Archive for March 16th, 2008
Mar
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As the March 29th voting deadline on OOXML approaches, Red Hat has announced its support of Open Document Format (ODF) instead of Office Open XML (OOXML). The Company released its official position statement on OOXML on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. The statement, hosted on Red Hat’s new Open Standards website, cites the desire
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Mar
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Earth Hour 2008 is happening on Saturday, March 29 from 8pm to 9pm. It is an event to raise awareness about conserving electricity. To participate, individuals, business and cities all around the world are invited to switch off non-essential lighting and electronic equipment for an hour at this specific time and date.
The idea was
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Mar
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Steve posted an video on YouTube to get you go with Windows Live Photo Gallery. In this video, he demos “how to create your own panorama?” Video after the jump.
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Mar
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As Shreesh mentioned in his blog, Internet Explorer 8 has a built-in JScript debugger. With Internet Explorer Developer Tools you get a light weight JScript debugger that is well integrated in the browser and available out of the box. This is an in-proc debugger making sure that you don’t have to launch a separate
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Mar
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It happens many times, if you visit a web page or blog, you encounter 404, 500 or other HTTP errors, even though the site was working fine just an hour ago or so? When you report or ask others, you come to know, it’s working for them or if, you cann’t ask others. You probably starts determining the cause of
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Mar
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IESB.net has gotten their hands on a the results of a worldwide casting survey performed for the role of Prince Dastan in Jerry Bruckheimer's upcoming Prince of Persia movie, and from the questions asked and the audience reaction it certainly looks like there is a clear front runner. Both
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Mar
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When you install Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 there are a few important things to do before you start. First, I recommend you review the system requirements to make sure IE8 is supported on your computer. Second, take a look at the IE8 Release notes to find known issues and workarounds, so
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Mar
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TorrentFreak reports, that “four major Japanese ISPs have come together to purge copyright infringing file-sharers from their networks in pressure from the movie, music and software industries.”
Copyright holders would use “special detection software” to sniff out online pirates and then notify the ISPs. Punishment is reminiscent of high school with ISPs first emailing a warning, then
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Mar
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Blews - what the blogosphere tells you about news — While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse. BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according
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Mar
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Recent studies by Microsoft conducted over the internet give support to the theory of six degress of separation. For those who may be wondering what that theory is, Wikipedia states that:
"Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person he
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Mar
16
If you installed one of those Excel security patches issued by Microsoft earlier this week, you may want to double-check your math. A bug in this week's MS08-014 patch causes Excel to return zeroes instead of the correct number when certain types of macros are run within the program.
The issue, which does not affect all
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Mar
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One of the main advantages of Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid) is that applications that would normally require Administrator privileges now can be virtualized and therefore can run under Limited User context. Application delivery can be done through a “classic” streaming server and through MSI deployment.
A downside to the MSI deployment model is that it needs Administrator
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Mar
16
Google has taken a dig at Apple's iPhone, saying the device has a much smaller market than phones which run Android, the mobile phone operating system Google helped develop.The search giant said that despite selling 4 million units within the first 7 months of its release, the iPhone was ultimately a more
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Mar
16
FireGestures is a Firefox extension that enables customizable mouse gestures extension in the Firefox browser. With FireGestures, you can execute various commands with five types of mouse gestures:
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Mar
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Percy Cabello: One of the main concerns about the JavaScript benchmarks I recently published was that it mixed in-development releases with shipped products that may not be as current as the others.
So, I ran again the tests with the most recent versions I could find:
For Opera, build 9815 released on late February.
For Internet
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Random From The Web browsers (Opera, Firefox, IE8) JavaScript benchmarks
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