Archive for July 25th, 2008
Jul
25
To establish secure connection(HTTPS) in Gmail, until now, you had to manually type https://mail.google.com in the address bar, now Google has added an option to Gmail settings to “always use https”. Https is typically used for sites that deal with sensitive data, like PayPal, Google Checkout, AdWords and a handful of
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Jul
25
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
25
Bill Veghte, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, told attendees at Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM), that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 to the Web “later this year.”
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Jul
25
My Movies for Microsoft Windows Media Center, Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate is the ultimate movie collection management and playback tool. With My Movies you are able to index your movies with automatically downloaded data from the My Movies WebService, and then browse movies, actors, directors and much more. You can share your movie database to
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Jul
25
Satya Nadella at the Financial Analyst’s Meeting (FAM), held on Microsoft’s campus, announced an extension of Microsoft’s U.S. relationship with Facebook to encompass search. An email from Waggener Edstrom clarifies: “As part of the deal, Microsoft will work with Facebook to bring its customers Live Search-powered web search and search ads by the end of the
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Jul
25
Hitachi announced the third version of its Blu-ray camcorder that is able to record and store video directly on a disc so it can be later viewed on any PC or TV with a Blu-ray drive -- but not a PS3. The new DZ-BD10H Blu-ray camcorder, has a 30GB
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Jul
25
A “fight back” ad of Windows Vista promotion spotted on Microsoft.com by Ed Bott, doubbed as a sneak preview of Microsoft's long-awaited $300 million Windows consumer marketing campaign. But it's not, company spokesman Lou Gellos said when I called today to double-check the reports. It's simply the latest in a regular series of banners on Microsoft's
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Jul
25
According to Sophos Security Threat Report for July — it detects “one Web page with malicious content every 5 seconds--a trend that is up 300 percent from 2007.”
As for illegitimate sites, Sophos notes that Geocities and Blogger both make it easy for anyone to set up a Web site without much
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Jul
25
During Microsoft's annual Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, the company will finally show off semi-publicly the spherical Surface computer that has been rumored for the past few months.Microsoft listed its “multi-touch Spherical display” as one of the demos that the company will show off during its DemoFest for conference attendees next week. It seems
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Jul
25
Gain a real insight into how map-enabling your clients’ business applications can help them create customer satisfaction and optimise their organisation on Virtual Earth New Partner Day, Friday 19th September 2008 in Brighton. If you are a technologist you’ll be amazed at just how easy it is to access and integrate Virtual Earth into an existing environment.
The
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Jul
25
An article from from Microsoft’s Midsize Business Center is good place to go for info on how business meets IT and visa versa, which discussing social computing technologies are powerful business collaboration tools. Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps ease their deployment and management.
The “social” side comes into play with the way you can share
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Jul
25
In a recent e-mail, Yahoo alerted its Yahoo! Music Unlimited customers that it will stop distributing keys for unlocking DRM on Yahoo Music tunes by September 30, 2008 deadline. After which the servers that store license keys for any purchased Y! Music tunes will go dark. Those keys are required to re-authorize purchased, digital
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Jul
25
LiveSino posted about a feature in the new release of Windows Live Photo Gallery - it will include a special “Face Recognition” feature where the software will automatically recognize different faces in in your personal pictures and will also let you add those names as tags. Once this is added, you can connect a digital camera to
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Jul
25
If you’ve a VMC HTPC and a Blu-ray or HD DVD player, here is how to play HD DVD movies from Windows Vista Media Center.
Mike has made a step-by-step post:
Play Blu-ray and HD DVD’s directly from Media Center.
Native Media Center remote support.
Backup my Blu-ray and HD DVD’s to hard disk.
Play the backup from the folder on the
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Jul
25
Live QnA Team has a large post on the latest Live Search QnA updates, here’s the gist of updates from the QnA blog post:
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Random From The Live Search QnA: Latest updates
- Feb22Xbox 360 wireless controller for Windows hits stores
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 wireless controller for Windows is now available in stores and online retail websites across North America. Discover greater - Jun15Office 2010 @One: Top 10 Office 2010 Features That ‘Make It Great’ for Customers
Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Rtm'd on April 17th, 2010, released to MSDN/TechNet on April 27, 2010 and to general - Mar18Internet Explorer 9 Enhanced for Bing and MSN – Why? Because You Can Have It All
Microsoft is offering users not only the plain-vanilla variant of Internet Explorer 9 RTM, but also an enhanced version, tailored to Bing and MSN. - Feb05Convert & integrate your PDF files into online flip books with “Issuu”
Issuu is an free online publishing service that automatically convert PDF documents into interactive online publications. After this you can view your document in a - Aug13YouTube: Flagged Videos Messages with Tips
Now to elaborate more on flagged messages that’s send to you to take down your uploaded video, when you don’t comply with YouTube Community Guidelines. YouTube