Archive for the July, 2007


Jul 19

YouTube Player Customization a.k.a YouTune TV

You can now create customized YouTube players, choose a color theme, a video playlist and share your favorite videos. My green player shows three collections of incredible places from Google Earth, but you can use it as your own TV channel: it's easy to control the look and the content. When you add new videos
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Jul 2

Windows Vista: Disable and Turn Off System Restore (Shadow Copy)

Whenever users install software program, drivers, updates, hotfixes and other system changing files, Windows Vista will create Restore Point by using System Restore, part of System Protection feature, where a snapshot and stored state of important system files are backed up and copied using Shadow Copy service. It anything goes wrong such as driver not working
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Jul 16

Oront Burning Kit Premium 2.2.1.4 Beta

Oront Burning Kit is the software product that can help you record, erase and copy CDs and DVDs. Using this software, you can create and record CDs and DVDs with data, music and video, create and record ISO, format and copy discs, extract files from multisession discs and use many other features. Oront Burning Kit Premium has
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Jul 9

Microsoft To Clarify Murky ‘Live’ Strategy At WPC

At its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) this week in Denver, Microsoft plans to focus a strong spotlight on its forthcoming CRM Live service, the first of its enterprise applications to offer a fully featured hosted version. The move marks Microsoft's most significant embrace to date of on-demand software delivery -- a shift that makes some partners
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Jul 30

Black Hat Holds More Supersizes In Las Vegas

The 11th annual Black Hat security conference will occupy more space at Caesar's Palace this year in order to accommodate more people, more topics, and, of course, more controversy. The conference kicked off over the weekend, starting with four days of topic-specific training, before concluding Wednesday and Thursday with two days of public sessions. If past conferences are
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Jul 24

Microsoft Strong Presence On Facebook With 17,802

Microsoft has a giant presence on Facebook, with over 17,000 employees (out of 70,000 worldwide) joining their Facebook network. Since you need a Microsoft email address to get it, it’s highly unlikely these are anything but real Microsofties, and the large number means Facebook is becoming a pretty important means of communication inside MS. You’ll be able
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Jul 5

Microsoft’s Joost Killer “Live television over a peer-to-peer network”

LiveStation is a project currently under development, and a joint effort from Skinker and Microsoft. LiveStation is currently in beta stage, but essentially the project is designed to enable users to watch live television on their machines. "Interactive live TV on the PC that works" is in fact the slogan under which the LiveStation beta
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Jul 28

Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions Beta 2

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions Beta 2.  This release continues the Microsoft tradition of offering simple, fun and easy to learn tool suite for causal developer, hobbyist, gamer and students for free.  Get started by downloading this new release.
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Jul 18

AdWords Invalid Clicks Update

AdWords is a product that’s constantly evolving. This post is based on the update from the Click Quality team, a group of folks dedicated to protecting advertisers from invalid clicks and click fraud. There’s no “silver bullet
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Jul 20

AMD Consumer Electronics Event in NYC

AMD hosted a small gathering in the Penthouse at the SoHo Grand Hotel in New York City yesterday, to showcase some of their existing products and technologies, to show off a few products built by their partners, and to demo some products due to be released in the coming months. We attended the event and snapped some
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Jul 31

AT&T Announced Mobile Music Downloads From eMusic

AT&T on Tuesday announced the launch of its over-the-air music download service for its cellular subscribers, joining forces with eMusic to offer a catalog of 2.7 million songs. But the service won't run cheap: customers can pay $7.49 per month to download up to five tracks. eMusic, which focuses primarily on independent artists, will provide two
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Jul 25

Poker hotshots narrowly defeat bluffing computer

After two thousand hands and countless "flops", "rivers", and "turns", two elite poker players have narrowly defeated a formidable computer opponent. The result means that, while chess world champions have fallen to computers, humans still hold sway in poker, a game where psychology plays a huge role. Phil "The Unabomber" Laak and Ali Eslami took on Polaris,
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Jul 28

Apple Co-Founders Backs Internet Video Venture

An Internet video brainchild of three twentysomething former University of California grad students has won big backers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Red McCombs, co-founder of Clear Channel Communications. The billionaire moguls are backing a tiny venture-backed company, Hotswap.com, which has ambitious plans to feed a growing demand for high-definition-like Internet video for everyday e-commerce
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Jul 21

Google Ceases Click-to-Call Service

Earlier this week, we’ve reported that Google has ceased it’s “Related Links” service. In addition to related links, Google Click-to-call —”the Google Maps feature that allowed you to call a business for free in the US, was removed. "This feature was a long-running experiment, and in
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Jul 24

AllofMP3 Owner Faces Fines, Jail Time

Russian authorities are seeking jail time for Denis Kvasov, the owner of AllofMP3.com, along with paying restitution to EMI, Warner, and Universal. Kvasov could face up to three years in prison, plus fines of 15 million rubles ($590,000 USD) if the courts rule in the prosecutors' favor. AllofMP3 closed last month after Russian authorities clamped down
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