Today Google officially announced the availability of  Google Quick Search box for Mac users. Google quick search help Mac users to search contents over the web as well as on their local computer. As you type, suggestions will appear that match your query, ranging from applications and local files on your computer, to web search and navigational suggestions, to items from your browser history and contacts – and the types of results you can get will only grow over time! Check out the screenshot below for an example of the types of blended results you might see.

The quickest way to launch the Google Quick Search Box is by pushing Control + spacebar. If you prefer another keyboard shortcut to summon the Google QSB, you can change it in the Preferences panel.

Google quick search box is extensible means any one can create plug-ins for Google quick search box. A twitter plug-in is already available for Google quick search box, plug-in support is not available for windows operating system.

Download Google Quick Search Box.

Samsung Guru is worlds first mobile phone that can be charged through solar energy. Samsung chosen India to launch this solar mobile because in India there are thousands of villages don’t have access to electricity. Samsung Solar Guru comes with a solar panel that is being used to charge mobile phone battery. Samsung Solar Guru  has the capacity to provide around 5-10 minutes of talk time with one hour of solar charging.

Samsung Guru is very compact and full of features including  FM radio, MP3 ring tones, embedded games and a powerful torch light.  For consumer safety, the phone offers Mobile Tracker, which automatically alerts when the SIM card is changed or sends out an SOS message in an emergency.

Samsung Solar Guru provides “Mobile prayer”, a specialized feature for different religions that includes religious prayers and wall papers.

The Samsung Solar Guru (Samsung Guru 1107) is priced at Rs. 2799. Solar will be launched in various markets including Europe, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and Latin America in June 2009.

Outlook uses .PST files for storing all your Emails, Calendars and Contacts and you want to backup outlook .PST files on regular basis then Outlook Folder Backup would be useful for you. Outlook Folder Backup works with Outlook 2002 and higher versions of Outlook.

Outlook personal folder backup creates backup copies of your outlook .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.

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How to User Outlook Folder Backup?

1. On the File menu, click Backup.
2. Click Options.
3. In the Backup these personal folders files list, select the check box for each item you want to back up.
4. Change the .pst file name shown. Or, to select a different folder, click Browse, navigate to the location you want, and then click Open.
5. To have Microsoft Outlook automatically remind you to make a backup copy of this file, select the Remind me to backup every x days check box, and then type the number of days between 1 and 999.
6. Click OK.
7. Click Save Backup.

Note: Personal Folders Backup only backs up .PST files. If you have a Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox, your server mailbox folders are likely backed up regularly by your server administrator.
Note: If you are using an East Asian operating system (such as Korean language WinMe) with an English version of Microsoft Office, you will be unable to use this download.

Download Outlook Personal Folder Backup

People use Google to search information on internet but how does Google find information for you?  When you perform a search on Google, Google programs performs a lookup in their indexes for most relevant information and show these relevant information back to you. Google uses these three key process to deliver search results to you

Crawling

Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated web pages or websites. Google uses large computing power to crawl billions of web pages. Googlebot uses algorithmic process to determine which web sites to crawl, how often to crawl and how many pages have to crawl.

Google’s crawl process begins with a list of web page URLs, generated from previous crawl processes, and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters. As Googlebot visits each of these websites it detects links on each page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New sites, changes to existing sites, and dead links are noted and used to update the Google index.

Google doesn’t accept payment to crawl a site more frequently, and we keep the search side of our business separate from our revenue-generating AdWords service.

Indexing

To process billions of pages crawled by Googlebot Google uses indexing algorithms to organize crawled content. Then Google process information included in key content tags  for example Tile tag or alternative tags of images. Google cannot process the content of some rich media files or dynamic pages.

Serving Results

When a users enters a search query in Google search box, Google machines search the index for matching pages and return web pages  that are most relevant to that search term. Content relevancy is determined by over 200 factors. Google works hard to improve the user experience by identifying spam links and other practices that negatively impact search results. The best types of links are those that are given based on the quality of your content.

How to Create SmartArt Diagrams in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 ?

Microsoft SmartArt graphics make it easy for you to create high-impact, professional diagrams. Instead of spending hours designing your own diagrams, you can use Microsoft Office PowerPo int 2007 to focus on the visual message that you want to communicate.

1. On the Insert tab, click the SmartArt button.
2. In the list of diagram categories, select the type of diagram that you want to add to your presentation.
3. Under Type your text here, type a list of the information that you want reflected in your diagram.
4. Click the Design tab, and then select colors and styles from the available galleries to make your diagram look great.

How to Insert and Format Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 ?

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 comes with many new professional looking charts, helps you to analyze and visualize your data. To insert a chart:

1. On the worksheet, arrange the data that you want to use in a chart.
2. Select the cells that contain the data that you want to use for the chart.
3. On the Insert tab, in the Charts group, click the chart type, and then click a chart subtype that you want to use.
   

To see all available chart types, click a chart type, and then click All Chart Types. Excel will select the default formatting layout, but you can quickly modify it:

1. On the contextual Design tab, select a chart layout from the gallery to display the legend, axis, and title the way you want.
2. Select a chart style to modify color and effects.

How to Add RSS Feeds in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007?

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are an easy way to subscribe to interesting information like world news, sport scores, or blogs. It’s really easy to add and read RSS feeds in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

1. Click the mail folder called RSS Feeds.
2. Choose a feed that interests you from the RSS Feeds content directory.
3. Outlook prompts you to add this feed to your list. Click OK.
4. Outlook creates a specific RSS subscription folder for this feed below the main RSS Feeds folder.

With Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, you can synchronize your between Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office outlook 2007.

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How to Print Page Backgrounds with Microsoft Office Word 2007?

By default, page backgrounds created with the Page Color option in the Page Background section on the Page Layout tab in Microsoft Office Word 2007 do not print. However, you can print them with the document if needed.
To include the page background when printing, click the Office button and then click Word Options. On the Display tab of the Word Options dialog box, select the printing option Print background colors and images, and then click OK.

Forbes magazine published its annual Best Countries for Business for 2009. Denmark is ranked as No 1 country for business for year 2009.  Forbes annual Best Countries for Business ranking looks at business conditions in 127 economies, focusing on degrees of trade freedom, monetary freedom like the right to participate in free and fair elections, or freedom of expression and organization.

Best Countries for Business, 2009:

1. Denmark
2. USA
3. Canada
4. Singapore
5. New Zealand
6. United Kingdom
7. Sweden
8. Australia
9. Hong Kong
10. Norway

Forbes used following Criteria for it’s fourth annual Best Countries for Business ranking

• Trade Freedom
• Monetary Freedom
• Property Rights
• Innovation
• Technology
• Red Tape
• Investor Protection
• Corruption
• Personal Freedom
• Tax Burden
• Market Performance

Forbes used following sources to collect data

• Heritage Foundation (Economic Freedom Index)
• World Economic Forum (Global Competitiveness Report)
• Transparency International (Corruption Perceptions Index)
• Freedom House (Personal Freedom Index), Deloitte (World Tax Rates)
• World Bank (Doing Business); Central Intelligence Agency (World Factbook)
• Property Rights Alliance (International Property Rights Index)

Read the complete Forbes Fourth Annual Best Countries for Business ranking

Musical portal Dhingana has launched iGoogle and Gmail widgets. Dhingana widgets allows to create, share and save playlist. Listen to Top 10 songs from all music genres right from your Gmail account. You can search songs right from your Gmail account, songs can searched by songs, albums, movies by year, actor, director, song name etc.

How to Add Dhingana Widget to Gmail ?

1. Copy the Widget URL below

http://www.dhingana.com/gmail

2. Open your Gmail Click on the “Settings” link on the top and then click on the “Labs” tab as shown below:

Scroll down to the end of the Labs section and enable the “Add any gadget by URL” plug-in. Then “save” your changes

3. Open the “Gadgets” tab from the “settings” section and paste the URL you copied in step 1. Paste the URL as shown below and click “Add”.

That’s it. You should now see the Dhingana Application appear on the left side.

Nokia launched their latest NSeries mobile phone that is Nokia N97 in India. Nokia N97 is touch screen fully loaded multi media mobile phone. It comes with 32 GB of internal memory that can be expanded up to 48 GB. Expected price of Nokia N97 is Rs 35,000.

The Nokia N97 is Nokia’s first device to feature a personalizable home screen, which can be customized with a range of widgets which bring live information directly to the device. These widgets include key social networking destinations like Facebook and Hi5, news services like  the Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters, as well as shopping and weather information.

Nokia N97 is the first Nokia phone is loaded with Nokia ovi store. In India Nokia Ovi store on N97 will offer a choice of 50 free to download items developed specially for Indian consumers by Indian developers. Nokia Ovi store has paid as well as free content.  Indian users also have access to global content also.

Nokia N97 is also available worldwide starting June 2009.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint provides a feature you can use to show the presentation slides on a projector while keeping the Presenter view (with the speaker notes) on your notebook computer’s screen. To use this feature, you need to change your display settings. Here’s how:

1. Open the Display Properties dialog box by right-clicking the desktop and then clicking Properties.
2. Click the Settings tab.
3. Click the Secondary Display symbol (the 2).
4. Under the Screen resolution heading, select the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box. This setting gives you a desktop that spreads across both the projector and your notebook computer’s screen.

You can now set up PowerPoint to use both screens.

1. Open your presentation.
2. On the menu bar, click Slide Show, and then click Set Up Slide Show.
3. In the Set Up Show dialog box, locate the Multiple monitors option, and select the Show Presenter View check box.
4. Start the slide show. The Slide Show view of the presentation appears on the projector’s screen, while the Presenter view and speaker notes appear only on your notebook computer’s screen.

Microsoft announced the availability of a new travel search destination for travelers that is Bing Travel. Bing Travel will help travelers to make smart decision by using the tools available with Bing Travel.  According to a recent survey by Bing Travel, 52 percent of potential travelers search three or more sites before booking their airfare. Forty-two percent of travelers spend between one and four weeks weighing their travel options, and 17 percent spend more than one month. Bing Travel aims to dramatically reduce the amount of time consumers spend searching for travel information by presenting comprehensive results in one place, and to help consumers make more informed decisions with tools such as Price Predictor and Rate Indicator.

Some of Bing Travel’s key features include the following:

• Price Predictor: Bing Travel uses Farecast technology to analyze more than 175 billion airfare observations and predict whether the price of a flight is going up or down. It offers people a recommendation of “Buy Now” or “Wait,” including a confidence level and expected price increase or decrease over the next seven days.
• Rate Indicator: How does someone know if the rate for a hotel is a deal or not? The Rate Indicator analyzes historical rate data from thousands of hotels to determine whether the current price is a good deal, or not a deal at all. People can view a city map with details for each hotel, color coded by Rate Indicator data.
• Travel Deals: Bing Travel features up-to-the-minute flight and hotel deals for nearly 40 cities around the world. When people choose their origin city, Bing Travel will show the best airfare and hotel deals it has and will even show them why particular flights are considered deals. For example, people will see that flights to certain destinations may be a record low, or more than $150 less than the average for a particular route. People can be sure that all Travel Deals are based strictly on science, not marketing.
• Comparison Flight & Hotel Search. Bing Travel makes it fast and easy for consumers to get flight and hotel results and pricing for thousands of destinations worldwide. Finding the right flight or hotel is made simple with tools that allow people to refine results: nonstop flights only, specific airlines, hotels within a mile of an address, and many more. After selecting the hotel or flight, Bing Travel makes booking directly with suppliers or agencies seamless.
• Fare Alerts. Most airfare price drops last less than 48 hours, so people need to be ready to jump when a fare falls. Fare Alerts will notify people if the fares for their trips drop, allowing them to catch lower fares.
• Original travel editorial content. The new Bing Travel combines editorial content from MSN Travel and Farecast to create an in-house team of experts who write daily articles, features, slide shows and blog posts to inspire and educate travelers on destinations, travel news, tips and tricks. Bing Travel also features exclusive editorial content from some of the world’s biggest names in travel, including Peter Greenberg and Pauline Frommer. Bing Travel also licenses content from leading publications such as Travel + Leisure, Budget Travel Inc. and The Wall Street Journal.