Archive for May 19th, 2008
May
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Channel 10 focusing on digital photography and imaging called ShutterSpeed. The idea is simple: make you a better photographer by highlighting techniques to take better photos, help you understand your camera (and camera gear), and showcase ways to edit your photos. As someone who is taking up digital photography as a hobby - I am always
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May
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Philipp reports that Google may release “Gmail Themes” within the next month — custom layouts to personalize Google’s web mail client. According to the source, there will be 12 themes to pick from, like a black-and-green “terminal” view, as well as a flowery view.
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May
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In case you are curious what it is like to be in charge of Security for IT at Microsoft, you get to deal with an environment where there are:
Approximately 100,000 intrusion attempts each month.
Approximately 1 million infected or malicious e-mail messages received each month.
Over 5,000 PCs rebuilt every day.
Microsoft IT (MSIT) has
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May
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When Apple approached record companies about selling their music digitally five years ago, they “were extremely cautious and required Apple to protect their music from being illegally copied”, according to Steve Jobs's recollection of the process. That meant using digital rights management (DRM) - a software wrapper - to protect songs from unlimited copying. Jobs
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May
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The May 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online, which starts with a focus on developing Office-based business applications based on SharePoint. We also delve into the details of development language by delving into new features for Visual C++, making sense of .NET languages, updating VBA macros, and more.
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May
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Facebook has banned Google Friend Connect within its social networking platform, because of privacy concerns and not a competitive decision, as blog post said.
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May
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Live Search for Mobile’s recent update comes the ability to access collections on your mobile device. The feature comes with a few preloaded collections, and you can search through items collected by others, but it becomes much more powerful when you add your own collections. While it certainly isn’t “seamless computing” at this point, adding
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May
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Did you know you can import/export WMI filters using GPMC? However, your export is limited to one filter at a time – filter to a single .mof file. You then take the exported .mof file to a different domain and use GPMC to import each file. This is great when you only have one or two
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May
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Michael Clemens put together a very handy list of IIS diagnostic tools and add-on components. As Michael has not yet joined the blogging fold I'm taking this chance to publish it for him as it is very useful...
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May
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Windows Server 2008 has a command-line installation option - Server Core - which significantly reduces the attack surface and patch requirements by the virtue of not having Explorer and other UI components not needed in datacenter.
The problem is that it only ships with traditional cmd.exe and not PowerShell. To make things worse neither PowerShell nor .NET
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May
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Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows Media Centers will block users from recording TV shows at the request of a broadcaster.“Microsoft included technologies in Windows based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission),” a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. “As part of these regulations, Windows Media Center fully adheres
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May
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A number of common Windows Server networking features were removed with Windows Server 2008. In this article, we will discuss what is removed and what new networking features you should be using instead.
If you are a long-time Windows Server user, you may boot up Windows Server 2008, look for a common networking feature or protocol,
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May
19
This article shows you how to manage your databases for your websites using phpMyAdmin. Managing your database includes creating new databases, tables, entries. Or even deleting or editing them. Though I will warn your right now, if you don’t know what you are doing, or are just experimenting with phpMyAdmin, you can serious screw up installed php
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May
19
You must have come across today's announcement where Microsoft and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) announced an agreement that will make the Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops. Microsoft and OLPC are committed to working with governments and nongovernmental organizations to ensure
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Random From The OLPC XO Laptop: How standard Windows XP customized to run?
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Christian Effenberger got the inspiration for the script from reflection.js to implement it into Corner.js. Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to images - Jan21Updated Spyware Protection for Mac
The fact that viruses, as we know them on Windows systems, are not present on Mac systems with the same frequency doesn't mean they don't exist, - Jan05Mac OS X Snow Leopard Successfully Installed and Running on Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs
Intel introduced Sandy Bridge Core 11 processor family and intrepid Mac OS X hackers have already managed to install Apple's Mac OS X Snow - Jan18Microsoft Product Support Division is Hiring!
Are you passionate about the Windows operating systems? Do you love supporting and administering Windows environments? Do you want to influence tomorrow's reality today - - Nov03‘Cyber Bullying Affects Real Lives’ – Google’s SOSO campaign to combat cyber bullying
“Cyber Bullying Affects Real Lives,” is a new Google campaign, part of Smart Online, Safe Offline (SOSO) social initiative