Launchy: Launch Apps And Search Your PC In Real Time

After test driving Vista for a few months, there is one feature I miss most; the ability to type part of a word in the run box, bringing up results in real time. From there you can simply hit enter to execute the program in question. If you’re on a Windows XP [...]

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January 26th, 2007 - By:  Alex Bailey

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Google Algo Tweak To Fix Googlebombing; Failure Result Is Fixed

Googlebombing is a technique to get a website ranked #1 on a Google query for a random term. For instance “liar” and “failure” were some of the most popular along with “talentless hack”. Typing in failure would take you to the president Bush’s biography, and liar would do a similar thing for [...]

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January 26th, 2007 - By:  Alex Bailey

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Free Windows Builds Of XChat

XChat is the IRC client I’ve been using since day #1 of my IRC days. The non Windows platform versions are free, and available for download. However, the Windows XChat version comes with a fee attached; $20. Since the XChat program itself id Open Source, people have taken the time to [...]

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January 25th, 2007 - By:  Alex Bailey

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Google Image Search Updated; Uses JavaScript

Microsoft’s Live Image Search has always been very sleek with its use of JavaScript. Apparently Google thought so as well, as they’ve started using similar JavaScript themselves. The image search has indeed been updated to mimic some of Microsoft’s effects. The overall change gives a very clean look to how the [...]

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January 24th, 2007 - By:  Alex Bailey

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Wikipedia Adds Nofollow To All Links; 10 Alternatives

Well the inevitable has finally happened. Wikipedia has added a nofollow tag to all outgoing links. It does not matter how long your link has been there, it now has nofollow. This is supposed to be combating the recent barrage of spam that people are adding to articles, to boost their [...]

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January 22nd, 2007 - By:  Alex Bailey

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