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Winzip 9 SR-1 and Google

Winzip 9 SR-1 download used to be 1-2 MB in size,now its a bit more like 4 MB,they have bundled Google Tool Bar for IE (Local Install and GDS (Net Install).Another move to marketing advertisements.




Update: Winzip 10 is out (And has the same thing as above)
posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:57 PM by abraham_mathew with 0 Comments

CustomizeGoogle

CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured from the options menu.
  1. Features include
  2. uses Google Suggest when you search
  3. adds links to competitors ("Try your search on Yahoo...")
  4. rewrites links to point straight to the images in Google Images
  5. removes image copying restrictions in Google Print
  6. secures Gmail, switches to https
  7. anonymize your Google userid (disabled by default)
  8. removes ads (disabled by default)
  9. adds a result counter in search result (disabled by default)
  10. filters spammy websites from search results
  11. add link to WayBack Machine (webpage history)
  12.  remove click tracking (read more here and here) NEW
  13. 16 locales: en-US, it-IT, sv-SE, de-DE, tr-TR, ja-JP, es-ES, es-AR, nl-NL, nl-BE, eu-ES, fr-FR, zh-CN, ca-AD, cs-CZ, zh-TW NEW

posted Monday, August 29, 2005 12:35 PM by abraham_mathew with 0 Comments

Google IM Next.....

Google is set to introduce its own instant messaging system, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday,
...using Jabber technology... Google Talk and could be launched as early as Wednesday....another buzz for the Blogosphere?.If so I think they would put a beta tag on that too?.Wonder what ever happen to their Google Web Accelerator.....
posted Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:41 PM by abraham_mathew with 0 Comments

A List Of Desktop Search Tools.

1. BlinkX
2. X1 Desktop Search
4. Yahoo Desktop Search (X1 Tech)
3. Google Desktop Search
4. MSN Desktop Search
5. Copernic Desktop Search
6. AVA Find
7. Instant Document Search 1.2

I just hope people dont depend too much on these tools...some times plain asking what you dont know and reading books etc help!

The only thing about them is that the index cache takes to much space...

posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:12 AM by abraham_mathew