Ask and receive answers in your inbox with Snap Ask
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Imagine a situation when your internet connection is recovering from a chronic phase, the bandwidth is still dwindling, but your boss/engineering-course demands an article on Puritanical Analysis of the Mughal Empire. Now in normal times, we would not hesitate frolicking here and there (i.e., Wikipedia) for writing materials. But remember, your internet is down, or at the very least in ‘rehab’. Now you are truly in a fix right?
What about the time you’ve come across a colloquial figure of speech and want to know if the Irish drunkard beside you called you ‘mighty’ or just cursed your entire family tree (READ: Urbandictionary), but hey you only have a mobile phone and that special page on Urbandict isn’t loading quite well. Is that frustrating or what?
Well, just Snap Ask your questions then. Snap Ask is a web service that delivers freshly baked answers to your dire questions in a jiffy. All you got to do is send them a mail at Ask@SnapAsk.com with a proper subject line. In a prompt reply-mail you’ll receive your desired answer. They’ve introduced a technique that involves putting special ‘commands’ or ‘’key word(s)’ in your mail’s subject. These commands are ‘service specific’, meaning to use a different service like Wikipedia or Urbandictionary or perhaps Google Define, you’ll have to use different command lines. The format of your subject line would be something like < command > + subject/question/query
Where the command section (without < > signs) is to be replaced by ‘wiki’ (for wikipedia) or ‘news’ (for news articles). The whole list of commands is available on the homepage.
Neat eh? Who says ‘Email’ is a dead technology? Evidently, Snap Ask can prove to quite the friend when you are down at home with heaps of homework and a sick sick internet connection.
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Mahreen on 2/26/2009
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