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I’ve already mentioned the AOL Search Year in Review, and the Top Searches on Lycos. Now we hear from Yahoo: It’s been another exhilarating year in the world of search. We’ve covered the search beat for over five years now and the buzz searchers create never ceases to intrigue me. It’s something new every day, …
I talked about white balance and how you can use it to achieve proper colours in your images, as well as how you can take advantage of it to produce better photographs. This week I will discuss changing the aspect ratio of your final image. Aspect ratio refers to relationship between length of the two …
Quite a while ago Chris reviewed Object Desktop by StarDock. I received this email yesterday regarding the latest release of WindowBlinds, a part of the Object Desktop package: WindowBlinds 5 has been released and it has a ton of new features including: 1) Per-Pixel alpha blended support for title bars, borders, and controls. This means …
In a comment to my Google Logo Maker post, Dany links to http://searchdon.com. It allows you to make a logo based on a number of styles to create your own search page. You can choose from Google, Yahoo, Sherk (their way of having a Shrek logo), Star War, Harry Potter, etc.
I just finished reviewing Battery Pack Pro 2.1 by Omega Software: Microsoft gets in a lot of trouble because it bundles too much with Windows. Well, the opposite is true when it comes to Windows Mobile. There is very little extra included with the basic operating system, and so a user must search for the …
AOL’s Search Year in Review is divided up by category (#1 diet search term is Weight Watchers). You can also view what the top search terms were each month. The top 10 overall were: Lottery Horoscopes Tattoos Lyrics Ringtones IRS Jokes American Idol Hairstyles NASCAR
It’s that time of year, and the search engines are starting to release their lists of top search words/phrases. First up is Lycos: Top 100 of 2005 – Paris Hilton is #1 Top Women of 2005 – Paris Hilton is #1 Top Fads of 2005 – Poker is #1
From the New York Times: In the latest move in the battle between publishers and search engines, HarperCollins Publishers said yesterday it would create its own digital library of all of its book and audio content and make it searchable by consumers on the Internet. Web users will be able to search the HarperCollins archive …
From the New York Times: If the Walt Disney Company has its way, McDonald’s Happy Meal toys could be replaced with portable media players that hold Disney movies, music, games or photos, according to a pending patent application. Users could add files to the devices by earning points with food purchases.
Shortly after BlogJet 1.6 was released, a minor update has been released providing support for MSN Spaces. Here is the announcement: Wow! I’m happy to announce a very minor update with a major service support – BlogJet 1.6.1 (still Lime, remember? ) I think I’m the first one (two hours after the public announcement)… to release blog …