You can use SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (which provides very helpful intellisense for writing queries) as a client to connect to SQL Server 2005 database service.

If you are using SQL Server Management Studio 2008 to connect to SQL Server 2008 database service, you should not attach database from SQL Server 2005 because it will upgrade the database so it cannot be used again by SQL Server 2005 database service.

Windows Live Hotmail has added a feature to import emails from your Gmail or other email accounts to your Hotmail account.
Only you need to do is configure your pop account that means you need to know POP3 user name, Incoming mail server and port number. In case of Gmail and other popular email accounts, hotmail automatically figures out incoming mail server and port number. Point to be noted here is only Gmail provides POP facility free. In case of Yahoo, you need to pay to get that service.

So, to configure Hotmail to receive emails from Gmail, you need to go to Mail Options -> Send and Receive mails from other e-mail accounts and give the credentials. As it says, you are able to send and receive email from Hotmail putting Gmail address as sender address also.

Friendship is priceless. But, not all friends are equally important. Some friends may be more value for us. We may not want to miss single update ( status update, posts) from those friends. While there may be some friends with whom we do not talk much. Also, we do not want to hear updates from them frequently unless they are really important. They might be annoying sometimes.

So, facebook should have some sorting technique like pagerank of google, which could order updates from friends. It should probably consider some terms for ordering like how often we chat with friends, how often we send messages, how often we comment to each other, how often we share groups, fan clubs, networks, etc. Facebook already has the ability to hide updates from selected friend but that may not be enough. Sometimes we want to hear some important updates from that hidden friend such as video posts or link posts or game result posts. Also, hiding similar posts from same person, hiding long comments is really good approach taken by facebook.

Find out the trending topics in Twitter, what people are saying about it (Twitter) and what actually it is (Bing), all in same window

www.bingtweets.com

In Plaxo.com, you can import contacts from popular email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail and merge them. Also, you can import and merge calendars.

Google is developing new open source Operating System (Google Chrome Operating System) for Netbooks and plans to release next year mid.

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You can get updates from any website feeds directly as instant message in Messenger through a service by inezha.com.

For Google Talk, you need to add chat bot  inezhabot@gmail.com to your chat list and subscribe to a feed by using command “input <feed_url>“. You can get list of commands by sending ? message to the chat bot. Now, you can receive updates from the feed as the feed url is updated.

Now, you can import contacts and emails from your old Yahoo accoount to new one from ‘Import Contacts..” option of Yahoo mail.

All the contacts are imported. Corresponding folders are also created. Emails from old email account are trasferred to separate folder with name Yahoo_Mail. This is a complete integration of two Yahoo email accounts but what about the other Yahoo services.

PageRank , a complex algorithm developed by Larry Page, uses 500 million variables and 2 billion terms about a web page to calculate its pagerank.

http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html

You can get free calls to US and Canada for free from Skype but you need to sign up and buy something (mp3, creditreport service, etc).

http://www.skype.com/email/promo/trialpay_v1/

http://productideas.appspot.com/ is a web-application built on Google App Engine (cloud computing like Windows Azure), which allows to share and support ideas on different google products (Currently Google Mobile, Blogger, Google Webmaster).

China has ordered pc vendors to ship every pc with internet filtering program “Green Dam”. This software besides blocking pornographic content, is also supposed to put censorship in blogs and websites.
In response to that, chinese activists have requested everyone to remain offline on that day.

http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2009/06/22/2009-06-22_web_protest_planned_as_chinese_government_introduces_green_dam_filtering_program.html

Twitterfeed is third most used Twitter application. You can use it to post your blog post title and link (shortened) to your twitter account directly. I have used it to post these updates to my twitter account.  twitter.com/thesuraj

Go to Yahoo mail -> New Mail -> Stationery.
Add cool backgrounds, fonts, colors to your email.