Bing - But It’s Not Google

Did you check out the new search engine from Microsoft?

If you used to use Live search you may have noted that now you are redirected to Bing, since Bing is replacing Live.

http://www.bing.com/

They have named it as BING and its having some few cool new things to look for.

Soon after the launch on 1st June 2009 Bing is getting bit popular at the moment in the context of search engines.

New Explorer Pane

Helps to filter the search results more or to find more related information.

Categorized Search Results

All the results will be categorized accordingly, so you will be able to find the related things easily.

Results Preview

You don't need to open the web site to view its content, Results Preview will show you a preview of the site so you can decide on it faster.

Image Search

You will be able to sort out the results fast according to things such as size, colour, layout, etc.

Video Search

One cool thing is without opening the site you can preview the video being inside of the Bing which will save lot of time.

There are much more it is better you check the rest of the features your self.

Bing

Travel

Maps
Shopping
Health
Local

Enabling Office SharePoint Server Publishing Feature

To enable publishing features you need to enable publishing in your SharePoint site.

Go to "Site Settings" by using the "Site Actions" button.

Click the "Site Features" link in the "Site Administration" category.

Clicking the Activate button of Office SharePoint Server Publishing to enable publishing.

• Some of you might get a message saying publishing is not enabled since Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure is not active.

This is because publishing is not enabled from the site collection level, what you need to do is select "Site collection features" from the "Site Collection Administration" category and activate the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature for the entire site collection. Then you will be able to activate publishing by going to "Site features".

Changing the Default Welcome Page of a Site

Do you know that we can change the default page of a site in SharePoint?

This is done by going to "Site Settings" and accessing the "Welcome page" option under "Look and Feel" category.

• If you cannot find a link named "Welcome page" that means you don't have Office SharePoint Server Publishing enabled on your site. If you need more help on how to enable Office SharePoint Server Publishing please feel free to read my next post.

Now browse or type the page that you want to set as the welcome page and click Ok.

Temporary Internet Files Location

Did you ever tried to locate the place where the temporary files of the Internet Explorer is stored?
Knowing the location is really worth if you edited a file while keeping it in the temporary folder and accidentally close the file without saving it into a proper place.
Exact same thing happen to me, even though I knew the place where it would go in a Windows version prior to Windows Vista, but surprisingly it was different in Windows Vista.
So had to struggle a bit to find it, and I was too late to recover the changes that I did to the document. But since it is here, you are not too late.
C:\Users\ArjunaC \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5
The trick here is the folder named 'Low' is completely hidden by Vista, even you enable, show hidden and system files and folders the folder 'Low' will not appear. But you will be able to type it and browse the contents of the folder.

Offline Email in GMail

Have you checked offline GMail in action?

GMail team had developed GMail to work even when there is no internet is available.

It is a cool thing to us because we always are not connected to internet. Adding to that it is simply great since we don't have to install anything and it will work in Microsoft Internet Explorer as well.

Check it out by enabling it by going to settings page in your GMail account, click on Labs, select the Enable radio button of Offline feature and press on Save Changes button.

Then a link named Offline will appear in the top right of the GMail page. You can initiate the mail synchronization by clicking on this. It will guide you in setting up the feature.

IE Developer Toolbar not Working

Recently I needed to install IE Developer Toolbar to get some values of some applications. But after the installation I found out that it is not displaying any information about the loaded site.

Later I got to know that IE Developer Toolbar is not working if Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration is installed.

So if you are also facing the same problem go to Add / Remove Programs and open up the Windows Components wizard and uncheck Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration to remove it and when the wizard is finished and after you have restarted the Internet Explorer the IE Developer Toolbar will function as usual.

Changing Execution Timeout in SharePoint

If any of the tasks that you are performing in your site takes more time than usual and if the page is timing out then one solution that you can do is to increase the execution timeout value.
To change this value you need to edit the web.config files of SharePoint and the web site.

1. Open the SharePoint web.config file located at
Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS
(C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS)
using NotePad or Visual Studio.
2. Find the section and insert executionTimeout value there as shown below. 3. Save the site config file.4. Now you need to edit the web applications' web.config file. Normally this can be found under Drive:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\VirtualDirectoryFolder(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\82)using NotePad or Visual Studio. 5. Find the line maxRequestLength and add executionTimeout in to it as shown below. 6. Save the application config file.7. Do an IIS restart and then your change will be in effect.