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Only yesterday I came to know that we can add webtoim@gmail.com to our Gtalk contact list and start chatting with that BOT. I understand that now, instead of Googling and digging Wikipedia for the correct answer, you can take assistance from the WebToIM Bot that is designed to answer such questions. Few of my observations: 1. Almost for all questions it starts answering as ”hmm…” which looks odd to me. 2. Very often even for basic questions (or) for questions for which I would get the answer by googling is throwing me “Sorry. I couldn't understand what you are asking. Please rephrase.” 3. I tried the following queries “Whats your age” it said sorry. I rephrased it as “What is your age” it again said sorry. Finally I asked “How old are you?” and it answered hmmm... 3 years and 9 months old 4. I got this response quite often as well hmmm... I found ...

Deefbox is a simple but very important tool from CQsight . This tool would help us (site owners) to understand in real time on how useful our site is to others. In other terms it would help us to understand the search pattern of the users and whether what they came looking for is available in our site or not. Setting up the tool is pretty simple. Just follow up the instructions given here http://www.cqsight.com/HowWork.aspx After you signup and setup the script in your site periodically watch out the dashboard which they would provide you in cQsight to understand your visitors usage pattern. I don't want to write a tutorial for this tool :) instead would like people to try it out themself and see how simple and powerful the tool is.

The Microsoft SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2) allows you to collect information from instances of SQL Server, store this information, and run reports against the data in order to determine how SQL Server is being used. This version of SQLH2 supports SQL Server 2005 RTM collection.SQLH2 collects four main types of information: 1. Feature Usage – What services/features are installed, running and level of workload on the service. 2. Configuration Settings – Machine, OS and SQL configuration settings, SQL instance and database metadata. 3. Uptime of the SQL Server service 4. Performance Counters (optional) – Used to determine performance trends You can download this tool here Technorati tags: SQL Server 2005

The Database Publishing Wizard enables the deployment of SQL Server 2005 databases into a hosted environment on either a SQL Server 2000 or 2005 server. It generates a SQL script file which can be used to recreate the database in shared hosting environments where the only connectivity to a server is through a web-based control panel with a scripting window. The Database Publishing Wizard is currently a command line tool, though future releases will add a graphical user interface. 1. Current Release 2. Command Line Interface 3. Supported Objects & Types 4. Known Issues 5. Roadmap for Future Releases 6. FAQ 7. Tutorial: Upload the TimeTracker ASP.NET starter kit to your hosted account Source: codeplex Technorati tags: SQL Server 2005

There seems to be few interesting tools for take in Microsoft site. Check this for more info http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/ xppowertoys.mspx Technorati tags: Microsoft

Does Microsoft hate developers :) Check out BLINQ and you would get that feeling yourself [pun intended]. Blinq is a tool for generating ASP.NET websites for displaying, creating, and manipulating data based on database schema. All one needs to do is to point Blinq to a SQL database and it will create a website for you! The website would contains pages that display sorted and paged data, allow you to update or delete records, create new records, and follow relationships between tables in your database. You don't need to write SQL queries to use Blinq ; LINQ will generate optimized queries for you that request just the data you want to show. Reqirement: Blinq 1.0 requires VS 2005 Standard Edition or higher, or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express, SQL Server 2000 SP4, 2005 SP1, or Express SP1. You must install the LINQ May 2006 Community Technical Preview before running the BlinqSetup.msi . The installer creates a \Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\Blinq folder, which contains DLLs for t...

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users. Using Wink, you can create tutorials, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation. It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can now create high quality tutorials/documentation which will be viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled featur...