Archive for December 7th, 2008
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Diskeeper 2009 HomeServer edition is top-speed cruise control for your Windows® Home Server (WHS), allowing you to enjoy unprecedented performance and reliability for centralised applications and shared files. Fragmented hard drives drain critical system resources and compromise almost every aspect of daily computer use, leading to longer load times, persistent lags and costly crashes.
Diskeeper 2009 elevates
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Dec
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Users of Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Business/Ultimate don't technically need these program. It's fairly easy to use secpol.msc to set up software restrictions on a PC. Empathy, however, will be easier to set up for the XP or Vista home versions — allowing you to password-protect any executable file. Empathy can modify an EXE file so that
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Dec
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If you are not already running Vista Service Pack 1, you cannot install SP2 Beta. If you're running Vista and haven't yet installed SP1, you will need to do so before installing SP2 Beta. It would be nice if Microsoft provided a "combo" update so that any Vista user can install SP2
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Dec
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Just because Google wants you to put your digital life in the cloud doesn't mean you can't have your own copy of your own messages and attachments. There’re lots of ways to get your entire Gmail dump onto your desktop. We're currently into Gmail Backup, which is graphical for Windows and command line for Linux and
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Dec
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Intel Labs researchers say they have achieved an important new step in developing silicon photonics, the ability to transmit data using light. A paper published in Nature Photonics details Intel researchers' efforts to develop a silicon-based avalanche photodetector, or APD, a sensor that detects and amplifies light signals. Intel says this type of avalanche photodetector offers
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Dec
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Many people post comments in their native languages on Picasa Web Albums available in 38 languages.`Google's photo-sharing service has now started to use Google Translate API to automatically translate comments in your interface's language. The translation is displayed below the original comment.
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Dec
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Paul Thurrott posted a set of screenshots of post Windows 7 Milestone 3 - this build is much more recent than the build previewed at last month’s PDC, and show that Windows 7 Media Center is still undergoing a lot of user interface development. Included in the screenshots posted are a newly designed setup wizard, and a new Windows
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Dec
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Salesforce.com announces Force.com for Google App Engine, the software-as-a-service provider's third package linking others' online services to its platform and applications built in its Apex programming language. Force.com for Google App Engine is a set of libraries that connect Salesforce.com's Force.com applications and hosting infrastructure, making it native inside the App Engine.
The pack means Salesforce.com developers will
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Dec
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Microsoft seeking new OEM search deals with various PC makers like Lenovo, and Linspire, as a way to grow more quickly its lagging search market share. The software giant has now signed a deal with Dell, in which Dell will be shipping new PCs with the Live Search toolbar preinstalled, according to sources familiar with the
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Dec
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Microsoft’s customized version of Windows Vista Ultimate for the PRODUCT RED project is no longer exclusive to Dell as announced in January [Press Release]. The Dell version of Vista RED came with 6 wallpapers, screensaver, two sidebar gadgets and a Dreamscene, all of which has since been posted to
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Dec
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Quick Reply Template Plugin allows you to automatically set the text of a quick comment reply feature introduced in Wordpress 2.7. For example if your reply template is: %FIRST_NAME%, — and the comment authors name is: Paul William — Then the default text in a reply would be: Paul.
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Dec
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Apple UK announced its first Pay as you Go iPhone 3G with prices ranging from £342.50 ($500) for the 8GB model and £391.45 ($570) for the 16GB. Apple, and exclusive iPhone UK carrier, O2 lays out plans that will include unlimited browsing and Wi-Fi for the first 12 months after you activate your iPhone, but limited to only the UK area. After the first 12 months, the data plan changes to £10 per month.
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