<Date: 2010-08-08>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, iPod>
A new tweak on Cydia called Cicero lets you customize your search engines in Safari. I had been waiting a long time for a tweak like this to add Bing to Safari before iOS 4. Cicero lets you add any search engine that complies with OpenSearch standards ( almost all major search engines and site specific search engines do this. for e.g. YouTube, Wikipedia etc ). This allows you to do site specific searches without loading up the website first. Blessing in disguise. Read more...
Permalink: Cicero lets you add any OpenSearch compatible Search Engine to Safari in iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch [Jailbroken Devices only]
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<Date: 2010-07-16>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Apple, iPhone>
Flickr App for iPhone has been updated to version 1.2 to support iOS 4 multitasking features such as fast app switching and background task completion. It also brings in HD video uploads for iPhone 4 users. All you Twitter junkies can post your photos to Twitter directly from within the app as well. Read more...
Permalink: Flickr App for iPhone Updated to Support iOS 4 Multitasking
<Date: 2010-03-29>
<Author: Tauqeer>
<Category: Apple, iPad>
The free Yahoo App for iPad looks great, it has nearly all the good stuff that is on Yahoo.com. The look of the app from the screenshots is excellent. It will have all the news for you with all the sports updates and don’t forget, business and entertainment news as well. Read more...
Permalink: Yahoo iPad app screenshots
<Date: 2010-02-22>
<Author: Hammad>
<Category: Bing, Microsoft>
The question which is in the mind of many people is “Will Bing become a better search engine then Google after it enter in a deal with Yahoo!? We don’t know that yet but the Search and Advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been cleared by the European Commission and US Department of Justice. Many people believe that Bing will be able to compete with the search engine king, Google, once the deal is finalized. According to DOJ, “This enhanced performance, if realized, should exert correspondingly greater competitive pressure in the marketplace”.
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Permalink: Will Bing Become a Better Search Engine After Yahoo-Microsoft Deal?
<Date: 2009-08-03>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft>
Bing seems to have made quiet an impact ever since it was launched. The recent deal between Microsoft and Yahoo will further strengthen Bing’s position and market share down the road. But currently, it’s making tiny but meaningful inroads into Google’s market share. Read more...
Permalink: Bing’s slow and steady market share increase against Google
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<Date: 2009-07-29>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft>
Yahoo and Microsoft have an announced an agreement to improve web search for users and advertisers. After months of speculations and many talks, Micro-hoo has finally come to be. Microsoft will be powering Yahoo! search with Bing, where as Yahoo! will be the international exclusive representative for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Read more...
Permalink: Microsoft and Yahoo! finalize search agreement for 10 years
<Date: 2009-04-06>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft, Research>
<Date: 2008-12-30>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista>
Call it the best feature or worst of Windows Vista, but the Sidebar is undeniably very useful. I find it more useful than OS X’s Dashboard or Yahoo Widgets to an extent. Although, it’s a fact that the sidebar takes a lot of memory in Vista and slows down the boot so it’s better kept disabled at startup. In 7, the sidebar is integrated into the shell, and no longer as a separate application. Also, it seems to run faster and doesn’t slow down boot.
One gadget I’ve always liked since I started using Vista has been Network Utilization meter. It’s a nifty little gadget that beats all its competitors by a long mile due to its features and ease of use. It’s so useful that it should be available in the default gadgets for Windows 7. The network utilization gadget does exactly what it says. It shows you how much transfer speed you are getting from your network, whether it’s Ethernet, Wireless or Bluetooth. It’s great to have the current transfer speed of your network or Internet connection at your fingertips
, and it can also be used to shut up those ‘innocent’ ISP support dudes who just load up Google or Yahoo and claim your Internet is working fine, when it’s not.
This gadget includes both bar and line graphs, with different interval choices, as well as a bar view that shows on double clicking the gadget. The update interval/refresh rate of the gadget can be changed through the options as well. I personally keep mine at 0.5 seconds which is the minimum it offers, 10 seconds being the maximum. The Scale can be changed from 56kbps to an STM-1 connection and all different types in between. If you’ve got multiple network adapters, you can manually select the currently active one too. If you click on the resize button, it can also double up to its size. Even that option is configurable as you can change the size from 50% to 200% of its original size. Read more...
Permalink: Network Utilization Gadget for Windows Vista and 7
