A place for Sharepoint and rantings
Archive for October, 2004
Google have done it again
Oct 15th
Google have released yet another great tool, I loved the toolbar, then the deskbar, but now this one tops it all
Desktop google. It is busily indexing my desktop and my emails and its results are good.
I have been trying Lookout for a while, but this pounds it out of existance, sorry guys it too slow, the interface is clunky and slow.
Google caches all my stuff so I dont need to open an email thats been stored away on a slow exchange link or open a word document as it just extracts all the text. Ok there is probably a space consideration but I dont care I have gigs of space for this stuff.
The one thing I cant seem to get working is the Google integration, a promise of it displaying personal results in the google web searches, (it most likely intercepts the http request and brokers the result sets, I HOPE) I’ve been very specific with my searches here and it hasnt done it yet, but hey its beta and Im sure it will work better soon.
Who needs WinFS anymore with google about, so take it out of longhorn I say, I dont need it now.
More >User Online ?
Oct 12th
http://blogs.msdn.com/roberdan/archive/2004/10/11/240803.aspx
“Everybody acquainted with SharePoint knows that when you see a name of a user within the pages, a mouse-over operation will pop-up what we call the name menu. Information coming out of Active Directory, Outlook, Messenger and Exchange is aggregated and displayed to you. Nice to know is that this functionality can also be added to non-SharePoint Web applications Everybody acquainted with SharePoint knows that when you see a name of a user within the pages, a mouse-over operation will pop-up what we call the name menu. Information coming out of Active Directory, Outlook, Messenger and Exchange is aggregated and displayed to you. Nice to know is that this functionality can also be added to non-SharePoint Web applications…….”
Broadband
Oct 5th
FINALLY
Well it only took BT 5 years from my original application to get it installed. Well done, about bloody time, but well done all the same.