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Konqueror tips and tricks

If you are familar with KDE you know Konqueror. Konqueror used to be one of the finest file managers on the PC desktop – period. But now KDE has migrated toward a simpler, more user-friendly file manager (Dolphin) and pushed Konqueror to serve as a web-browser only. That does not mean Konqueror can not be [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Search Engines, Tutorials Basic, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Bing And Google Search To Integrate Twitter Results

Real time search has become a buzzword this year. With Twitter increasing its popularity search engines like Bing or Google Search are aiming to make their search results real time or at least closer to that. We have seen some attempts already. Google for instance has included new time based filters for their search results [...]

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Categories: Google, Microsoft, Search Engines

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 16th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Bing Federated Search Connector For Windows 7

Federated search is one of new features of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. The feature integrates the possibility to search external data sources from within Windows Explorer in the same way a local or remote search is performed. Federated search in Windows 7 is enabled through the Open Search standard with a good dozen connectors [...]

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Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 7th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Perform Plain Google Searches Without Video, Image And News Results

If you perform a Google search nowadays you get mixed search results. Google not only displays the first ten pages that is has in its index for the entered keyword but also image, video and news results. Sometimes ads are also added to the search results and placed on top of everything else.
Some search engine [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Search Engines

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: None

Google Search New Custom Search Options Added

One of the latest trends in the search engine market seem to be custom search options, search filters and specialized search parameters. Google has introduced the search options in the main Google search engine a while ago. These were made up of advanced search parameters which have been accessible before (before starting search) and new [...]

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Categories: Google, Search Engines

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Bing & Ping Preview

The Microsoft Bing development team is trying to distinguish their search engine from Google by adding new features to their search engine. The latest feature that the team is developing goes by the name Bing & Ping. It has been designed to offer Bing users better options to share search results. This feature resembles the [...]

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Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines

Don’t search, do – with GNOME Do

Recently I wrote an an article covering the Easystroke mouse gesture tool (”Start applications using mouse gestures with Easystroke“.) That article explained how easily you can set up a simple mouse gesture to start an application. In the comments one reader brought up the handy GNOME desktop tool GNOME Do. GNOME Do is one of [...]

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Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Search Engines, Tutorials Basic

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