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Bing Search Engine - Reference Page Including Details About Daily Image October 13, 2009
Bing's Reference page displays information from Wikipedia and Freebase, and also provides detail about its daily image.Looking for more information about the image that Microsoft's Bing search engine uses every day? You can now find it and more on Bing's Reference home page, which also contains facts about this day in history, a list of people in the news, and sample searches.From the Reference page you can perform searches that pull information from Wikipedia, and in some cases also from the Freebase open database. ...Read more at MalekTips.
Sites to Browse - Sports - See How Far Home Runs Were Hit October 13, 2009
How far did a grand slam ball fly? Find out with Hit Tracker.Curious how far that two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth went into the stands? Is your favorite slugger only hitting long balls in baseball parks with short right field lines, or is no stadium safe? Consider Hit Tracker, which uses "atmospheric information and observation data, and gives as an output the true distance that the home run traveled, along with the initial speed of the hit off the bat and the precise angles at which the ball left the bat." All types of related information can be found, broken down by season and playoffs for the last few years. View the top distance by batter, see the speed baseballs came off the bat, and display home run stats by league and player. For a particular player, display "true" landing spots plotted on a graph. There are also links to top plays on external sites if you want to see video....Read more at MalekTips.
[MODIFIED] Google Search Engine - Display Weather Reports October 13, 2009
Will it rain? Snow? Or are sunny days predicted? Display weather reports for the U.S. and selected cities around the world from within the Google search engine.Instead of visiting other weather search sites, you can display weather reports for the U.S. and selected cities around the world directly in Google. Google displays the current temperature, conditions, humidity, wind speed and direction, and a four-day forecast with graphics.Next to the weather report is a link allowing you to add the forecast to your iGoogle page. Plus, underneath U.S. weather reports you will find links to external sites such as AccuWeather, The Weather Channel, and Weather Underground, offering more detailed weather forecasts and radars if desired....Read more at MalekTips.

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Vista has some unique features embedded in the operating system. These feature are the Reliability and Performance monitors. If for any reason you are experiencing difficulties or errors with Vista or a third party program that is installed this utility can be used to help identify the source of the issue. Whether the issue relies internal to any program or due to a lack of resources it can easily be identified.

The Reliability and Performance Monitor is a Microsoft Management Console snap-in that includes tools for analyzing system performance. You can monitor hardware and application performance in real time. Also available is the ability to customize what data you want to collect. You can define custom triggers for alerts, automatic actions, generate reports, and view past performance data.

The Reliability and Performance Monitor combines many functions of previous stand-alone tools such as Performance Logs and Alerts, Server Performance Adviser, and System Monitor. It provides a graphical user interface for the customization of Data Collector Sets and Event Trace Sessions.

Reliability and Performance Monitor contains three monitoring tools to aid you in determining a root cause of performance issues such as Resource View, Performance Monitor, and Reliability Monitor. Data collection and logging is performed using Data Collector Sets which must be defined to capture any required information.

Reliability and Performance monitor will be a useful utility for identify issues that may slow performance or cause instability.

Having acquired years of experience with windows and how well it performs (or not) I can assure you it will be in my arsenal of diagnostic utilities for Vista.

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