Thursday, June 18, 2009

Microsoft's Bing

Bing is new search engine from Microsoft. According to reports Bing has won more market share as compared to Google over last week.

Link : http://www.bing.com

Features :
  1. Cashback : You need windows live account for cashback. You search for the brand and trusted stores from where you want to shop using bing and percentage of the money spent will be given as cashback.
  2. Auto suggest feature.
  3. It seems to provide relevant links for every search.
  4. Nice feature for watching videos. Videos can be filtered on the basis of movie length, screen size, resolution and source ( example youtube, aol, Hulu, Dailymotion etc).
  5. Placing cursor on the video plays the video.
  6. Images can be filtered on the basis of size (small, medium, large and wallpaper), layout(square, wide, tall), color, style and people (faces, head and shoulders) etc.
  7. Explicit Image content can be filtered.
  8. It has map feature similar to Google map but the 3D maps looks amazing.
  9. Explicit feature for Travel i.e flights, hotels, cars, cruises and vacations.
July 02, 2009 : According to StarCounter Bing is capturing Google's Share.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

NetBeans

One stop tool for software development.
Features:
1. Free open source IDE.
2. Can be used to create desktop, web , enterprise and mobile applications.
3. Support for integrated severs like Glassfish, My SQL and Tomcat.
4. Easy deployment and project packaging.
5. Support for technologies like Ajax, C/C++, GUI,PHP,Python,XML,Java ME, Java SE,Java EE etc.

Download Netbeans 6.7 Release Candidate