Archive for the April, 2007
Apr
8
In March, Photobucket Incorporated's photo sharing site controlled 41.4% market share for photography Web Sites in the United States, a market share that is more than seven times larger than its nearest competitor, according to Hitwise Pty. Limited. The remaining four competitors in the top five came out to be: Yahoo Incorporated's Photos
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Apr
11
A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in Microsoft Office has surfaced, according to security researchers at McAfee. The vulnerabilities were reported in online security forums on Monday, according to a posting on the McAfee Avert Labs blog on Tuesday. All but one of the flaws results in denial of service, meaning the
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Apr
12
There is a surge of free pornography targeting a critical vulnerability in Windows Vista. Pornographic content involving hard core porno actress Jenna Jameson and the sexually exuberant pop princesses Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is served directly to Windows Vista users. Britney Spears naked, Britney Spears naked pussy & Paris Hilton, Nude Jenna Jameson and
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Apr
16
Office team has released an update for Outlook 2007 which addresses Outlook 2007 performance problems that customers have reported to us, especially when working with large .PST and .OST files. The relevant KB articles are:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933493
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932086
Note: If you are using Microsoft Outlook Business Contact Manager (BCM) - make sure to read this before installing!
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Apr
12
Right, this sounds a tad trickier than it actually is. Let's say that you are like me. At home, I have 2 hard disks. One SATA disk and one ATA. The SATA hard drive came with my new computer, the ATA one is a relic that I managed to save from a previous machine I owned. It's
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Apr
4
For some IT pros, the only thing they look forward to more than the new version of Windows is the new Windows Resource Kit-and the Windows Vista Resource Kit is available now. This official Microsoft reference provides more than 1,500 pages of in-depth technical guidance on deploying; securing, and managing Windows Vista.
The primary authors
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Apr
27
Myspace China is live. It was already rumoured a couple of days ago that it would be launched soon.
Excerpt from Shanghaiist —”Remember we told you MySpace China would come online yesterday? Well, we lied. Actually, Sohu IT lied — they got some bad info. Thankfully they weren’t too far off. As of
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Apr
6
WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. User’s can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments. What better way to show reader appreciation than letting the readers edit their own typos?
more info
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Apr
13
Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi during the second half of 2007, according to a report at DigiTimes, the same publication which first reported that Apple would be forced to push out Leopard's release until October.
In a brief posting, the Taiwanese rumor publicized cited "portable music player component makers" who say that Universal Scientific
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Apr
3
Filehippo, one of the best sites for downloading quality softwares has launched Update Checker. A small utility of 100kb, that once downloaded will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions to see if there are any newer releases, these are then displayed in your browser for you to download.
The software is
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Apr
16
Microsoft Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. It is intended for developers and designers interested in learning more about how to build experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.
Microsoft Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) has the following other editions available: Microsoft Silverlight
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Apr
11
The big search players Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN together announced they’ll be adding a new way for you to tell them where you store your Sitemap XML file. Just add a line like this one in your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
As Sitemaps.org explains —Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters
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Apr
19
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new initiatives aimed at getting PCs into the hands of more people in emerging markets. The software maker will offer the $3 Student Innovation Suite to governments that agree to directly purchase PCs
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Apr
23
On the heels of an all out Apple security patch marathon two months in the run, a hacker took just a single day to hack a Macbook Pro fully patched. On March 13 2007, on Microsoft's security updates sabbatical month, Apple made available no less than 45 patches for vulnerabilities across the Mac OS X operating system
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Apr
23
In a big win for a little Wi-Fi startup called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.
For Fon, which has forged similar agreements with ISPs across Europe, the deal will boost its credibility with U.S. consumers.
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Dell XPS 700 is an “aestheatic work of art” — featuring (possible configuration) an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition Dual-Core 965 processor, 4GB Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM, 1.5TB multiple SATA HDDs, dual 512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX graphics modules in SLI, and AGEIA’s PhysX physics accelerator. Product page here. Video after the jump.