Archive for the January, 2007


Jan 18

New Vista GUI Stuff For Devs

Kam VedBrat, lead program manager of Expression Web —talks about how to take advantage of some of the new features, like Glass. Glass is a feature that has actually been a little mystery to devs, and Kam clears it all up with a simple demo. He also explaned on how composition works under the Desktop Window Manager. Basically, even
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Jan 4

ReGet Deluxe 4.3.276 Beta

ReGet Deluxe is the new generation of the ReGet Download Manager. If you ever download something from the Internet, you can do it better with this program. If you have a fast connection, it will take advantage of it and retrieve files faster. If you have problems
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Jan 29

Webcast: Bill Gates Celebrates Worldwide General Availability of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System

From Times Square in New York City, join Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for a live webcast celebrating the worldwide launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The celebration pays tribute to the millions of Microsoft customers, partners and product testers around the world who provided input and feedback on these products -- helping
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Jan 22

Office 2007: From bloated to sleek

Life has a funny symmetry, don't you think? When you're born, you're short, toothless and bald. You spend the first part of your life gaining height, teeth and hair--and the last part losing them again. Microsoft spent the first dozen years of Office's life piling on new features. Over time, the humble word processor called Word became
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Jan 25

Google Video Transitions to Video Search

A lingering question since Google’s acquisition of YouTube has been what the parent company will do with its own video product, which it effectively announced was not good enough back in October. Three months later, we are seeing the first integration. Google writes today on its official blog that Google Video “[will
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Jan 19

Nortel and Microsoft CEOs Outline Transformation of Business Communications

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer and Nortel* CEO and President Mike Zafirovski announced a joint road map to deliver their shared vision for unified communications. The road map is the result of an alliance between Microsoft and Nortel announced in July 2006, and includes three new joint solutions to dramatically improve business communications by breaking down
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Jan 28

Flash On a 2007 Zune? Yes

No MP3 player lineup is complete without a flash memory option. For every hard drive based player sold about 2 flash players are purchased. In a recent interview with Reuters Jason Reindorp spoke of additional devices coming from Microsoft: "The industry moves in this sort of Christmas to Christmas cycle. So you can expect
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Jan 12

Building Quality Inbound Links

One of the most important factors in determining a site's PageRank, as well as overall ranking within Google's index, is the quality of incoming links. Today, we look at some tips from insiders across the web on how to go about building a quality incoming link structure. Obtaining quality links can feel like an arduous process when
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Jan 4

WordPress Enlarger Version 2.1 Plugin

A simple plugin, utilising Javascript, that allows you to load a larger image but display it as a smaller, thumbnail. Clicking on the thumbnail immediately displays the full size image in the page. Click again and it returns to a thumbnail. Enlarger Version 2.1 WordPress, Enlarger Version 2.1 Plugin
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Jan 27

Windows Vista Expected to Generate $10 Billion in New Revenue for California IT Industry in 2007

California’s IT industry is expected to experience a significant financial impact as a result of the launch of the Windows Vista™ operating system. According to a research study recently completed by IDC and commissioned by Microsoft Corp., within the first year of the Windows Vista shipment, California’s IT industry will begin seeing considerable increases in new
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Jan 22

Microsoft root certificate program members (January 2007)

The table that is included in this article lists the third-party commercial certification authorities (CAs) that are trusted by Microsoft. As a Microsoft Windows user, you can use the listed CAs for secure e-commerce. Continue for more info.... Microsoft, Microsoft Root Certificate Program
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Jan 16

Highlight 2.5.0 Beta

Highlight is a universal source code converter which transforms code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, LaTeX, TEX, XSL-FO and XML files with syntax highlighting. (X)HTML output is formatted by CSS. It supports customizable color theme and language descriptions with regular expressions. Highlight | Download -BetaNews Highlight, Software, Source, Code, Converter
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Jan 19

Online newspaper blog traffic grows 210%

According to data released by Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger portion of overall traffic to those sites. Unique visitors to blog sites affiliated with the largest Internet newspapers rose to
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Jan 17

Capcom Lost Planet (Xbox 360) – Review

Here is an excerpt, from Byron review of Capcom's Lost Planet: One of the most long awaited games on the Xbox 360 since the launch is finally with us, it seems like an age since the first demo was released on the Xbox Live! Marketplace early last year and everyone has been waiting with baited
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Jan 9

NovaLet: New Simple Blogging Platform

NovaLet is a new blogging service that aims to be even simpler than Vox, and is developed in ASP.NET 2.0 (C#) and MS SQL 2005. NovaLet aimed to be a free, simple, easy to use and yet powerful enough blogging engine, which want to take simplicity to a new level by even removing the whole admin area and letting
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