Archive for October 21st, 2008
Oct
21
SideSight, a new Microsoft-developed technology looks like something that deserves to be on a next-generation iPod touch. Or in a magician's repertoire. The SideSight technology is contained in yet another paper that company executives are presenting at the User Interface Software and Technology conference this week. (See Microsoft's take on new ways that cell phones
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Oct
21
imeem is a social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselves with media, including music, video and photos, and form connections based on shared tastes and interests with streaming licenses from all four major music labels, plus most of the independents. Imeem offers its music streams for free, supported by advertising and
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Oct
21
Microsoft is holding a free virtualization summit GetVirtualNow. At the summit you can find out how Windows Server 2008® with Hyper-V™, Microsoft System Center - including Virtual Machine Manager 2008 - and Microsoft Desktop and Application Virtualization allow you to deploy, manage and get VIRTUAL now like never before.
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Oct
21
Impression share is a metric that represents the percentage of impressions your AdWords ad received out of the total available impressions in the market you're targeting. The Impression Share report, available through the Report Center, gives you insight into how you stack up against others in your industry, helping you make more effective changes to your campaigns
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Oct
21
AppLoop launched an online tool called “Application Generator,” that converts any RSS feed into a brandable iPhone application in less than 2 minutes. To create an app, all you have to do is answer a series of questions for the App Generator’s setup wizard. These include your blog’s address, name, icon and logo, as well as how
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Oct
21
Microsoft released three new Knowledge Base articles for the week and the titles and links are below:
SoftGrid for Windows Desktop 958920 - Error message when you try to save changes to a template on the Q: drive in PowerPoint 2007: "The file cannot be saved right now because the file is loaded by
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Oct
21
Bill Tancer, author of the new book “Click: What Search Activity Tells Us About Society,” gave a presentation at SMX East search marketing conference. His keynote is now available online, and can be watch below. Best part: when Bill explains how he altered search behavior relating to “hot photos” of Sarah Palin by
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Oct
21
If you’ve faced a problem, while playing a Flash video —”you see the first two seconds of video, and you may even hear a little sound, and then nothing happens. You know the control still works because you see it's still pre-loading and caching content, but it just won't play.”
….then it’s recommended to use this command line
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Oct
21
Microsoft has been granted a patent on technology that censors audio streams in real-time, possibly signaling an end to the days of being insulted by teenage Halo fans via the company's Xbox Live online gaming service.
The technology processes a real-time or stored audio stream "producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words
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Oct
21
Alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs, such as spintronics, wouldn't find their way into production for at least another 10 years, Intel said this week in Taiwan. Until now, computer processors have operated by using the binary on/off characteristic of electrons. However, the angular momentum of the electrons can also be used, as
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Oct
21
Motorola is gearing up to make its first “Android Social Smart Phone”. Engineers at Motorola are hard at work on their own Android handset. Motorola's Android-based device will offer a slide-out Qwerty keyboard. People who've seen the pictures and spec sheets for the device say it looks like a higher-end version of the HTC
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Oct
21
Bill Gates may not be hanging around Microsoft's research labs 24/7, but his vision for going beyond the mouse and keyboard seems to be doing pretty well without his day-to-day oversight.
At a user interface conference this week, the software maker plans to present several research papers, including a number designed to take the multitouch interface used
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Oct
21
Pinnacle PCTV HD mini Stick is an ultra-compact, USB-powered TV tuner that’s the perfect match for super-slim laptops. The integrated signal booster improves reception sensitivity even if the signal isn’t strong. The easy-to-use TVCenter Pro software lets you watch, TimeShift and record TV. You can enjoy TV in
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Oct
21
Here’re two scripts “Move-Mailboxcsv, and New-DBFromXML” which’re used to solve real world customer requests and both of them will be used multiple times in their environment.
Move-Mailboxcsv: The customer scenario for this script was that the customer was regularly moving a wide range of mailboxes between servers and databases to support their mailbox organization structure and requests for
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Oct
21
Intel says it plans to release next-generation Nehalem Core i7 processors next month, and the rumor has hinted that those chips might cost as little as $284. Telling readers to buy high-end Core 2 systems now would make no sense, but our system guide still needed an update. In the end, we opted to rethink the
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Random From The Fall 2008 PC System Guide
- Aug25Windows Server 2008 R2: Screencast IIS 7.5 and FTP installation
This video shows how we can add FTP Server support on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Core installation, and then manage it using the IIS Management Console and the new FTP Server administration interface from another server. - Oct04Google tests video ads on Image Search Results
Google started testing video ads on some pages of search results. And it is developing ad formats with - Jul26HTML Signatures Support Added to Google Apps Email Settings API
The Google Apps Email Settings API lets you set the default signature for users in your apps domain including Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, - Aug03“Life Comes Together” Microsoft Windows ad campaign that didn’t run!
John McNeil, then creative director at McCann Worldgroup, the advertising agency responsible for the Windows campaign earlier, has nine videos titled “Life Comes Together” uploaded roughly 11 months - Oct08Wolfram|Alpha Adds FCC Broadcast Data
Federal Communications Commission has a large amount of information on the radio and television stations broadcasting in the U.S. as well as a number of