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Archive for October 12th, 2008

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Oct 12

Microsoft will be pushing a couple of Windows Vista Media Center updates on thisTuesday.  One update is for TV Feature Pack and one for the release version of Media Center, watch out for them appearing on Windows Update on Tuesday. More details on Microsoft support page.

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Google is testing a new vertical format, which’s more of a mobile device driven format than the usual newspaper style spread Google News. Notice the “featured stories” and a “featured photo” to the right, with “popular and interesting stories” listed in a blogroll type setting down the

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In May this year, we reported about a Microsoft job posting that hinted at the idea of native Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) support in Windows 7, that would allow users to create, mount, unmount and even boot from these disk images without additional software allowing for interesting use-scenarios for not just enterprise users and home users

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MashLogic is launched into a private beta, with a theme of helping people — “the web today is driven by page view economics, search engine optimization goals, commercial interests have hijacked the vision of a globally inter-connected web, which leads publishers hyperlinking their content only to ads and in-site pages.” But now it's time to “take back the web” to bend

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One problem I have had when trying to do my first round of P2Vs for my Hyper-V implementation that I didn’t notice in testing is that you can’t size the VHD of the VM smaller than the corresponding physical disk of the original machine. Since it is best practice to have one LUN per VM and

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Microsoft out a preview release of Microsoft PC Advisor to select members of the Windows Feedback Program. The invitation to try out the PC Advisor made some intriguing promises—the app will monitor our PC for problems and give solutions in real time and it will monitor system settings for potential pitfalls. The survey that preceded our download was even

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In Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Vista, when you go to Control Panel and look at your network configuration, you will have to use the Networking and Sharing Center. Initially, this may be confusing to veteran Windows Admins. In this article you will not only familiarize yourself with it but you will learn how to

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We’ve heard about upcoming Firefox Mobile, codenamed Fennec for Windows Mobile expected in next few weeks. The early builds of the web browser are available for download, but at the moment it only work on Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. So far, everything was theoretical only but now we’ve the first

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Microsoft is suing U.S.-based cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a train derailment in Texas, according to court documents. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, Microsoft said it is seeking more than US$2 million in damages from DHL

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Microsoft's tools for building rich Internet applications (RIAs)-ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 2-promise to help take the "developer ugly" out of line-of-business software. Several sessions at last month's technology conference VSLive! New York addressed how to take advantage of AJAX and Silverlight in the same app. In his "LOB 2.0 with Silverlight and AJAX" presentation, Infragistics Inc.'s

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So you own a BlackBerry, are you using it fully? If not, are your ready to take your BlackBerry to the next level? Here’s a list, to provide you some of the most awesome tips, hacks, how-tos and guides for the BlackBerry, making it easy for just about anyone to become a power user.

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Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the organization's 38,000 employees to Google Apps, the search giant's web-based offering of communication and productivity tools. Washington D.C. is a not-insignificant win

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Google removed frame from search results pages on Google Video, that Google used to display both external site and a list of related videos, instead of direct link to the original site. This duplicated the functionality from video sites like YouTube, while making it difficult to navigate and to share a URL.

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Microsoft has launched an online technology news aggregator called “Microsoft /web,” which is a site where industry professionals from around the world can find articles, event listings, and relevant and valuable conversation from around the Web.

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Digital media and advertising company MIVA has released the new beta of their toolbar, enabling customizable features and homepage products, “ALOT Toolbar” and “ALOT Home”. MIVA also announced the beta launch of ALOT Buttons, a website offering a portfolio of free to install widgets. The ALOT brand was launched in Q4 2007 with the theme “Make the

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