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Archive for February 18th, 2008

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Feb 18

James talked at the Realcomm Europe conference in London.  Realcomm is the main conference for everyone in the property industry and talks about how you can apply technology in this particular industry.  Talking about mapping - and Virtual Earth - is particularly apt as I recall the saying is "location, location, location"!  It's amazing to think

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Windows Server 2008 was released to manufacturing concomitantly with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. And in fact, because of the synchronization between the RTM builds of Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's latest server operating system is also carrying the label of Service Pack 1. Despite the fact that it was planned for RTM by

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What are some ways the Zune player and a Windows Mobile device can work better together? I'm not referring to an imaginary "Zune phone", and I'm certainly not hinting or speculating about a converged device. Instead, I'm wondering if there are any opportunities for us to improve the experience for people who use both devices (a

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Is Microsoft going back in time with Windows 7, before Windows Vista, and resurrecting bits and pieces of Longhorn? Could the crumbs of the original Longhorn project that were discarded on the way to Vista make the mother of all comebacks in Windows 7? Well, there are

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Following the benchmarks I carried out last week, I decided that the PC Doc HQ lab rats needed to pull a few all-nighters and carry out some more benchmarking tests on Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP2. Is it possible to determine conclusively which is the faster, more responsive OS?One of

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The official Windows Home Server Forums released a new add-in called “To Desktop”. To Desktop allows you to minimize, close or exit full screen from the WHS console.  The UI is a tab in the settings window. The add-in has been written by C Hanlon, who writes: I consider the plug-in to be beta status. I

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AutoVer is a configurable automatic or real time backup and version control system. It can be used as a simple real time backup or as a more complex version control system. The beauty of this system is that once you set it up (which is extremely simple) it does everything. No remembering to backup or to

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With the Toshiba-backed HD-DVD format reportedly on the cusp of tumbling into the precipice of defeat at the hands of Blu-ray, yet more rumours have now surfaced suggesting that Microsoft Corp. could be about to join the long list of supporters embracing Sony’s (almost) triumphant platform.David Richards at Aussie online technology magazine

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Mike Williams asked in the Suggestion Box why Explorer shows a + sign next to a folder even though it doesn't have any children. Mind you, this wasn't a suggestion; it was just a random question. I don't enjoy answering random questions about specific details of user interface elements since, as it turns out,

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Outlook is a default component of the Office System, and the Office 2007 version of Microsoft's productivity suite makes no exception to this rule. Present at the Office System Developers Conference 2008 in San Jose, California on February 11, 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates underlined the relevance of the Office System as both a collection of

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It doesn't take a genius to catch on to the fact that in IT, innovation is a mandate. Push the envelope of what's possible, or find yourself relegated to wayside. But, to borrow a favored David St. Hubbins Spinal Tap aphorism, there's a fine line between clever and crackpot when it comes to making

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Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling of Blizzard Internet Marketing has released a WordPess SEO Whitepaper that is available for free in PDF form. The white paper goes over the usual suspects such as the use of pretty permalinks, SEO Plugins and socializing your blog. The whitepaper also gives quite a few tips and tricks to help

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Miguel de Icaza is well known for his work on Mono, the open source implemenatation of .NET. He and his band of merry developers have written a Silverlight implementation that runs on Mono called Moonlight. They really are a creative and talented bunch. I wanted to chat with him about why he is

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One good place to look for what might be coming in Windows 7 is an early planned feature list of Windows Vista (then called Longhorn) back in 2003. If one intriguing feature, called Location Awareness, makes its way into Windows 7, it could track your every move...and that could be a good thing. Microsoft described Location

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Sam Wood released an updated version of his WHS Disk Management add-in for Windows Home Server, which brings the following new features a nd fixes: 1.0.6.0 - Update Added: Each drive bay now has a user-editable comment field (currently only displayed in the Settings dialog) Changed: Drive bay settings dialog now has Update/Replace functionality (previously you had to delete

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