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Windows 7: search your university library from your desktop

Windows 7: search your university library from your desktopThe next exploit in Windows NTWindows security nightmare...Relevance?? Please explain...Useful tip! Thanks...The blog not previous commentSo...You are saying search to a remote location is a security hole? Darn and here I thought I was save every time I search Google from Firefox's...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows 7, open standard, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, OpenSearch, Microsoft Corp., desktop

Discussion threads 2009-01-17

Bezos: A9 syndicates search

At the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference today, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos introduced A9's OpenSearch, which he hopes will to do for search what RSS has done for content. OpenSearch lets users add searchable columns to the A9 search application and syndicate them via a few extensions to RSS. ...

Tags: Amazon A9, OpenSearch

Blog posts 2005-03-15

Additional Resources

Ventrilo Server Status for FireFox/Chrome/IE 1.0 (Windows)

Check the current status of any Ventrilo server directly from any Web browser that supports OpenSearch (FireFox, IE7 or higher, Google Chrome, and others). This plugin accepts the typical format host:port (ie. v01.darkstarllc.com:1234), and displays all channels, users, and other useful information about a Ventrilo server's current status (regardless of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Status, Web Browser, Plug-in, DarkStar Communications, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-08-18

Windows 7: search your university library from your desktop

Federated Search, from a developers perspective, is like the search bar in Firefox and IE7. For the end user, and in this case, the student, it allows you to browse a search engine directly from your desktop, in Windows Search. So instead of searching "Everywhere" or "Indexed Locations", why not...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Domain Names, XML, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-17

TechNet Webcast: Which Enterprise Search Solution Is Right for My Business? (Level 100)

The attendee of this webcast will learn about Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express along with the portfolio of enterprise search solutions that integrate with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and find the search solution needed to increase business productivity. In this webcast, the presenter will outline use-case scenarios for Search...

Tags: Enterprise Search, Webcast, Business Productivity, Microsoft Search Server 2008, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft TechNet, Strategic Planning, Cloud Computing, Search, Collaboration, Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2008-11-07

Microsoft+to+become+Micro-ad%3F

Microsoft+to+become+Micro-ad%3FVery, very risky acquisition. Just goes to show you how desperate MS is.This is a complete culture miss-match.The information superhighway......is getting cluttered with billboards. And it ain't pretty.I don't see the wisdom. Should buy Amazon.I could see a partnership revenue sharing with Yahoo to try to slow Google down, but...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Vivvo CMS 4.0.2 (Windows)

VIVVO CMS, the flagship product of Spoonlabs d.o.o. is scalable and powerful news and media publishing solution with variety of plug-ins and resources that helps you create a full website easily without any programming skills - an ideal solution for your network or website. Not only you will be able...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Programming, Web Site Development, AJAX, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Development Tools, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Software Development

Software downloads 2008-01-16

Microsoft readies free enterprise-search product

Microsoft is expanding its family of enterprise-search products with a new, free, entry-level product, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which is due to ship in early 2008. Microsoft made available on November 6 for download via its Enterprise Search Web site a near-complete release-candidate test version for...

Tags: Enterprise Search, Product, Server, Microsoft Corp., Express SKU, Search, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-11-06

SearchWords 0.3 (Windows)

Assign keywords to your search engines for quick and easy access to all of your search engines without using the search bar and without having to switch from your current search engine. To use, add keywords to your search engines via the search engine manager and then simply type 'keyword...

Tags: Search Engine, Microsoft Windows, Keyword, Ryan Flint, SearchWords, Search

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Via OpenSearch, IBM & ProgrammableWeb take pain out of finding, adding widgets to mashups

In this, our fourth experimental " reviewcast" (a videocast review of software or Web-based solutions that uses a combination of video cameras, still images, a WebEx-esque remotely delivered demo, and audio from our podcasting rig), I take a look at a newly announced collaboration involving the mashup development tools from...

Tags: IBM Corp., Mashup, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Life without Google: The importance of toolbars and browser add-ons

Life without Google: The importance of toolbars and browser add-onsOpenSearchFor search engines using OpenSearch it is plain simple to add them to the search bar. Just go to the homepage of the search engine and the option will automatically be in the FireFox menu.See here how simple it is to...

Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, toolbar, Web browser, search engine, Vivisimo Clusty, browser add-on, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

SixApart: Office 2007 can take blogs to business

Office 2007, meet Movable Type Enterprise. According to SixApart vice president Anil Dash business is about to take to blogging as Vista, Moveable Type and Office 2007 interconnect. Dash writes in his SixApart blog: We’re not gonna be...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Office 2.0, Microsoft, Blogging, Microsoft Office, blog, Microsoft Office 2007, Movable Type

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Google Syndicated Search coming soon

Google registered thirty variations of a "syndicated search" domain on the September 15th that hint at an upcoming "syndicated search" feature. When I think syndication, I automatically envision blogs -- but Google already has Google Blog Search. There are a few possibilities for the meaning of these domains....

Tags: Google Inc., domain

Blog posts 2006-09-17

Why Google is extending RSS

Jeff Jarvis picked up on my post the other day about GData, Is GData knocking down Google's walled gardens, or enabling a new kind of portal? Google's new syndication protocol which is an extension of both RSS and Atom. Like most people, Jeff isn't sure what this means - and...

Tags: Google Inc., GData

Blog posts 2006-04-21

Six Apart adds business class service

You can tell that blogging is becoming a real part of businesses when the blogging tool makers start getting seriously about enterprise requirements and service level agreements. Anil Dash gave me the details on Six Apart’s tweaks on new enterprise versions of TypePad (the company's hosted service) and Movable Type...

Tags: Six Apart Ltd.

Blog posts 2006-03-07

PC Forum: Where in the world is search heading?

The final PC Forum panel had major search vendors and scientists sharing their views on search. The panel included Marissa Mayer, director of consumer product at Google (search, news, images, Froogle, local); Udi Manber, former Yahoo chief scientist and president of Amazon's A9...

Tags: Marissa Mayer, Udi Manber

Blog posts 2005-03-23