Archive for the June, 2008


Jun 19

Flock 2 Beta with Firefox 3 technology!

The social Web browser Flock quietly prepared the rollout of its first public beta of version 2.0, which is live now. “Flock 2 incorporates all of the latest features found in Flock’s recent public release, but it runs on the latest and greatest Firefox 3 technology from Mozilla. So now you don’t have to abandon your love
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Jun 9

Control your WordPress cron “wp-cron.php” with WP-Crontrol WordPress Plugin

Cron schedules are used by WordPress and WordPress plugins to allow you to schedule commands to be executed at regular intervals. Intervals must be provided by the WordPress core or a plugin in order to be used. WP-Crontrol lets you take control over what's happening in the WP-Cron system.
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Jun 24

Google Japan microsite “One Green Project”

Google Japan launched a microsite titled One Green Project to help prevent global warming, and promote some ways of using Google’s tools like iGoogle. The page seems to contain tips for reducing CO2 emissions.
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Jun 12

Apple to drop PowerPC with Mac OS X Snow Leopard

When Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, it was met with a lot of fanfare. The refresh for OS X promises a lot of nice enhancements to the system, including a lot of functionality that is specific to newer generation hardware, such as multi-core processors. What is less mentioned (in fact, not at
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Jun 3

Anonymous Internet surfing with XeroBank Browser (xB Browser)

xB Browser is the free and open-source anonymous web browser. You're just a click away from anonymous surfing right now! The benefits of xB Browser are that it allows you to securely and anonymously surf the internet, and bypass firewalls and website censorship. For enhanced privacy, xB Browser automatically clears surfing history and deletes cookies when
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Jun 3

Live Mesh desktop wallpapers

Steve Clayton has put online, all Live Mesh wallpaper to download, that were featured in his recent Live Mesh on Sky interview. The maximum resolution is 960x720, so for those of  you with large displays it probably won’t be a long-term fixture.
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Jun 17

Google showcases plug-in electric vehicles

A two-day conference was hosted in Washington by Google.org and the Brookings Institution to showcase plug-in electric vehicles and examine how the government can support their widespread adoption. The conference was attended by Members of Congress, auto and utility executives, and technology experts spoke to a packed house about the potential of plug-ins to reduce oil dependence, lower
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Jun 8

Virtual Machine Record: Lenovo ThinkPad T61p, WS2008, Hyper-V, Windows Vista SP1

Keith Combs had setup his Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with 8GB of memory, running Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V to test “how effectively both allocate and juggle memory.” He fired up a bunch of virtual machines. In this test, he was able to get fourteen operating system instances running at the same time. The host OS
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Jun 17

Microsoft and Concentric announced hosted e-mail service for SMEs

At NXTcomm08, Microsoft and Concentric announced new hosted e-mail service offerings for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Concentric, a large-scale e-mail service provider, is deploying Microsoft Hosted Exchange to combine the productivity benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook with its enterprise-class applications hosting platform. Concentric will market the new services to its existing customers
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Jun 13

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator for WS2008, Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator for Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2“ by Baldwin Ng, senior product manager for the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Core Engineering team, and Jay Sauls, senior product manager. Baldwin started explaining what Solution accelerator are. Basically they are just tools designed to help you implement a certain technology, product
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Jun 28

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack

The DPM 2007 Update Rollup is a feature pack that includes previously released hotfixes alongside several new features aimed to enhance overall applicability and usability of DPM. Added features include: Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 support, enhanced support for sharing tape libraries and support for media co-location on tapes.This Data Protection Manager
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Jun 24

Portable Firefox 3 for Windows and Mac OS X

Mozilla Firefox 3 Portable Edition is a fully functional package of Firefox 3 optimized for use on a USB key drive, bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the
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Jun 7

Windows Embedded Quebec slated for 2010

Although it hasn't said much about its plans for a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based embedded operating system, Microsoft already is working on one. Microsoft released during the first week of June a new test build of its latest Windows XP-based embedded operating system, known as “Windows Embedded Standard 2009,” the final version of
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Jun 13

Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator – v 14.7

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! There are a lot of usability improvements as well as a whole new section on Storage Design. The calculator uses all the recommendations outlined in the following articles, and thus we recommend you read
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Jun 3

Glory: Gaia Ajax Widgets Beta 3

Thomas Hansen has released beta 3 of Gaia Ajax Widgets called “Glory”, which has a completely refactored core on the C# side. And the JavaScript side is also significantly refactored and should be way more stable, fast and reliable than anything we've previously released ever. The resource usage on the server-side have been improved by up to
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