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Bing Translator Now Allows Offline Translation Via Text, Speech & Camera [WP7]

The quality of translation apps in the Window Phone 7 Marketplace is pretty good in general. In addition to a host of third-party apps from the genre, there is one developed by Microsoft itself. We are talking about the Bing Translator app, of course. This Mango app has been around for about as long as [...] (more…)

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Bing Desktop: Daily Change Your Desktop Wallpaper To Bing Homepage

While some people like to keep a single wallpaper or a set of wallpapers as their desktop background, others like to keep changing their wallpaper to new, unseen ones. Previously, we have covered some good wallpaper changing applications that automatically decorate your desktop background everyday, or after a specified time, such as Kuvva, an application [...] (more…)

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Get Instant Google/ Bing Search Results For Highlighted Text [Chrome]

Search Highlighter is a Chrome extension that simplifies your browsing experience by letting you easily search the web; instead of copying search keywords to Chrome’s native search bar, all you need is to highlight the word or phrase, and it will automatically add the query string to the search box. Additionally, you can change the [...] (more…)

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Custom Slideshows & Dynamic Bing Wallpapers For WP7 Lockscreen [Homebrew]

On the surface, it might seem like developers are not really interested in Windows Phone 7, but the truth of the matter is that the Mango platform does have its band of dedicated developers, not the least of whom is Jaxbot from Windows Phone Hacker. The WP7 wizard has done it again, and after Orientation [...] (more…)

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search fast: Instant Access To Dictionary, Wikipedia & Bing [Chrome]

Has it even happened to you that, while browsing the web, you come across a term that you want to look up the meaning for, but either choose to ignore it or save for later, just because you don’t want to be bothered with visiting an online dictionary or wiki and find the relevant item. [...] (more…)

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Whitelist For Chrome Blocks Access To All Websites Except Allowed Ones

Wasting too much time on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter? There are many website blocking extension available, but most are either too complicated or only limit the time you spend on websites. Whitelist For Chrome extension quickly lets you focus on work, eliminating distractions by automatically blocking all pages from any website that [...] (more…)

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das Image: Download Photos From Instagram, Picasa, 500px & Flickr [WP7]

If you are an admirer of professional photography, or would just like to have some seriously amazing wallpapers on your Windows Phone 7, then das Image is just the app you need. It is a WP7 app which brings a collection of amazing images to your screen by scouring some of the best photo-related sources [...] (more…)

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Google Privacy: Tracking-Free Search & Browsing Experience [Firefox]

Do you wish to opt-out of online tracking? Harvesting browsing information and cataloging a user’s preferences is something certain websites have been doing for quite a while now, in order to deliver ‘a more personal web experience’. While that may be so, cautious surfers on the internet have always been troubled by an anonymous party [...] (more…)

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Access DVD & Book Cover Scanning In Bing Vision Outside US [WP Mango]

Despite the latest update to Windows Phone 7 being a mere beta so far, we have been talking about Mango and it’s cool, new features for quite a while now (like here, here and here). One thing we haven’t discussed yet, however, is Bing vision. Frankly speaking, the capacitive search button in WP7 can get [...] (more…)

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Bing’s “We’re In” For WP7 Helps You Get Closer To Your Friends, Literally

Almost any person who has more than 2 friends has experienced the situation where you all want to meet up at a café or a mall and a flood of confusion breaks lose before everyone can finally get to the place decided earlier. The person who organized the whole thing is left frantically texting and [...] (more…)

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Change the Default Search Engine In Windows Phone 7 [How To]

Some of us today have become so addicted to search engines that sometimes the impulse is there to look for your lost pair of socks on Google! Due to this essential role of search engines, many web browsers come integrated with search engines. You simply have to go to your browser’s address bar and key [...] (more…)

Bing Replacing Google Search On iPhone OS 4

After loads of rumors that somehow portrayed Microsoft and Apple as partners, it is now clear that they weren’t rumors after all. (more…)

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How To Search Bing With Firefox Address Bar

In Firefox, if you type any keyword in the address bar (also called URL bar) and don’t select any suggestions from the awesome bar before pressing Enter, you will be taken directly to the Google search result page. Even though users can change the search engine of the search bar (which is located next to [...] (more…)

ZapBing Changes Your Wallpaper Periodically With Bing Images

ZapBing is a tool developed to change your desktop wallpaper periodically with high definition Bing Images. As we all know that Bing changes the background image of their search page daily in different regions, this program downloads these images and then automatically sets them as your desktop wallpaper. (more…)

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Bing Add-on For Firefox

Microsoft’s recently launched Bing search engine(which was codenamed Kumo) now has a Firefox add-on. If you would like to make Bing your default search engine in Firefox browser, grab the add-on from here. The installation is pretty straightforward, all you have to do is to click Add to Firefox button. It will then ask if [...] (more…)