Archive for September 15th, 2007
Sep
15
With Windows Vista, Microsoft also made Windows Media Center an integer part of the operating system, instead of delivering it as a separate edition (which has been the strategy applied with Windows XP). Windows Media Center ships by default with the Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Vista. This was an interesting move from Microsoft, as
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Sep
15
The Expression Blend team blog has released “Expression Blend 2 September Preview”. The blog post says —”We are pleased to announce a new preview build in the Expression Blend 2 train – our September Preview. The September Preview has a slew of new features, many of them made possible based on your feedback!. We have also made available some videos that highlight the new features in this build. Visit the Expression Blend 2 September Preview page for viewing these, and to download and install the latest build.”
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Sep
15
It was VMware's party, but Marathon Technologies won the "Best of VMworld Award" in the New Technology category for its everRun software integration for XenSource's open source XenEnterprise hypervisor at the industry's premier virtualization event this week in San Francisco.
Marathon, headquartered in Littleton, Mass., provides automated, fault tolerant-class availability solutions for virtual and physical environments.
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Sep
15
Microsoft's handling of the Windows Update controversy is a good case study for how the company's public relations efforts work. The lessons are important for Microsoft customers and partners.
I had my first dealings with Microsoft PR in 1994, when I worked as technology editor for a life insurance trade magazine. In those days, Microsoft PR aggressively
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Sep
15
This plugin creates proper drop down menus for the WordPress admin pages. It uses a Javascript created menu which has faster rendering with very little overhead once loaded. One click and you are there!
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Sep
15
Binary Blue is a WordPress 2.0 compliant, heavily AJAX enhanced WordPress theme, with lots of built-in functionality. It’s packaged with more than a dozen different schemes, among them the fabulous True Blue style. The best feature of Binary Blue is its ability to change styles right through the administration screen.
Binary Blue contains a fully degradable AJAX enhanced Paged Comments function, which
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Sep
15
Web Analytics Demystified has the first screenshots from a Microsoft presentation today discussing their upcoming (possibly next week) beta launch of Microsoft's counter to Google Analytics. Named Gatineau, Robin from Blognation notes that it will feature:
Out-of-the-box demographic segmentation
Integrated view of marketing campaign effectiveness
Integration
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Sep
15
Blogger has launched Blogger Play, a slideshow tool that showcases photos that have just uploaded to Blogger in real time. By default all photos from Blogger’s public blog listing will be included as part of Blogger Play, if you don’t want your images to
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Sep
15
The battle may not begin until Sept. 25, but “Halo No Comments » - Posted by DG
Sep
15
Advanced Micro Devices may not be in position to release its new dual-processor enthusiast-class platform this year, however, it may be thinking about a different product, according to some unofficial information. Apparently, the company may be mulling about a triple-core microprocessor for desktops.
According to a news-story at Hard Tecs 4U web-site, AMD is working on
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Sep
15
Love it or hate it, Windows Vista is here to stay as the default operating system for those buying PC laptops on the market today. We all know Vista requires more hardware power, such as 2GB of RAM being almost a necessity to get decent performance, but are there Vista OS and software tweaks you can
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Sep
15
Well, it's that time again. Time for the clocks to change, as a result of Daylight Savings Time (DST). If you are an Exchange administrator, and haven't heard how the time changes impact your messaging environment, then you have probably been shipwrecked on a deserted island with no communication to the outside world.
On Aug. 8, 2005,
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Sep
15
Different Posts Per Page allows you to modify the number of posts shown in home, category, archive or search page.
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Sep
15
Three and a half years after launching a high-profile legal attack on Linux, the SCO Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Lindon, Utah-based company long has maintained that it had enough money to fight its costly lawsuits against IBM, Novell, Red Hat (which sued SCO proactively), AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler. But on Friday, a month
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Sep
15
Yahoo's rumored social network, dubbed "Mash," has arrived. The company started inviting people outside the company to test it on Friday.
Will Aldrich, the head of Mash., says in the Yahoo! blog post —”Mash is a new approach to online profiles. If you’ve used other online profiles before you’ll feel at home in Mash. But there are some
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