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Bing Tips & Tricks. Now that Bing is available for use outside Microsoft, here are some quick tips and tricks that will help you do more with Bing.com. 1.

Bing Tips & Tricks

Use the full version of Bing If you are using Bing outside North America, chances are that you seeing a localized version of Bing that may be missing some features. For instance, the Indian version of Bing.com doesn’t have search history and the image on the Bing home page here is not interactive as in the US version. To explore the full version of Bing, go to this page and set English – US as your default region. 2.

If you search for a company stock (e.g. 3. Hulu hosts some popular popular TV shows but the problem is that you can only watch these videos if your computer has US based IP address. However, Bing lets you watch shot previews of Hulu video even outside US. 4. With Bing, you can save your search history on to a local folder inside Bing or to your Windows Skydrive account. 5. This RSS feature is not available for Image or Video search in Bing. 7 Great Plugins For Windows Live Writer 2009. I have been using Windows Live Writer 2009 for about a month now; for me, it was love at first use.

7 Great Plugins For Windows Live Writer 2009

If you haven’t used it before you should really take advantage of the new Windows Live Writer. For me, Windows Live Writer really makes blogging enjoyable and I especially love the ability to add plugins. There is an extensive list in the Windows Live Gallery but these are the 7 that, in my opinion, are a must have for Windows Live Writer users. But before we begin, I strongly recommend you check out earlier MakeUseOf article Five Things To Do After Installing Windows Live Writer. It shows you how to - Turn on Spell Check - Use Link Glossary - Configure FTP - Learn the Shortcuts - Set Blog Pings Now, back to plugins. Flickr4Writer If you use Flickr for uploading and sharing your photos then this is a great plugin for you. xPollinate Twitter Notify This is great for all you Twitter lovers. DiggThis Tag Generator This plugin automatically generates tags based on the content of your blog post.

All In SEO for Windows Live Writer. I love using Windows Live Writer and don’t use the WordPress admin dashboard to write posts, however I also make use of the All In One SEO Pack plugin, which allows users to tweak the title of a post, and add keywords and description to it.

All In SEO for Windows Live Writer

However WLW does not have options to add additional fields to the post, so I have to manually go in and edit the posts when I want to customize the title or keywords for SEO optimization once I have published the post. And I am pretty sure many other bloggers who use WLW and SEO Pack may be facing the same problems, this new plugin I created aims to do away with that issue, allowing users to specify the SEO Title, keywords and description from within Windows Live Writer interface.

Yes you heard it right, the All In One SEO Pack Bridge for WLW allows bloggers to specify the SEO title, keywords and description while composing posts from WLW. How To Use the All in One SEO Pack Bridge for WLW 1: <! 2: aiosp_title=SEO Title 3: aiosp_keywords=SEO,KEYWORDS Donate.