Google SearchWiki

Google's experiment that lets you reorder and annotate search results
is now live. Google SearchWiki should be available automatically if you
are logged in to a Google account and it can be recognized by the
visual clutter added to the search results.

Next to each result,
you should see three new options: a way to promote a web page at the
top of the results, an option to remove results from the page (they're
still visible at the bottom of the page) and a feature that lets you
share public comments about a result. After promoting a result, Google
shows some unnecessary information about the other people who promoted
the result.

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Google SMS for India



Get
cricket scores, Indian Railways train schedules & ticket status,
horoscopes, movie showtimes, restaurant information and more ...all
through SMS on your phone.


Best of all, you don't pay a premium charge for any of this, just the price of a standard SMS.


Try it out! Simply send your search query by SMS to 9-77-33-00000 and we'll send you results back by SMS immediately.


Of course, don't forget to save 9-77-33-00000 to your phonebook for quick and easy access to Google SMS in the future!


There
are no premium charges for this service, only the cost of sending a
standard SMS. Incoming messages from Google are not charged.


To try the interactive demo click here

To view sample query click here




Show Desktop

Sometimes you delete "Show Desktop" button in Quick Launch bar... dont worry

visit the below site to re-create the same icon :)

click here for more details

Spice up your inbox with colors and themes


excerpts:

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their
inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral
part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so
out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme
with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro
notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven
themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in
good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which
was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly
practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also
done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and
cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here
and there.

Click here to visit Official gMail Blog for more details.

Fashion your Firefox!

Mozilla has now devised a Web application called
"Fashion your Firefox" that allows Firefox users to dress up the web
browser with their favorite add-ons.



It is a tool meant to customize the Firefox browser based on users'
interests and online activities. Fashion Your Firefox simplifies this
by allowing users to select add-ons that they need with just one click.











Mozilla defines the 'fashioning' the Firefox bit in the following way:



Fashion Your Firefox refers to the application's ability to
customize, tailor, and "fashion" your Firefox to best suit your daily
activities online.




Mozilla currently has 9 sets of interestingly named Firefox
extensions with their description below them. Some of them are: Social
Butterfly (for social networks), Shutterbug (for viewing and sharing
images and videos online), Rock Star (for music), and so on.



To add multiple add-ons to your Firefox, users can select add-ons
in categories that are interesting to them. Click the "I want this
add-on!" button and select the adjacent "Click here to install them"
link. Users will then be prompted to confirm their choices, and your
browser will restart with the selections added to your Firefox, without
having to add them individually.


Click here to read original article.

Click here to visit Firefox Addon page.

22 New Features of Visual Studio 2008 for .NET Professionals


This article explains you new features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

Click here to know all new features

Happy coding!

YAPTA : Comparison shop for the best fares on airline websites

Firefox Add-on for Comparison shop for the best fares on airline websites. It enables you to compare prices between different sites. You can find cheapest airfare using this add on.


abstracts:
Comparison shop for the best fares on airline websites. Yapta will
track fares for the flights you like and notify you when prices drop.

click here to download and install firefox add on.

Use and throw Email or Mail Box accounts

 Protect you email address from spam, user disposable email address.

To findout website providing disposable, click here

Using the email address provided by this site, you can register anywhere.

Happy surfing :)

Google Doodle for India - Children's Day

Are you interested in Good Doodles....

To view Google's Children's Day doodle specially for India....click here

IMPORTANT: This doodle expires after November, 14, 2008 IST (GMT +5:30)




Gmail Video Chat

Google has started Video Chat in Gmail.

Excerpts:
Google say they’re currently rolling out a video chat option to Gmail. I can’t see it yet, but according to Google, once it’s rolled out and you installed the Windows plug-in
(and restarted your browser), you’ll see a “Video & more” ->
“Start video chat” option at the bottom of your Gmail chat box.
Contacts of yours who also installed this plug-in are supposed to show
with a camera icon next to their name in the chat list. Once you
contact a person, they’ll hear it ringing and can accept the video
chat, and you can then see & hear them via the webcam.


Click here for more details.




Pagefile.sys

Pagefile.sys - how to safely delete pagefile.sys or use it on Windows XP

Excerpts:



As to the pagefile.sys that is in use by the virtual memory if you have
plenty of ram you can turn off or at least reduce the amount set aside:


  • click start
  • right click my computer
  • click properties
  • click advanced (tab)
  • under performance click settings
  • click advanced (tab) under virtual memory click change

here you can change the space available for each drive by choosing the custom button then entering the amount you want

or if ya got lotsa ram choose the no paging file either way make sure to click the “set” button when you’re done



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A Deadly New Arenavirus

Google ORG blog : A Deadly New Arenavirus

Excerpts:
On September 12 2008, Cecilia van Deventer, a safari booking agent
living in Zambia, was flown to South Africa in critical condition. She
died just two days later. By October 6 2008, three more people had
died: the paramedic who accompanied Cecilia to South Africa, the nurse
who cared for her in Intensive Care, and the cleaner who cleaned her
hospital room after her death. A fifth patient, a nurse who cared for
the infected paramedic, is receiving anti-viral treatment. In all
cases, people infected were exposed to infected blood and/or body
fluids.

South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC) quickly identified the infectious agent as an arenavirus similar to the one that causes Lassa Fever
- a disease that affects 500 000 people per year in West Africa. Now,
following full sequencing of the viral genome by Professor Ian Lipkin
and colleagues at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University, it has been clearly shown that this is an arenavirus that has never been seen before. Google.org's Predict and Prevent initiative recently announced
a grant of $2.5 million to support CII's work in pathogen discovery.
This identification of a novel arenavirus not only represents an early
success, but also demonstrates just why this work is so important.
'There is no doubt we are dealing with a newly emerged virus,' said Dr.
Janusz Paweska, head of the special pathology unit at the NICD in
Johannesburg. As Professor Robert Swanepoel, also of the NICD, has
pointed out, the virus is 'newly-discovered' rather than new, and has
probably been around in animal populations for some time before making
a recent jump to humans.

Arenaviruses, normally transferred to
humans through contact with the urine of their rodent hosts, can be
classified into New and Old World viruses depending on whether they
originate in the Western or Eastern hemisphere respectively. New World
arenaviruses, including Junin, Machupo, Sabia and Guanarito, can cause viral hemorrhagic fever.
This particular virus, classified as Old World due to its African
origins, began as a flu-like illness, then caused diarrhea, pharyngitis
and a rash before rapidly culminating in respiratory distress,
neurological symptoms and circulatory collapse over a period of about 9-12 days. The virus has yet to receive a name.

Due to the swift action of the NICD, US-CDC and CII the outbreak is now described as contained. We commend their efforts!



Click here to read the original article

Find Music on Web Google Tip

Do you like music ?

Want to download it from web ?

if yes then visit the site given below, it shows tip to find music files on web.

Click here to visit the site and find the tip to get music.

Original post : http://diablopup.blogspot.com/2007/03/random-google-tip.html

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Dynamically Obtain a SQL Server’s IP Address in T-SQL Code

Do you want to obtain SQL Server IP address in your trigger or table?

Click here to get some knowledge on this topic.

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