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Use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (2008) as a client to connect to SQL Server 2005 service.

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:24:50 +0000

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.

Now you can receive your Gmail account emails in your Hotmail Account

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:35:28 +0000

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.

Facebook should use Google Pagerank technology to order updates in its news feed

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:31:42 +0000

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.

BingTweets.com – Bing and Twitter in same window

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:35:37 +0000

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

Merge contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail at Plaxo.com

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:14:22 +0000

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 developing new OS with name Google Chrome Operating System

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:46:44 +0000

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

Link

Get news updates as instant message in your Messenger

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:06:05 +0000

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 “. 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.

Import Contacts and Emails from old Yahoo account to new one.

admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:09:30 +0000

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.

Gmail Introduces new feature: Now you can drag Label to Email and Email to Label.

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:30:37 +0000

Google uses 500 million variables and 2 billion terms to calculate PageRank

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:11:04 +0000

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

Get Free Calls to US and Canada from Skype for 1 year

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:15:51 +0000

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/

Share your ideas about different google products in “Google Product Ideas”

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:43:24 +0000

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).

Chinese activists calls for Internet boycott on July 1st

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:50:30 +0000

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 – Post your blog posts to your twitter account automatically.

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:12:14 +0000

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

Yahoo stationery in Yahoo mail inbox is really cool

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:02:32 +0000

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

China’s strict Internet censorship

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:12:21 +0000

China has ordered Google.cn to remove links to pornographic sites.
US has also mentioned its concern over the internet filtering in china and also held discussion with chinese officials.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE55I1X820090619

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People’s_Republic_of_China

Get invitation to see websites even before they are released.

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:55:22 +0000

http://www.inviteshare.com

Add an additional layer of email filtering through boxbe.com

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:42:59 +0000

It gets the email first and then filters them before sending to your inbox (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail).

Find the location of your friend through google latitude on mobile phone.

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:17:16 +0000

http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html

A cool site where you can upload and share music – thesixtyone.com

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:59:18 +0000

You can also tag music and later on search for it. It has a cool player at top bar, so while surfing through site, the song is not interrupted.