At this 'Port' you'll find interesting stuff related to Microsoft and other technologies along with some random interesting things.
The word 'mera' in the title is a Hindi language word meaning 'My'.
Do you want to check your typing skills? Do you want to check, how fast you type or how accurate you are in typing, then just search for 'Typing test' in Bing. Or you can click here to open the required Bing page. The Bing search result will provide the Typing Test page with a paragraph. Seeing this, one has to type within the set time limit. One can adjust the time limit too. On completion, Bing will provide your typing speed, accuracy and score.
One can try this fun and interactive typing challenge that provides your score, speed, and accuracy. (Source:Windows Blog)
Bing has teamed up with Paramount Pictures to help you get in the Starfleet Spirit as the next installment of Star Trek hits theaters on May 16th in US.For all the Star Trek fans, yesterday Bing had added Klingon to Bing Translator. Now in a few simple clicks you can translate text from English to Klingon (and vice versa!)
And today Bing will take you where no Home page has taken you before. Visit Bing today and enter one of the secret phrases in the search box to be transported to the Final Frontier.
Go to Bing Home page and just enter ‘Beam me up’ and press enter for an amazing experience. Keep your Speakers ON. Once transported, click on the pages to get more amazing pics. Give it a try.
Beam Me up might be first secret phrase, we might see more. As its known, will be added here.
Today as I opened Bing, as usual provided with a stunning Home page and today was the video HomePage ! A time-lapse of a thunderstorm. But there was something more, Apart from its regular ‘Previous, Next, Info’ buttons, there was another to close & expand the Taskbar.
And it closes the Taskbar at the bottom of HomePage,
Check if you are getting this update- http://www.bing.com/ (Change your location to US from top of Bing Homepage)
We have been hearing about the next version of Windows 8 release after Developer Preview (DP) to be called as Consumer Preview (CP) and this might be released soon in this month only. So the beta will be called as Consumer Preview and its almost confirmed with today’s teaser of a special Bing Home page video!
A special Bing Homepage under preparation is providing some pointers on this (HT to The Verge & LiveSide)
It mentions ‘Consumer Preview’ at 2 places. One in one of the Hotspots and other at bottom ‘See What’s new – Windows 8 Consumer Preview’ . But as of now none of the links work.
Just visit http://www.bing.com/?win8start=1 to have a look at the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Special Bing Home Page. And see how the Betta fish comes alive & swims across the screen. If you remember, similar betta fish used to be on the Windows 7 beta ver also.
Microsoft is placing a series of ads in major newspapers offering the award winning alternatives to Google’s various services. As with the recent announcement of Google regarding Major changes to its soon to be implemented Privacy Policy, many of its users are feeling frustrated, concerned as Google is making some unpopular changes.
The changes Google announced make it harder, not easier, for people to stay in control of their own information. We take a different approach – we work to keep you safe and secure online, to give you control over your data, and to offer you the choice of saving your information on your hard drive, in the cloud, or on both.
And thus Microsoft is reminding the people about its award winning alternatives -
Hotmail: Join the hundreds of millions of people who enjoy not worrying about the content of their private e-mails being used to serve ads.
Bing: The search engine that gives you great experiences using the whole Web.
Office 365: The award-winning online collaboration solution for businesses who don’t want their documents and mail used to benefit advertisers.
Earlier in our posts, we had seen how to Play Kinectimals on Windows Phone, transfer it and continue playing on Xbox. So its not just gaming, Nokia Lumia phones come with some amazing features and functions. You can interact with your Xbox 360 right from your Nokia Lumia smartphone using the Xbox Companion app. You’ll be able to watch films and listen to music, all controlled by your smartphone. Upon activating the app in the Nokia Lumia phone, you can use Bing to search for any content.
The video demos an overview of the Xbox companion app which integrates Xbox Live and Windows Phone on Nokia Lumia handsets.
Coming in the next couple of months, Xbox users will be able to download the system software that updates the dashboard look and feel, as well as giving you a whole heap of new features.
Earlier we had seen Microsoft teaming up with Mozilla to bring Firefox with Bing, there’s Firefox with twitter also. Using this version you can Search for people and topics on Twitter, directly from the Firefox Address Bar using @ and # . Thus it takes directly to the user’s profile page or to a Twitter search result for username, hashtags respectively. Also you can search for any keyword on Twitter through the Search Bar by selecting Twitter in the drop-down.
Although Bing is provided as one of the Search option in Firefox but now Microsoft teaming with Mozilla brings Firefox with Bing, browser that includes default search settings for Bing. Thus making easier to use Bing in Firefox eliminating extra steps to configure.
Firefox with Bing offers the latest version of Firefox with Bing set as your home page and the default setting in the search box and AwesomeBar (where you can also type in queries as well as Web addresses). If you already have the latest version of Firefox, then you just need to download the Bing Search for Firefox Add-on to set the same preferences.
Check out what Bing team has done with Bing on the new Windows Mango Phone !
Bing on Windows Phone nowtranscends the search box. No longer limited by text, you can now search with voice, audio and vision -
Voice: Search without typing using the voice search functionality.
Music Search: Find what song is playing by letting you phone "listen" to the music. It not only shows you the name, artist, and album, but even shows you where you can hear or buy it.
Bing Vision: You can now use your phone’s camera to look up product information by bringing an object into view. Bing will recognize text and present the option to select words for a search, and instantly return product results if the object has a barcode. Bing Vision can also detect product information from UPC codes, QR Codes and MS Tag as well as cover art for books, CD’s, DVD’s and video games.
Some more features -
Bing Local Scout provides local search results and recommends nearby restaurants, shopping and other activities in an easy to use guide powered by Bing. The results are arranged by:
Highlights: Top rated and highly reviewed listings
Eat+Drink: Nearby restaurants
See+Do: Nearby attractions and activities
Shop: Nearby stores
Bing search results now return Windows Phone Marketplace apps that are relevant to what you’re searching for.
For an in depth look at how this works, check out Ben and Stefan’s video covering Bing on Windows Phone 7.5:
Today we launched a new translation tool that enables people to translate posts directly inline on Facebook Pages through Bing Translate. With this service, we are making it even easier for people to enjoy Page content on Facebook regardless of the languages that they know.
When someone clicks on the translate button on a public Page post, a Bing translation will appear in a popout window. People... then have the opportunity to submit their own translation by opting-in to using inline translations. After their generated translation has received enough positive votes, it will replace the Bing translation and will appear each time someone clicks on the translate button associated with the post.
Page admins can always control how their content is translated within the "Your Settings" tab in the Edit Page view.
We had seen the demo but now here it is. Bing introduces the first ever video HomePage.If you have a browser like IE9 supporting HTML5 then - “you now get all the beauty and intrigue of the Bing homepage with a little breath of life added” . Yes the Bing HomePage has life , its alive and it breaths.
The Bing Blog says - While this first video is US-only, we’ll begin rolling the video homepage out to international markets in the next few months – so stay tuned.
Today’s Google Doodle features Anant Pai on his 82nd Birthday.(17 September 1929 – 24 February 2011) Anant Pai popularly known as Uncle Pai was the creator of Popular Indian Comics Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) in the days when internet was in its infancy or was not there. ACK brought the Indian mythology, history in the form of comics.
I like this kind of Local touch that Google gives from time to time. I hope Bing also brings some more of its stunning Homepage images from India from time to time.
After reading post at LiveSide I just went to the source of those images @mackenziepricee and just checked out those images in detail to land over this link of Bing showing the new UI
Do you know which was the first Bing image of the day ? This interesting Tuesday Trivia tweet from Microsoft answers this.
The first Bing Picture of the Day was a hiker standing in Polychrome Pass overlooking the Alaska Range Denali National Park.
Many of us thought the answer was "Marines standing in formation at Arlington National Cemetery." While this was used for the first public demonstration of Bing, it was not the photo used when Bing launched on June 3, 2009. The hiker was the first.
Look for stunning images daily on Bing and learn about it from its hotspots.
The mobile gaming phenomenon that is Angry Birds just got better. Bing is teaming with Angry Birds. Bing is now the official decision engine of Angry Birds.
Starting today, you can watch as the pigs scheme creative ways to get their hooves on the treasured eggs via a 4-part animated video series sponsored by Bing.
Need help finding golden eggs or tips to complete a level? Bing and decide: http://binged.it/fyxmiO.
Check out the first videos below and visit the Bing YouTube channel to follow the next installments.
Things just got easier for bargain hunters, deal lovers etc…… Bing is launching Bing deals for the desktop and mobile (m.bing.com) – giving you access to more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns across the U.S. (Bing- when all the great options will be offered worldwide ?) . Bing deals assembles leading offers from Groupon, Living Social and Restaurant.com (just to name a few), making it easier to discover, share and search for the best deals in your area – all from one place.
Instead of creating our own program, Bing has partnered with The Dealmap, to launch Bing deals. Bing’s mission is to help cut through the clutter of the Web to make decisions more quickly.
Deals on mobile-
From m.bing.com (iPhone and Android), you will see ‘deals’ on the homepage. Simply click on the ‘deals’ link to quickly and easily access deals while on the go.
One can try this fun and interactive typing challenge that provides your score, speed, and accuracy.
