Archive for July 6th, 2007
Jul
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BitLocker Drive Encryption is a new technology introduced into the high-end editions of Microsoft's latest operating system. Windows Vista Enterprise, the platform accessible exclusively to the company's Software Assurance customers via volume licensing, and Windows Vista Ultimate are the two examples of Vista that feature BitLocker Drive Encryption. According to Microsoft, the technology was implemented as
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Jul
6
The notorious Mpack hacker toolkit is installing malware that carries out its chores -- including spewing spam -- from within the Windows kernel, making it extremely difficult for security software to detect it, Symantec said Thursday.
The Trojan horse that Symantec has dubbed "Srizbi" is being dropped onto some PCs by the multi-exploit Mpack, a ready-to-use attack
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Jul
6
Dojo released today a new beta of the Dojo Offline toolkit, with lots of new features, most exciting one is the full port to Google Gears. Highlighted features
An offline widget that you can easily embed in your web page with just a few lines of code, automatically providing the user
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Jul
6
TinyResMeter is a very small and compact system resource meter that displays information about CPU usage, RAM, swap file, disk space, GDI/USER Resources and much more. Also included is a screenshot taker that redirects the PrintScreen key to BMP saved files with automatic sequentially named files.
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Jul
6
Sun ODF Plug in for Microsoft Office gives users of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint the ability to read, edit and save to the ISO-standard Open Document Format. The ODF Plug in is available as a free download from the Sun Download Center (SDLC).
The Plug in is easy to setup and use, the conversion happens transparently
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Jul
6
A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline.
The site, called "MiiVi," contained whole downloads of movies as well as links to a program that would apparently speed downloads
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Jul
6
Trend Micro HijackThis is a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no seperation between safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to selectively remove items from your scan results identified as malicious or unwanted from your machine. In addition
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Jul
6
Microsoft said on Thursday that it will expand its warranty on the Xbox to three years for certain hardware failures after an investigation showed the game console can be vulnerable to problems.
"As a result of what Microsoft views as an unacceptable number of repairs to Xbox 360 consoles, the company conducted extensive investigations into potential sources
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Jul
6
Scott Hanselman has a "definitive guide" that will help you migrate from your existing mail solutions to Google Apps (Premier Edition). He moved his entire family (wife, parents, brothers, cousins, in-laws) to Google Apps, and there wasn't a single solution for everyone. Scott had to buy a software to migrate Microsoft Outlook calendars,
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Jul
6
Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support, Adobe Flash 9 browser plug-in, improvements in online use times and single memory card support up to 8 GB. Also delightful new pre-installed content is available.
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Jul
6
This release is based on the all-new AutoPatcher 5.6. It was made for Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit and is independent of the language of Windows Vista. That means that if you're running a 32 bit version of Vista, you'll only see the modules for Vista 32 bit (the same thing for the 64 bit
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Jul
6
WikiMindMap lets you visualize an Wikipedia article as a series of links to other articles. All the text is compressed to a list of keywords. For example, this Wikipedia page for Gmail... ...becomes this mind map...
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Jul
6
Intel plans to announce the phase out date for its Xeon 5000 series (Dempsey) 2-way server processors in July, while its Xeon 7000 (Paxville MP) series 4-way server processors is scheduled to be phased out by August of this year, according to sources at server makers.
With the low acceptance of Dempsey and Paxville MP processors in
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Jul
6
Sales of Apple's iPhone and new iPods slated for release later this year will mark the end of cheap flash memory for a time, and that means users may see fewer bargains on older digital music players or bundled flash memory cards.
The iPhone took off to a stellar start in its first weekend, as users braved
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Jul
6
Are we alone in the universe? How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? What's the share of voice for my AdWords campaign?
The official AdWords blog has announced “a new metric available through the AdWords Report Center.”
"Share of voice" is a metric often used in the advertising industry to represent the relative portion of ad
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Random From The AdWords: Share of voice campaign
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