Archive for January 11th, 2008
Jan
11
British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) said in a report on the software. It also supported use of the international standard ODF (Open Document Format) for storing files.Schools might consider using Vista if rolling out
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Jan
11
Microsoft ISV’s, partners and developers in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region will want to visit a new web site that provides pointers to a wide selection of relevant programs, events, training sessions, communities, blogs and downloads. This technical information will help keep ISV’s up to date and informed about the latest Microsoft
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Jan
11
Do you send email to long list of your contacts or ever wish to create a mailing list to avoid repetitive type of same email address again & again? The new contact manager interface, which was launched in Gmail for IE7 and Firefox2, allows you to create custom "groups" of contacts so you don't have to remember individual
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Jan
11
The term dogfooding refers to companies that are implementing and running their own software. This is the case with Microsoft, and with Windows Server 2008. But according to statistics provided by Alexa via InformationWeek, it appears that Microsoft might be chocking while dogfooding its last 32-bit server operating system.
The Redmond company
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Jan
11
As we all know switching between multimple Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Google/Gmail accounts is normally a painstaking process, and requires you to logout of one before you can login to another. Here’s something to rescue on Google/Gmail accounts.
Google Account Multi-Login is a simple Greasemonkey
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Jan
11
CopyAllUrls is a Firefox extension that copies and pastes all urls of open tabs inclusive history in structured and well defined form to and from the clipboard. It works in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Once you install the add-on, all you have to do is click on
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Jan
11
The BannerBlog posted a video on “how they managed to stand apart in the sponsored listings for a search on "Mietwagen" (car rental) in Google for their German car rental client “Sixt”. To stand out, they came up with the idea to display ASCI art of cars in
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Jan
11
Ever wondered what would happen if you put the PlayStation 3's Cell processor into a laptop? Us too, and now we know the answer: you get the Toshiba Spurs Engine, a system that turns a normal laptop into a motion-sensing, video indexing, face morphing, standard-def to hi-def converting super machine.
The system was demonstrated
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Jan
11
Last week, the news came about that Nvidia is preparing a new mainstream card known as the GeForce 9600 GT for a launch in mid-February. The card is expected to be the first member of the GeForce 9 series and to feature 64 stream processors, a half a gig of RAM, and a 256-bit memory bus.Today,
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Jan
11
WebShot is a simple utility that gives you the ability to take screenshots and thumbnails of webpages or websites. You can take screenshots of a single webpage or screenshots of multiple webpages in batch mode.
The freeware edition does color screenshots via the graphical user interface and the freeware command line interface is limited to grayscale screenshots.
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Jan
11
WHS MVP and now Microsoft employee Rick Hallihan’s book, “Windows Home Server: Protect and Simplify Your Digital Life“ is now shipping at Amazon.
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Jan
11
Troubleshooting issues with the SVCHOST.EXE process can be a very frustrating experience for server administrators. Whether the issue manifests as High CPU or the SVCHOST.EXE process crashing, there are some challenges that make the troubleshooting process a little more tricky. So before we dive
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Jan
11
Loren on searchenginejournal reports that Yahoo Search Marketing is displaying the images embedded within their sponsored search results on Yahoo Directory pages, to the left of their Yahoo Search Marketing results. The images, are being supplied by a company called ImageAdvantage, are generated either from a stock photo database or from their sponsors sites.
For example, the
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Jan
11
Continued criticism by industry insiders didn't stop vendors from OQO to Lenovo and LG from showing off ultramobile PC products with range of innovative features at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas this week.With many of the prototypes displayed due to hit the market later this year, UMPCs continue to
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Jan
11
Microsoft released Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC) Refresh - Build 17128 on January 9, 2008 to 15,000 testers, which is the latest development milestone release of Vista SP1, following the first publicly available build of the service pack, served in December 2007. In the past month, the Redmond company opened up the testing process of Vista
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