Entries from August 2004

GuestColumnist

Blog Search Blabble.com Takes New Approach

August 31st, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 5 Comments

Blog Search Blabble.com Takes New Approach
A new start-up joining the ranks of weblog tools, Blabble is aimed at the corporate market. According to an Internet Retailer article, the service will be fee-based when it officially launches in October. A beta is currently available free online. The article reads like Blabble will be something similar to […]

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Sushubh

Recall Toolbar: Searches your visited websites

August 31st, 2004 by Sushubh | 6 Comments

Recall Toolbar: Searches your Visited Websites
I have seen and tried a lot of toolbars for Internet Explorer. Most of them have nothing new to offer on the basic functionality front. Only the value added services made them different from the other toolbars in the market. Viewpoint Toolbar was a good example. Recall Toolbar is the […]

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Sushubh

Is Google blocking third party GMail notifiers?

August 31st, 2004 by Sushubh | 5 Comments

Is Google blocking third party GMail notifiers?
Slashdot has already reported it. And now users on some forums have started complaining about it. Google is apparently blocking access to its GMail service by third party applications like GMail notifiers and clients. Some of these free applications let user access GMail accounts from their e-mail applications. This […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Copernic Unleashes Desktop Search Tool

August 31st, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

Copernic Unleashes Desktop Search Tool
Copernic Technologies Inc. today announced Copernic Desktop Search (CDS), “The Search Engine For Your PC.” Copernic has used the experience gained from over 30 million downloads of its Windows-based Web search software to develop CDS, a desktop search product that users are saying is far superior to anything on the market […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

What is a Search Engine?

August 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 5 Comments

What is a Search Engine?
All search engines start with a “search box”, which is sometimes the main focus of the site, e.g. google.com, dmoz.org, altavista.com; sometimes the “search box” is just one feature of a portal site, e.g. yahoo.com, msn.com, netscape.com. Just type in your search phrase and click the “search” button, and the search […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

MSN Music Store Adds to iTunes Competition

August 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments

MSN Music Store Adds to iTunes Competition
Microsoft plas to release Windows Media Player 10 on Thursday alongside the highly anticipated MSN Music Store. WMP10 will be included in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 which finalized some time after SP2. According to Neowin, Media Center 2005 is due to be released in October.
WMP10 […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Microsoft Trims the Fat on Longhorn

August 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments

Microsoft Trims the Fat on Longhorn
On Friday Microsoft announced that it would not be shipping WinFS with its next-generation operating system Longhorn. This announcement can be viewed as either good or bad news. Good in the sense that Longhorn, for the first time has an official release date and bad for the announcement targeting […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google Hack for Using GMail for File System Storage

August 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments

Google Hack for Using GMail for File System Storage
GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.
GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Googlicious - More Google Expansion

August 30th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 6 Comments

Googlicious - Post IPO Google Expansion
The skeptics scoffed, the Securities Exchange Commission had a fit, and the company had to halve the number of shares of the initial public offering to set a price that valued the company at roughly 120 times earnings, extravagant even by dot.com era standards.
By the end of the day, Google […]

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Sushubh

Will GMail change the way email marketing is done?

August 27th, 2004 by Sushubh | 9 Comments

Will GMail change the way email marketing is done?
I read this great article online sometime back which made big sense in current scenario. A lot of people I know have started to use GMail as their primary mail service. And most of them do not move due to the much hyped 1 GB mail capacity […]

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