PC Pro: News: Google fortifies Desktop Search against IE flaw

PC Pro: News: Google fortifies Desktop Search against IE flaw: "Google fortifies Desktop Search against IE flaw"

Did you know about this flaw? Well don't worry they fixed it already.

Windows and Linux on the Sony PSP

I love people who take the time to see what they can do with these new gadgets. Take a look at this. Here is a guy who installed windows and linux to a Sony PSP.

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Microsoft scans British Library

About 100,000 books in the British Library are going to be scanned and put online by software giant Microsoft. The books, which are out of copyright, will be digitized from 2006 and put online as part of Microsoft's book search service next year.

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Google Sitemaps (BETA) Help

Google Sitemaps (BETA) Help

I think this experiment will soon turn into a google feature that all website owners use. This will definatly speed up the process when you want to see your new content show on google results. I think it give more control to the website owner and a better chance in getting their content into google. And I also agree with Marshall Simmonds, VP of Enterprise Search Marketing of The New York Times it gives you more flexibility when you have the ability to push data rather than waiting for the spider to find the data.

Google�s Testing New Dictionary Feature | Justilien.com

Google�s Testing New Dictionary Feature | Justilien.com: "Google�s Testing New Dictionary Feature"

I got this from justilien, read away...

In the past year I have come to depend more and more on Google as a spell checker. Yesterday I was looking up the phone number to a café with Google and a new dictionary feature appeared Google is testing. In additional to the standard feature of “Did you mean”, Google hyperlinked the word in the search box it thought was misspelled. I clicked on it and a drop down menu appeared with possible correct spellings.

Google's PayPal Killer - Google Purchases Discovered Online

Alice Hill�s Real Tech News - Independent Tech Googles PayPal Killer - Google Purchases Discovered Online: "Google is ramping up to be the 100 pound gorilla in just about every category it chooses to enter. Microsoft is smarting over Gmail, and just tonight there is word that Google will soon unleash an online payment system called Google Payments."

How cool is this?

I was surfing the web and came across a link that said this guys has a lot of time in his hands... So I decided to click on the link to see what it was about and I agree the guy has way too much time in his hands.

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Microsoft and Yahoo after AOL...

Technology - canada.com: "Sources say Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to make their two instant-messaging programs work together.
The deal is expected to be announced Wednesday.
If it comes to pass, the Yahoo-Microsoft partnership would let users of the competing services exchange messages, something that wasn't possible before. "

Microsoft Expression - Home

Microsoft Expression - Home: "Your Creative Power Unleashed.
Microsoft Expression� takes the many sides of your creative personality to all new levels. Professional design tools give you greater flexibility to create sophisticated applications and content. Innovative technologies enable faster and richer interface development for Windows applications or the Web. Compatibility between products increases all levels of your personal productivity."

Google formally declares war on Microsoft

Google formally declares war on Microsoft: "Google formally declares war on Microsoft

We will fight them on the breaches

By Nick Farrell: Thursday 06 October 2005, 07:05
GOOGLE HAS confirmed that it will launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online and take on Microsoft in one of its biggest markets."

Under the deal, Google will allow web users to access Sun's OpenOffice from a toolbar.

The other day, when Sun's Scott McNealy and his former employee now Google chief Eric Schmidt met up, Sun was wary about doing that.
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GroupBar Prototype from Microsoft Research

GroupBar Prototype from Microsoft Research: "GroupBar Prototype from Micros

oft Research
A recent post about Microsoft Scalable Fabric prompted me to browse through the MS Research Download page, where I ran across GroupBar [download]:
'GroupBar is a prototype for demonstrating the use of window-grouping features in an XP TaskBar-like interface. The window tiles in the GroupBar can be rearranged in any order or dragged and dropped into lightweight 'groups' that allow one-click task-switching and convenient group operations.' "

Take Your ASP.NET 2.0 App Offline

Take Your ASP.NET 2.0 App Offline: "Take Your ASP.NET 2.0 App Offline
I just learned this a few minutes ago, but you can take an ASP.NET 2.0 application offline temporarily by uploading a file called App_Offline.htm. It will spin down the appdomain and redirect all requests to that page. Neato!
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channel4.com - News - special report: Talking Turkey

channel4.com - News - special report: Talking Turkey: "Talking Turkey

Published: 3 Oct 2005
By: Channel 4 News

EU foreign ministers have reached a deal clearing the way for accession talks with Turkey to begin, EU officials said. "

Google and Sun join forces

Last Modified: 5 Oct 2005
Source: ITN

The internet search engine Google and Sun Microsystems have joined forces to challenge Microsoft's dominance of computer software.

The chief executives of Google Incorporated and Sun Microsystems Incorporated, announced their plans at a news conference in Mountain View, California.

The move could lead to Google offering next-generation word processing, spreadsheet and collaboration tools that would take on Microsoft's industry-leading Office suite of software.

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BUY GOOGLE STOCKS now!!

Hi all, I was reading an article today about google offering free wi-fi in the United States. WOW. that is crazy. So you would think why the heck would they give it away for free? Well it''s not that free they get to advertise to you based on your location. So if you are around Chicago and you are hungry you might find a good spot by going through your pop-ups or whatever they'll use to show you their ads.

They always to crazy things but this is the strongest so far. This is an awesome idea. This is the third time they got me,

1. they bought keyhole
2. google mail - show mails in conversation mode and only invite people
3. free wi-fi and targeted advertising.

You are a genious google! Don't believe me read it

another link

New Hotmail "Kahuna" on Channel 9

Wanna see how the new hotmail looks like? Well here it is... they're on channel 9 :)

There are a couple of other blogs you might want to take a look at to get more info on this. Here are my favorites;

• http://spaces.msn.com/members/mailcall/
• Link 2
• Link 3
  

Bill Gates Webcasts at microsoft.com

I was poking around the microsoft site to see more demos on the new systems that are coming out man I love this new OS GUI. It looks very cool. This page has a lot of webcasts that are pretty good. http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx

I loved the move through windows with 3D images. And the new alt-tab shows the image of the window. Actually you could download that from the XP site as a power tool but this new one seems a lot faster. Maybe the demo PC had 4GB of ram but it was really fast moving through windows.

I also loved the new built-in features of word. It has a lot of pre built items that would take you hours to do if you were to do it with office 2003.

Oh and the new explorer man oh man, when you hit print preview, it actually shows you the whole page without cutting off the extra inch. I gotta tell ya they are listening to us more and more every day. I think they now know what is important, US! :)

take a look at this http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0509/25074/ChrisCap_Office12_mbr.asx

Windows Vista UI

So the Beta is finally out! And I wonder how it looks like. So I download a copy from the MSDN site and try to install it. I tried the process 4 times with a Pentium 4 and 2 GB RAM laptop using virtual PC. Don't guess you're right it didn't work!

So I'm guessing that it was the virtual PC that gave me the problem. Anyway I just had to see the new UI and finally I remembered to go to the Vista site.

I was visiting the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 Virtual Pressroom and they have some nice pictures of the new Vista UI. And at last I now know how the UI looks like. After all of the trouble I went through I think it was worth it. I love what they have done with the UI. Right on!

The gallery has bunch of pictures of the new Vista, IE 7.0 and Office 12. Looking through the gallery I saw the games pictures and Chess got my attention. It looks awesome. I know Kamil, one of my dearest friends from Istanbul who is a chess lover, is going to love the new version of Windows.

I love the Windows Vista Chess images you gotta check it out. Here is the image link.

And here is the link to the image gallery on the PDC 2005 page.

Cheers

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My first blog on this blog

I don't know how many blogs I've created in the past but I think this is it.. I'll try to us this one and update you from here. ok thanx c ya later..