Archive for the July, 2008


Jul 20

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 July CTP

The July Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 is now available for download. This is the 2nd CTP and like the first this one has a lot of new features and improvements. In addition to the list below you can see some of the features in the Welcome
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Jul 11

Delete Temporary Internet files using Group Policy Preferences

One way to improve the protection of desktops and the network is by cleaning up Temporary Internet files. By cleaning up these files, you can protect the desktop and network from being invaded by malicious files. When Internet Explorer launches for the first time, it starts to immediately store files that it puts into the browser interface
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Jul 20

Filing counter notification with Google against bogus DMCA

If your site content(s) has been removed by Google based on the filing of a DMCA Complaint. The notification in Google's webmaster tools looks something like this: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you
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Jul 16

Microsoft Infrastructure update for Office servers

Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates are applicable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express,
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Jul 21

Google Talk: Invisible status mode hack for Gmail Chat

Rahul notifies that a reader has discovered a bug in Google Talk’s “Invisible status mode” feature in Gmail Chat, that let you find, if one of your Google Talk contacts is offline or using “invisible mode”. The trick takes advantage of Google's off the record feature which lets you chat with your contacts without
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Jul 24

Hyper-V: Clone a Virtual Machine

Cory discusses “cloneing a Virtual Machine for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008”. I have used the VM for a while and taken snapshots. Firstly you can not copy the VHD if there are snapshots. (The VHD will not be the same as how the VM is when you run it).
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Jul 29

Terminal Servers: Configuring for server authentication to prevent “Man in the Middle” attacks

“Man In The Middle (MITM) attack” is a term used to describe a class of security vulnerabilities in which an attacker intercepts communication between two parties and impersonates each one to the other. The attacker can view and/or modify the traffic without the two parties knowledge. As a result, a user might be tricked into entering
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Jul 18

Google to integrate Gears with Google Calendar and Gmail for Offline Support, SyncML support to Gmail

After adding offline functionality to its two most popular web apps Google Reader and Google Docs, Google is ready to integrate two other services with Gears. About a year ago, we had posted that Google is preparing an offline version of Gmail. In an article Andrew Fogg noted that Gmail and
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Jul 2

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 lets you connect from your Macintosh computer to a Windows-based computer or to multiple Windows-based computers at the same time. After you have connected, you can work with applications and files on the Windows-based computer.
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Jul 27

The Disney Innoventions Dream Home

The Disney Innoventions Dream Home just opened at Disnleyland in Anaheim, CA. and it's and it's a peek into your home of the future while also showing off some really cool technologies we have available to us today. They've pimped out this home with all your favorite Microsoft toys like Zune, Surface, Windows Media
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Jul 25

Samsung MediaLive: Smallest HDTV Media Center Extender

Samsung has announced the launch of its new home media adaptor, dubbed as MediaLive, designed to deliver digital content, including HD content in real-time from Windows Media Center on PC running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate operating systems to 2008-model Samsung HDTV with an HDMI-CEC
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Jul 1

Windows 7 is coming, will your PC be ready?

Windows 7 is coming. Will your PC be ready? You simply cannot count on Microsoft to provide an honest assessment of Windows system requirements. And as the "Vista Capable" experience has shown us, Microsoft's vendor partners are no better. Hence InfoWorld's motivation in developing the Windows 7 Compatibility Testing widget: the need for a truly independent tool
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Jul 17

Microsoft: Take advantage of MDOP

Eric Ligman issued a public invitation to customers to make the first step toward enjoying the benefits of MDOP. The promise is that in the end, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization pack will take environment and infrastructure management to a new level. “MDOP is sold as an add-on to the Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise (Windows Vista Business + Software
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Jul 26

Google Index hits 1 trillion unique URLs

Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, at Google reports that “recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
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Jul 15

iPhone 3G firmware updated “fixes” yellow-tinted screens

While early iPhone 3G adopters reported that their new phone’s display is much warmer, or yellow-tinted, compared to the displays of the original iPhone. Apple gone on record to say that the tint is a deliberate choice to improve overall usability. Although clicking “Check for Updates” in iTunes continues to reveal no new firmware,
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