May 30, 2005
Google just keeps getting better and better. Try Google Print.
What is Google Print?
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, but much of that information isn’t yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.
How does Google Print work?
Just do a search on the Google Print homepage. When we find a book whose content contains a match for your search terms, we’ll link to it in your search results. Click a book title and you’ll see the page of the book that has your search terms, along with other information about the book and “Buy this Book” links to online bookstores (you can view the entirety of public domain books or, for books under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title’s bibliographic data and brief snippets). You can also search for more information within that specific book and find nearby libraries that have it.
Where do these books come from?
The book content in Google Print comes from two sources: publishers and libraries.
Nice. This should help me with research for my thesis.
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May 12, 2005
MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class participant of the Web.
- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director.
This is what W3C Director, Tim Berners-Lee said at the launch of its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) three days back with the aim of simplifying the browsing experience from a mobile device to that of a computer screen.
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May 10, 2005
If you’re daring enough, you may testdrive the not so soon to come PHP 5.1. You can download it from the PHP Snapshots page. Less than a fortnight back, the dev team at PHP announced release of PHP 5.0.4 and 4.3.11, which are more or less maintainance releases, resolving a number of security issues and fixing a few non-critical bugs.
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May 6, 2005
Everybody is so fed up of PDF files opening up in Firefox. So was I, till I followed a really simple fix.
Well, here’s the solution (works for Acrobat Professional 6 and Adobe Reader 6). This works for Windows XP as I tried it on my laptop.
1. Upgrade to Firefox 1.0.3.
2. Goto the installation folder.
3. Navigate to the ‘plug_ins’ folder. In the case of Acrobat Professional, navigate to Acrobat 6.0>Acrobat>plug_ins .
4. Rename the ‘plug_ins’ subfolder to ‘plug_ins_disabled’.
5. Create a new ‘plug_ins’ folder.
6. Copy the files EWH32.api, printme.api and Search.api from ‘plug_ins_disabled’ to ‘plug_ins’.
Any improvements? One thing guaranteed is that Acrobat will load up much faster than what it would before. And it fixed my Firefox problem too.
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May 5, 2005
Digital Web Magazine rocks. And I read this article on Web 2.0, informative and fun as all the articles are at Digital Web.
See you in a few years, Web 3.0 … 2009?
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