Archive for December 20th, 2008
Dec
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Even though OS X is a Unix based operating system, you can not just take a Unix/Linux application and run it on OS X, you have to port it on OS X in order for you to use it. Since most of these applications are open source – this can be achieved fairly easily. Fink is
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Dec
20
Vodaphone’s Pocket Life is a web and mobile service that offers a seamless, integrated experience for communication, social networking, location based services, street and satellite mapping. Pocket Life was designed around your group of friends, allowing you to communicate and interact in ways never before possible. Seamless synchronisation of the information across web and mobile devices
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Dec
20
Google now enables an option in Google Account that saves all your queries and the results you clicked on. The service is called Web History and it can be extended to all the web pages you visit if you install Google Toolbar. In the screenshot,
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Dec
20
Microsoft has had a relationship with Dassault for publishing consumer 3D models into Virtual Earth using 3DVia. When you install the Virtual Earth 3D Managed Control you have the option of downloading 3DVia free of charge and then off you go and create models. Well, if you’ve never created your own 3D
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Dec
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BuddyPress is essentially a set of WordPress MU specific plugins. Each plugin component adds a distinct feature to BuddyPress and only handles functionality for that specific component (for example, private messaging). BuddyPress also has a core plugin that all other plugins require, it contains shared functions and performs the basic modifications to the WordPress MU interface.
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Dec
20
This post discuss an issue, where migrations to SBS 2008 are failing, particularly with Exchange setup, because customers are not running the Migration Preparation Tool on the SBS 2003 server prior to beginning the migration process. This tool performs the following actions:
Installs update 943494 on the SBS 2003 server to extend the migration grace period from 7 to
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Dec
20
Microsoft said that it has chosen NAVTEQ, a provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, to supply map data for Microsoft’s Live Search Map in India. Features in Live Search Map, powered by NAVTEQ, would include Business Lookup, Category browsing, 1-Click Directions that provide instant directions to a destination from most major
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Dec
20
Dell's super-secret new Adamo Thirteen brand is due to premiere at the CES 2009 — centered around the possibility that it is an ultralight computer, probably an offshoot of its existing XPS series, designed to compete with Apple's super-thin MacBook Air.
Dell's online catalog revealed following items: 250 GB and 500 GB external 5400 RPM SATA hard drives -- the clearest
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Dec
20
MSN UK Entertainment are currently testing new MSN v13 UI, complete with Silverlight enhancements. The test site at http://entertainment.next.uk.msn.com/ follows on from the testing of a Silverlight homepage design, http://viewer.uk.msn.com/.
As Peter Bale, Executive Producer for MSN UK mentions when discussing the trial, the addition of Silverlight allows for an improved multimedia experience when
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Dec
20
Both HP and Fujitsu-Siemens now bundle their home servers with a product called TwonkyMedia Server, which improves Windows Home Server’s media serving capabilities to full DLNA compatibility, meaning that Windows Home Server can suddenly be seen by a whole host of devices, including your Playstation 3.
This week, TwonkyMedia Server has been superceded by a new product,
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Dec
20
Google offers tips on how to increase visibility into your e-commerce performance and your advertising spend using Google Analytics in the videos below. You can find these videos and more on the new Google Analytics Youtube Channel. Analytics can help keep a close eye on your advertising spend and e-commerce trends to run a
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Dec
20
The U.S. government urged Internet standard-setters to move slowly on a proposal to relax rules on domain names such as .com or .edu, over concerns about economic costs and security. The nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, earlier this year voted to relax the rules on so-called top-level domain names, or TLDs,
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Dec
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Scott Wylie, Microsoft's New Zealand Director of Development and Platform Strategy, wrote today on his blog about his experience installing a pre-beta build of Windows 7 on his home laptop.It is interesting to note that the pre-beta build of Windows
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Dec
20
Service Pack 1 for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 provides continuous data protection for Windows application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media and includes the following expanded capabilities:
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Dec
20
Google Image Search has two new options in the content selection box: clip art and line drawings. Besides the two new options, you can restrict the results to faces, photos and illustrations for recent news articles.
You select these options from the "any content" drop down
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