Archive for April 23rd, 2008
Apr
23
If you’re using Windows Vista in an Network environment, you may have noticed slowness, while browsing of network folders with or without connecting through a domain, when browsing Windows Server 2003 shared folders.
The fix involves changing two settings from the command prompt. You need to run the command prompt as an administrator. You can do this by right-clicking and selecting
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Apr
23
HP's ProCurve division and Microsoft have developed a way for software products from both companies to work together to produce what they claim is a complete system for managing security.The ProCurve Identity Driven Manager (IDM) is a management system that helps IT managers to set and manage security policies across their networks. Microsoft's Network
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Apr
23
The Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript. You can embed a simple, dynamic search box and display search results in your own web pages or use the results in innovative, programmatic ways. See the examples below for inspiration.
The Google Ajax API team has a new
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Apr
23
Microsoft have released a new sound scheme and a content pack for Windows DreamScene as part of its Windows Vista Ultimate Extras offerings for customers who purchased the Ultimate edition of Vista.
After installing the sound pack customers get Ultimate Extras Pearl and Glass sound schemes and additional Windows DreamScene Content.
For those who have been waiting for
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Apr
23
Microsoft Corp. announced the official launch of the Vida Digital Latina campaign to promote computer literacy among Hispanics. Microsoft joined forces with ASPIRA, a national nonprofit organization devoted to the education and leadership development of Latino youth, and Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association (LISTA), an organization founded to close the digital divide among Latino communities.
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Apr
23
On paper and in theory, Microsoft is a single corporation, with something like 80,000 employees worldwide. In the real world, it’s actually a collection of dozens, maybe even hundreds, of small companies that appear to act without a lot of central supervision.
That is the only possible explanation for how the same company could do something totally
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Apr
23
Skype users who have been getting strange error messages from Microsoft's security products over the past week can breathe easy now. It was all a mistake.Microsoft said Wednesday that a buggy anti-virus definition update, released Friday, had mislabeled Skype as pop-up adware program called Win32/Vundo.gen!D. The issue was fixed Monday
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Apr
23
The Redmond company released volume four of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), using data gathered via the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool from in excess of 450 million Windows computers worldwide.
"The SIR provides us with a chance to share with our customers and industry partners what we’re seeing in the
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Apr
23
Now delayed by almost a full year, Sony has warned that its Home MMO virtual world for the PlayStation 3 is still not finished. The service was announced in July of last year, and was supposed to release in the fall. However, that never happened and Sony said at the Tokyo Game Show that
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Apr
23
Seagate has become the first manufacturer to ship one billion hard drives in just 30 years. In recent years, worldwide shipments of hard drives has soared -- a statistic that's not surprising considering the advent of portable digital media players and rising demand for laptops, which are typically replaced much sooner than traditional desktop
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Apr
23
Microsoft officials threw down the patent gauntlet, claiming free and open-source software violated 235 of its patents — but refused (and continue to refuse) to get more specific. Today, thanks to a post by my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow, there’s a new piece of patent info that should be of interest to those trying to
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Apr
23
Miro lets you watch Internet videos like you watch TV. Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide. Stop squinting at tedious web videos-- sit back and watch big, high resolution videos one after another. It's so easy to use
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Apr
23
The Microsoft Consolas Font Family is a set of highly legible fonts designed for ClearType. It is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. This installation package will set the default font for Visual Studio to Consolas.
Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where
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Apr
23
Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News, alongwith other Ex-Googlers has been working on a new social search service called “Mechanical Zoo”, poised to launch in beta next month.
At a high level, Mechanical Zoo is building an application--rather than a destination site--that will help people tap into the knowledge of their social circle to
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Apr
23
In the 5 years since the release of NUnit 2.0, there have been millions of lines of code written using the various unit testing frameworks for .NET. About a year ago it became clear to myself and Brad Wilson that there were some very clear patterns of success (and failure) with the tools we were using
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