Archive for September 16th, 2008
Sep
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Last year we had posted about 360Desktop and read here, a new software application for Windows that lets you see your desktop in a 360 degree format. As you open programs and windows, you can spin to a virtual “other side” of your desktop to have more space. Although
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Sep
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Microsoft announced at Sibos 2008 that it is signing a global partnership agreement with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions (SWIFT). The announcement signifies a new, higher level of close cooperation between the organizations, under which they will work together to deliver deep industry value and simplify SWIFTNet implementation for customers using Microsoft technology.
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Sep
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With the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, users were introduced to new features, such as Web Slices and Accelerators, as well as enhanced Search capabilities that make browsing the Web much easier. Users can now be exposed to specific bits of information they want quick access to - from the latest news
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Sep
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Microsoft has been committed to providing intuitive and easy-to-use mapping solutions that help consumers plan ahead and drive with confidence once on the road. Microsoft has taken its commitment to the next level with the launch of Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 Standard and Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 with GPS Locator, which combines the No. 1 best-selling1
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Sep
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This guide provides sufficient guidance to allow an administrator to securely operate Windows XP Professional in accordance with the requirements stated in the Windows 2003/XP Common Criteria (CC) Security Target (ST).The Windows 2003/XP CC ST, henceforth referred to as the Windows 2003/XP ST, provides a set of security requirements taken from the CC for
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Sep
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Infrastructure Planning and Design guides have been updated with the introduction of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) version 4.5. Use these guides to determine the scope of the services to be provided and choose to partially or completely redesign your infrastructure. Have confidence in knowing that the steps in each phase are described in detail
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Sep
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If you use Recovery Storage Group and add multiple databases to it, ran into the following issue:
Recovery configured through Database Recovery Management in Exchange Management Console has and issue with picking the Database name if you have multiple databases in storage group (for example Corp1.edb, Corp2.edb and Corp3.edb). In Recovery Storage Group, the name of
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Sep
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Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 in 21 more languages in addition to English, Germany, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. The additional languages are: Arabic, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
You can
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Sep
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Networking in SBS 2008 has been simplified down to one supported network topology. SBS 2008 is designed to be installed with a single network adapter. If SBS setup detects multiple NICs all but one will be disabled. The NIC must use a private IP address. The following IP ranges are supported:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 -
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Sep
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Earlier last month, we talked about upcoming Quality Score improvements, the AdWords blog notifies that these changes will take effect in all advertisers' accounts over the next few days. In addition, we'd like to answer a number of the more common questions we've recently heard from our advertisers.
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Sep
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Keith Schwarz posted about CSS transform support in Firefox thanks to the new -moz-transform, based on Webkit CSS transforms.
This function simply moves elements around by the specified offset. For example, a text element with -moz-transform: translate(100px); will appear 100 pixels downward and to the right of where it normally would have been displayed. Of course,
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Sep
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The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in' from post slugs to improve search engine optimization. For example, when you publish a post with a title like this: "What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings", WordPress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug: /what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings
SEO Slugs plugin
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Sep
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Recently we mentioned about Windows 7 build 6780 as Milestone 3. This post serves as my thoughts of what might hypothetically exist in this build based on what we saw in M1.
Based on the trend we saw in M1, The Sidebar the thing which really shouldn’t be called the sidebar anymore will be
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Sep
16
High-profile Microsoft-technology licensee Wallop may be calling it quits, at least on the social-networking-platform side of its business. In 2006, Wallop licensed Microsoft’s Wallop social-networking technology. As reported by TechCrunch on September 15, Wallop seems to be closing its social-networking site.
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Sep
16
Apple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.5.5, a recommended update for all users of Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard that includes over a hundred bug fixes and enhancements. As of press time, the 321MB update was only available via the Software Update mechanism located under the Apple menu of your Mac.
In addition to
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Random From The Apple Mac OS X 10.5.5 updates
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Eagle-eyed fanboy reader lee sent in a tip telling us that our long awaited Chatpad (which was announced back - Oct07Free WhitePapers for Windows 8 Developer Preview
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