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After Vista comes Vienna?

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

I know, Vista isn’t even released yet, but the web is talking about its successor . That’s not crazy, that’s the 21st century.
It seems that Windows Vienna will be the name of the new Windows operating system that comes after Vista. It was originally codenamed Windows Blackcomb. However, Windows Vienna will still probably be […]

Tell the crawlers to index all your pages using robots.txt

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Before indexing pages, the spiders read the content of the robots.txt file. There you can instruct the robots to ignore and not index certain files and directories. If they don’t find a robots.txt file, they usually proceed with indexing the website.
However, if you don’t have a robots.txt file, the server will keep returning 404 errors […]

Live Messenger Beta now open to public

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

No need for Windows Live Messenger invites anymore, you can get your own invite at:
http://www4.imagine-msn.com/minisites/messenger/default.aspx?locale=en-us.
And to think they were selling them on eBay 10 days ago .

Find out what pages Google has indexed

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

You can easily check what pages of your website Google has indexed by going to Google.com and typing in:
site:geekpedia.com inurl:geekpedia.com
Where geekpedia.com is your website’s URL, of course.
The number of results is the number of pages indexed. This is not very accurate, but it provides you with a basic idea of which pages of your website […]

Sign up for the Microsoft Office Live beta

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

A beta version of Microsoft Office Live will launch in early 2006. If you would like to be among the beta testers, you can sign up at http://www.microsoft.com/office/officelive/default.mspx.