Live Search Webmaster Center Blog:
In past SEM 101 articles, we've talked about the importance of inbound links to successful ranking (see "Links: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" - Part 1 and Part 2). We've already discussed many issues surrounding them, but we haven't done a dedicated post on how to be successful at link building from a search engine's per (Read More)
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Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of choice.Torrent sites offer a lot of information about the torrents they have a (Read More)
Download Squad:
Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, Freeware, Social SoftwareWhen Microsoft introduced us to Silverlight 4 the other day, the demoed a slick Facebook application. It's called Fishbowl, and it's now available for download. Not only does Fishbowl provide a nice, clean display of your stream (read: free of sidebar annoyances), bu (Read More)
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Android/iPhone: ShopSavvy proved itself one of the most popular Android apps out of the gate, and it's easy to see why. Now on iPhones, the app lets you scan item barcodes, see who has it for less, and locate them.Beyond the simple price comparisons via barcode scanning, ShopSavvy saves a history of items you've looked at, (Read More)
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Windows Mobile 6.5: If you're rocking a fairly new Windows Mobile phone, Microsoft offers a beta build of its portable Office applications until April 2010. That means free viewing editing of Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, and other documents.The app seems to require a touch interface, along with the 6.5 system, so it's (Read More)
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Firefox: Gmail recently made a few tweaks to its message count API, leaving tools like the favicon message indictors by Eric Bogs and Peter Wooley, along with Gina's own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, broken. Now they're fixed.Bogs and Wooley, whose clever user scripts cleverly show your unread message count in your Gmai (Read More)
Paul Thurrott's newly used software on Wakoopa:
Microsoft Office Publisher (previously and commonly Microsoft Publisher) is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft. It is often considered to be an entry-level desktop publishing application, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proo (Read More)
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Windows: Gaming is fun. Organizing all your personal video games isn't. Sisimizi takes the hassle out of managing your collection so you can get back to raiding villages and killing zombies.Sisimizi Game Catalog is a free, open-source database application that supports classic and recent video game consoles. It retrieves ga (Read More)
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Mac OS X: Camino, the lightweight, Mac-centered, standards-compliant browser, has seen a 2.0 release filled with features fans are going to dig. Selective ad and Flash blocking, OS X keychain integration, Growl support, and much more are now baked in.Camino's got a lot to recommend it, especially if you're mainly concerned (Read More)
Software area:
Office Mobile 2010 beta is indeed available for download on Windows MarketPlace since yesterday. The only hiccup though is that it will showup on marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.5 devices only. I expect Microsoft will make the software available to the rest of us still running previous version of Windows Mobile in the days (Read More)
Software area:
I won't get into the details as I am on my way to a meeting. Opera has made the beta version of Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile available on their website. Note that this is not the first beta being released by Opera. Remember they announced 9.5 and 9.7 previously.
Learn more at www.opera.com/mobile
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Software area:
Don't get confused. SoftMaker is an independent software maker that just released the public beta of Office 2010. Yes, they have their own version of the software and coincidentally it gets released today. I've read positive reviews about the package. So if you want to try it alongside Microsoft Office 2010, got to www.soft (Read More)
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows:
Microsoft this week unveiled a very early version of Internet Explorer 9 and major initiatives around performance, standards compliance, and hardware acceleration. (Read More)
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Windows only: Open source notification system Growl for Windows has finally hit the 2.0 milestone, and with it comes a ton of new features that let you further customize the way you receive your pop-in corner notices.Among the new features are images in notifications, playing sounds when notifications are received, keyboard (Read More)
Firefox Extension Guru's Blog:
Mozilla Release Beta 3 of Firefox 3.6 late Tuesday afternoon. This release includes some 90+ bug fixes, here a few:A new API will now allow add-on developers access Firefox’s geolocation features. (See Doug Turner’s post)As expected, tab previews on Windows 7 taskbar has been pulled back. This is a real disappointment: (Read More)