Archive for September 19th, 2008
Sep
19
SearchMe a visual search engine launched a mobile (WAP) version at the Mobilze conference in San Francisco that offer a thumbnail of each site, as well as a URL. On a smart phone with a larger screen, this is a helpful presentation of results.
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Sep
19
An Australian Whirlpool forums user while playing around with video camera, and thought id throw on the nigthshot, surprisingly found a QR code (data matrix code) on the left side of the iPhone 3G. Engadget guessing that's where Apple imprints the serial and IMEI numbers of each handset since it can't exactly hide them under a removable battery. Watch the
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Sep
19
Amazon Associates Program announced the availability of the hottest and latest Fall TV shows on Amazon Video On Demand. With Amazon Video On Demand, customers can now instantly watch TV shows and movies on
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Sep
19
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief
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Sep
19
Windows Scenic is designed as the UI platform based on the Fluent/Ribbon GUI from the Office 2007 System. Long Zheng pointed out that the UI framework spans not only across Paint and WordPad in Windows 7 Milestone 3 Build 6780, but also on client-side components of the Windows Wave 3 suite
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Sep
19
This post will discuss the steps necessary to allow your SBS 2008 server to host POP3 and IMAP4 services for external clients. This process consists of four parts:
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Sep
19
This podcast gives an overview of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and is worth checking out if you have only just started to find out about softgrid App-V 4.5: Windows Springboard Series: AppV Application Virtualization In form of an introduction here are some details from Kerri;
Karri Alexion-Tiernan, Director in the Windows Client
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Sep
19
Tron Guy makes “I’m a PC” Microsoft’s new Windows consumer campaign cameo.
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Sep
19
Of all the features included with Windows Vista, Media Center is unique. The Media Center application is built into the Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Vista, which means it’s on at least three out of every four PCs sold at retail today. Its predecessor, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, was the default installation for
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Sep
19
Live Mesh is great if you want to sync entire folders across computers and devices but doesn’t allow you to sync individual files - it’s all or nothing. Long shows the way that allow individual files to be Meshed without any additional software or background processes. Please note the following tutorial involves modifying your file system and may
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Sep
19
Google co-founder Sergey Brin launched a blog too.blogspot.com, using a simple light on black template. “Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number – two. It also means ’in addition’, as this blog reflects my life outside of work, says Sergey.”
In his first post, Sergey writes
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Sep
19
Microsoft launched the next phase of an ongoing, long-term Windows marketing effort, with the tagline “Life Without Walls”. A key part of the brand initiative are new television and online commercials called “I’m a PC”. The spots feature real people from the diverse community of one billion Windows users around the world – from
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Sep
19
Gartner has released several documents about the value of the MDOP/SA and the risk of missing Windows Vista (on that note you can read about the development of windows 7 here ) These documents give you a great insight into how much value is just crammed into the packet of technology goodness!
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Sep
19
Search Engine Rap Battle — rappers go out it, mocking each other, as if they’re Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google vs. MSN, MSN vs. Yahoo and Yahoo vs. Google. Check out the video and vote for the winner at searchenginerapbattle.com.
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Sep
19
Google updated its Submit Your Content page to make it more content central — a cumulative guide to various tools to get listed into Google as announced at newly launched Google Content Central Blog. If you're not sure where to start, "Get Started" lists the three steps we recommend all content partners take to begin sharing information with
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Random From The Google “Submit Your Content” page updates – Launches Google Content Central Blog
- Aug28Windows Live ID OpenID Status Update
Windows Live ID team wrote about their findings from the OpenID CTP, that’s been running since PDC last November. “The Production release of Windows - May01Soccer Simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5)
The simulated soccer services implement a simulated soccer competition, using the RoboCup specifications for the field environment, plus automatic enforcement of RoboCup game play rules. The robotic players can be a variety of simulated entities ranging from articulated robots, to simple differential drive models. - Dec14Microsoft releases first IE7 update, resolves a performance issue with the Phishing Filter
This update resolves a performance issue with the Phishing Filter. When visiting certain web pages, the Phishing Filter may - Nov10Visual Studio 2010 Secret Ninja Tips & Tricks: MSDN Radio Webcast
Developer tools have made incredible advances in making it easier to express our creativity and productivity by adding new features and capabilities to integrated development - Dec09How To Find Holiday Tech Gift In Just 4 Minutes, 24 Seconds [Video]
Here's a short video from Ben Rudolph that cover his talks on the broadcast and radio interviews on the hottest tech gifts for the holiday