Bing Image Archive

29. June 2009 member

David

The images on big are breathtaking and available for download. Check out Bing.com’s image archive calendar.

Bing Image Archive

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Bing Is Still Drawing Crowds, Search Share Jumps To 12 Percent

17. June 2009 member

David

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing had a strong showing in its second week, according to the latest comScore stats. You can see our analysis of Bing’s success in its first week here. Microsoft sites’ average daily penetration among U.S. searchers reached 16.7 percent during the work week of June 8-12, up 3 percentage points from the May 25-29 period (which was prior to Bing’s introduction) and up over 1 percentage point from its first week.

Microsoft’s share of search result pages in the U.S. increased to 12.1 percent during the period of June 8-12, which is also 3 percentage points above the pre-introduction work week of May 25-29, and up 1 percentage point from the week of June 2-6, 2009.

If you take a look at the number of Google search for Bing over the past 30 days on Google Trends, searches peaked but then leveled off to a steady pace. And though Bing is still growing, according to comScore’s analytics, the growth is steady from its first week to its second week.

Bing may have come just in time for Microsoft. In May, before Bing’s debut, Microsoft’s search share was down nearly 1 percentage point to 5.0% from 5.9% a year ago, according to comScore’s search data. Google’s U.S. search share, in contrast, increased nearly 2.7 percentage points year-over-year to 60.1%, while Yahoo’s share was 13.9%, down nearly 1.6 percentage points from a year ago.

Whether or not Microsoft can sustain the initial curiosity around Bing and keep its market share gains over the long term remains to be seen. But Microsoft is pouring $80-100 million in advertising for Bing and is certainly seeing considerable growth, even to the point where it may have leapfrogged Yahoo for one day.

Bing Is Still Drawing Crowds, Search Share Jumps To 12 Percent

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Fast Duplicate File Finder Finds Your File Dupes - File Management

17. June 2009 member

David

Windows only: A little sloppy file keeping can lead to a lot of duplicate and space-hogging files. Dig up all your dupes with the speedy Fast Duplicate File Finder.

You can scan local, external, flash-based, and network drives with Fast Duplicate File Finder. There are several convenient features like the ability to automatically mark the older of the two duplicate files as the one that will be deleted or moved, protection of system and program files, and a shortcut to immediately jump to the actual folder where a duplicate you’d like to examine is residing.

Fast Duplicate File Finder supports projects, essentially profiles, so you can customize your scanning technique and the locations to be included based on your various needs. There is in-program preview for images, video, music, text, and binary files. When you find duplicates you can dump them into the recycle bin, delete them permanently, or have the files and their folder structure copied to a backup folder to serve as a holding area until you’re certain you want them permanently deleted. Fast Duplicate File Finder is freeware, Windows only.

Lifehacker - Fast Duplicate File Finder Finds Your File Dupes - File Management

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Put a Calendar on your Desktop with Big Huge Labs’ Wallpaper

17. June 2009 member

David

Would you like to have a calendar on your desktop, embedded right into your wallpaper? If so, you’ll want to check out the online utility from Big Huge Labs simply called “Wallpaper.” After visiting their site, you can create your own specialized wallpaper by browsing for a image file on your computer or choosing one from Flickr, Photobucket, or via a URL. The uploader also offers a number of extra features, too, like the ability to blur the image, apply a color overlay, choose which parts shouldn’t be cropped, and of course, where to the put the calendar on the wallpaper.

If you register with the site, they’ll track your recently uploaded files for easy access – an especially handy feature since you have to re-create the wallpaper each month in order to update the calendar.

Of course, you could use a Vista/Windows 7 gadget to put a calendar on your desktop or – heck – just click on the date/time in your system tray, but there’s something to be said about the elegance of having the calendar appear seamlessly right within your desktop wallpaper. The Big Huge Labs utility is free to use at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/wallpaper.php.

Put a Calendar on your Desktop with Big Huge Labs’ Wallpaper | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10

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Tweak the Windows 7 Taskbar with Taskbar Overlord | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10

12. June 2009 member

David

One of the coolest additions to the new Windows 7 OS is definitely the taskbar. Now a super-sized toolbar of program icons with corresponding menus and thumbnail previews, the new taskbar has dramatically changed the way I interact with my applications. I’ve been perfectly happy with the way the taskbar works out-of-the-box, but others have wanted to tweak the taskbar to fit their needs. To do so, one developer has created a program called Taskbar Overlord that has let him change some of the default behavior of the new Windows taskbar.

Once installed, you can use Taskbar Overlord in order to middle-click to close an open application – just like closing a tab in the IE8 or Firefox web browser. He also added a feature that lets you left-click a program icon to switch to the last active window you were using instead of showing you the thumbnail previews (available when you have multiple windows of that application open).

The Taskbar Overlord is actually a little AutoHotkey script that makes these two changes for you. If you’d rather have one of the changes and not the other – you’re in luck. There are actually several different versions of the program available for download:

Taskbar Overlord - Source Code. This includes both the left click and middle click functionality as an .ahk script file.
Taskbar Overlord Executable - Left and Middle Click.
Has both features. Switches to the last active window when left clicking. Closes all windows when middle clicking.
Taskbar Overlord Executable - Left Click Only.
One feature only. Switches to the last active window when left clicking.
Taskbar Overlord Executable - Middle Click Only.
One feature only. Closes all windows when middle clicking

[UPDATE: Direct links above may not work for you, click here and download directly.]
Future releases and bug fixes will be announced in the following feed: http://www.ocellated.com/tag/taskbar-overlord/feed/.

Tweak the Windows 7 Taskbar with Taskbar Overlord | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10

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Put the Universe on Your Desktop: HubbleSite Wallpaper

11. June 2009 member

David

If your looking for some beautiful wallpaper, or just love space, the Hubble Site is a great place to go. The site offers the images from the Hubble telescope in 13 screen resolutions. Check out the rest of the site while your there, if you like space, you will love this site.

HubbleSite - Wallpaper

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Convert Your Office Documents and Images to PDF or Image for Free

7. June 2009 member

David

By using the Neevia online converter you can create PDF or Image documents from many of the file formats that you use on a daily basis. No software needs to be installed on your computer. Simply upload the file to convert and select one of the two delivery methods.

Convert to PDF, PDF Printer Driver, Convert to Image, Free Online PDF Converter.

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bingandgoogle.com - Faceoff between bing & Google!

6. June 2009 member

David

Is Bing and better than Google. I think so, but see for your self with this side by side comparison.

bingandgoogle.com - Faceoff between bing & Google!

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Bing Travel Arrives

4. June 2009 member

David

Microsoft this morning announced that it is rolling out Bing Travel, one of the verticals it’s focusing much of its attention on when it comes to the recently unveiled “decision engine” the company set out to conquer market share from Google and Yahoo Search. Bing Travel, as we mentioned when we posted the first screenshots based on the Kumo preview, combines a lot of the airfare and hotel reservation tools from Microsoft’s 2008 acquisition of Farecast with news and other editorial content from MSN Travel (in fact, travel.msn.com already redirects to the new search engine).