canadian authors.
- Answer basic indentification questions. What is the capital of Vietnam, Who is big birds friend on Sesame Street. What is the longest River in the world

In actuality Onelook is indexing much more then just dictionaries to find these answers. They index encyclopedia’s and other reference sites as well.

I dont know about you guys, but if I had a very large amount of money, I might consider trying to buy their technology. There are a lot of times I wish the major search engines could do some of the stuff that they are. Ask.com (askjeeves) does some of this, but you cant get lists from Ask, its usually websites that come up that require you to sift through several pages to find your answers.

For all of you content mongers out there, this sort of technology could feed some very interesting sites.

I would love to see some sort of API.

Paying tax is the obligation of every citizen. You need to pay tax so that your country can be developed and serve their people better. This is one responsibilities that you need to fulfill as good citizen. One term related to tax is tax refund. Tax refund is a refund on taxes if the tax paid is higher than the tax liability. When you can get tax refund? The taxpayers can get tax refund if they owe less than the total amount of refundable tax credits which they claim.

You cannot get away from your responsibility to pay tax. Hence, in order to have a well planned financial state, you need to make financial planning on everything. You also need to always make tax planning so that you can do your responsibility well. You should estimate the taxes that you might owe throughout the tax year. You should estimate your expected refund as well. You can do that by using Tax refund estimator that may help you to make financial decisions. It can give you accurate estimation and also tax credit information. You can find many tax calculator tools on the Internet, it may help you to estimate your tax independently. It is very useful especially when you are dealing with finance changing events like home purchase, mortgage refinancing, college tuition payment and many others.

If you are not able to take care of your tax refund matters on your own, you can as professional tax refund service to help you manages your income tax refund. They will help you during the full process of getting your tax refund. You need to claim your tax return refund since it is your right as citizen. If you have done your obligation, you should get your right too. They will assist you to claim your tax refund easily.

If you are going to improve your credit score, then logic has it that you must understand what your credit score is and how it works. Without this information, you won’t be able to very effectively improve your score because you won’t understand how the things you do in daily life affect your score.

If you don’t understand how your credit score works, you will also be at the mercy of any company that tries to tell you how you can improve your score – on their terms and at their price.

In general, your credit score is a number that lets lenders know how much of a credit risk you are. The credit score is a number, usually between 300 and 850, that lets lenders know how well you are paying off your debts and how much of a credit risk you are.

In general, the higher your credit score, the better credit risk you make and the more likely you are to be given credit at great rates. Scores in the low 600s and below will often give you trouble in finding credit, while scores of 720 and above will generally give you the best interest rates out there.

However, credit scores are a lot like GPAs or SAT scores from college days – while they give others a quick snapshot of how you are doing, they are interpreted by people in different ways. Some lenders put more emphasis on credit scores than others.