Archive for September 18th, 2008
Sep
18
AMD’s graphics division (ATI) introduced the ninth update for its Catalyst driver software. Version 8.9 includes a new display mode, Overdrive support four quad-Crossfire X configurations and works in concert with OpenGL 3 extensions.
According to AMD, Catalyst 8.9 introduces 1080p-50 Hz custom mode support for HDTVs for Radeon 1000-4000 graphics cards. Also new is OpenGL 3.0
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Sep
18
In February this year we posted about a cool Microsoft Research project called “MySong” made in collaboration with the University of Washington full of gifted computer science students. Microsoft has now filed a trademark application for “Songsmith” for “computer programs for generating background music to accompany singers” - exactly what MySong did. A quickest research project to
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Sep
18
“Messenger has had groups for some time now, but they were nothing like the new Groups! You can create a group of friends that has its own conversation window, among many other benefits. It’s a whole new way to stay in touch with your sports team, community group, or just
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Sep
18
The Pro Photo Tools allow you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital photographs. You can place photos on the Live Earth map and then drag them to the right location. The GPS information will be stored back into the photos. If you have a GPS device, you can load track route files
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Sep
18
iGoogle Developer Blog announces that the canvas view — an experimental version of iGoogle is going will and that more US English users will be a part of the experiment.
In anticipation of this, we're going to hold a special IRC event on improving existing gadgets by adding a canvas view. During the two hour session, show us your XML
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Sep
18
Hackers claim to have cracked a web-based email account used by Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. The US Secret Service is investigating after a group of hackers calling themselves ‘anonymous’ managed to break into a Yahoo web mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) Palin was using. Palin has been criticised in the past for using
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Sep
18
The next ad in Microsoft's massive Windows campaign won't feature Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, but the move is part of a planned shift, Microsoft insisted on Wednesday."That was always the plan," a Microsoft spokesperson said late Wednesday. That followed a report on Valleywag that Seinfeld and Gates were getting the boot.
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Sep
18
Google announced that they've joined forces (PDF file) with GE to use technology, information and corporate resources to drive the changes necessary to empower consumers with better energy choices. And will focus on improving power generation, transmission and distribution – a combination of technologies that could be known as the "smart grid."
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Sep
18
If you lost your Gmail account, no matter what their origin, here’re some simple steps you can take to ensure that your account stays in your hands, and to greatly improve the chances of regaining access if you have any problems:
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Sep
18
The new Windows Live Betas or Windows Live Suite is now available for download, here’re several blog posts from the Windows Live Product Teams talking about the features & releases; worth reading.
Tanja, Program Manager for Windows Live Mail talks about Windows Live Mail Beta release. We all know that Windows Live Mail is sporting calendar sync
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Sep
18
Microsoft said acquired of the semantic search startup Powerset. A month over, Mark Johnson announces that “ they’ve completed first few integration projects: Freebase Answers, improved captions for Wikipedia results, and new related searches using our Factz engine”.
All of these projects are currently being “flighted” on Live Search, which means that they are being
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Sep
18
EFi-X USB dongle simply let you turn your PC into a Mac OS X, you hust plug it into a internal USB, stick in an OS X install disc and it simply let you install OS X Leopard on your PC. According to Gizmodo, they’ve installed and managed to grab all the updates straight from Apple,
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Sep
18
ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. ThinApp is designed to be compatible with Windows operating systems from 2000 through to Vista. It is compatible with centralised information stores such as OMD, CMDB and LDAP and happily integrates with Citrix Presentation servers. It
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Sep
18
When using RTSPS and a 3rd party Certificate Authority some clients may receive the following error message during a refresh after a user login:
The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline. Error code: 450260-24C02F2A-80092013
Cause: The SoftGrid client is unable to obtain the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) therefore the connection
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Sep
18
Emily Chang, Gmail engineer has added a new feature in Gmail Labs called “Right-side Labels” to mitigate the problems associated with long lists in both Labels and Chat, where you constantly scroll in order to see Labels. Now, with Right-side Labels enabled, you can see both Labels and Chat buddies at the same time, with one on the left and
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Random From The Gmail Labs: Right-side Labels and Chat
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Google is working updates to its Google TV project. On October 20, folks over at Zatsnotfunny posted some screenshots showing off the new user interface