Microsoft Bing

Posted on May 26th, 2009 in General Internet by admin

Microsoft has been testing its search engine under the name Kumo, but if a report on Advertising Age is on target, it will launch under the name “Bing.”

The company has long offered Live Search, it had been talking about a new product called Kumo and now rumor has it the new search product will be called Bing.

Microsoft is hoping a major ad push will take a chunk out of Google — the number one online search brand — in favor of Bing. Bing’s debut will feature a $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign.

Speed Up Windows XP Shutdown Time

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 in System Settings by admin

If you ever get frustrated waiting for your XP machine to shutdown (I just walk away), then you can perform this tweak that will speed up the shutdown time.

Just follow these dot points to speed up your shutdown time, but this is a registry edit so remember to backup your registry before performing any tweaks.

  • Open regedit
  • Navigate to this location
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
  • Create these new DWORDS and set the value to this number
    • AutoEndTasks=1
    • HungAppTimeout=4000
    • WaitToKillAppTimeout=4000
    • WaitToKillServiceTimeout=4000
  • You should find that your XP shutdown speed will be faster

Recover Your Outlook Express Inbox

Posted on May 20th, 2009 in Email by admin

The Microsoft Outlook Express email database (.dbx file) can get corrupted or damaged. If this happens, you lose all your email messages. The corruption can occur due to virus attacks, errors while the email database is compacting, conflicts with anti-virus applications, disk problems… whatever the reason, the result is the same, your email is lost.

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  • Repairs DBX folders created with Outlook Express 5/6
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Google Down But Not Out

Posted on May 15th, 2009 in General Internet by admin

Google suffered another embarrassment when a technical glitch rendered the Internet search company’s main page, mail service and news site sluggish or unavailable to millions of people worldwide for about an hour Thursday morning.

Google services were back online by about 9 a.m., PST, Thursday and appeared to be running smoothly throughout the day.

Google confirmed an “issue affecting some Google services,” saying it had “been resolved” and that the company would “share more details soon.” A spokesperson gave more specific details about the disruption to its Google News aggregator.

Twitter was going crazy all morning with reports and ‘angered’ users twittering about the issue.

The list of Google services that were reportedly down for various periods of time Thursday includes YouTube, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Docs, AdSense and Blogger.

Mouse Sonar

Posted on May 5th, 2009 in Shortcuts / Hints by admin

For some reason I have never heard of this cool feature before (as we all know there are thousands of unknown features in windows!), it allows you to basically ‘find’ your mouse pointer if you have lost it.

It can be useful for people with impaired vision of other problems locating their mouse pointer, and it is so simple to activate.

  • Open your control panel
  • Navigate to mouse section
    • XP is just control panel/mouse
    • Vista is control panel/hardware and sound/mouse
  • Click the pointer options tab
  • Check show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key
  • Apply and OK
  • You will find now that when you press the CTRL button a big circle shows around your mouse pointer making it simple to find.