This program is written in c# with firebird database as persister media (for history of used images). The downloaded images are saved on Images folder, inside of the running folder of this application.

Bing on Desktop requires NET framework 2.0 to work and is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.

Download Bing on Desktop

Bing on Desktop – Set Bing Background Images on Desktop is a post from: TechieQuest

To get started, just sign in with your del.icio.us account and you’ll be able to instantly search through your content and get a list of relevant bookmarks. It is a fast and easy way of finding a bookmark that’s been misplaced.

For more info on Delizzy, visit http://www.delizzy.com.

Del.izzy – Search Through Del.icio.us Content is a post from: TechieQuest

WhoDoes 2.0 Introduces new instruments that makes managing of the projects activities and the sharing of information within the team even easier, a new graphical user interface more intuitive making it more usable and a new approach more collaborative to facilitate team work.

What’s new in WhoDoes 2.0:

• Fast Planning – is an instrument that allows you to plan projects in detail with milestones and their related tasks or activities in just a few minutes. It makes planning activities easier and managing of projects even more simpler.
• Teamwork – a new concept of teamwork, that allows you to invite users that take part of the WhoDoes Network. When a user registers an account, they can choose to be visible inside the Network of Whodoes, in this way they can easily be found from many companies that use this application. It makes collaboration between those who work in the same company easy without the invite procedure.
• Project E-mail – allows you to archive and share within the Repository all the project e-mail communication exchanged, allowing the whole team to remain updated with the communication relative to the project.

WhoDoes main characteristics:

• Web-based: web-based application developed in Ruby on Rails compatible with all common web browsers.
• Localization: WhoDoes 2. Is available in English, Italian and Spanish
• Simple design and easy to use: Using a simple and intuitive interface such as Fast Planning helps to noticeably reduce the time necessary for project planning.
• Time Management: thanks to an opposite calendar the team members can keep track of the hours spent on single activities, sharing this information directly with the project manager.
• Unlimited users: it does not matter how big the project team will be, WhoDoes foresees the management of an unlimited number of users active at the same time.
• More projects, only one account: only one WhoDoes account, which allows you to manage up to a 100 projects.
• Shared documents: inside the Repository it is possible to archive and share up to 10Gb of documents and thanks to the new functionality project E-mail, also the e-mails relative to the project.
• Subscription to iCal: WhoDoes 2.0 can interface with an agenda that is compatible with the protocol iCal, allowing the integration of the activities from the project with your personal agenda.

WhoDoes 2.0 is available in a free version, and also in five diverse subscription plans starting from only 5,99 $ a month. For more information, read the Release Notes.

WhoDoes 2.0 – Online Project Management Services to Plan and Manage Activities is a post from: TechieQuest

It also provides product search from sites like, Amazon, ebay, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, circuitcity, Macys, JR and Buy.com. It opens search results from different sites in different tabs for easy compare prices.

You can download the latest version of Web Application Search Engine sidebar from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5941.

Web Applications Search Engine – Firefox Add-Ons is a post from: TechieQuest

Hakia’s benefits:

• Galleries – Hakia presents search results in a categorized format to provide meaningful variations of the subject.
• Relevancy – Hakia can handle long-tail (complex) queries via its semantic capabilities.
• Richness of Information – Provide search results of the equivalent meanings of the search terms.
• Freshness – Analyze and retrieve search results from dynamic pages without a compromise.
• Auto Highlighting – Hakia highlights relevant phrases or sentences that best correspond to the meaning match of your search.
• Complete text – Provide a full point of view of the content for you to evaluate the search results instantly and saves you significant search time.
• Dialogue – Hakia points out good answers in a dialogue mode in addition to making suggestions, correcting spelling errors, and listing related Hakia Galleries.

Now, You can add the Hakia search plug-in for short-cut access to the search engine. All you have to do is browse to the Hakia website and click on the dropdown button to the left of the search box to expand the search engine menu and click on “Add hakia Search”.

Hakia Challenge

You can test and compare Hakia search performances against various search engines side-by-side with Hakia Challenge. Comparisons can be made against Google, Yahoo, and Live.com. Click here to view the example of the comparison.

Hakia ScoopBar

Hakia ScoopBar is an embedded bar in your web browser(just like Google Toolbar). When you perform a search with the Hakia ScoopBar, it keeps the history of search in the search box. When you click to open the search result page, Hakia ScoopBar highlights the text, and automatically positions the highlighted section for easy view.

You can click on the yellow Scoop icon to save the relevant section of the webpage in a local HTML page for future use. It is currently support IE and Firefox web browsers.

For more information on the Hakia ScoopBar, visit the Hakia ScoopBar information page or view the Flash presentation. To download the ScoopBar, visit the Download page.

Hakia – Meaning-Based Search Engine for a Better Search is a post from: TechieQuest

Torrent Finder Firefox Toolbar enables all Torrent Finder search functions from your own Firefox browser. You can search single or multiple search engines opening them in Torrent Finder search tabs, small frames or in your Firefox tabs, with previous and next buttons to toggle between tabs. Site list is auto-updated keeping you up-to-date with the best search sites and trackers available.

Torrent Finder Toolbar Features:

• Open sites in Firefox tabs with (previous|next) buttons for easier navigation ,and optional limited number of tabs at time.
• Flexible popup menu width to fit screen width and to give user more space to choose from sites.
• Search all Torrent Finder sites gathered or by single site with easy site list auto update.
• Toggle between showing and hiding sites logos.
• Navigate between sites using site’s first letter.
• Select/unselect feature toggles between all, private, anime or non English Sites.
• Arrange Sites list with easy drag and drop form.
• Easy show/hide option with context menu for the dockable toolbar.
• Resize search area for to save more space.
• Holding CRTL key searches the remembered last searched single site.
• More Options including search in tabs or frames, load all or one by one and the number of pages to show every search.
• Search history for all searched keywords with optional auto-completion.
• Highlight searched terms on the page button.
• Search words button to find single word on the result page.
• Context menu search option for the selected text on the page.
• Languages available : English, Arabic, German, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Croatian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Chinese.

You can download Torrent Finder Toolbar from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2755 and searchfor the .torrent file. The search result can be displayed in page tabs, small frames or browser tabs.

Updates: Torrent Finder services has been discontinued. 

Torrent Finder Toolbar – Search Top Torrent Sites from Your Firefox Browser is a post from: TechieQuest

However, Xinu online web statistics services has been gone down for few days. After Xinu web statistic services is restore back, the author was bailing “I can’t go on with the project because it’s too huge for me, maybe other people with much money can continue” and offer the source codes licensed under a Creative Commons Atribución 2.5 España License.

Now, You can download the Xinu source code and build your own webs statistics that powered by Xinu. The installation of Xinu is simple. all you need fulfill some basic requirement on your web server.

1. CURL and Fopen is supported on your web server.
2. PHP execution engine required.

How to installation Xinu on your webserver:-

1. Download xinu web statistic source code
   
2. unpack the file xinu_source_code.rar with WinRAR
3. rename the folder xinu source code to xinu
4. upload to your ftp server
5. change the CHMOD of results folder to 777

Here is an example Xinu web staticstic that i build : http://xinu.otcss.net
Since Xinu web statistic is under Creative commons, You can insert your own ads and modify the xinu source code as you want. the only thing is remain the credit to the owner of xinu. Meanwhile, Xinu web statistic services will consume a lot of bandwidth especially on the PDF download section.

However, credit to miquel camps orteza for creating a wonderful web statistic services for public use.

Build Your Own Web 2.0 Statistic Online Services with Xinu is a post from: TechieQuest

Rather than focusing on link-based technology like Google, Factbites delves into the tone and subject matter of the given topic. The engine “reads” the content of each page and determines how meaningful the text is. It seeks out authoritative and informative content, preferring encyclopedia-style fact-based descriptions to the chatty, spammy and inconsequential.

I saw my nephew use Factbites to search information for his college assignments instead of several online reference tools such as dictionaries and encyclopedias. His lecture recommended them this Factbites, an encyclopedia-like search engine, that provides more academically oriented search results.

The results return complete, informative sentences from dictionaries, encyclopedias, universities, and other reference resources about the search topic into a simple and easy-to-read format. Factbites is a excellent resource for students.

Factbites features:

• Clean and Nice Search
• Real Sentences – Factbites presents the user with full, meaningful sentences from every site in the search results. This means that you can often gain a great deal of factual information on a topic without ever having to leave the search page.
• Beyond Keyword Matching – Factbites searches for matches on the basis of your whole topic area, not just your keyword.
• Less Spam – It is good at filtering out spam sites. If the page doesn’t have anything of substance to tell you, it won’t rank well in a Factbites search.

Factbites is a search engine that is different from others and the search results display neatly in bulleted list, making it easy to read. Give it a try, and you will find it very useful.

FactBites – Encyclopedia-Based Search Engine is a post from: TechieQuest

DocuFarm allows you instantly preview documents (such as pdf, doc, ppt, rtf, ps, pps) in a thumbnail interface. For a closer look, click on the thumbnail to zoom in.

You can enable or disable the Docufarm, with a click on the small “DF” icon on the bottom-right corner and select “Turn Docufarm on” or “Turn DocuFarm Off”. You can also right-click and choose “View on docufarm…” from the context-menu, when you want to view a link on Docufarm.

You can download DocuFarm:

• Firefox Extension
• Internet Explorer Extension

Now, DocuFarm allows you to embed Docufarm in your pages with a line of javascript. Visit http://www.docufarm.com/embed.htm for more detail.

DocuFarm is a very nice document previewing tool. It will be better if I could choose which document types to open with DocuFarm.

Update: DocuFarm is closed from October 11, 2007

DocuFarm – Preview Documents in Your Web Browser is a post from: TechieQuest

Rodger Buyvoets, co-founder of Deligio says, “Initially we wanted to create a search engine for our own use which would enable us to search and find software. The well known website Download.com is too ambiguous and far too commercialized. That is why Deligio uses the Google based principle of a simple search function that will allow the user to find the most appropriate application with no unnecessary distractions. During the beta launch Deligio proved to be highly successful, therefore we rebuilt the initial tool into a fully fledged search engine for software.”

Deligio is your social software exchange. Deligio lets you easily discover, add and share your favorite software on the web. You can also search and manage all your downloads.

With a Deligio’s free account you’ll be able to:

• Collect and save all your favorite tools, tutorials, freeware programs, software trials.
• Share your download library with everyone.
• Discover the newest software on the web.

Visit www.deligio.com to sign up and create your free account. Then start share your favorite software with others.

Deligio – Software Search Engine is a post from: TechieQuest