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Last night I was watching “The Office” (and laughing hysterically) and decided that I needed the theme song from the show as a ring tone on my cell phone. I’ve got a Windows PDA phone, so all I need is an mp3 file, and I can turn it into a ring tone. It’s very easy.

So I went to Google. Wonderful, wonderful Google. Using Google’s “filetype:” operator, I was able to filter the search to only include results with an mp3 file. Excellent.

The “filetype:” operator is helpful especially when you combine it with other advanced search operators. For instance, if you want all PDF files indexed within the microsoft.com domain, you can search “site:www.microsoft.com filetype:pdf” and get this. You can also add search terms to that query, so if you want to search microsoft.com for PDF documents about Windows Vista, it’s very easy.

Or you can use it to find Excel spreadsheets with passwords in them. Or Word documents with salary information. You’d be shocked what kind of information is in the Google index if you know how to find it.

I, of course, would never recommend that anybody use these powers for evil. muwahaha…