Wikipedia covers almost every little thing you need to know. It is great source for getting information about anything. Most of you would have the pain to go online and check for articles in wiki. Just to avoid that, you can have the entire wiki articles stored in your computer and browse them offline.

All you have to do is first download Zipedia, an extension for FireFox. Well, if you are not aware of FireFox, then it is the second-most popular browser in current use of worldwide and also is recommended by almost everybody. Download FireFox by clicking here. After you have installed (FireFox &amp Zipedia, enable Zipedia from you Add-ons. Now, Zipedia lets you download the database of Wikipedia and then use it while you are not connected to internet or if your internet is slow or it would be also useful if you have a laptop but no internet access with.

Step-By-Step instructions on how to download and use Wikipedia:
After that you have installed the extension, Zipedia, go to Tools > Add-ons > Zipedia > Options and click on Generate Zip. Then you’ll be asked to download Wikipedia dump files. Choose your directory in Zipedia Options and then you’ll be able to download articles of you choice in your language for offline browsing.

When you are done, access Wikipedia offline by typing wikipedia://wiki/ in your FireFox address bar and you’ll be able to browse Wikipedia articles offline. That’s it and you are done! Happy browsing wiki offline

P.S The whole database of Wikipedia is of 7 GB. So in case you want to download each and every article of Wiki then file size would be very huge and hence may take sometime to download.

Well, you might not be aware of this word Cuil. Cuil an Irish words which basically means knowledge and is pronounced as “Cool”. Cuil is a search engine launched on the 28th of July, 2008 by the alumna/ex-employees of Google Inc. (No! it has nothing to do with Google) The Cuil developers say that Cuil is the world’s biggest search engine existing. It also claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. Ummm sounds interesting…

The founders of Cuil are;

Anna Patterson,

Russell Power and

Louis Monier.

And here’s something they have to say;

The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

Looks like Cuil is gonna be a strong challenger to Google, Yahoo and of course Mircosoft.

Well, let’s see what happens. Till then, let’s start Cuiling or Googling or… forget! Let’s start searching! that sounds better..!

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]]> http://www.technobitez.com/credit-offers-from-mastercard/feed/ http://www.technobitez.com/yahoo-and-adobe-to-put-up-online-ads-in-pdfs/ http://www.technobitez.com/yahoo-and-adobe-to-put-up-online-ads-in-pdfs/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:53:22 +0000 Joel http://www.technobitez.com/?p=56 From PC World: Yahoo and Adobe will partner to allow publishers to run dynamically generated ads on PDF files posted on the Web or distributed via e-mail, opening up a new frontier in online advertising.

Until now, publishers have been able to embed only static ads on PDF files, but Yahoo and Adobe are developing a system to make those documents display contextually relevant ads delivered on the fly from Yahoo’s inventory at any given time.

The companies tomorrow will announce the initiative, called Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo, and launch a limited beta program that they hope to open up more broadly later.

The inclusion of pay-per-click text ads on PDF (Portable Document Format) files will give publishers another revenue-generating option for the content they have in this popular Adobe document format, said Kurt Garbe, entrepreneur in residence for advertising at Adobe.

As the practice of charging for content continues to dwindle industry-wide, publishers need to monetize their free content with advertising, which has been a challenge for PDF files, Garbe said. “This is a straightforward service to let publishers insert dynamic ads into PDF content,” he said.

A Yahoo Exclusive, At First
The benefit for advertisers: They get a new channel for their ads. Readers will benefit when publishers offer for free documents that they previously charged a fee for, or that they simply didn’t make available online.

At this beta stage, the program will provide ads from the Yahoo network exclusively. Garbe declined to comment on whether the program will later be open to other ad providers like Google.

It’s not a surprise that Adobe would want to be vague about letting other ad providers into the program, since it shouldn’t close the door on that possibility, said Matt Swain, a senior analyst at InfoTrends.

However, for now, the partnership is a very good match, and even if Adobe partners with other ad providers later, Yahoo will have an advantage, Swain said. “PDFs are a widely used document format, so this is a big untapped area for advertising,” he said.

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