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Archive for September 5th, 2007

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Sep 5

Facebook has announced that they will begin letting Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN and other search engines index public profile pages of their users. Facebook plans to open up its search functionality this week and will then give its users one month to opt-out of their opening to search engines by changing their

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StumbleUpon, founded in 2001 by software engineers, Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith and Justin LaFrance, and later purchased by Ebay, Inc. in 2007, has become the raze in Social Media sites with over two million registered users. StumbleUpon was the first of its kind, allowing a user to select specific keyword tags and then be randomly

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Microsoft is currently cooking a revamp to the collection of Windows Live categories. According to the Redmond company, the new and modified categories for the Windows Live product family will be made available via WSUS at the beginning of September. However, back in June, Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management revealed that

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This plugin gives you the ability to remove the link a commenter left as their URL without removing the entire comment. A link to do this is added to your new comment e-mail notifications and to the comments list in your admin area.

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Observers have been expecting a significant revamp to Apple's iPod lineup, especially after the release of the iPhone in all of its touch-screen glory. So when Apple announced today's special event—as we predicted—with the tagline "The beat goes on," we knew the time for an iPod refresh had come. We weren't disappointed, as Apple announced

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Microsoft has released its Windows Live software suite, including the global betas of several of its desktop products. Among the applications included are Windows Live Photo Gallery, Mail, Messenger, Writer, OneCare Family Safety, and Toolbar. The unified installer for the product also acts as a central location to download updates to any program once it is installed. Evidence

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Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser plug-in that enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and .NET based RIAs for the web. Scott Guthrie has announced the release of Silverlight 1.0! on his detailed blog post about what Silverlight is —”Today we shipped the Silverlight 1.0 release for Mac and Windows.  Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling

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The iPhone can be bought in China, even though Apple Inc. isn't selling it there and the gadget doesn't function properly despite costing twice as much as in the United States. Enthusiasts willing to pay 8,800 yuan ($1,170), or more than twice the cost of the 4GB iPhone in the US ($499), can buy the iPhone

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Microsoft is taking Media Center to the next level, adding support for four CableCards and finally announcing partners for Media Center Extender (aka Pika). Previously, Media Center could support only two CableCards, or omni-directional OpenCable Unidirectional Receivers (OCUR), which allow the PCs to play hi-def, protected content from the cable companies. Niveus Media and Exceptional

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I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. In the XP days, I was a huge Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of new features but rather, it gave visibility to mainstream

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AntiVir Personal Edition offers effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. It detects and removes viruses and includes an Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. The built in resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, for example when downloading files from the Internet. Heuristic scanning protects Protection

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STRIDE is a Microsoft threat modeling system. Essentially, STRIDE is a collection of acronyms designed to assess and classify threats including Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege. You have to know first of all that STRIDE is by no means the official threat modeling system over at the Redmond company.

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Worries about personal finances took a toll on job confidence among tech workers in August, according to the latest monthly report by outsourcing and staffing firm Hudson. Compared to a base score of 100, job optimism among the 400-plus IT and telecom workers surveyed by Hudson fell 7.6 points to 105.1 in August. Although that drop in confidence

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Calling all custom installers! Microsoft Corp. is searching for the custom installation industry’s innovators to submit distinctive installations for the Windows® Media Center Ultimate Install Contest. The first of its kind, this design contest seeks to recognize the residential custom electronics systems installation business that best utilizes Windows Media Center in a custom installation solution. Increasingly, Windows

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As the New York Times reported (rather confusingly) over the weekend, Microsoft is releasing a handful of its Windows Live services with a common installer. Microsoft is making refreshed betas of a handful of its Live services available as a single download later today (September 5). As Microsoft explains its plans on the Windows Live

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