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Posted by on 3rd June, 2005

Personalized Google has competition

Personalized Google has competition

Personalized Google, a page with the same ol' search box, but with the addition of your personal selection of news stories (XML feeds). Although Microsoft is light years ahead with its implementation of my.msn.comwhich offers similar, but more complex features, it seems that they may want to go toe-to-toe with Google on this one. I don't recall exactly how, but I stumbled upon this experimental search/XML feed news aggregator by Microsoft that uses Asynchroneous Javascript to refresh, collapse, expand and move the headline around. It is the same technology used by Google in maps.google.com that has proven quite efficient and robust and the site sure does look like it will do the same as Personalized Google…search and aggregate news feeds. You can fully customize the page with your own feeds. Try it and I think you'll be impressed. Again, it is sort of in an experimental phase and I do not know what Microsoft is planning for it, but it certainly looks promising…and so does the fight that is...

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Posted by on 30th November, 2004

Multiple IIS Virtual Servers on Windows XP

Multiple IIS Virtual Servers on Windows XP

Although you can theoretically create a new Web site under a new virtual root (a child path under your default Web server) this presents a big problem: the new Web site would have to be aware of this path offset when referring to itself with absolute or relative paths. The advantage of having a new and independent virtual server is that it only recognizes its own virtual roots and paths. In other words, in any of your virtual folders in the default web server, a path of "/images/…" would point to the root of your Webserver's (wwwroot) folder and not the root of the virtual folder! While you cannot create a new virtual server through MMC, the ability to create multiple virtual servers is only hidden, not stripped out completely. Steven M. Cohn explains how…and it works. [button link=”http://weblogs.asp.net/stevencohn/articles/59782.aspx” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 23rd November, 2004

1001 free fonts

1001 free fonts

1001 free fonts is a popular free fonts archive online. They receive more than 35,000 visitors daily and we have been visited by over 25,000,000 visitors since 1998. Over 350,000,000 cool fonts have been downloaded since 1998. If you need a font, look here first. [button link=”http://www.1001freefonts.com/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 18th November, 2004

Screen Recording Tool

Screen Recording Tool

On occasions, I come across a software tool that merits mentioning and recommending. I have used in the past several well-known screen capturing/recording tools to do this job, but I have to say I am quite impressed with the ease-of-use and set of features of BBFlashback. It enables yu to capture the screen at different resolutions, compress at different compression modes in several popular formats such as .wmv, .avi, .swf and standalone .exe. The files are much smaller than with other tools. It is not cheap, but you get what you pay for. If you need to do software demonstrations, presentations, tutorials or training, this is a good tool to consider. The other tool I will be trying shortly is a very interesting one that caught my attention: BBTestAssistant. It is used to capture movies of bugs during testing and includes continuous mode to trap intermittent bugs. [button link=”http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack.aspx” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 8th November, 2004

GMail Drive shell extension

GMail Drive shell extension

GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which includes storage space of a 1 Gigabytes, you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again using Windows Explorer. When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail and posts it to your account. [button link=”http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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Posted by on 6th November, 2004

AltaVista: largest multimedia index

AltaVista: largest multimedia index

At least for today… AltaVista's expanded multimedia index catalogs more than 540 million comprehensive, high-quality image files and approximately 11 million video and audio files, including popular formats such as MP3 and MPEG. Included in the index are hundreds of millions of files published in countries around the world, enhancing the user experience across AltaVista's U.S. and international Web sites. Additionally, AltaVista added a new refinement feature to its image index that enables consumers to customize searches by dimension. [button link=”http://www.altavista.com/” color=”#FFFFCC” size=”1″ style=”4″ dark=”1″]read...

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