Google Tests Custom Highlights, Comments In Search
Google is testing functionality that lets users tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.
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Photoshop.com Membership and Elements 7
Adobe announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 software together with a new Photoshop.com membership. Photoshop Elements 7 makes it quick and easy to organize, edit, create and share amazing photos with others.
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Google Tests Interactive Functions in Search Results
Now Google Suggest will be available by default on the Google.com homepage! Over the next week more of you will start seeing a list of query suggestions when you start typing into the search box.
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IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker
Have you ever wanted to take your web browsing “off the record”? Perhaps you’re using someone else’s computer and you don’t want them to know which sites you visited. Maybe you need to buy a gift for a loved one without ruining the surprise. Maybe you’re at an Internet kiosk and don’t want the next person using it to know at which website you bank.
Privacy advocates think the next version, version 8, of Internet Explorer, the program that connects most of us to the Web, is a step in the right direction.
Advertisers? Well, they're not so sure.
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Mozilla Makes a Plugin to Help IE Advance
Despite some positive steps in the right direction, Internet Explorer still lacks many important features. Its mediocrity has arguably hampered the evolution of the web and forced many site designers to depend on suboptimal proprietary solutions.
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Microsoft Launches Photosynth: Your Pictures in 3D
Microsoft has publicly launched Photosynth, its long awaited Live Labs product that allows you to stitch your photos together to create a detailed 3D environment. While most of the computation is done on your desktop, the images are uploaded to Microsoft's servers and Microsoft is giving all Photosynth users a total of 20GB of storage for their collections. The rendering and browsing is done with the help of Seadragon, another Live Labs product
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New Demo Of The Soon To Be Released Ajax DataGrid
Create a rich-media grid that loads extremely fast due to the Ajax
technology which is being used to only load the data that is presented.
Build in server-side technologies (PHP and ASP) let you connect the
grid to a database.
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Adobe Design Achievement Award Winners Announced
Adobe announced the winners of the eighth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards, recognized as one of the world’s premier student design and film competitions.
The awards honor the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers and computer artists from renowned educational institutions around the globe.
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Windows 7 Server to be 'minor release'
Microsoft said on that the server version of Windows 7 will not be a major release and will bear the name Windows Server 2008 R2.
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The Future of the Desktop
ReadWriteWb has published and interesting article about the future of the Desktop computer.
As we dive into the third decade of the Web we see the gradual replacement of native desktop applications with Web-hosted clones that
run in browsers. A range of products such as Microsoft Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, DabbleDB, Basecamp,
and others now offer Web-based versions to the full range of
familiar desktop office productivity applications. Also, hosted remote
storage for individuals and enterprises of all sizes is now widely
available and inexpensive. As these trends continue, what will happen
to the desktop computer?