Interesting Things You Should Know About BING

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Microsoft unveiled its search engine Bing. The Bing unveiling can surely be termed as one of the biggest Microsoft launches of the recent times considering the huge stakes it has in the company’s success.There is so much hype on the net about the new search engine Bing by Microsoft on the net that almost every blog has been covering it. Though I doubt anyone can take over Googlejust like that.With Internet gaining importance in the technology landscape, it has become critical for Microsoft to come out with a formidable player which can challenge Google’s growing dominance in the space.

So here are some things you should know about BING.

1.IP ADDRESS TRACKER

The Bing can verify any IP address and can tell you the name of the websites hosted on a particular IP ADDRESS

. To do that simply type,

IP:[ IP Address ]

in the bing search box.

The search result will display the sites hosted on that IP address.

Example type:

IP:70.42.251.42

and you will see sites hosted on this ip address.

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2.Remove the background Image on the Bing site

If you are not one of those eye-candy freaks, you can remove the background image on the Bing homepage. Instead of typing bing.com, you can navigate to the site using the following URL,

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

3.Bing outstripped Yahoo! almost immediately after its launch to take the No. 2 search engine spot.

4.unlike Google, Bing is not a search engine. The software giant dubs Bing as a “decision” engine, rather than a search engine. According to Microsoft, Bing is not just another search engine, but a decision engine that will help people in making decisions.

5.Interestingly, Bing doesn’t return any result for one of the most searched terms from India: sex. However, if you tell the search engine that you’re from the USA, or any one of the European countries (users can easily change country without even logging in), and bing, several links are returned. If you say you are from China or an Arabian country, or Hong Kong or Singapore, again, no luck.

6.Bing offers several features that are not automatically available on Google such as instant excerpts that allow users to see the contents of a page without actually clicking on it and a sidebar detailing related searches.

7.Bing Video seems to have become an instant hit, courtesy its thumbnail video feature. Try searching for a video on Bing Video, once the results appear just hover your mouse over the one you are keen on. Yes, the video starts playing instantly.

8.Another not-so-talked about Bing feature is Save and Share. The feature not only saves your search history, but also allows a user to refine it. Users can delete searches, go back to them, and most importantly save and share them.

9.Everyday, Bing features a different background image.

Which web browser has the least memory utilization

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There must have been time when your system resources gets exhausted and the system  gets struck or hangs up.

In order to solve this problem we need to close the running applications or sometimes needs to do an abrupt shutdown.

Have you ever tried to find out the reasons for this problem.

There are many reasons for this problem:

Modern Web browsers are one of them

Firstly what is a web browser?

A Web browser is a software application that interprets the coding language of the World Wide Web and allows for retrieving ,traversing and presenting the information.

Web browsers utilize a lot of memory which contributes to increased response time.

So what to do..we cannot stop using them ,and only what we can do is select the best out of the many market’s web browser , which includes internet explorer, firefox , opera,netscape and many more.

Some tests were carried out by using browsers in similar condition and checking their memory utilization in MB which helps you to choose the best web browser.

The results were plotted on the graph with memory utilization (MB) ox horizontal-axis and browsers on the vertical axis.

So it proves the sluggishness of internet explorer and reasons for why to use firefox and opera.

New Firefox 3.5 RC 3 is even better then opera and its other compilants.

But what surprising is that still the major part of the world follow internet explorer.

I hope this article might give them something to think and boost their system performance.

Web Based Operating Systems:Take Your Desktop Inside Your Browser

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Ever wondered your desktop inside your browser.A full fledged operating system inside the browser.What if you could work with your files and documents anywhere around the world.A beautiful concept called web-based operating systems makes this possible.you just need to sign up and you are done,and just access the desktop anywhere.Below are some of the most popular web based operating systems.

1. EYEOS

A good place to start in your discovery of Web-based operating systems is eyeOS  , which is free, open source, and very easy to sign up for. There’s no need to install anything to use eyeOS. Simply sign up with a user name and password to create anaccount, and from that point forward, you have an operating system on the Web, accessible from any browser. eyeOS creates space on its servers to store your operating system settings and any files you create

This is how it looks

2.GHOST

G.ho.st is in some ways even more full-featured and certainly more colourful – than eyeOS. After you sign up, for free, G.ho.st carves out an impressive 5 gigabytes of file storage on its servers for you, and it creates your very own G.ho.st Mail e-Mail account, with 3 gigabytes of storage. Like eyeOS, there’s nothing to install. Once you sign up, you’ll receive a confirmation e-Mail message. Click the activation link inside, and you’re ready to go

3.DESKTOP TWO

Desktop Two is a java-based Web operating system that’s the quickest of all to set up and get going. After a brief sign-up routine, the desktop loads, and you’re ready to start exploring. Desktop Two offers more applications that allow users to create their own presence on the Web than the other major Web operating systems. Along with a word processor and e-mail program, Desktop Two provides a Web site editor and a blogging programme

4.CMY OS

cmyos.com offers a free online operating system/desktop for all users through its open source collaborative network: cmynetworks. Through the open source community, cmyosworks to produce rich applications that are enhance the online experience of developersand browsers alike

OTHER’S ARE

• AstraNOS – Picture Windows 98. Then picture an OS X dock. Then picture a night sky. Then throw them all together. You now have a pretty good picture of AstraNOS.
• BeDesk – Basic wrapper for other online tools
• DoxBoard – Slick WebOS with some basic features
• GCOE X – Nice WebOS with a powerful terminal and support for the iPhone
• Glide – Online operating system with support for BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users
• goowy – Great webtop with your own email account (@goowy.com), IM, 1GB of space (via Box.net), and much more
• jooce – Slick invite-only online OS
• mybooo – Invite-only webtop with a ton of features
• myGoya – Nice WebOS with PIM features, a media player, and much more
• OOS – Basic online operating system that offers a personal webpage
• Parakey – Not much is known about Blake Ross’s newest invention, but we do know thatFacebook liked it enough to purchase it for an undisclosed sum
• Psych Desktop – GPLed webtop with a powerful UNIX-like console
• Purefect Desktop – Web desktop with a powerful IDE
• SSOE – Flash-based webtop a lot of features
• StartForce – Powerful WebOS with tons of apps and features makes the descendant ofOrca Desktop a hit
• Xindesk – File sync, a powerful API, and much more are included in this great WebOS
• Webdesk – This Indian webtop includes 1GB of space, POP3 client, PIM, and a nice modules API
• Webdows – We don’t know how long it will take Microsoft to sue these guys, but it’s a real enjoyment in the meantime. It has XP and Vista styles (including a few Vista effects), FTP, file sharing, IM, and much more
• Widgets Gadgets – AJAX desktop with tons of apps and a working API
• YouOS – File sharing, powerful shell, and 700+ applications are all available with this wildly popular operating system
• ZimDesk – Slick WebOS with tons of apps.

How To Add Proxy Server Settings In Mozilla Web Browser

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Sometimes for security reasons one may wish to connect to internet through proxy server

So what is a proxy Server.

Proxy Server is a server that acts as a path between the server and a client. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server.

A proxy server has two main  purposes:

• To keep machines behind it anonymous.
• To speed up access to a resource (via caching). It is commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.

Proxy server can be placed anywhere in between the user local computer and the destination internet.

For connecting system to the internet via proxy server we need to modify setting in the web browser .

Here I am using firefox for this configuration . For other browsers the step may vary slightly but after reading this article it will be easily set .

In the Menu option at the top go to Tools->Options

then go to advanced section

Then go to network tab and add the proxy server’s address in the manual pxoxysettings.

you can add settings for ftp ,http,ssl in the section.

Now enjoy the proxy server settings and be secure on your way to internet browsing.