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Windows LIVE Today plugin search: How do I change to search using GOOGLE instead?

As some of you who have downloaded Windows LIVE know, you get the option to place two Today-plugins if you so desire. The main Windows Live is pretty sucky due to its waste of precious screen space.
However the search plugin can be quite useful since you can just click "xyz" on it and it opens PIE and off it goes.
However the sad part about it is that it uses MSN search as default. Now, we all know how amazing MSN search is. Thus I would like to change it so it uses another search engine. Perhaps that mom and pop search engine called Google instead.
Obviously this is in the registry somewhere, I hope. So I was wondering if anyone here knows how to do it. And please don't just post "search the registry," as that is help at all.
Some quick google searches came out empty. I guess that WL for PPC is still somewhat new for the mainstream.
Cheers,

BUMP?.....

I would imagine that this is hard coded and you can't change it.

I was thinking about this becuase on Vista The option is there to change the serach defualt.
Wondring if there is a link to open the search page....
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Google search on Today screen
I remember from when the Windows Live search today plugin came out and I was reading the Axim boards, there was at least one person who came out with Google plug-ins.
A quick Google search (of course ) found this:
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/ppc/blog/index.php?entry=entry051204-182826
I haven't tried it yet, but I think I might just download it myself.

Downloaded and installed... WORKS GOOD. It also allows you to change the background and text color.
Ron

bsexton said:
I remember from when the Windows Live search today plugin came out and I was reading the Axim boards, there was at least one person who came out with Google plug-ins.
A quick Google search (of course ) found this:
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/ppc/blog/index.php?entry=entry051204-182826
I haven't tried it yet, but I think I might just download it myself.
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Thanks for the reply! I am trying it now. However this is not a play on the WL plugin but a complete rewrite. A brand new app. A beta.

done bosh sorted

Yup, I read that one already and did the changes. I was going to post but the thread was closed.
Well, the two main issues I had, this and the Opera\Outlook issue has been fixed. Alright!

Try to get this as a sticky---Best apps for different uses

This forum has a lot of information and a lot of input and applications and downloads. I recently started coming here a few weeks ago and little by little have gotten through quite a few threads and downloaded some amazing stuff. However, it's been difficult at best and quite slow and tedious and I know there is still lots of stuff I'm missing.
What I was thinking is how it would be great if we had one unified post that summarized and organized some of the most popular applications that are available here. Something like:
Best Music Players
--HTC Audio manager
--Mort Player
--etc.
Best Browser
--Opera Mini
--Picsel
--Skyfire
--etc.
Best locking program
--S2U2
--etc.
and so on, with the download links next to them. This would make referencing certain applications easy to find and download for all from various threads. With a few people in charge to moderate the thread, updates could easily be done as people post as they arrive or to alert others and then subsequently deleted.
I'm not sure if this has been brought up or attempted before, but I wanted to throw it out there. Please feel free to close or lock this thread if necesssary mods.
I would also add that some polls could be set up initially to identify some of these key applications to set up a "standard" list of applications that most users here should at least be familiar with and/or have on their devices.
Thanks and hope this idea helps out others if it's put forth.

Chain Fire's WMWIFI ROUTER
Slither's HTC CUBE Clone ( flash version )
Slither's HTC Cube ( C++ version )
Throttle Launcher
will add more later

Best Music Player:
Pocket Melody
Best Browser:
NetFront Browser 3.5

Best contact App :
-- PocketCM 0.19b !!

I can't find the pocket melody thread... can some one gimme a link...
Thanks

Sorry, but before this thread becomes very crowded and yet another "must have" list that gets lost in the realms of the web: Wouldn't it be better to do this in the XDA-Wiki?
Here's a good starting point.
A sticky hint might be a good idea, though, you've got to scroll the Wiki main page for a while to find it...

Mort said:
Sorry, but before this thread becomes very crowded and yet another "must have" list that gets lost in the realms of the web: Wouldn't it be better to do this in the XDA-Wiki?
Here's a good starting point.
A sticky hint might be a good idea, though, you've got to scroll the Wiki main page for a while to find it...
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Thank you. That's exactly the type of format I'm looking for. I didn't want everyone to just come and start posting their favorite programs but instead to have ONE post that combined them all. I just don't know enough of them and haven't been around long enough to even begin to compile it.
That wiki page looks great. I just hope someone that has a little time and the desire to do this could pull it off. I just don't have either nor the knowledge to put out something that would be helpful. Thanks for the reply.

best tweaker
schaps config tool

Nice looking interface - Wisbar Advance Desktop

Best theme bars and text color changer:
RC Mod v.2.1 by o3blig

We should have official polls on what are the best apps for each category.
That way, the best of the best will show themselves and those who are not yet enlightened, WILL be.
It will also clear up arguments and let popularity decide.

Please move this thread somewhere else

rhov23 said:
Please move this thread somewhere else
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Agreed. Should be in general.

Looking for some apps + network advice.

Hi,
Forgive me for posting something like this, I have actually searched but am unable to find anything.
The first thing I'm looking for is something which will perform an action when I'm in a specific location. For example, change to vibrate only when I'm at work or remind me to buy something when I walk past the supermarket. I used to have a similar application on my N95.
Also any other apps which are useful or you find cool and would recommend them, show me =].
Also I am looking for some good themes, there are loads of them on here and I don't really have the time to go through them all... are there any that anyone would recommend?
Finally I am currently on o2 pay and go. I am having trouble going on the net, I downloaded a Cab file off here to get the settings and it works fine for browsing but I can't do things like download weather data or use the youtube application. Any fixes?

A number of general questions/ideas/issues

I apologise for starting what is, in many ways, an 'I'm a noob, help me!' thread but I have put some effort into researching each of these topics but I'm still left with questions, so I thought I'd just lay everything out there and see if anyone can help me.
Firstly, sometimes when I start to write a text message, the first character disappears. It shows on-screen for maybe half a second, then it's as if I've hit backspace and it gets deleted.
It's really odd, it only happens from time-to-time and so far I've not been able to discern any sort of pattern to this behaviour - it doesn't seem to be specific to certain contacts, nor does it seem to matter whether it's a new text or a reply that I'm writing. It's just completely random.
I've searched on this forum, checked HTC's hotfixes and kept an eye out on other fora I frequent that have anything to do with the Touch HD but so far I haven't seen anything about this.
Secondly, I've been trying to find a calender application that will allow me to enter 'rules'.
Basically, the hours I work depend on the day of the week but I work different days week-to-week. So what I was hoping for was to be able to program in a 'rule' that defines what constitutes 'work', depending on which day of the week it is and have it so that an alarm or multiple alarms go off a set period before the time I start work each day (to wake me up). Anyway, by having this pre-set rule, I was hoping that when a new rota becomes available at work, I would just be able to mark which days I was working and the calendar would automatically work out the hours etc.
I'm not sure if this is something most calendar apps are capable of or if it's a feature that just doesn't exist but so far my attempts to search for this have been fruitless, though maybe that's down to my choice of keywords or something...
In third place, what is, in all probability a fairly common question about syncing text/SMS messages to your PC. I have looked into this, I swear but there seems to be a lot of contradictory information out there, not to mention when I search the site, I seem to end up reading a lot of threads that are 2, 3 or even 5 years old.
This might sound a little sad but this plave is one of few fora where I can have a question and when I look or ask for an answer, I feel completely lost. So I suppose what I'm hoping for is for someone to come along, take me by the metaphorical hand and show me the solution suitable for half-blind, retarded chimpanzees, as I might just about be able to follow that...
Last up, I was wondering if anyone was aware of any Shoogle-like programs for the HD.
I've come across 'VibraNotify' by way of this thread, which I will be testing out soon but in case it doesn't quite do what I want, if there's anything similar out there that anyone's aware of, I'd appreciate the heads-up.
I really am sorry to waste people's time with questions like these.
I wish I could find all the necessary answers myself but, as I say, for some of them I can't seem to find any information and for others, I've found far too much.
I will be extremely grateful towards anyone who takes pity on me and is able to help out in any way, no matter how small.
Thanks.

Addressing your second question.
I am a long time user of Pocket Informant currently in version 8 and available for purchase or download a time limited trial at http://www.pocketinformant.com/
You can set up different "work" times for each day of the week.
Regards.
Ed

for the first point of your question, I also had some problems too with keyboard input so that maybe sometimes I wanted to type m and it actually pressed a (not exactly a common typo!)
I noticed that after a screen calibration problems were solved
start/settings/system/screen/Align screen button
hope it helps
alternatively, I can confirm that with Davideuck's v-5 and dutty's xtreme v1.9 ROMs I have never had typing problems

Step666 said:
I apologise for starting what is, in many ways, an 'I'm a noob, help me!' thread...
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don't feel too bad, these are pretty advanced topics that i have not seen covered here
Regarding point 3;
as far as i know you can't sync SMS, tho you can back it up with PIM Backup
there is also MyPhone currently Beta

Creating an application

Hello,
i noticed that a lot of apps out there for reading news - are extracting new from various sitesand put them in their app.
Is there an easy way to do this, in order to select which sites i would like the app to bring me the titles of articles, and then when i click on it to read the article?
I am not into programming at all, so i dont know how all this works, thus it may be a silly and easy question for some, but unfortunatley i couldnt find elsewhere an answer!
Thank you