Archive for September 27th, 2008
Sep
27
A video from the Microsoft ProPhoto Summit went live on September 25, and reveals the integration between Seadragon and Microsoft Surface, an integration as natural as the user interface of the Redmond company's first commercial example of surface computing.
Seadragon is yet to be made available to the general public, as it remains
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Sep
27
Google Analytics made it easier for getting rid of a duplicate or test account, now, you can delete an account with a click of a button in the "Edit Account and Data Sharing Settings" page. If you're the administrator of the account, and the account is not linked to
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Sep
27
Turbo Services Manager (TSM) is a free utility that let you manage Windows Services on Vista and XP. Once you fire up, the main display shows the name, state, dependencies, startup type, and description of your Windows services, just highlight a row in TSM and press shift + s to enable/disable/startup/manual/stop/pause/resume in single /multiple selected services at once with one key
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Sep
27
Increased functionality and virtual machine control in the Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Management console for the Hyper-V role
This update changes the Failover Cluster Management console (the Cluadmin.msc file) and the server components of the failover cluster. If this update is installed on one node, it should be installed on all nodes of a Windows Server
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Sep
27
Instead of quickly giving up when a visitor reaches a page that doesn’t exist, make an effort to guess what they were after in the first place. This plugin will perform a search of your posts, tags and categories, using keywords from the requested URL. If there’s a match, redirect to that page instead of showing
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Sep
27
Google has turned 10, and to celebrate it’s 10th birthday, they’ve put a special design logo. The Google doodle tradition started a long time ago (in summer 1999, in fact) when Larry and Sergey put a stick figure on the homepage
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Sep
27
According to a study commissioned to Vital Wave Consulting by Microsoft, Window and Linux are on par when it comes down to the large number of computer deployments in schools located in emerging markets in regard to the Total Cost of Ownership. James Utzschneider indicated that the costs associated with maintaining a Linux
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Sep
27
Microsoft has given small- and mid-sized business customers more ways to earn cash to buy its software through partners by adding new products and product groups to its Big Easy program.
Microsoft unveiled Big Easy 2.0, an update to a program originally launched in February. Through the program, small businesses purchasing certain products
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Sep
27
Microsoft is launching the SQL Server 2008 Experience online at http://www.SQLServerExperience.com. With more than 500 short videos in 11 different languages, the SQL Server 2008 Experience is a Web site that helps Microsoft’s global customers and partners learn more about SQL Server 2008, Microsoft’s recently released data management and business intelligence platform. SQL Server 2008
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Sep
27
Google launched a transit info for New York City, here's a tip on how to get the most out of the trip-planning feature, especially if you live in a suburban or rural area without dense transit coverage. Try adding "station" to your search term; for example "huntington station" instead of just "huntington". This should
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Sep
27
Via Technologies, the Intel-compatible chipmaker says larger Netbooks are on the way. In an interview, Glenn Henry, the head of Via Technologies subsidiary Centaur Technology, said that Via has just begun commercial shipments of its Intel-compatible, power-sipping Nano processor. Centaur headed up development of the Nano processor.
Henry said there
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Sep
27
This Service Pack provides you with all of the functionality you had with our earlier Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview. Besides allowing you to create new projects for WPF, Silverlight 1, and Silverlight 2 RC, we are also exposing new platform functionality like Font Embedding / Subsetting for Silverlight 2 projects. More on this new
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Sep
27
Google has added 11 new languages to its machine translation service “Google Translate” that totals to 35 supported languages: Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. “In most cases, Google uses English as an intermediary language, so when you translate a text from Indonesian to Vietnamese, Google translates the text to English and
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Sep
27
Microsoft has released first cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 aptly named Cumulative Update 1 (CU1). I thought before you considered installing a patch for SQL Server 2008, you would like to see a tour of what it looks like compared to SQL Server 2005 patch installations.
You can download the package for the update from KB956717,
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Sep
27
Instead of just disabling a service, you can alternatively completely delete the service. This technique can be especially helpful if you've installed some piece of software that doesn't uninstall correctly, and leaves an item in the service list. Here’s the steps:
Note: Be careful, when deleting a service, because it’s needs lot of work to get back
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