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- Microsoft stunned its
customers last month with a swarm of product announcements at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
- An unprecedented lineup of desktop, server, and developer offerings fuel
Microsoft’s largest assault ever on the enterprise.
- The breath and depth of new technology from Microsoft is
staggering, from four new APIs to new versions of its Office, SharePoint, Visual
Studio, CRM, ERP and other apps.
So what are you waiting for? Get your ass down to Tech.Ed Sri Lanka and check them all
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I use Maxthon as my default browser and it has this cool feature for using keywords. For example to search google I just type g and the search word in the address bar and hit enter. What I never released though was that you could do the same thing using IE until I read this post by Jamie Buckly a Program Manager on MSN Search. I tried it and it works!
We’re always looking for ways to give you search results faster. The popular Desktop Search Shortcuts from MSN Desktop Search are good examples of this. On a related note, Internet Explorer (5.0 and above) has a little known feature that lets you quickly search for something on any site: IE Search prefixes.
After the search prefixes are set up, you can type a single word identifier (prefix) and search query in the IE address bar to send the query to any website. For example, the prefix “msn” can go to MSN Search and typing “msn chicken fried rice” in the IE address bar sends the query “chicken fried rice” to our web search.
This script installs the search prefixes below to your machine. The “Alternate” column lists additional prefixes to launch the same query (e.g. “images corvette” and “image corvette” both do the same thing).
If you want to add prefixes for other websites, try the Microsoft Tweak UI utility for Windows XP. There are also a few shareware tools compatible with older versions of Windows. Enjoy! Jamie Buckley |
Finally got my machine setup at home. Windows XP gave a weird problem the power went off suddenly and the next time I booted up the machine the it gave an ‘Unmountable boot disk error’ and I was only able to fix the problem by booting with the Windows XP Setup CD and then running chkdsk as was instructed by the KB article.
Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only
three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something
that everybody uses everyday. If you have listened carefully , I’ve already told you
what it is.
Okay, the really clever ones would know what the answer is for the rest of us let’s
ask Google god for the answer.
I’ve finally managed to get blogX set up on my machine. For now I’m only going to
post private stuff here on things that only I should read about.
