Archive for October 24th, 2008
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When Microsoft released MS08-067 an out-of-cycle patch, one of the standout inclusions was the recent Pre-Beta release of their new operating system Windows 7. The highly anticipated OS, which also comes as a source of debate for Vista fans, is affected by the same remote code execution vulnerability that affects all the other production
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Oct
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Windows Live Groups are persistent groups that are membership-based. Someone creates a group and invites people they know to it. When you get invited to a group you receive a pop-up in Messenger, similar to when someone adds you as a contact.
You can choose to join the group or decline if you don’t want to receive
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Oct
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Google has released Gmail for mobile version 2.0 for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones, designed to be faster and more reliable in low signal areas and to even support basic offline access on phones like the Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson W910i, and BlackBerry Curve. The new version added some time-saving features so you can check email across multiple
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Microsoft Live Labs has announced a new project called “Web Sandbox” lead by Scott Isaacs. The sandbox takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and puts it in an isolated box. The goal is a little like Caja, AdSafe, FBJS, and other solutions that try to make JavaScript execution more secure in some way.
The Web Sandbox explores how to advance
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Oct
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Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform, including ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and Internet Information Server (IIS). Amazon EC2 enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on AWS’ high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform.
“Amazon EC2 is
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Oct
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If you uncheck the IPv6 protocol from your network interface card on your Windows SBS 2008 server you may see the following issues after a reboot:
Microsoft Exchange services fail to start
Server hangs at "Applying Computer Settings..." (can eventually logon after 30 - 60 minutes)
Network icons show as offline
Some or all of the following
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Oct
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Google is displaying associated images on some AdWords ads when searching at Google. The image ads are shown, when you click through a “Show products from” plus box located under text link ad. For example, try search for bluenile, which brings up a Blue Nile ad. Under the usual ad title and description is a
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Oct
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Google has released a couple of updates to their blogging platform “Blogger”. The first is “Blogger Post Gadget for iGoogle” that let you edit and publish posts directly from your custom iGoogle homepage, making it even easier to share your thoughts with the world. To get started, just
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Oct
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Access Linux Platform comes from — Access, the company, who purchased PalmSource has now officially unveiled its Linux based successor to mobile operating system Garnet OS (formerly known as Palm OS) — the Access Linux Platform 3.0 that supports not only native Linux applications, but also legacy Garnet OS applications as well as Java apps. ALP 3.0, as it is known, is
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Oct
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Dev team has released WordPress 2.6.3, a security update for vulnerability in the Snoopy library. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. 2.6.3 is available for download, however, if you don’t want to download the whole release, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.
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Oct
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AideRSS is an intelligent blog evaluating tool, which continuously monitors RSS feeds, finds the good stuff, creates a PostRank, and delivers it to you. Once you enter a blog or blog Feed URL, AideRSS do some checking around the web to learn about this feed, its statistics, and people’s reaction to it and then assign PostRank scores to all articles in
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Oct
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Gone! are the days, when you had pull out the paper map, to trace optimal route for trick-or-treating Halloween with a pencil. Now if you’re planning on heading out trick-or-treating next Friday, or who has kids: make a My Map of the route! Trace lines for which paths to take, and put icons to mark the
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Oct
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Moblyng (formerly FlipTrack) has released an free iPhone application that allows users to create Slideshows from their iPhones, and includes a handful of skins, themes, and effects that can be placed on top of each photo. Creating a slideshow is very intuitive: after selecting which photos you’d like to use, you pick a border, an effect (Antique and Zoom), and the
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Oct
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Google has added emoticon images in Gmail, you can include smileys in your message, if you use the rich-text compositing mode. With these images, you can now reflect your mood, no more will you’ve to settle for a ;) when you can have a
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Oct
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priPrinter is a virtual printer and previewer. You may print from any application with printer support, preview and inspect pages in many ways before printing, remove unnecessary texts, graphics and empty spaces. You may create booklets and posters, print multiple pages onto a single paper sheet, rearrange, drag and rescale pages. If you want you can
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