Power Search was a real useful feature and there is now good reason why Apple decided to ditch/hide in iTunes version 11. But luckily you can bring it back quite easily. Check it out.
Google Chrome has a handy function where you can just paste an url or search term and you will go straight to the page or get the Google search results.
You don't need Photoshop or some other advanced piece of software to resize a large number of images at once. You can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager which is part of the Office suite.