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Mac Virtual Machine Update Runs Vista
Enhancements to Parallels Desktop for Mac include support for the recently released multi-processor Mac Pro tower equipped with 3.5GB of RAM, as well as for the developer build of Mac OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard.
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22.9.2006 MSN Search and Windows Desktop Search Tips & Tricks
Brandon Paddock and Andy Edmonds (Windows Desktop Search team) have sent the word to let us know they're both hosting a 1-hour MSDN Webcast at 1pm (Pacific time, 9PM GMT) today.
They'll be discussing tips, tricks, and hacks for MSN Search and for Windows Desktop Search.
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9.12.2005 Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
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19.12.2007 27 Vista SP1 Copies Running Simultaneously on the Same Machine
Microsoft never contested the fact that Windows Vista's hardware requirements qualified the latest Windows client as resource hungry, but at the same time, the company did point out that, given the right system, the platform would deliver quite a performance.
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9.6.2008 Windows Vista Search Kills Google Search
Has Microsoft finally gained the upper hand over Google with the launch of Windows Vista? Is this the last we will see of Google search, as the Redmond Company's latest operating system
will be increasingly adopted eroding the market supremacy of Windows XP?
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18.2.2007 New Micrsoft Virtual Machine Additions available for Windows Vista CTP releases
New Virtual Machine Additions are up for the Windows Vista CTP releases. These new Additions (13.709) have performance optimizations for Windows Vista Beta 2 (Build 5384), Windows Vista Beta 2 June Refresh (Build 5465) and Windows Vista Beta 2 July Refresh (Build 5472).
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27.7.2006 Free XP Virtual Machine image for IE6 web development
Different versions of Internet Explorer are unable to run side-by-side on a single Windows machine without patching various files.
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2.12.2006 Rapidshare Search Engines to Search, Find and Download Files from RapidShare
Since 2nd of July, RapidShare has removed its download limits and captchas for free user. This means that we can continue downloading files from rapidshare without waiting for an hour when we’ve just downloaded a file.
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15.7.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but don’t have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006 Coders, Search For Code With Google Code Search
Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with
Google Code Search.
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5.10.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Microsoft looks for better way to search the Net
Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess.
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7.3.2007 Microsoft: Use our search and we'll pay you
Microsoft is offering to pay corporations if they get their employees to use Live Search at work, the company confirmed on Friday.
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17.3.2007 Who uses MS Live Search?
". . . it’s mostly people that are searching for files on their own hard drive who accidentally click the ’search the net’ button."
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3.4.2008 Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search.
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6.1.2009 Microsofts new search...Yahoo?
Microsoft quietly registered a limited liability company (LLC) last week, which points to the company being poised to make an acquisition or joint venture.
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27.5.2009 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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Spybot Search and Destroy v1.3
Search your hard disk for so-called spybots or adbots, the modules that are responsible for showing ads and transmitting information back to vendors. If Spybot Search and Destroy finds such modules, it will remove them or replace them with empty dummies. In most cases, the host software still runs after removing the bot. Among the adbots Spybot targets: Aureate, CLPRS, Comet Cursors, eZula HotText, Gator, GoHip, Radiate, WebHancer, and WildTangent.
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Windows Live to get Product Search
After posting about Windows Live Academic Search last week, yet another new search product has entered our radar. This time it's Windows Live Product Search, and like its cousins Image Search and Feed Search, it too will be integrated into the standard Windows Live Search service.
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11.4.2006 Microsoft Shoots for Photo Search
Microsoft this week revealed that it is at work on a way to search the Internet using photos captured by cell phone cameras.
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17.4.2006 Vista Search Seems Fair, Regulators Say
The U.S. government has given its thumbs-up to Microsoft's search box plans for Vista, shrugging off concerns raised recently by Google.
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14.5.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Spybot - Search and Destroy 1.5 Beta
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
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16.6.2007 Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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5.9.2007 Windows Live Search 2.0 is Coming!!
As reported by LiveSide, and Softpedia News, Microsoft is holding a three-hour “Searchification” event at its Silicon Valley campus on September 26 that seems like it will be the launch pad for the next version of Microsoft’s Live Search service.
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11.9.2007 New Live Search Homepage Launches
The new homepage for Windows Live Search, which LiveSide told us was coming last week, has gone live, a whole week before the Searchification event.
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19.9.2007Google Caffeine: A Detailed Test of the New Google
Did you hear?
Googles launching a new, upgraded version of its search
engine soon. And just as important, the search giant released the developers preview of it today. Google promises that the new search tool
(codename śCaffeineť) will improve the speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness of Google search.
While the developer version
is a pre-beta release, its completely usable. Thus, weve decided to put the new Google search through the ringer. We took the developer version for a
spin and compared it to not only the current version of Google Search, but to Bing as well...
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11.08.2009Bug testers: Google is clean, Bing is buggy
An independent search engine bug bash gave high marks to Google's bug testers and found that while Bing is buggy, it's also doing a lot of things
right.
A company called
uTest solicited 1,100 software developers and set them loose on the
four major search engines of the day: Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Google's new Caffeine update. Google had the fewest number of bugs and the least
severe bugs among the competition, while Bing amassed the most bugs yet still scored well in the accuracy of its results.
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16.09.2009Vista SP1 RTM up to 86% faster
Is Vista SP1 really the shot in the arm your Vista system needs? We've spent many hours strapped to our benchmarking system in a caffeine and
pizza fueled haze to uncover these very interesting results. In some areas, such as network file copying, Vista SP1 is
dramatically faster -- up to 86%.
Our scenario was a home
user running Vista Home Premium on a fast, low-latency network with decent PC hardware. All file copy tests were initiated from the main machine. Each
system used the latest available vendor (non-Microsoft) drivers and the November release of DirectX. No modifications were made to the operating
system, so as to represent as closely as possible the configuration of an OEM machine.
We asked Microsoft why this was and they provided a
very detailed technical explanation.
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05.03.2008Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. In the XP days, I was a huge
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of new features but rather, it gave visibility to
mainstream windows users that desktop search would change the way they computer.
When I used WDS I typically indexed my whole
C: and I carried that practice over to Vista's indexing service. That's when I started having issues. I wanted to to search all my content on
the machine, but when I would search for any files in the Start Menu, I would never get any results returned on a search unless they were
applications. For example, if I was to search for an excel file, it would not return in the Start Menu even though it was located in "Documents" --
it was very frustrating.
As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the start menu settings so that the search bar is set to
"search entire index" instead of the default "search this user's files." The problem arises due to the user changing the "indexed locations"
to include all of the "C:" when the Start Menu is set to "search this user's files." This is a known bug and will be fixed in Vista SP1.
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05.09.2007Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 2 - Building Federated Search applications
In
Part 1, you saw the user experience of
finding and organizing your files in Windows 7.
In Part 2, David Washington and Brandon Paddock show how developers can build
federated search applications that enable you to easily search your organization's intranet or the Web and integrate those search results directly
into Windows Explorer.
The best part is that instead of needing to install software on Windows 7 to get new search providers, you
simply run an XML configuration file to add a search provider to your machine!
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05.11.2008Virtual Machine Snapshots with Hyper-V
Robert Larson: Snapshots are a new feature of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Snapshots are a point in time version of a virtual machine¦..what does that
mean you ask? It means that you can be running a virtual machine, take a snapshot and at any point you can select a previous snapshot and revert back
to that point in time.
You end up with the virtual machine in the EXACT configuration that it was when you took the
snapshot¦and I mean exact¦.memory, virtual hardware, processes, state, etc. So you can have a running virtual machine, take a snapshot, change the
virtual hardware configuration, format the disk and install a different OS, it does not matter, when you apply the previous snapshot it looks exactly
like it did when you took the snapshot.
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27.04.2008Yahoo Unveils 'Build Your
Own' Search
Yahoo on Monday released a
Search Builder tool for
creating customized search
engines based on a select
group of Web sites or specific
search parameters. The new
service is designed to compete
with personal search upstarts
including Eurekster and
Rollyo...
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09.08.2006Look out 2D search, you're one dimension behind
http://www.spacetime.com/>Spac
eTime is a new tool for
searching the Web in three
dimensions. You can search
using Google and Yahoo, or dig
deeper into niche services
like eBay and Flickr. Results
show up in a swirling sky-like
environment where you can sort
through rendered pages in
stacks, similar to Windows
Vista's Flip 3D
window-shuffling effect and
the upcoming Time Machine in
OSX Leopard. You can maneuver
around any page, and zoom back
and forth. To see any result
up close, just double-click on
it and it will revert to a
customized browser window
that's running a shelled
version of Internet Explorer.
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06.06.2007Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search: Windows Vista included the enhanced desktop search feature which helps users
to readily locate files, e-mail messages, and other items on their PC . With the release of Windows Search 4.0, the performance of the search tool
improved while adding much-needed manageability features for IT. Windows 7 along with the desktop search, introduces Federated Search in which the
scope of the search goes beyond your PC. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS
format.
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06.01.2009Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0 helps organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft System Center
Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system updates. The tool provides a way to keep offline
virtual machines up-to-date so that bringing a virtual machine online does not introduce vulnerabilities into the organizations IT infrastructure.
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool combines the Windows Workflow programming model with the Windows PowerShell™ interface
to bring groups of virtual machines online just long enough for them to receive updates from either System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or
Windows Server Update Services. As soon as the virtual machines are up-to-date, the tool returns them to the offline state in the Virtual Machine
Manager library.
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25.11.2008Big search company shakeups at Ask.com, Microsoft
As the stakes slide higher in the search technology game, Ask.com's CEO is now leaving that search firm company, just days after Microsoft made a
$1.2 billion bid for troubled search software firm Fast Search & Transfer...
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12.01.2008Could Crypto Resolve the Voting Machine Controversy?
Last month, a group of
Princeton University
researchers discovered how
easy it was to inject
malicious software into a
Diebold voting machine,
enabling it to flip votes
between candidates. This
isn't a new problem. You'd
think the solution might be
better cryptography, but just
what constitutes
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04.10.2006New search site - Imagine Live Search
A new Live Search site
was brought to our attention
recently (thanks Jamie),
http://search.imagine-liv
e.com/. What's obviously
different is the sparse
homepage, notably the lack of
vertical search options, which
directs the users focus to the
search box and nothing
else.
Diving
in further, search results are
different too. There are no
vertical search options
present under the search box,
however they appear in the
right hand column with
suggested results
pre-populated. Users can see
the results from these other
search options alongside the
main web search results,
allowing users to quickly
refine their query as they
become more aware of what each
search option offers them.
While the related
searches option is already
present on the main Live
Search site, the addition of
Image Search and News Search
is a nice touch. The great
part is that Windows Live Maps
is embedded, auto-detecting
your location and presenting
local search results based on
your query. ..
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MySpace Puts Search on Auction
Block
News Corp. said Tuesday that
it plans to call for bids from
search giants Microsoft, Yahoo
and Google to provide Internet
search functionality and
search-based advertising on
the popular social networking
site...
betanews.com - 14.06.2006
Google Reformats Web Sites for
Phones
With no Portable Google
Machine on the horizon, Google
is providing a new option for
mobile phone users looking up
a quick answer to their query:
automatically reformatting the
top search result for small
screens. The page's layout is
translated through Google's
servers and broken up into
smaller pieces...
betanews.com - 24.02.2006
How To: Get Windows 7 Aero in a Virtual Machine
This week, Microsoft made the XP Mode RC available to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate users. Most Virtual Machine emulating software
has not offered support for Aero previously, including Microsoft's own Virtual PC 2007. Now, thanks to the powerful set of "Integration
Components" in Windows 7 Virtual PC and the enhanced, updated version of Remote Desktop in 7, we can now have the full Aero Glass experience in
Windows 7 Virtual Machines, provided the host can handle Aero, and has it enabled. Here's how to get it: This assumes you already have Windows
7 installed on your PC in Virtual PC. Step 1: Enable Aero on your host machine.
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neowin.net - 07.08.2009
Live Search autosuggestions come to Firefox
The Live Search team today announced that they have officially integrated Live Search into Firefox by popular demand. Microsoft has released a Firefox
addon to get to your results faster via Microsoft Live Search auto suggestions. The addon is available for download here. The addon is based on the
Open Search standard and uses the JSON interface supported by Firefox to retrieve autosuggestions. Microsoft has been integrating Open Search into
their products recently - the most recent one being the Federated Search in Windows 7. Open Search has also been implemented in Internet Explorer 7(&
above) and SharePoint Search.
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neowin.net - 30.01.2009
Like.com Visual Search Engine Debuts
Search company Riya, which has
been developing facial
recognition technology for
locating individuals in
photographs, has spun off its
image search technology onto a
site called Like.com. The
service enables users to
search for images by
appearance - not just text
keywords...
betanews.com - 08.11.2006
Social Search Engines: An Inside Look with ChaCha
Social searching is a
relatively new idea that gives
search engines a special
twist. While many search
engines will constantly spew
out irrelevant information,
spam links, and other unwanted
results, social searching aims
to remove this problem. The
idea behind social searching
is that instead of a machine
automatically finding and
displaying results that it
thinks are relevant, a human
guide separates nonsense
results from real results and
you see only the results
deemed most relevant to your
query. A live chat with the
guide allows you to specify
your search without having to
know special syntaxes and
keywords that a computer
understands.
In
this article, I've taken an
inside look from
ChaCha , a promising new
social search engine. With a
growing amount of guides every
day, the ChaCha search engine
provides users with a new way
to get online information.
This article documents my
first visit to ChaCha:
researching social search
engines. My research has led
me to an unintentional
interview with a ChaCha
guide.
The overall
ChaCha experience is quite
amazing. The guide assigned to
my query provided me with four
related links (and asked if
I'd like more). One proved to
be irrelevant, but it didn't
make a difference in this
case. Why? Speaking to the
guide through an online
instant messaging interface, I
was provided with information
about social searching, more
specifically ChaCha, that no
search results could ever
provide. I can say that I am
throughly satisfied with
ChaCha.
Read more
on the comments page for the
full chat with YvonneD, my
guide, and the four links
provided.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 12.12.2006
High Bids for WWII Enigma
Machine
eBay has long been a purveyor
of the unusual and the unique,
but it's not often an
authentic piece of tech
history captures as much
attention as the Enigma 3
portable cipher machine that
has racked up bids of almost
16,000 euros. The Enigma
device was used extensively by
Nazi Germany during World War
II...
betanews.com - 31.03.2006
