Install a set of useful programs in one package with Google

A set of useful Internet-user programs that can be installed quickly and in one package with a special page Google. Naturally this requires a sufficiently fast Internet connection.

Software: Web browser Google Chrome, Google Apps, Spyware Doctor with Antivirus, Anti Immunet Protect, Google Picasa, browser Mozilla Firefox, Google Earth, Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer, Free Antivirus Avast!, Google Desktop, Adobe Reader, Skype

Yandex swing at Google :) and with what Opera

Today I want to introduce a new milestone, so to speak, in the development of one of the leading search engines in runet. Namely: a new version of Yandex search for the English segment of the Internet. While working in the Alpha version, but the changes have already appeared in the main interface of the search engine.

It is this version at http://www.yandex.com/ and has yet fairly austere design. Interface page of search results similar to the standard runetovskoy. But now, for the same search request made by a Latin, is available to you two versions of search results: global and kirilichnaya. You can switch between them at delivering results.

If you ask such English-language request Russian version of the search engine, you will also be possible to switch between the following search options: "all", "in uanete" (or "in runet"), a global Internet. " If you have Cyrillic request, then such a choice is not available in both versions of the search engine.

Well, we'll see in the future, how successful the project will be Yandex.com. And whether or not a company to grab a piece of market content, as apparently hopes. But you, if you are looking for a lot of information in English, then you probably use Google, Bing , or Yahoo!, and now have the opportunity to compare the results. Moreover, the opportunity to switch to search for your query in other systems, also remained in the bottom of the page with the issuance of the results on Yandex.

Let's talk about how we start actively using this search. When will the search engine toolbars for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer difficult to say, therefore, if desired, place the address of its home page of these programs . But for the browser Opera , you can change the search form to express the panel on the method described below.

Do the following steps:

launch the Opera browser
we click on the top menu on "Tools"
then Click on "General Preferences"
In the window that appears open the tab "Search"
see a list of services on which the opera has a search and right click on "Add, Edit, Delete"
Hit the "Add"


A form appears where you want to fill in:

"Title" - any such "Yandex.com"
"Push" - need to select required (press some key on the keyboard, for example "L")
"Address" - insert "http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?clid=9582&text =% s", without quotes
Check the box next to "Use as the search for Express-panel
Click "OK"

Now, on the express panel, when you open a new tab the browser Opera, a working panel should appear on the search Yandex.com. I have, in any case, she now works.

And by the way, you can gain an express bar shape search and other search services in the list of the Opera (Yandex, Vkontakte, Meyl.Ru, Wikipedia, Google). To do this, select and click on "Edit-More", then tick the "Use as the search for Express-panel and click" OK ".

Video podcast - Review Yandex.com, and the method to add the search form to express panel Opera

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Better to ask twice than once make a mess. © Sholom Aleichem

Sometimes you need to find a short answer to a short question. Although this is a utopia, of course. There are short questions that are written entire books, and not by one author. "What to do?", For example. But here with us to the rescue comes the Internet. Namely, the projects are structured as "Question - Answer". They are quite a lot in the network in different types of performance. I also briefly address only two: "Otvety@Mail.Ru" and "Google. Questions and Answers". I consider them the most popular in RuNet and quite good quality answers.

First consider the service "Otvety@Mail.Ru".

In order to ask questions and receive answers to them must be a registered user mail portal Mail.Ru. Do not, under authorization, you can only view pages of questions and enjoy searching for the service.

Having come to the main page you will see a listing of all past issues. If you take advantage of links to categories, you can view the questions on specific topics. For example - "Computers, the Internet. You will be able to answer questions, as well as directly in the category, ask your question in a special form.

Given the large number of service users, in just a few minutes you can get a lot of answers. Of course, not all of them are qualified. Moreover, the part will be, at best, humorous. However, it is likely and appropriate responses. Indeed, many experts want to be recognized as the best answer for improving the service.

For answers to other people's questions, you will receive points. And for these points raised by you will be charged. You can also set ratings for answers and in foreign affairs. But, this whole thing is - important to get the answer to your question.

To you on the box will be sent letters with notification of responses, so that you can keep track of your question.

Next in our service is "Google. Questions and Answers".

It also needs to be a registered user. At least have an account on Gmail e-mail. Service interface is much easier than email, which is inherent in all of the services of Google. Top of the page you will see a search form of questions and answers, which also serves to create the issue. You need to enter the question in the form and click accordingly: "Searching questions and answers" or "Ask". After clicking 'submit' you will transfer to the shape of its creation.

In principle, for the completion of the question, you can add only offered by Google by the labels (keywords question) and click the "Add question". After that, your question will appear in the general list, and it will be able to answer other authorized users. But you can fill in the field "Additional Information", choose the value of bonus points for the best answer to the question and view the proposed service similar questions, which already have the answers. You can also tick off, if you wish to be notified about responses to the mailbox.

You can also earn points to improve its reputation as an expert.

Only if both services are no answers in the first hour, then the chance to get an answer to a miserable future.

To demonstrate in the video, I asked the question: "Is it possible to repair the hard drive?" - On the grounds of the previous article on backup media. The responses to it, you can see, passing on links to pages of questions: on Mail.Ru and on Google.

And finally a few aphorisms on the subject from the great:

Questions are never indiscreet. In contrast to the responses. 

Oscar Wilde

Better to ask twice than once make a mess. 

Sholom Aleichem

When asked a lot - little thought and poorly remembers. 

Maxim Gorky

On the human mind is easier to judge by his questions than he answers. 

Gaston Lewis

Online video "How and where to ask questions of the Internet to get answers to them.":

 

Orientation on the ground before the upcoming trip

Since the "Russian" season in Egypt has not yet been completed, and though we, mere mortals, the Alps do not shine, I decided I did tell you about one of the useful services of search engines. There are questions of online satellite maps.

Very, I tell you, a good thing when you want to go on a journey through unfamiliar places. Especially if you still have not been there. These services I used, before his trip to Sharm el-Sheikh, at the end of summer. And you forgot to tell about it. Therefore, filling a gap in information.

If you look on the network, you will find a lot of online maps as individual cities and countries. I am also interested in online interactive satellite maps. But such cards are presented in three major portals: Google Maps, Yandex.Maps and Bing Maps.

All of them are built on similar principles. You can view maps as: administrative maps, satellite imagery, hybrid (photo plus designations and boundaries). And to switch between types of maps can be any point. Maximum approximation makes it possible to consider the homes and streets with a bird's-eye view. So I even saw some kind of pool in the hotel where I was then rested and the location of the beach.

All the maps have the opportunity to remove the left side panel and push the map to the entire width of the screen. This is done by one click of the mouse on the special button at the left edge of the card. There also is the control panel card. Available to move the map in different directions, decrease or increase the scale, more comfortable orientation.

It is much easier to do it all using one arm. Left-click "grab" the map and moving the mouse, move it. Double-clicking the left button to center and brings the selected point. Scroll wheel scales (decrease-increase) the image. Here, the basic function - they are virtually identical, but slightly differently made. However, all intuitive. If you have a good internet connection (broadband) you can see this in the accompanying online video.

You should also take into account the factor of speed and with the maps. Please note that the map is an image that is loaded from the server system. As you pulling out his window in the map display in the browser may need to wait for long downloads - not in a hurry, in this case. Look for the first administrative map, as it is lighter in weight, and in the right place switch on satellite map (in the case of Bing - "Aerial").

Following points should be taken into account. BingMaps does not work with Opera browser, but only with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. With Maps Google "and" Yandex.Maps, no such problem - they work in all browsers. However, Google recommends that you use your web browser Google Chrome, which is natural.

Of the considered map, most of all I liked Google Maps. Although, in all cases, satellite photos were made somewhere in the beginning of the two thousandth. This I determined by how the terrain has changed in some familiar place for me. So, if your hotel, built after the 2003-2005 period, it is likely not to find. Nevertheless, the projects, of course, useful. In addition, they are actively growing.

So at Bing Maps can view maps in 3D-form. You can turn the home planet and even a little, to see the relief and some architectural objects. Version, but only a test - not yet perfect, but working. In order to use the need to download the client program (1.8Mb), and then install it - from the Internet load is ten megabytes. Download the distribution you can click on the button in the 3D interface card.

But, of course, the leader of interactive 3D-cards is a separate service Google: "Planet Earth". Download software client and install it, and loading the desired amount of the network. Once launched, you can learn not only the Earth (land and ocean), but also the Moon, Mars and the star world. Map of the world is equipped with features not only to watch photos and video, location-specific, but also add their own photographs. In addition, the individual sites are linked references to articles in Wikipedia, loadable in a separate window, as you wish.

The only thing that the use of solid models, the speed of the Internet should be even larger. If you have low bandwidth connections, it is better to confine planar maps. You can also use separate programs for the computer model to simulate the planet.

This review covers services: Maps Google, Yandex.Maps and Bing Maps:

How to make any internet start page in browser

This article will discuss how to make sure that when you start the Internet browser program (ie, browser), you start up the correct page. For example, if you want to change the search engine, which will start your journey (surfing) on the internet. Homepage can be any page of any site, including the page of my blog with the listing of articles: "http://vladekas.com/blog/".

The same actions will need to do and when the home page in the browser is undesirable to you page on the Internet. It can be installed as a browser to the program, and established a special script on the site (when you press on the link type "Make it your homepage). Also unwanted front page can be spelled out and with the help of the virus - to protect against this, use the program, a firewall (firewall),.

Consider the procedure for installing the start page in different browsers for browsing the Internet. It will be: Internet Explorer 8, Opera 9.64, Mozilla Fayerfoks 3.5, Google Chrome 2.

Internet Explorer

In order to set the home page any page in it, you must do the following:

a browser
in the top menu, find the tab "Service"
There we find the "Internet Options"
in the form, look for the tab "General" - as a rule, it opens the first default


In the General tab from the top of the first is a form of "Home", and beneath it are three buttons "Current", "Home" and "empty". If you click on "Current", the field will display the last link you specified start page. If you press "Home" - will see a link to a page that was automatically set at installation (installation) program browser. And when you click on the "empty", you'll see the inscription «about: blank», and, during the launch explorer will not load any page at all.

Here in the field "Home" and the need to enter the desired start page, in the form: «http://vladekas.com/blog/google-search.html», - the same search engine, by the way :-).

Further, the bottom of the form, click "OK" or, at first, "Apply". Restarts the browser to verify that the well not list the desired home page. If all goes well, then close the form of "Internet Options". Note also that the properties of the browser you can get in another way, through the start menu of the operating system: Start - Control Panel (Switch to Classic View) - Internet Options).

Opera.

Tu everything as simple. First, find the sub-menu in the menu "Tools". There click on "Settings". In the form settings tab, select the first "Basic", where he will prescribe the start page.

In the main, under the inscription: "Give what to do when you start the browser" - select the action and prescribe appropriate URL (web address).

Effects choose the right of the "When you run" - we need to establish: "Start with home page".

Next, you need vvesli address in the "Home" or click on the button "here", to set the start page, where you are at the moment. Presses OK, and when you restart the browser will open the first task page.

Still, I would recommend that puts интерестные page in browser bookmarks and the tab "When you run" select "Continue from razedineniya". In this case, at startup, will be open all the pages that were open in the browser during its closure. Sometimes it is very convenient. But in any case, the choice of how to start the browser Opera, and it is up to you.

Mozilla Firefox

In the Tools menu, select Settings. In the main field in the Run box, type «http://www.vash.sait/" in field "Home Page", pre-selecting the "Show at startup Firefox». Also, instead of manually enter the address, you can click on the button: "Use Current Page", "Use Bookmarks" or "Restore Default".

Then:
"Use current page" - prescribe address web page you are on the MDM.
"Use tabs" - you can choose one of the pages that you put in the browser bookmarks.
Restore Defaults - restore the page, which is installed by default during installation of the program.


Of the name of the start page click on the button OK. Restarts Mozilla, and makes sure that the browser during startup, loads the required page.

Google Chrome

Come to the Tools menu, clicking on the picture in the form of a wrench in the upper right of your browser. Choose the tab "Settings" - to open the window Settings Google Chrome ». Open the tab "Basic" - in the "Home" set point on the "View this page:", and in the box next prescribes the site address. To complete the procedure, click "Close".

Safari

And briefly to the work with Safari. To create a start page, select Preferences (Settings). Further, in the section General (Major), from the list «New windows open with» ( «In the new window open"), you type the web address in the Home page (Home). All, then click OK.

Finally I want to draw your attention to the fact that, besides this function, in the same browser's tool, you can configure other options of programs to fit your needs.

Video lessons with the installation start page in Internet Explorer and Opera: