Archive for April 11th, 2008
Apr
11
IBM is developing a type of memory that it says could one day be faster and more reliable than today's hard drives and flash memory.
Called "racetrack," it is a solid-state memory that aims to combine the best attributes of flash, like having no moving parts, and the low cost of hard drives for an
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Apr
11
Google Maps added a new feature, a little arrow next to the text input box, that’ll show up to 5 most recent saved location in an dropdown box, once clicked. This gives users easier access to their recent saved locations but I would rather have it to show the most used ones.
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Apr
11
This post looks at Pool Tags and how they can be used to identify the source of Pool Memory leaks. A pool tag is a four-byte character that is associated with a dynamically allocated chunk of pool memory. The tag is specified by a driver when it allocates the memory. The
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Apr
11
Microsoft is currently working on the next development of the browser, Beta 2, planned for the summer of this year, and has revealed that inconstancies in IE8 Beta 1 will be dealt with. Case in point: the problems with HTML and DOM.
Travis Leithead, Program Manager IE8 Object Model, has a list
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Apr
11
Back in February, DailyTech brought news of NVIDIA's upcoming mobile video and graphics processor, not for laptops but for smaller, hand-held devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, etc. The APX 2500 HD video and graphics processing platform looked interesting on paper and looked even better in screen shots and demo videos with clean 3D rendering and
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Apr
11
Microsoft Corp. proposed a new structure for self-regulation of online advertising, submitting to the Federal Trade Commission a proposal for a five-tiered system to protect consumers’ privacy. Microsoft’s recommendations call for distinct privacy standards in five key circumstances: when site visitors’ data is collected for online advertising, when ads are delivered on unrelated sites,
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Apr
11
Long-deferred vendor visions of agile data centers are finally coming true now that VMware virtualization with VMotion live migration has severed the ties that kept services fixed to x86 hardware. Unfortunately, some vendors are trying to stage a revival with an inferior substitute for live migration. Most notably, Microsoft is claiming that their "Quick Migration" feature
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Apr
11
Viewfinder is an interesting technology for users to spatially situate, or “find the pose,” of their photographs, and then to view these photographs, along with others, as perfectly aligned overlays in a 3D world model such as Google Earth.
"Geotagged photos, geographically indexed on a world map, either manually or via GPS, are an
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Apr
11
As you may know, Microsoft switched UK users to Multiap. You might remember that Microsoft bought MultiMap back in December, and now, for UK users, Multimap is all you can use. There’re some advantages with MultiMap, for example, you can see how many cash points there are in the map area. However, if you want
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Apr
11
nDroid is a blazing fast Windows keyboard based application launcher, which can open documents, play songs, open browser bookmarks, lookup web references, find torrents, do online searches, find your files .. plus a lot more.
nDroid uses an open plugin based infrastructure, so anybody can add to its functionality by bringing anything to its searchable domain, and
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Apr
11
Intel expects low-cost PC shipments (including those for Internet-centric devices such as netbooks and nettops) to break 100 million units between 2008-2011, while Asustek president Jerry Shen expects the market to see shipments of 10 million units in 2008, and 20 million in 2009.
Intel has told notebook makers it forecasts both netbook
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Apr
11
Among the newly improved features of Live Maps is the traffic re-routing feature, called Clearflow, which can re-route Live Maps directions based on traffic information. The new system, updated initially for 72 US cities, takes into account not only major traffic routes
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Apr
11
Penn State research study reveals that about 80% of searches are informational in nature, whereas 10% are navigational and another 10% are transactional. The researchers reviewed over 1.5 million queries from hundreds of thousands of search engines users to prove the "the 80/20 rule that 80 percent of the cases can be achieved with these clear-cut
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Apr
11
Blog Header Generator create a custom blog header for your WordPress 1.5 or higher blog with your own photos. an image from either your local machine, Flickr, Photobucket or a linked image and creates a custom header image for you to use on the Kubrick WordPress theme. The generator provides options to align the visible part of the image in case it needs to be cropped. You can also choose whether to add credit to the image or not.
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Apr
11
Brandon Paddock, who works on the Windows Shell Team here at Microsoft, wrote a Windows Sidebar Gadget that displays the status of the Windows Search Indexer. Brandon Paddock developed this gadget on his own time and isn't officially supported by Microsoft. Brandon also developed the Start++ search add-on for Windows Vista.
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Random From The Windows Search: Indexer Status Sidebar Gadget
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