Google to buy DocVerse introduce Microsoft Office doc collaboration

March 5, 2010 Leave a Comment

The war between Microsoft and Google for your web-based document business just got a lot more serious.

Google has been positioning Google Apps as an Office killer and encouraging companies to adopt it. Meanwhile, Microsoft countered with a web-based component to Office 2010. The latest move comes from Google, though, with the acquisition of DocVerse.

DocVerse is a service that allows users to collaborate on Microsoft Office documents. With DocVerse in its portfolio, Google will be able to let Google Apps users work online with their existing Office docs.

In other words, Google is creating one less reason why anyone will need Microsoft Office in 2010. How DocVerse will be integrated into Google’s existing products remains to be seen, but this move will certainly make the battle for office app supremacy more interesting.

Your move, Microsoft!

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SEO: Art and science

November 6, 2009 Leave a Comment

A lot of the mystery around search engine optimisation comes from the attitude that it is a science. There is a general feeling around SEO that if you could just get the equations right, everything would fall into place.

The difficulty is, although sometimes equations do work, they won’t work for long. Search engines actively strive to confuse search engine optimisers. Any time the rules seem to become clear, that is the time they are guaranteed to change. It’s what makes SEO such a challenging, vital industry and one of the many reasons to keep an expert on board.

Often, businesses become aware of the change in rules just after they occur, leaving the business scrambling to keep up. The SEO community is full of useful advice and tips. A lot of people forget that Google can read SEO blogs too, and learn in a different way from the posted techniques. Many sites get caught out because they follow the latest craze, then find that it’s been banned.

Take early techniques, for example. In the early days of SEO it was thought that keywords were the main key to success, and content was saturated with them. These days, this kind of clumsy attempt to draw search engine attention is considered keyword stuffing and is likely to result in a penalty.

Search engines, although they operate along coded lines, are built to think like their human users. Sites that present themselves in too contrived a manner are likely to draw the wrong kind of attention. Although SEO is designed to appeal to robots, anything that appeals to robots too well is likely to get you kicked down a few ranking points. This is because a search engine’s aim is to act like an automatic human. Humans don’t work to predictable formulas. Although you might have some indications of what might or might not work when dealing with a human being, it’s more a matter of intuition. The same is the case for SEO.

Every site is unique and needs individual attention when it comes to search engine optimisation. There are plenty of SEO companies out there offering secret formulas and keyword density equations . Even if they are not outright charlatans, these companies are misguided at best. There is a lot of science to SEO, but it’s science that is guided by intuition.

A good SEO expert gains experience over time which allows them to see the subtle shifts in the SEO ether before a definite change occurs. This makes SEO more of an art than an exact science. There are simply too many factors involved in optimising a web site to operate on strict rules, and this is why words like ‘organic’ are often applied to good SEO. A site will benefit more from individual attention than cookie-cutter techniques. For an individual approach to your site’s optimisation, you can talk to us at SEO Consult for more advice.

With the authority that a scientific approach naturally confers, many SEO companies advertise their service in very science-y terms. Equations and formulas get mentioned a lot. When you are approaching an SEO company about their services, however, make sure to talk with them about their experience and approach. Your website is unlikely to benefit from off-the-shelf solutions.

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how to say good night to a person who is living in Usa & you are in Asia

September 1, 2009 Leave a Comment

For you its night but for them its morning, with your conversation you want to end up your chat with good night (that means you are feeling sleepy, so going off) but what if its morning for other person living t other corner of ear.

You can answer your question so easily….especially my BF is 8500miles away from me and yet we had the same time but differ in a day….will like this time im in morning and his time is night…when we start and endup our chat he will say to me good morning, hope your day is fine….and what il say to him good evening hope your day is fine too( iwas talking his earlier) and in time of his bedtime just simple good evening and smiley hugs and kissess..:) or if your in cam blow a kiss..:)

we will always have conference call with Canada co-workers in our morning time, and in canada it is their night, when the call is over, I always say “have a good time”, it’s feel very funny, this saying always make us more happier, haha. In fact, maybe we don’t need to worry about that, “good night” and “good morning” also should be OK, i think, it doesn’t matter for your co-worker, and they can understand your meaning very easily.

We usually say to a few people I talk to around the world good night – they realize that we have different times. Also, I will mention Im tired or just come out and say Im going to bed. A lot of people understand that there are different time zones. If your not comfortable saying so bluntly say something like have a good time, good day, or so on. Just reword it to be generic.


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Automatically Copy to Clipboard While Selecting Text in Firefox

July 10, 2009 Leave a Comment

When you spend a lot of time in front of your computer, many small actions performed repeatedly can add up to a lot of wasted time. The worst of these small offenders is the copy and paste… so how can we simplify this in Firefox?

The AutoCopy extension will automatically copy to the clipboard any text you select, and allow you to paste it with a middle click anywhere in Firefox.

All you have to do is select the text you want to copy, and it will be copied to the clipboard right away.

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You’ll notice the new icon in the status bar, which will let you change a few options or open up the full options panel.

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There’s lots more options in the options panel… you’ll notice the keyboard shortcut options as well.

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Once you get used to this extension, you’ll wonder how you lived without it.

Download Autocopy Extension from mozdev.org

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What are wmpnscfg.exe and wmpnetwk.exe and Why Are They Running?

July 6, 2009 Leave a Comment

So you’ve been going through Task Manager trying to figure out why so many services are running when you notice there’s two items for Windows Media Player in the list… but you don’t even use Media Player. What’s up with that?

It’s not like the processes take a lot of memory… I just get irritated when there’s a process that restarts for no good reason. You disable it, and then somehow it’s back. Annoying!

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What Is This Service Anyway?

Windows Media Player 11 can share media between different computers on the same network, and can even share media with the XBox 360 as well. For this to work, there’s a network sharing service that shares the library even if Media Player isn’t open. It’s really a great system if you use it.

Both of these processes are part of the Windows Media Player Sharing system, so if you use those features you should not disable it.

Disabling Media Sharing in Media Player

The best way to remove these services is to just use the configuration panel… that way they don’t come back the next time Media Player gets opened, accidentally or otherwise.

Open up Windows Media Player, and then click on the little arrow under “Library” and choose the “Media Sharing” option from the menu.

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If you are using a custom theme, or otherwise can’t get to that menu, you can also open the Options panel, choose the Library tab, and then click on “Configure Sharing”

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Either one of the above will bring you to the Media Sharing dialog. Uncheck both of the boxes that you see here.

Note: If they are unchecked, you should check them, click apply, and then uncheck them and click OK… basically to reset the settings.

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Once you hit the OK button, you’ll be prompted with an extremely important dialog… do you want to turn sharing off for everybody? Yes!

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This will actually turn off the service, and remove the startup entry for wmpnscfg.exe. (Note that you’ll have to kill that process manually the first time, or log off and back on)

At this point you should be able to use your computer without either of those two processes running. If you continue to have problems getting rid of them, you can read down further for more troubleshooting steps.

Disabling Media Player Network Sharing Service in Services

You shouldn’t actually need to do this part, as using the configuration instructions above should work… but if you are having problems getting rid of it, here’s where you need to go.

Open up Services from Control Panel, or type services.msc into the start menu search/run box. Find the service in the list:

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Open it up by double-clicking on it, and then change the service to Disabled.

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One note here… If you try to re-enable Media Sharing in Media Player, it will ignore the fact that it’s disabled. This is why you need to make the configuration change there as well.

Alternative Methods using Regedit

If you are still having issues, you can do some further checking to make sure that the two services won’t be re-enabled again. Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\HME

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There should be a DWORD value on the right-hand side named DisableDiscovery which you can set to a value of 2 (setting it to 1 also worked for me). Just make sure that it’s not set to 0.

To make sure that the wmpnscfg.exe is turned off, you can browse down to the following key in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

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This is where Windows turns that application on… if there’s an item for it in this list, then delete it.

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