Archive for October 12th, 2007
Oct
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In the October 2007 survey we received responses from 142,805,398 sites, an increase of 7.6 million sites since last month. This continues the strong gains seen last month, a rate of over 5% monthly growth, with MySpace, Microsoft Live.com, and Google's Blogger each gained over 1 million sites this month. Benefitting from the gains at MySpace
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Oct
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Yet again, an exploit has been released into the wild within days of Microsoft announcing the vulnerability.
An exploit has been found in the wild for a Word vulnerability Microsoft patched on Oct. 9.
Symantec said in a posting on Oct. 10 that it had gotten its hands on a Word for Mac
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Oct
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Apple seems to be facing the same problem Microsoft faces with WGA, and console makers everywhere for that matter. In a tug of war for which the hackers just won the last round, Apple Incorporated finds itself with a useless two-week-old firmware update that stopped iPhones not on the AT&T network from functioning.
The iPhoneSIMFree, a
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Oct
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Dave Northey: I was reading this article about the up-and-coming ESX Server 3i from VMware.
It calls out a bunch on "new features" that we have either been doing for ages, or have announced that we will have in Windows Server Virtualisation (WSV), when we ship Windows Server 2008 - I'm confused (seems
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Oct
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Installs graphics driver version 15.6 for the integrated graphics controller of Intel chipsets.This driver is written specifically for the Intel G31, G33, G35, Q33, Q35, G965, Q965, Q963, 946GZ, 945G, and 945GZ Express desktop chipsets and the GM965, 945GT, 945GM, 945GMS, and 940GML Express mobile chipsets, and will not function with any other product.
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Oct
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Apple has launched a directory of web-based applications designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch at http://www.apple.com/webapps/.Applications are divided into a number of categories, including Calculate, Entertainment, Games, News, Productivity, Search Tools, Social Networking, Sports, Travel, Utilities, and Weather. Developers are invited to submit their own applications for
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Oct
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Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer engine which means that what works in IE, works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like Tabbed Browsing Interface; Mouse Gestures; Super Drag&Drop; Privacy Protection; AD Hunter; Google Bar Support; External Utility Bar; and Skinning.
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Oct
12
You have a significant challenge right now: You need to choose a good spyware-blocking program. These days, standards for what good spyware-blocking software should do are still taking shape, and few good reviews comparing the products are available. In fact, this market is so young that the terminology is still pretty fluid, and different products may
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Oct
12
Pictomio is an application to manage, organize, and archive your photo collection and to create elaborate animated slideshows. Utilizing the processing power of the latest 3D graphics cards, Pictomio offers techniques and effects only used in 3D games before. Pictomio's use of 3D-accelerated user interfaces incorporating dynamically calculated animations and effects provides you with a completely new user experience.
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Oct
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XPize Darkside replaces the blue wizards, visual style, logon screen, boot screen and numerous other resources with a darker more slick and smooth looking theme!
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Oct
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The Live Meeting Service Portal makes it easier to deploy and manage Live Meeting. If your company has deployed Microsoft Active Directory directory services, you can use the Live Meeting Service Portal to:
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Oct
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Gmail just revised their storage estimates for the next 1449 years. Googlified dug around in the code and discovered that you’ll be getting a tiny increase to 2912MB on Friday, 4.2GB by October 23, 6GB by January 4 2008, 42GB by 2038 and 2.70266701 × 1072 TB by 3456. Google has since since confirmed
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Oct
12
ReNamer is a small, yet very flexible and powerful file renaming tool that offers all the standard renaming procedures including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as remove contents of brackets, add number sequences, change file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule.
The
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Oct
12
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is sure to be one of this fall's hottest titles, in a year filled with big first-person shooter releases. Coming to Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, a multiplayer beta test has already been conducted on Xbox Live. Now a single-player demo of the PC version is available.
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Oct
12
The latest improvements coming to Windows Live Spaces introduced a few changes to the way photos are handled, but with all of the announcements about Events and the changes to SkyDrive, you may have missed what has just happened. We thought we would provide a little primer on what is available for Windows Live Spaces and
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Random From The Windows Live Spaces and Photos “Embedding photos or albums”
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